Apocalypse now: has the next giant financial crash already begun?

``In short, as the BIS economists put it, this is "a world in which debt levels are too high, productivity growth too weak and financial risks too threatening". It's impossible to extrapolate from all this the date the crash will happen, or the form it will take. All we know is there is a mismatch between rising credit, falling growth, trade and prices, and a febrile financial market, which, at present, keeps switchback riding as money flows from one sector, or geographic region, to another.''