"Actually We Count Wrong In The U.S. Our Billion Is Not A Real Billion"
CONTEXT ADDED BY ADMIN: END OF CONTEXT Our billion is actually one thousand millions. (1,000,000,000) A real billion is one million millions. (1,000,000,000,000). So a trillion is one billion billions and so forth.
So those 100 billion Reichmark notes from the thirties have stamped on them the figure "100,000,000,000,000."
I am surprised that Paulson hasn't used this to "reduce" the amount of money he's trying to panhandle.
-- If you board the wrong train, it is no use running down the train's aisle in the other direction. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
