And so this was quite extraordinary, because what actually happened, and what we know today, and there's different people writing about this, this data here is from the Bank of England, is that lots of what finance was actually doing from the 1970s and '80s on was basically financing itself: finance financing finance.
Isto foi extraordinário, porque o que aconteceu, e o que sabemos hoje, e há muitas pessoas a escrever sobre isto — estes dados são do Banco de Inglaterra — é que muito do que a finança fazia, nos anos 70 e 80, era basicamente autofinanciar-se: finanças a financiar a finança.