A British man was left in major shock when his bank statement showed him to be £100 billion ($208 billion) overdrawn. picked by AutumnLotus 11 months ago

Billion, mind you - not million. $134,000,000,000 worth of securities found in a suitcase by customs agents in Italy. The smugglers were Japanese, heading toward Switzerland.

It is either the biggest smuggling operation in history -- or a fraud of equally impressive proportions. Italian customs officials stopped two men at the Swiss border carrying bonds worth $134 billion (95.8 billion euros). picked by bingo 5 months ago

The uber idea they claim Pepsi stole from them? Selling purified bottled water. No sh*t. One billion dollars.

For their part, Pepsi (who's lawyers never showed up for the trial) claims the statute of limitations should preclude the lawsuit. But also that they weren't aware of the lawsuit until after the ruling.

I'd LOVE to see the board meeting where they talk about this one! picked by Moe 4 weeks ago

President Obama has enlisted the world’s leading powers to contribute $15 billion to help millions of the world’s poorest farmers grow enough food to feed themselves.
If the assistance is delivered and is in fact mostly new money, it will constitute the largest international effort in decades to combat hunger. picked by Bingo 5 months ago

Banking in at over $7 Billion, the scheme was finally unearthed this week with the unstable market. The catch? He did it all alone. What could one man need $7 Billion for?

...Apparently He had a lot of Stuff to Buy. "I'd Like 5 Tons of Tooth Paste." picked by muppetmaker 2 years ago

Scientists are reporting an advance toward a new computer memory device that can store thousands of times more data than conventional silicon chips with an estimated lifetime of more than one billion years. picked by AutumnLotus 6 months ago

So California once again finds themselves with a budget shortfall of a Billion Dollars. That is a lot of zeros!
California cannabis growers/dealers plead to have their product legalized and taxed. They assure that thier product alone will raise at least the full billion dollars missing in tax revenues, preventing the closing of any government service picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago

Researchers estimate that millions of pets, animal parts and meats are covertly smuggled across the border totaling a $10 billion industry, second only to illegal drugs. picked by 1krazykorean 2 years ago

Ever tried to visualize a huge number, and fail? This site will help: "Visualizing huge numbers can be very difficult. People regularly talk about millions of miles, billions of bytes, or trillions of dollars, yet it's still hard to grasp just how much a "billion" really is. The MegaPenny Project aims to help by taking one small everyday item, the U.S. penny, and building on that ... read full post picked by thephrog 3 years ago

Now double that. And add $170 Billion. That's the price tag of the bailout

Originally posted here picked by JoshSF49 1 year ago

The United States has asked four oil-rich Gulf states for close to 300 billion dollars to help it curb the global financial meltdown. picked by 2manyusernames 1 year ago

In the last two weeks alone, Iraq has made purchase requests totaling $10.9 billion.

And now comes a purchase request coming in at $2.16 billion. So just what does $2.16 billion buy us theses days?? Well according to the Defense Security Cooperation Agency: picked by hmtksteve 1 year ago

The Utah-based Anti-Spam company Unspam Technologies has filed a one billion dollar lawsuit on behalf of over twenty thousand internet users. The suit was filed in Virginia under the CAN-SPAM Act and Virginia law. The question that comes to mind is exactly who is the lawsuit aimed at? picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago

Perhaps you know that sinking feeling when a single keystroke accidentally destroys hours of work. Now imagine wiping out a disk drive containing an account worth $38 billion. picked by shredtone 3 years ago

Global warming will create at least 1 billion refugees by 2050 as water shortages and crop failures force people to leave their homes, sparking local wars over access to resources. picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago

The man told police he's starting his own record label and that he had been given the money by his girlfriend's mother to help him start it. picked by arsphidius 2 years ago

Pension plans are not as common as they used to be for most of us. PGA, however takes good care of its people. Tiger Woods who already makes the most of any sports person (he makes twice as much as the #2 person) could very well reach $1,000,000,000 in retirement payouts. picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago

A fantastic visualization of all those billions of dollar figures that get quoted in the media, and how they compare to each other. picked by Boomshank 3 months ago

In response to this post, Sony is making up for the PS3 profit losses with their other products. $3.5 billion profit for fiscal year 2007 will more than make up for the $1.3 billion loss on PS3 hardware. picked by punthe 1 year ago

They claim the $200 billion they received from the government is not enough. They are suing for the return of $306 million in tax payments. picked by 2manyusernames 8 months ago