Wednesday, January 17, 2007

What $1.2 Trillion Can Buy

The human mind isn’t very well equipped to make sense of a figure like $1.2 trillion. We don’t deal with a trillion of anything in our daily lives, and so when we come across such a big number, it is hard to distinguish it from any other big number. Millions, billions, a trillion — they all start to sound the same.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/17/business/17leonhardt.html?ex=1169874000&en=1a9b70f2eac2b0aa&ei=5070

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