Sweeney literally controls a billion-dollar world industry - television.
In less than two months, FIFA will decide the host nations for billion-dollar World Cups in 2018 and 2022.
Follow the money: in the billion-dollar world of the energy business that is good advice.
Next to pay in the rarefied realms of private American capitalism — the multitrillion-dollar world of hedge funds, private equity and the like — these C.E.O.'s might seem like pikers.
The challenge, as they see it, is to remedy that before the next Enron comes alongEnron's fall will be felt in the business of "structured finance"—that multi-billion dollar world of collateralised debt obligations and asset-backed securities.
For all the best efforts of law enforcement to stem the billion-dollar world counterfeit trade (in the United States, a first-time counterfeiter can face up to 10 years in prison and $2 million in fines), fake Goyards continue to proliferate.
There are others around the world, including ABN Amro of the Netherlands, which has a direct exposure of almost $100m, and Japan's Nikko Cordial Corporation's money management fund which holds an estimated $200m of Enron's bonds.Enron's fall will be felt in the business of "structured finance"—that multi-billion dollar world of collateralised debt obligations and asset-backed securities.
When the BBC, through a freelance journalist, Andrew Jennings, broadcast its claims last year on the eve of the voting in Zurich for the rights to the multibillion-dollar World Cups, Blatter repeated Havelange's claims of British bias because of the country's failure to win hosting rights.
It's no longer shocking that a 20-something kid could move to the Valley and build a billion-dollar world changing company.
Even so, it is unlikely that CRT bikes with production-based engines will be immediately competitive in the million-dollar world of prototype machines and advanced electronics, although the idea seems to be that over time there will be more CRTs and fewer factories.
The $100 billion dollar world of illegal gambling is happening all around us and can carry dire consequences, according to a CNBC investigative report that airs tonight at 9pm.
