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Funds such as the iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF and the Fidelity Wise Origin Bitcoin Fund suffered billions of dollars worth of outflows through the tail end of May and beginning of June, Barron’s reported Friday.

From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026

The arms sales have netted Pyongyang billions of dollars, according to estimates by the Institute for National Security Strategy, or INSS, a Seoul-based think tank affiliated with South Korea’s spy agency.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

Higher rates would make financing the billions of dollars being spent on AI chips and infrastructure more expensive, and there’s no guarantee such spending will translate into actual profits.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 7, 2026

Data center developers say their projects will bring billions of dollars of new property on the tax rolls, work training opportunities, job creation and private investment in communities.

From Salon • Jun. 6, 2026

At a stroke, in a simple formula, Einstein endowed geologists and astronomers with the luxury of billions of years.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson