Quite agree. When i was looking to buy a house in the '80's i was talking tens of thousands while at the same time working on big restoration jobs that might up one , two or even five million. The house we are in is now worth around a third of a million and there are others worth a million not far away , one of my customers house is in the multi million pound bracket . Building projects are regularly in the 100's of millions nowadays and hs2 is in the billions if not a hundred billion. I agree actually visualising those numbers is beyond most and i'm probably in that group.Arwen Thebard wrote: ↑Tue Mar 17, 2020 2:32 pm When I was growing up the word "millions" was rarely heard, pools winners aside, and few could comprehend its relative value. Nowadays we hear "billions" on a daily basis but I still doubt that many can visualise its meaning in real terms. Its not unusual to now hear "trillions" being mentioned regularly and I suspect we will all get used to hearing "quadrillions" talked about some time soon.
Mind boggling numbers and inconceivable debt levels.
Watching the tv this morning they were talking of the government package announced a day or so ago , the £350 billion of loans and so on . There were calls for the government to pay the wages of those companies currently suffering , to keep them afloat till this blows over. Evidently some other countries are considering this and there was a number of £40B a week banded about just to do this in the UK . Governments would fund that by borrowing which makes me wonder a bit more about those bank shares...
