# 116 \[i\]trillion\[/\] dollars?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/116-i-trillion-dollars/124237>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 16, 2002, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/116-i-trillion-dollars/124237 "2002-08-16T20:03:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2002, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/116-i-trillion-dollars/124237/21 "2002-08-18T17:01:50Z")

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Is there even that much money in the world?

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**Author:** ![Tourian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@Tourian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tourian)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2002, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/116-i-trillion-dollars/124237/22 "2002-08-19T07:39:59Z")

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Yeah, nothing heals wounds and encourages peace faster than trying to take money away from poor countries still stuck in the Middle Ages and giving it to a select few making them stupidly rich.

Seems to be the trend these days,

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**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2002, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/116-i-trillion-dollars/124237/23 "2002-08-19T15:55:50Z")

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For that amount of money, maybe it actually is possible to bring people back? They could setup huge cloning labs.

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**Author:** ![CRorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CRorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CRorex)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2002, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/116-i-trillion-dollars/124237/24 "2002-08-19T20:43:20Z")

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In the pit threat I started about this Monty pointed out that 116 trillion dollars was 2.3 times the WORLD’s GDP.

Anyhoo, in my opinion this was a STUPID small minded thing to do. This lawsuit has totally FUCKED US/Saudi relations (NPR ran a good piece on this today)

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**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2002, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/116-i-trillion-dollars/124237/25 "2002-08-19T20:58:02Z")

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Yeah my jaw dropped when I read about that lawsuit.

Mind numbing is all I can say.

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**Author:** ![ElwoodCuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/edb3f5/32.png) [@ElwoodCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElwoodCuse)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2002, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/116-i-trillion-dollars/124237/26 "2002-08-20T01:08:08Z")

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It’s ALWAYS about the money.

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