Are Saudi monarches quadrillionaires in US dollars?

Lets visualize large sums of money first. These are how large numbers and equivalent currency stacks will look like (in USD). Ten Thousand - 10,000 (4 zeros). Hundred Thousand - 100,000 (5 zeros). One Million - 1,000,000 (6 zeros). Lets make it interesting. From now on we stack the money on pallets. Here is:. read more

Saudi Arabia transferred $100 billion to the United States for administration, construction, weapons, and in the 1970s and 1980s higher education scholarships to the U.S. During that era the U.S. built and administrated numerous military academies, navy ports, and Air Force military airbases. read more

The role of the US dollar as the No. 1 world currency was endangered after the repeal of the dollar's bond to gold in 1971 and the end of the fixed exchange rate in 1973. Since the Bretton Woods conference (1944), the dollar's status as the key currency was enforced to the last corners of the earth. read more