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If HSBC was making profits of $4 trillion, they were also lying on their financial statements.


If ever you need evidence that people see really large numbers and lose perspective, look to this conversation and how many people completely glossed over the use of trillions instead of billions, a mistake so small it puts HSBC revenue in the realm of well developed nation states...


Apparently, when wielding numbers for outrage, the quantitative details are merely a trivial annoyance.




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