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To: KLP who wrote (304656)	5/11/2009 5:45:19 PM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793900

Once you master billions try getting your mind around trillions. Trillion is the new billion.

To: KLP who wrote (304656)	5/11/2009 6:33:07 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793900

I claim first use of $quadrillion as a realistic measure of financial activity: Message 25367921 $trillions are so last year. $billions are not even a blip on the screen. You are really so last century with references to hundreds of $millions as being a lot of money. Any politician bidding less than $1 trillion is an also-ran from a hayseed republic. But a $trillion here and a $trillion there soon adds up to real money. We should talk of "quads" as the cool jargon. As in "Let's throw in a couple of quads stimulus to get the economy moving". Here's how to get big quads: youtube.com Mqurice Maybe my search function didn't go back far enough, but I hadn't seen it used anywhere else at the time. "$trillion" was still seen as a significant amount of money.