It's the average number of times per second that an albatross flaps its wings (it can spend up to six days just gliding on air currents).
A future Iraqi administration may decide that it can spend its growing oil revenues more productively than by lavishing them on bureaucrats.
In potential conflict with rules that govern how it can spend its funds, the American Egg Board AEBB) lobbied for a concerted attack on Hampton Creek, a food company that has created a low-cost plant-based egg replacement and the maker of Just Mayo, a mayonnaise alternative.
But it faces a tall task as it gets off the ground: It must prove that it can spend its €1 billion ($1.28 billion) yearly budget efficiently while keeping red tape to a minimum.
Second, China has huge foreign exchange reserves, the result of its decades of massive trade surpluses, that it can spend as stimulus in its economy.
Should that happen, the EU will lapse into one of its periodic crises, when it can spend years preoccupied with internal squabbles.
By 1978, when Mr Deng returned from yet another political exile to assume power, China's formal financial system had shrunk to a single institution, the People's Bank, whose head office was made up of 80 people buried within the Ministry of Finance.Skipping ahead, China now has more dollars than it can spend and its financial system is populated by a constantly expanding array of institutions.
When its currency is weak, it can spend dollars to purchase roubles in the market to shore up the value, he said.
Put simply, if a club earns £100m from its football operations (broadcasting, merchandise, player-trading, sponsorship and tickets) it can spend £100m on its team.
A Spanish town has decided to ditch its annual bullfighting festival so that it can spend the budget on school books instead.
This is a company producing so much cash that it can spend $10bn buying back its own shares this year despite pencilling in $80bn for capital expenditure over the next half-decade.
