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We are asked to believe not only that President Clinton (shanghaied by the filmmakers into a notorious cameo) could inspire the nation to spend trillions of dollars on this machine without even a raised eyebrow from George Will, but also that a cross-eyed, homicidal doomsday prophet would be hired to put the finishing touches on it; and that after he sabotages the whole project in the name of Jesus, it would be rebuilt at a secret location on the island of Hokkaido by a zillionaire eccentric who floats around in orbit aboard his own custom-made Mir.
They had the key equation that now drives hundreds of billions, if not trillions, of dollars of annual trading volume in stock options, futures options, mortgages, over-the-counter currency options, and most of the derivatives industry.
Even the $20 billion that Tiger managed at its peak is not a large sum in the world financial scheme of things (the total wealth of the United States alone is in the tens of trillions).
Michael Kinsley makes some good points in "The Stock Market Chicken-Counting Orgy," but relates the arithmetic to the trillions of dollars in the U.S. economy.
In each of these books--ingeniously structured around the cycle of the Hogwarts school year--Rowling manages to impart new information about the wizard world (and slyly fill you in in case you've missed the earlier installments, something that will become increasingly important as the series fills its projected seven volumes and sales figures mount into the trillions), to advance the long-term narrative conflict (about Harry's search for his origins, and his Manichean struggle with Voldemort, a wizard who's gone over to the Dark Side), and to create and resolve enough satisfying short- and middle-term conundrums to make the volume stand alone.
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