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This brings us back to the US Treasury’s plan to spend hundreds of
billions
of dollars to unclog the sub-prime mortgage market.
The International Finance Facility for Immunization (IFFIm), which borrows against future government contributions to immunization programs, has raised
billions
of dollars over the past several years to ensure that vaccination campaigns are successful as soon as possible.
Elsewhere,
billions
of people lack bank accounts and credit cards, and in many developing countries, consumer-protection laws do not extend to goods purchased online.
With
billions
of people still below the first rung of the digital ladder, the climb to prosperity is becoming more challenging than ever.
According to researchers at the University of California, San Diego, corruption, waste, and unethical billing cost patients and health systems
billions
of dollars annually.
The same is true on a global level, as
billions
of aspiring consumers rise up to join the middle class.
And it means, among other things, promising to restore steelworkers’ and miners’ jobs, end the cosseting of minorities, deport all undocumented migrants, cut taxes and increase infrastructure spending by hundreds of
billions
of dollars, repeal Obamacare, eliminate or somehow renegotiate the national debt, torture militants, and target their families.
Over the past ten years of economic transformation, unimaginable wealth has unaccountably disappeared from banks and companies;
billions
in taxes go unpaid.
With
billions
of animals still leading miserable lives on factory farms, more space for pregnant sows and the release from labs of a few hundred chimpanzees may not seem like much to cheer about.
Confidence is too low for commercial banks to create credit on the scale needed to return to full employment and the pre-crisis growth trend, however many hundreds of
billions
of whatever cash central banks pour into them.
Microsoft promised to pay
billions
of dollars for Nokia to use Windows Phone exclusively.
Many G20 countries are currently spending
billions
of dollars subsidizing efforts to tap new coal, oil, and gas reserves.
If the developed world is able to pay trillions of dollars to clean up its bankers’ mess, how is it possible that it cannot afford to pay
billions
of dollars to clean up a mess that it created, and that is threatening the survival of whole continents?
The implication is that hundreds of
billions
of dollars of capital will have to flow annually to the US from Europe just to maintain the present euro-dollar exchange rate.
Gyourko’s own 2013 study concludes that the FHA, now effectively leveraged 30 to one on guarantees of home mortgages that are themselves leveraged 30 to one, is underwater to the tune of tens of
billions
of dollars.
America, in turn, said that the world should be thankful: by living beyond its means, it helped keep the global economy going, especially given high savings rates in Asia, which accumulated hundreds of
billions
of dollars in reserves.
Rather than entering into a dialogue with Hamas, the US and Israel decided to try to crush it, including through a brutal war in Gaza in 2014, resulting in a massive Palestinian death toll, untold suffering, and
billions
of dollars in damage to homes and infrastructure in Gaza – but, predictably, leading to no political progress whatsoever.
Forget InflationMUNICH – To paraphrase Winston Churchill, never have so many
billions
of dollars been pumped out by so many governments and central banks.
We should care about that scenario, because remaining on a path of rising global emissions is almost certain to cause havoc and suffering for
billions
of people as they are hit by a torrent of droughts, heat waves, hurricanes, and more.
In addition to the outlays required to equip the armed forces engaged against Boko Haram, Nigerian officials estimate that
billions
of dollars will be needed to rebuild ravaged infrastructure in the north.
Smart phones are set to connect an additional 2-3 billion of the world’s citizens by 2020, with
billions
of machine sensors monitoring everything from tractors to jet engines, and further breakthroughs in computing power enabling massive increases in data storage and analysis.
What is at stake here is no less important: the lives and well being of
billions
in the Third World depend on a global war on poverty.
But, because the world is likely to spend $700 billion on the SDGs, even a small change can do tens or even hundreds of
billions
of dollars’ worth of good.
So
billions
of dollars were poured into new developments in remote locations where nobody wants to live.
Consider this: at any given moment, the average citizen in the developed world has
billions
of messages passing through his or her brain.
The so-called “love bug virus,” launched in the Phillipines in 2000, is estimated to have cost
billions
of dollars in damage.
Pledges of
billions
of dollars are announced.
The Silver Lining in High Commodity PricesCambridge – Today’s soaring commodity prices scream a fundamental truth of modern life that many politicians, particularly in the West, don’t want us to hear: the world’s natural resources are finite, and, as
billions
of people in Asia and elsewhere escape poverty, Western consumers will have to share them.
The rise of new development partners – emerging markets that are channeling
billions
of dollars to developing countries – opens possibilities for fresh ideas and resources to help overcome poverty, sustain inclusive economic growth (including through a dynamic private sector), and address global issues such as food security and climate change.
Further concessions by Bouteflika’s party, the National Liberation Front (FLN), which has ruled Algeria since independence in 1962, included decreasing oil and sugar prices, pumping
billions
of dinars into the ailing economy in order to sustain rises in salaries, subsidies, and other income assistance to the population.
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