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Five years and $2 billion after the U.S. invasion, the country is a dictatorship in which "chaos and violent death remain facts of life."
But those "little" guys are no more in need of extra money than Gates is, and if allowing him to get an extra billion at Larry Ellison's--or even Marc Andreesen's--expense is good for the rest of us, so be it.
But it means that the increase in goods and services in the economy was $280 billion, less than one-seventh of the increase in claims on goods and services implied by the rise in prices on the New York Stock Exchange alone.
Overlooking journalist Kinder's occasionally clunky prose, reviewers are enraptured by his page-turning account of an 1857 steamer wreck and the eccentric scientist who recovers $1 billion worth of gold from it.
8 billion pieces in 1997.