That's quite literally the trillion-dollar question.    From Wordnik.com.  [Battleground Bosporus] Reference

Those trillion-dollar deficits can't go on much longer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is It Time to Listen to Rep. Paul Ryan's Economic Prescription?] Reference

That's the billion, maybe trillion-dollar question, Ali.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 20, 2008] Reference

And Barack Obama warning of trillion-dollar deficits for years to come.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 7, 2009] Reference

To hear people talk about trillion-dollar deficits is a frightening thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 9, 2009] Reference

This hour, the president-elect's historic meeting and his trillion-dollar challenge.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 7, 2009] Reference

And a trillion-dollar deficit that could repeat every year for the foreseeable future.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Obama, Left Begs for Clinton, Gets Only Carter] Reference

We're talking about a deficit in the trillion-dollar range for as far as the eye can see.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 22, 2009] Reference

Which raises the trillion-dollar question: Is Obama the realist being listened to in Tehran?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pepe Escobar: Barack and Mahmoud Back in the Groove] Reference

It's an important issue for minorities to address as we reach a trillion-dollar buying power.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Jesse Jackson Details Finances of Rainbow/PUSH Coalition - March 8, 2001] Reference

What was once just a marketing gimmick has morphed into the basis of a trillion-dollar economy.    From Wordnik.com.  [We Read It So You Don’t Have to: ‘Free’] Reference

BLITZER: But they were projecting more than a trillion-dollar deficit that they were leaving him.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 26, 2009] Reference

But the trillion-dollar conglomerates that inhabit this new financial world are not free enterprises.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warren Mosler: Response to David Stockman's 'Four Defamations of the Apocalypse'] Reference

Now we have chemical industry, zillion tons of carbon and sulfur emissions, and trillion-dollar deficits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. Vladimir A. Masch: Balanced Capitalism] Reference

The strategic blunder was putting a trillion-dollar health care package ahead of infrastructure spending.    From Wordnik.com.  [Get Briefed: Paul Volcker] Reference

South Dakota's Stephanie Herseth Sandlin boasts she voted against the "trillion-dollar health-care plan.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Obama Heyday Is Over] Reference

Contrast this with AIG, who foolishly shorted a trillion-dollar tranche of credit default swaps and blew up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Get Briefed: Paul Volcker] Reference

Now it's threatening to shake up the trillion-dollar corporate-computing and wireless-communications markets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Searching For The Best Engine] Reference

Obviously, if we made an organism that produced fuel, that could be the first billion - or trillion-dollar organism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Making It Happen] Reference

First, a trillion-dollar bailout package in May prevented an immediate default by Greece and a break-up of the eurozone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nouriel Roubini: The Eurozone's Autumn Hangover] Reference

But new spending would spark an outcry in the face of trillion-dollar budget deficits and no plan in place to reduce them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quarterbacks Get Out 'Hail Mary' Economy Passes] Reference

First, because the economy is in trouble, and to reverse those tax cuts would in essence mean a trillion-dollar tax increase.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 20, 2008] Reference

This is a trillion-dollar misreading of the economy, investments -- quote -- "that are supposed to get jobs back on the table.".    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 6, 2009] Reference

Together with Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, he had kept Wall Street afloat on a trillion-dollar tide of taxpayer money.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama’s Old Deal] Reference

MITCH MCCONNELL (R), MINORITY LEADER: Well, given the deficit numbers, it really ought not to be a trillion-dollar spending bill.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 8, 2009] Reference

  It reflects the stark reality of what we've inherited -- a trillion-dollar deficit, a financial crisis, and a costly recession.    From Wordnik.com.  [President Obama says nation will rebuild and recover from economic crisis] Reference

He can't because conservative Democrats are balking at proposed new tax hikes to pay for reform and the trillion-dollar price tag.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 20, 2009] Reference

Last year China used part of its trillion-dollar foreign-exchange reserves to buy up nearly half of all the debt issued by the U.S.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trouble Waits For Paulson] Reference

"The health-care bill is increasingly viewed as a trillion-dollar spending bill rather than a health-care reform bill," says Madden.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Republicans Can Learn From Brown] Reference

January 2010: Says the stimulus "clearly hasn't worked": "Their trillion-dollar stimulus plan from a year ago clearly has not worked.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Jared Bernstein: The Republicans' Increasingly Awkward Dance Around the Truth] Reference

The trillion-dollar question is whether regulators have learned from the last credit bubble the lessons necessary to prevent the next one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bank regulators once bamboozled, now emboldened] Reference

But the trillion-dollar estimate assumes that the de-leveraging goes smoothly — as if we could have a big meeting and agree on reasonable numbers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Can It Get Any Worse?] Reference

You find a wonderfully clear discussion of why the trillion-dollar Social Security trust fund doesn't help solve the system's long-term financial problems.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Lot Of Trust, But No Funds] Reference