Following the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers, the Federal Reserve estimated gross credit default protection written by other banks against Lehman Brothers at $400 billion

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Hyperscaler data center corporate debt products trade approximately 100 basis points above the Secured Overnight Financing Rate

Neo-cloud hosting providers typically seek capital offerings sized between 10 million and 50 million dollars

Neo-cloud hosting providers pay between 14% and 20% interest rates for debt capital

Following the United States exit from the gold standard in 1971, United States dollar currency expansion averaged between 6.5% and 7% annually

In September 2019, a liquidity seizure occurred in the United States repurchase agreement market

In the 1970s, the Federal Reserve capped the interest rates that American commercial banks could pay on United States dollar deposits

The United States Dollar represents approximately $5.5 trillion in central bank base money

The Federal Reserve's holdings of United States gross federal debt declined to 11.3 percent

At its peak in 2021, the Federal Reserve held 20 percent of total United States gross federal debt

The 1970s Federal Reserve interest rate caps on domestic deposits led to the growth of offshore United States dollar deposits and the London Interbank Offered Rate market

During the 1970s, the Federal Reserve held between 16 and 17 percent of total United States gross federal debt

The United States Treasury yield curve inverted in August 2019

Artificially cheapening credit through large-scale debt issuance causes asset prices such as real estate to increase

Global broad money supply represents approximately $158 trillion, excluding eurodollar market assets

The global ratio of broad money to central bank base money reached 6 to 1

Total global M3 broad money across worldwide currencies equals approximately $150 trillion

Non-bank, non-insured M3 broad money dollar instruments total between $8 trillion and $10 trillion

In 2021, the global ratio of broad money to central bank base money reached a low of 4.1 to 1

Rapid credit expansion shifts asset ownership toward individuals who access debt quickly rather than individuals who accumulate savings

Businesses cannot sustain higher prices unless additional money or credit is first introduced into the economy