700 billion

    By Tom Barlow

    | 1:00PM 9/25/2008
    Seven hundred billion dollars. Like a woman trying to waltz with a sumo wrestler, I'm having trouble wrapping my arms around that figure. To gain some perspective, I tried to envision 700 billion-- Laid end to end, 700 billion dollar bills (66 million miles worth) would stretch from the Earth to...

    By Geoff Williams

    | 11:34AM 9/25/2008
    I'm always one who enjoys hearing a positive spin on the economy, and so I thought I'd share what Peter Justen, the CEO of MyBizHomePage, told me today when we started discussing the current economic situation:"In many ways you can make the argument that our overall economy is very strong. Think...