Using innovative research techniques that bypassed official data, Mr. Wang estimated that not only were trillions of renminbi failing to appear in official assessments, but about two-thirds of it belonged to the top 10 percent of the population.
Obama's record-shattering deficits and debt are not only sucking trillions out of the economy that should go to private job creation instead.
In 1997, a widely read paper published in Nature put the value of the annual output of nature at thirty-three trillion dollars; human-created value, by contrast, was worth only eighteen trillion.
Last May, when George W. Bush was claiming that he planned only a trillion-dollar tax cut -- remember the routine with the dollar bills?
(Incidentally, Apple is not the only possible trillion-dollar outfit; Facebook, which increasingly takes on the hue of an unregulated public utility, is another).
Only $1.4 trillion-worth of this, says Mr Harreld, has been outsourced to other firms.Brillian obtains both the goods and the services it needs to put together its televisions from outsiders all over the world, which means each bit of work goes to whatever company or country is best suited to it.
The full glories of string theory, he said, manifest themselves only at energies trillions of times what earthbound particle accelerators can produce.
It is in searchable possession not only of the trillions of pages of the world wide web, but it is well on the way to photographing all the world's streets, of scanning all the world's books, of collecting every video uploaded to the public internet, mostly on its own YouTube.
We are far from thinking we are the only planet among trillions of stars to support intelligent life.
