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The U.S. and other advanced economies such as Europe and Japan are spending billions of dollars to build up alternative mining and refining capacity outside China, including in the U.S.,

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026

The U.S. president can stop or start wars, inject billions of dollars of public money into markets and topple foreign heads of state.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026

Data center developers say their projects will bring billions of dollars of new property on the tax rolls, work training opportunities, job creation and private investment in communities.

From Salon • Jun. 6, 2026

The company is building two other data centers in the Memphis area, with the whole operation costing tens of billions of dollars.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

While the British knew a lot about how the machines operated, neither they nor anyone else could tell Elizebeth which of the many billions of Enigma settings the South American spies were using.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield