It is said that the International Monetary Fund, which earlier this year revised upward its estimate of bank losses, from 1 trillion to 2.2 trillion, will announce a new estimate of 3.1 trillion for US assets and 0.9 trillion for foreign assets, figures very close to my own.

NEW YORK A year ago, I predicted that the losses of US financial institutions would reach at least 1 trillion and possibly go as high as 2 trillion.

A combined wealth decline of around 25 trillion would be roughly 60 of one year s global income.

If we take Mood s lower estimate of one trillion, the comparable figure for fish is 150.

Estimates of the losses on US loans and securities range from under 1 trillion to almost 4 trillion.

After two rounds of quantitative easing (QE), the balance sheets of the European Central Bank and the United States Federal Reserve have grown to 3.2 trillion ( 4.1 trillion) and 2.9 trillion, respectively.

It is, she calculates, in the order of one trillion, although it could be as high as 2.7 trillion.

My Canadian colleague Mark Kamstra and I have proposed issuing shares called trills, which would pay a dividend each year equal to a trillionth of that year s GDP, in domestic currency.

For example, U.S. farmland had a total value of 1.9 trillion in 2010, compared with 16.5 trillion for the US stock market and 16.6 trillion for the US housing market.

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.

In a recent paper, Mark Kamstra and I proposed that governments issue shares in their GDP, with each share amounting to a trillionth of GDP.

The Financial Stability Board has estimated that total global shadow banking assets in 2011 amounted to 67 trillion, with the US accounting for 23 trillion, the eurozone for 22 trillion, and the United Kingdom for 9 trillion.

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Public debt includes not only the federal government s current 13.2 trillion, but another 3 trillion owed by America s states, counties, and cities.

For example, a trillion dollars of real estate remains uncapitalized in India alone.

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.

At the end of last year, Japan s net international wealth amounted to 296 trillion ( 3 trillion).

By May 2012, however, the government had changed its mind, with the National Development and Reform Commission approving 7 trillion ( 1.3 trillion) in new projects.

Chinese demand for Treasuries has enabled the US to increase its government debt almost threefold over the last decade, from roughly 6 trillion to 16.7 trillion.

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These instruments combined worth reached 5.9 trillion last year, led by corporate bonds ( 2.3 trillion).

One area to target is sovereign wealth funds, whose combined assets are set to grow over the next decade from 3 4 trillion to 10 trillion.

Even before this financial crisis, America s national debt was scheduled to increase from 5.7 trillion in 2001 to more than 9 trillion this year.

For example, one trillion rupees is br One Lakh crore rupees 1 Lakh Crore Rs 1 Lakh Crore Rs (1,00,000 1,00,00,000) Rs 10,00,00,00,00,000 in Indian Notation Rs 1,000,000,000,000 in Western Notation Rs 1 Trillion (short scale) 1012 Rupees.

Models show that the cost, by then, would be at least 40 trillion annually.

US debt exploded to nearly 12 trillion ( 16.7 trillion if intragovernmental holdings are included).

By 2019, total military spending is projected to be 8.2 trillion, exceeding by 2 trillion the budgeted outlays for all non mandatory budget spending.

Today s 70 trillion world economy will be at 140 trillion before 2030, and 280 trillion before 2050 if we extrapolate from today s growth rate.

The project is estimated to cost Rp.25,4 trillion.

Between November 2008 and June 2009, China s banks issued more than 8.6 trillion ( 1.3 trillion) in new loans.

Of this total an estimated 1.9 trillion are direct costs such as medical care, while 0.2 trillion are indirect costs such as missed work.

Well, it turns out that there's about 27 trillion bits moving inside from the United States to the United States about 4.6 trillion is going over to those European countries about 5.5's going to Japan there's almost no communication between Japan, and nobody else is literate in this stuff.

At the end of 2012, China s commercial banks held 6.4 trillion in core capital and 1.5 trillion in non performing loan provisions, for a risk cushion of roughly 8 trillion.

The global net benefit of the increased flow of migrants for 25 years is between 13 trillion and 39 trillion close to the median estimated gains from the Doha round.

Total financial losses including possibly 1 trillion in mortgages and related securitized products could be as high as 1.7 trillion.

Last year, one out of every six dollars of assets under professional management in the United States a total of 6.6 trillion was allocated toward some form of sustainable investment, especially public equities.

Stopping temperatures from rising by more than 2 C would require draconian, instant emission reductions for the OECD the reductions would have to be between 40 50 below their expected path in just 12 years. Even if political consensus could be found, the cost would be phenomenal one model estimates that the total global cost would be around 84 trillion, while the economic benefits would amount to just a seventh of this amount.

India s GDP of 3.3 trillion compares to China s 5 trillion, and is 20 that of the United States.

Bank rescue programs on the order of 5 trillion and Keynesian stimulus programs on the order of a further 1 trillion staved off collapse.

Our 70 trillion per year global economy is putting unprecedented pressures on the natural environment.

The gasoline tax, which brings in 2.6 trillion, was to be abolished.

Social security expenditures will face a shortfall of 6 trillion this year.

The net effect will be a construction shortfall in the US of at least 1.7 trillion.

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