Just been diving into some numbers that honestly put things into perspective. When you think about the total money in the world, most people have no idea how massive the gap actually is between different asset classes.

So here's what's wild: there's roughly $37 trillion in actual US currency circulating globally when you count physical cash plus bank deposits. But that's just the tip of the iceberg. If you dig deeper into the total money supply including investments, derivatives, and crypto, we're talking about over 1.2 quadrillion dollars. That's not a typo.

Breaking it down further - physical money alone, just coins and notes you can hold in your hand, is around $6.6 trillion. Everything else? Bank deposits, liquid assets, all the financial instruments most people never touch? That's in the tens of trillions range.

Here's where it gets interesting though. When you look at the total money in the world and realize how much of it exists as abstract financial products and derivatives, it makes you think about where actual value really sits. Most of the world's wealth isn't in your bank account - it's locked up in markets, investments, and increasingly in crypto and digital assets.

The real question that keeps me up at night: what's our actual piece of this pie? Like, genuinely, how much of that total money in the world could the average person ever realistically access or own? It's a sobering thought. That's why I've been paying more attention to Bitcoin and crypto lately - at least with decentralized assets, the rules are more transparent.

Anyone else ever think about this? The numbers are honestly mind-bending.