It's called the trillion dollar stimulus package.

Energy's a six trillion dollar business worldwide.

He wants two trillion dollars to protect us from terrorists next year, a two trillion dollar federal budget, which will land us back into deficit spending real fast.

But I read this fact the other day, that one trillion seconds equals 32 thousand years, so if you think about that, the context, the casualness with which we talk about trillion dollar bailout here, and trillion there, we are stacking ourselves up for long term leverage.

Meanwhile, many of these gases need to be curbed because of their wider environmental impact on public health, agriculture, and the planet s multi trillion dollar ecosystems, including forests.

And we can't fight the threat in the kind of stupid way we're doing, because a million dollar act causes a billion dollars of damage, causes a trillion dollar response which is largely ineffective and arguably, probably almost certainly, has made the problem worse.

Taking advantage of ultra low interest rates in advanced countries, emerging market banks and firms have been borrowing like never before. A recent paper by the Bank of International Settlements shows that since the global financial crisis, outstanding dollar credit to non bank borrowers outside the US has risen by half, from 6 trillion to 9 trillion.

And then we discovered these things gold and oil and fishing and timber and it became, you know, a trillion dollar economy, and now we take our honeymoons there. The same thing will happen in space.

When President George W. Bush took office in 2001, he was staring at giant budget surpluses as far as the eye could see. It was hard work engineering a five trillion dollar deterioration in America s fiscal position.

Its products, from iPhones to iPads to MacBooks, have captured consumers imaginations, remade markets, and earned the company and its shareholders huge sums of money. Apple s stock capitalization has soared, and it became the first trillion dollar company.

The Bank for International Settlements estimates outstanding dollar credit to non bank borrowers outside the United States at 9 trillion. Big debtors include some of those countries whose currencies have come under downward pressure recently China ( 1 trillion), Brazil (more than 300 billion), India ( 125 billion), plus Malaysia, South Africa, Turkey, and Latin America s financially open economies Colombia, Chile, Peru, and Mexico.

So non Americans should be more appreciative of America s deficits. Do people think it is easy for a 12 trillion dollar economy to spend beyond its means year after year just to prop up other countries reputations for stability?

From 2000 to 2014, global GDP more than doubled, from 31.8 trillion to over 75 trillion. Over the same period, China s nominal GDP soared from 1.2 trillion to more than 10 trillion growing at more than four times the global rate.

In 2004, total consumer spending in Latin America and the Caribbean amounted to 0.94 trillion, with the figures being 0.55 trillion for China and 0.35 trillion for India.

Our bodies have 35 trillion cells, trillion with a T. We're talking national debt numbers here.

Two trillion a year.

China s 3.2 Trillion Headache

The 200 Trillion Question

That might not sound like very much, but the reduction in prices and improvements in food security would help almost everyone. It would be worth nearly 3 trillion in social good yielding an enormous 34 of benefits for every dollar spent.

That is because global investors seeking a safe haven automatically turn to US Treasury securities in times of global financial turmoil. Foreign investors now hold more than 5.7 trillion of these low yielding securities, not to mention large quantities of other dollar assets.

Indeed, the US remained the world s premier creditor nation until 1986 1987, when it became a debtor nation again. In the two decades that followed, America s debt usually was around 3 trillion, rising or falling with the exchange rate of the dollar.

U.S. economy is big 14.7 trillion.

The expected foreign aid 1.9 trillion.

Hand to mouth is 2.6 trillion.

If you think you're successful or cockroaches are successful, it turns out that there's ten trillion trillion Pleurococcus sitting out there.

Bottom Dollar

The Dollar

Some generate amazing economic, social, and environmental benefits per dollar spent. Many others generate only slightly more than a dollar per dollar spent.

That's an eyelash under a trillion dollars.

We've got this trillion hours a year.

After the Dollar

Two Dollar Fallacies

Ukraine s Dollar Addiction

In particular, online retail sales of physical goods amounted to approximately RMB5.08 trillion, while online retail sales of services amounted to nearly RMB1.49 trillion.

Except we've been so busy giving away a trillion here, a trillion there, that we've brought that date of reckoning forward to about 2017.

And it is a staggering 1.5 trillion dollars.

And the cost annually is three trillion dollars.

And one trillion of that goes to OPEC.

So if you want to build a human from DNA origami, the problem is, you need a long strand that's 10 trillion trillion bases long.

Of course, reforming the transatlantic regulatory architecture can do only so much for financial diplomacy, and national interests will always be important. But, in a world of trillion dollar capital flows and ever higher stakes in a sound global financial system, even modest improvements can make a big difference.

The report, which was requested by G 20 leaders at their summit in Seoul last November, found that between 2002 and 2007, the shadow banking system increased by 33 trillion, more than doubling in asset size from 27 trillion to 60 trillion. This is 8.5 times higher than the total US current account deficit of 3.9 trillion during the same period.

The Fed s Dollar Distraction

Goodbye to the Dollar?

The Unloved Dollar Standard

We want a trillion zillion species of one individuals.