The provision would raise $2 billion in additional taxes over the next decade, according to an estimate by the congressional Joint Committee on Taxation.Industry trade groups including the National Association of Realtors, the National Association of Home Builders and the Mortgage Brokers Association, which want homeowners to be protected from taxes on forgiven debt, support the measure.

Are there any buyers for million and billion dollar transactions?

I realize that it is a multi-billion dollar industry and that like anything it seems like 90% of the business is going to the top 10% in the industry, but that still leaves a considerable amount of money left to the other 90% in the industry.

If we figure that 5% of that number is in default then we are looking at $100 billion.

We have $30 billion in construction happening on the South Strip right now.

My question is why isn't any professionals firms and law firms get involve on faciliating the mulit-millions and billions dollars with the large capital investors and banks senior officers or their legal department?

Countrywide to Refinance Up to $16 Billion of Loans I know we had discussed the idea previously, but I wanted to get everyone's take on this now that it's in motion.http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?

(As an aside, according to the Honolulu Board of Realtors, there were 1,366 condo sales and 975 single family home sales in the third quarter, for a total sales volume of $1.311 billion.

Bank Turan Alem Group invested about one billion USD in hotels in sea-resort Batumi, a businessman from Dubai purchased hotel Sheraton in Tbilisi for few hundred million USD, and lots of property besides, he alreay spent 1 billion and he plans to spend 1 more billion.

The US may not manufacture as much as it used to but we export billions upon billions of agriculture, food etc. and medical supplies to name a few things.