It is how much money (give or take a few billions) you need to buy all publicly traded companies in the world as of September 2008.
To put it in perspective, the world's total GDP in 2007 was 57,000,000,000,000
Forty trillion
40,000,000 x 1,000,000 = 40,000,000,000,000 Forty million times one million equals forty trillion.40000000000000
40000000x1000000=
40000000 X 1000000 = 40000000000000
40000000 x 1000000 = 40000000000000
Forty trillion
70000000000000000000
40000000000000
40,000,000 x 1,000,000 = 40,000,000,000,000 Forty million times one million equals forty trillion.40000000000000
40000000x1000000=
133422281.521
40 trillion
40000000000000
forty trillion
40000000 X 1000000 = 40000000000000
40000000 x 1000000 = 40000000000000
40 trilion. or could be 4,000 billion