Which reminds me, what about the roughly one trillion dollars worth of oil we have in reserve?
Jay Walker founded Priceline in 1998 and jumped to a billion dollars net worth just one year later.
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Some would say a mosquito is worth one hundred trillion dollars (and if you were marooned alone on the moon, and suddenly a mosquito appeared, I believe that little guy would be worth all the galaxies in the universe, in terms of biological companionship).
Kobe Bryant, long-time Los Angeles Laker and future Hall-of-Famer, is in a bitter feud with his own mother over ownership of memorabilia potentially worth more than one million dollars.
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One problem is that it holds 376 billion dollars worth of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac bonds.
Many sharks perish as bycatch, but increasingly they are being hunted for their fins, a delicacy in China and a lucrative commodity. (The annual export of fins is thought to be worth about a billion dollars.) One study, published in Ecology Letters last year, estimates that between twenty-six million and seventy-three million sharks are killed for their fins every year.
But Arkin has been selling shares since 2008, and now confirms that he only has about one-fourth of his initial Perrigo stake, worth a quarter of a billion dollars.
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Had the U.S. Government needed to sell an additional several trillion dollars worth of Treasuries on the open market in recent years, no one knows whether and on what terms they would have been absorbed in the marketplace.
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"I can think of one, for example, that we've done a quarter of a billion dollars' worth of business with, which hadn't responded to us after four separate queries, " Kizer said.
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It's not worth moving heaven and earth and spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person.
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But for the past few years former Alwaleed executives have been telling me that the prince, while indeed one of the richest men in the world, systematically exaggerates his net worth by several billion dollars.
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The complaint against one of the Dominican Republic gang members allegedly involved in the theft states that thousands of dollars' worth of stolen cash was deposited into two Liberty Reserve accounts via currency centers based in Siberia and Singapore.
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