Not when there are so many suckers for the "Get Rich Quick Without Experience" pitch from the retail brokers. The retail brokers couldn't enjoy their big cake if it wasn't for the allure of the huge leverage to all the newbies counting their money before they know the formula of an indicator. The exchanges like CME, NYSE, etc. don't have nearly that huge of leverage.
....since your trade actually never leaves the computers of the retail FX broker you are using, they aren't actually lending you the 100 or 200:1 credit. If the trades were actually placed into the Interbank market in the form of a formal futures contract, then money would have to be behind the leverage. But, with no exchange in the retail Forex market, your order never leaves the broker's INTRAnet system. It's a big discussion, but the credit crisis does not have much impact on money that isn't even actually being loaned.
