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Just How Much Is $700 Billion?

By | 09.26.08 | 7:13 pm

As the Wall Street bailout negotiations continue, the world is growing too accustomed, I fear, to the oft-mentioned $700 billion figure. As a reminder just how enormous a sum of cash that represents, consider the following:

If you stacked $100 bills atop each other, a $700 billion pile would rise More…