What $700 Billion Will Get You

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By Lisa Gutierrez

RISMEDIA, Oct. 11, 2008-(MCT)-Can’t wrap your mind around how big that $700 billion bailout package really is? Neither could we. So we triple-counted our zeros to find out what we could buy with that kind of scratch.

- 6.3 billion 9-course meals at the American Restaurant ($111 each)
- 903 million pairs of red patent Manolo Blahnik Mary Jane high heels ($775 each)
- 269 million MacBook Air computers
- 32 million Mini Coopers ($21,550 each)
- 1,728 performing arts centers ($405 million each)
- 280 Oprahs. (Net personal worth: $2.5 billion)

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