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The year was 1986, and President Ronald Reagan was sending billions of dollars to the Pentagon, much of it to fund new technology, including missile defense and spy satellites.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
Its February letter cites reports that other boycotts have wiped billions of dollars from Target’s market value.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
Not only are the states seeking billions of dollars from Meta, they are demanding it make changes to Instagram and Facebook, including ending "like" counts and infinite scroll.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
More than 370,000 miles of roads were built through national forests prior to the 2001 rule, with a maintenance backlog of billions of dollars.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
Inside of three years, credit default swaps on subprime mortgage bonds would become a trillion-dollar market and precipitate hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of losses inside big Wall Street firms.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
