$1.2 billion: One day's trading on the Australian Stock Exchange.
$1 billion: The amount needed to restore public funding of higher education in Australia to pre-1990 levels.
US$35.5 billion: One day's trading on the New York Stock Exchange.
US$30 billion: The amount needed to double rich countries' overseas development aid to the Third World. (UN estimate.)
$153 billion: Six months' trading on the Australian Stock Exchange.
$160 billion: The amount needed to fund universal provision of basic services (health, water, education) to everyone on the planet. (UN estimate.)
US$1.5 trillion: One day's trading on international foreign exchange markets.
US$1.58 trillion: The amount needed to wipe out the debt of the 92 Third World countries which most need it. (Jubilee 2000 estimate.)
US$8.9 trillion: One year's trading on the New York Stock Exchange.
US$8 trillion: The amount needed to fund the basic industrialisation of Asia, Africa and Latin America. (UN estimate.)