Rich country households have suffered a momentous loss of wealth (amounting to tens of trillions of US dollars).

The process continued for years, culminating in a crash that caused wealth destruction amounting to trillions of dollars.

First, there are limits to how many trillions of dollars China can, and should, put into US Treasury bills.

The favored bogeymen of the day are giant government investors, particularly Asian central banks, with their trillions of dollars in assets.

So why don t we stop killing 49 bears a year before we commit trillions of dollars to do hundreds of times less good?

Claims that they lack the needed resources ring hollow, as trillions of dollars were found to bail out banks in the financial crisis.

It is shocking, and worrisome, that public financing remains slight, because these technologies success could translate into literally trillions of dollars of economic output.

The US Federal Reserve Board has pumped out trillions of dollars of reserves, but never have so many reserves produced so little monetary growth.

Not surprisingly, America, which benefits by getting trillions of dollars of loans from developing countries now at almost no interest was not enthusiastic about the discussion.

The worldwide cost of infrastructure capable of responding to the intensifying water crisis could amount to trillions of dollars, and its development would itself be energy intensive.

For example, the Kyoto Protocol would have cost trillions of dollars, but would have achieved a practically indiscernible difference in stemming the rise in global temperature.

After one year, trillions of dollars in public monies, and much soul searching in the world s policy community, have we learned the right lessons? I fear not.

These goals are within reach. Indeed, they are the only way for us to stop wasting trillions of dollars on financial bubbles, useless wars, and environmentally destructive forms of energy.

Most of the shadow banking system has disappeared, and traditional commercial banks are saddled with trillions of dollars in expected losses on loans and securities while still being seriously undercapitalized.

Far flung military misadventures continue to stretch the country s fiscal resources, with costs potentially running into many trillions of dollars, according a recent study by Linda Bilmes and Joseph Stiglitz.

Moreover, trillions of dollars have been wasted, with the few positive effects of the US led military intervention already beginning to fade, and its many adverse consequences continuing to destabilize the region.

If the developed world is able to pay trillions of dollars to clean up its bankers mess, how is it possible that it cannot afford to pay billions of dollars to clean up a mess that it created, and that is threatening the survival of whole continents?

Bickel and Lane offer compelling evidence that a tiny investment in climate engineering might be able to reduce as much of global warming s effects as trillions of dollars spent on carbon emission reductions.

The Federal government has assumed trillions of dollars of liabilities and risks. In rescuing the financial system, no less than in fiscal policy, we need to worry about the bang for the buck.

We cannot break that dependence overnight. Yet we recognize that continuing to pour trillions of dollars into carbon based infrastructure and fossil fuel subsidies is like investing in sub prime real estate.

Fiscal stimulus, near zero interest rates, two rounds of quantitative easing, ring fencing of bad debt, and trillions of dollars in bailouts and liquidity provision for banks and financial institutions officials tried them all.

After the war, each adopted a never be surprised again policy, and so went on to invest trillions of dollars in a multitude of hardened, mobile, and concealed nuclear weapons to deter the other.

If real per capita GDP growth had continued after 1990 at the rate of the 1980 s, Japan s economy would be 60 larger than it is today implying losses in the trillions of dollars.

Indeed, with words like these, Kolakowski, with Solzhenitsyn, Sakharov, and other kindred souls, ultimately did as much as the trillions of dollars spent on weapons to speed the demise of the totalitarian Soviet empire.

If you just walk outside, there are trillions of dollars that have been invested in infrastructure around the world, putting up wires to get power from where it's created to where it's used.

This means that over time, the advantage of moving toward freer trade grows dramatically bigger the 120 billion benefit in 2015 grows to many trillions of dollars of annual benefits by the end of the century.

The US Federal Reserve Board has pumped out trillions of dollars of reserves, but never have so many reserves produced so little monetary growth. Neither the hawks nor the doves (nor anyone else) expected that.

The US government will no longer be able to afford to invest hundreds of billions of dollars (the cost in Iraq alone will run into the trillions) trying to supply other people with decent government.

Either answer is worrisome, because it would suggest that central banks which are now holding trillions of dollars in assets have less ability to manage the process of exiting quantitative easing than we would wish.

This could well create a financial tsunami worth trillions of dollars, which explains the energy with which the European Central Bank and its president, Jean Claude Trichet, have tried to head off the worst.

The cost will be 1 billion, but the EU says that this is incredibly cheap when compared to the cost of inaction on climate change, which will run into the trillions. It should be obvious that the 1 billion windmill doesn t negate the trillions of dollars of damage from climate change that we still have to pay by the end of the century.

With a cap and trade system, the costs in terms of jobs, household consumption, and economic growth are hidden, shifted around, and not easy to estimate, though models indicate they will run into trillions of dollars.

This was done on a large scale, despite the fact that all of the parties involved were sophisticated investors. The process continued for years, culminating in a crash that caused wealth destruction amounting to trillions of dollars.

While the focus for the moment is on public sector waste, that waste pales in comparison to the waste of resources resulting from a malfunctioning private financial sector, which in America already amounts to trillions of dollars.

But we all know that these countries and their national banks were able to spend trillions of dollars in a few months to bail out their bankers, who earned super profits when the going was good.

The worldwide cost of infrastructure capable of responding to the intensifying water crisis could amount to trillions of dollars, and its development would itself be energy intensive. As a result, new infrastructure would only mitigate the impact of scarcity on richer countries.

Only decisive progress on these fronts will unlock the trillions of corporate dollars that, rather than being invested in new plants and equipment, remain stranded on companies balance sheets or are handed over to shareholders via higher dividends and share buybacks.

Huge investments worth trillions of euros will be needed to meet global energy requirements.

WASHINGTON, DC John Boehner, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, is leading the Republican Party s charge on fiscal policy, arguing that his side needs to see trillions of dollars in spending cuts in order for Congress to approve an increase in the US government s debt ceiling.

PUMA has 2.7 billion dollars of turnover, 300 million dollars of profits, 200 million dollars after tax, 94 million dollars of externalities, cost to business.

The sums required for this could ultimately run into trillions, according to an estimate by Citibank.

But no amount of money will succeed in modernizing Putin's kleptocratic regime, which has already squandered trillions in oil wealth.

Milllions of dollars

And the U.S. military spends 1.5 billion dollars billion dollars in 1940 dollars developing the Norden bombsight.

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