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With billions and trillions flying around the news, it is sometimes useful to do the Big Mac test, and see how many Big Mac would it buy. Here is a slide show of the cars, real estate, luxury, air craft carriers $170 billion would buy.Excerpts
With the massive numbers that make up the news coverage of the financial crisis - from the $2 trillion bailout to Obama's $75 billion mortgage plan - it's hard to make sense of what those figures really mean.So, as a service to readers rolling their eyes at the news that federal prosecutors are seeking up to $170 billion in forfeiture from alleged fraudster Bernard Madoff, here is a slideshow that depicts items that can be purchased with 170 followed by nine 0's (according to prices quoted in recent years).
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