Topic: trillion

Mergers and acquisitions are the lifeblood vehicle for investors. M&A activity in the first half of the year was down 35% - down to roughly $1.579 trillion. Investment bankers are bracing for more job cuts as volumes fail to recover from their first-quarter tumble, according to preliminary Thomson Reuters numbers released today, and the outlook remains bleak for the rest of 2008....

Our local water department sent out a big full color brochure this week talking about what they were doing and what all was involved in delivering water. One of the things they are looking at is detecting chemicals with a presence in the range of parts per trillion. Seems like I heard something once that said there were about a trillion atoms in a cell in a human body, a trillion cells in a...

Joseph Stiglitz, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and Linda J Bilmes have done an exhaustive study on the real cost of the Iraq war. The book goes into great detail the costs to other nations and the impact on the global economy as well. More importantly, it assesses the human cost in more...