its already gone, in the form of loans and mortgages to people who could never afford to pay them back, many of these people have defaulted, thus meaning banks havent got their money back, so cant afford to Loan more money out,
I've a horrible feeling it never existed in the first place. The bankers just took money on the never-never and paid themselves huge bonuses on it based on the over-inflated value of property and an exaggerated estimate of peoples' ability to pay for it. The booming economy was just in the imagination of unregulated capitalists who will now expect us to pay for their fraud.