Millions of inhabitants would be imperiled, along with trillions of dollars worth of infrastructure.

Trillions of dollars are now being spent on a financial rescue in the developed world.

Rich country households have suffered a momentous loss of wealth (amounting to tens of trillions of US dollars).

Trillions of dollars of paper wealth already factored into spending decisions by households, firms, and government would disappear.

The process continued for years, culminating in a crash that caused wealth destruction amounting to trillions of dollars.

But neither the US nor China is ready to sacrifice millions of jobs and trillions of dollars to do so.

The favored bogeymen of the day are giant government investors, particularly Asian central banks, with their trillions of dollars in assets.

The latter two wars have been politically self defeating for the US, in addition to costing it trillions of dollars.

Politicians and judges are bought, and natural resources worth trillions of dollars are sold to powerful corporations for a pittance.

But, though trillions of dollars will be spent on the SDGs, there are simply not enough resources to complete every project.

So why don t we stop killing 49 bears a year before we commit trillions of dollars to do hundreds of times less good?

The final decision about which targets will become global policy will affect the flow of trillions of dollars over the next 15 years.

The US economy has been performing relatively well, the recovery adding trillions of dollars to the balance sheet and generating little inflation.

The US Federal Reserve Board has pumped out trillions of dollars of reserves, but never have so many reserves produced so little monetary growth.

It is shocking, and worrisome, that public financing remains slight, because these technologies success could translate into literally trillions of dollars of economic output.

It will make trillions of dollars of investment to get up to scratch, with sufficient power generation to meet the needs of the continent, he says.

Indeed, they are the only way for us to stop wasting trillions of dollars on financial bubbles, useless wars, and environmentally destructive forms of energy.

Not surprisingly, America, which benefits by getting trillions of dollars of loans from developing countries now at almost no interest was not enthusiastic about the discussion.

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The losses also include failure to conserve the world s dwindling wildlife and rapidly degrading ecosystems, which are worth trillions of dollars in terms of life supporting services.

Yet we recognize that continuing to pour trillions of dollars into carbon based infrastructure and fossil fuel subsidies is like investing in sub prime real estate.

After one year, trillions of dollars in public monies, and much soul searching in the world s policy community, have we learned the right lessons? I fear not.

Most of the shadow banking system has disappeared, and traditional commercial banks are saddled with trillions of dollars in expected losses on loans and securities while still being seriously undercapitalized.

It should be obvious that the 1 billion windmill doesn t negate the trillions of dollars of damage from climate change that we still have to pay by the end of the century.

Far flung military misadventures continue to stretch the country s fiscal resources, with costs potentially running into many trillions of dollars, according a recent study by Linda Bilmes and Joseph Stiglitz.

Otherwise, their firms would have been able to tap the trillions of dollars now sitting on the sidelines, held by sovereign wealth funds, private equity groups, hedge funds, and others.

Bickel and Lane offer compelling evidence that a tiny investment in climate engineering might be able to reduce as much of global warming s effects as trillions of dollars spent on carbon emission reductions.

The Federal government has assumed trillions of dollars of liabilities and risks. In rescuing the financial system, no less than in fiscal policy, we need to worry about the bang for the buck.

First, US interventions, which have cost the country trillions of dollars and thousands of lives over the past decade, have consistently destabilized the Middle East, while causing massive suffering in the affected countries.

The US increased foreign aid by perhaps 4 billion a year at the same time that it increased military spending by 150 billion annually and cut taxes by trillions of dollars.

This means that over time, the advantage of moving toward freer trade grows dramatically bigger the 120 billion benefit in 2015 grows to many trillions of dollars of annual benefits by the end of the century.

If we were to put it in monetary terms, however, we might estimate their value at trillions of dollars per year at least a few percent of the world economy s annual GDP of 100 trillion.

After the war, each adopted a never be surprised again policy, and so went on to invest trillions of dollars in a multitude of hardened, mobile, and concealed nuclear weapons to deter the other.

If real per capita GDP growth had continued after 1990 at the rate of the 1980 s, Japan s economy would be 60 larger than it is today implying losses in the trillions of dollars.

After the war, each adopted a never be surprised again policy, and so went on to invest trillions of dollars in a multitude of hardened, mobile, and concealed nuclear weapons to deter the other.

In his new book Trillion Dollar Economists, Robert Litan of the Brookings Institution argues that the economics profession has created trillions of dollars of income and wealth for the United States and the rest of the world.

Huge investments worth trillions of euros will be needed to meet global energy requirements.

The US government will no longer be able to afford to invest hundreds of billions of dollars (the cost in Iraq alone will run into the trillions) trying to supply other people with decent government.

Rich countries need to put serious money on the table. Claims that they lack the needed resources ring hollow, as trillions of dollars were found to bail out banks in the financial crisis.

With a cap and trade system, the costs in terms of jobs, household consumption, and economic growth are hidden, shifted around, and not easy to estimate, though models indicate they will run into trillions of dollars.

Careful calculations show that future revenues under the tax policies favored by Bush are likely to fall tens of trillions of dollars short of the costs of public pensions, health care, and other fiscal spending expected by the public.

The build up of reserves contributes to global imbalances and insufficient global aggregate demand, as countries put aside hundreds of billions of dollars as a precaution against global volatility. Not surprisingly, America, which benefits by getting trillions of dollars of loans from developing countries now at almost no interest was not enthusiastic about the discussion.

This could well create a financial tsunami worth trillions of dollars, which explains the energy with which the European Central Bank and its president, Jean Claude Trichet, have tried to head off the worst.

Our bodies are home to trillions of microbes, and these creatures define who we are.

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