The US national debt is now $16 trillion and rising by a $1 trillion a year. We can get our heads around millions and billions...but trillions? This is what a trillion dollars looks like in $100 bills..
www.pagetutor.com/trillion/
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05:07
Still lost in translation
This is a piece about Japan by my friend James Alexendroff, an investor and philanthropist who thinks originally about the world. "I am...
17:42
Optimism and pessimism
Stephen Pinker, the so-called psychohistorian, Noel Malcolm and Matthew Parris were discussing the life of Thomas Hobbes, the 17 th century...
08:28
Bit on the drill
I was watching a wildlife documentary on polar bears last week. With a modern skidoos, icebreaking ships, bear-proof cages and the latest in...
06:15
On nothing
The author of this piece in the online magazine Aeon spent a season in the middle of nowhere, the Antarctic plateau, doing nothing. It's...
07:43
Glad to be gay
Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys is eloquent and intelligent. He was interviewed about his life and a question was put to him along the lin...
16:43
Lord Rees-Mogg
William Rees-Mogg died in December. He was one of the great and the good and wrote majestically on the great issues of the day - and was, as...
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