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Fed pumps $1.2 trillion in to US economy

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  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
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    So it's not only people in the UK having their freedoms eroded? Phew, that's a relief! :rolleyes:

    Yeah, basically he wants to put a big firewall on Australia.

    It's far from certain he can push it through although it is to protect the kiddies so clearly anyone against it is a paedophile.
  • Cleaver wrote: »
    If you took the $1 trillion and shared it equally between the estimated number of ants on the planet they would each get 0.5 cents.

    However, if you divided the same $1 trillion between the estimated number of fish in the oceans, they would each get 28 cents.

    Does that help any?

    I really need to go to bed.

    You have forgotten to account for administration costs. :D
  • Degenerate
    Degenerate Posts: 2,166 Forumite
    Generali wrote: »
    Yeah, basically he wants to put a big firewall on Australia.

    It's far from certain he can push it through although it is to protect the kiddies so clearly anyone against it is a paedophile.

    With the nanny-state and police-state measures being pushed though all around the "Anglo-Saxon" world, I have this dreadful feeling we're heading for the sort of future predicted by the movie Demolition Man.
  • MrDT
    MrDT Posts: 951 Forumite
    What is a Trillion ... in my own words...

    If Jesus had been given a trillion pounds and there was no interest on it... and if he had spent £1500 a day - EVERY DAY - without fail from then to now (he has to be immortal in my story) ... then right about now he'd have just enough for a Big Mac.

    Wrong. That would be the case with a billion (short scale, 10^9), not a trillion.

    A trillion is either a million million (10^12), or a million million million (10^18).

    Using the common 10^12 definition of a trillion, Jebus would need to spend in the region of one and a half million a day to be down to nothing today.
  • stevetodd
    stevetodd Posts: 1,016 Forumite
    Cleaver wrote: »
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7951493.stm




    I don't really know what a trillion is

    That reminds me of that joke:

    One of George Bush’s staff informs him that 3 Brazilian soldiers were killed in Iraq last night and he says:

    My god how many is a Brazilian!
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