A billion here and a billion there and pretty soon we are talking real money, a famous US Senator (Everett Dirksen) is believed to have joked at a time (1950s) a billion was big bucks even in the United States. A trillion is the number thrown out in the 21st century. Only a few countries (15) has trillion dollar economies (India’s joined the ranks in 2007), and certainly no company, not even Apple, had hit that landmark. The world’s largest trade relationship, between US and Canada, rolls over $650 billion annually, followed by US-China at around $600 billion.
‘U.S. and India need to turn on the trillion-dollar tap’
The launch of Gateway House's report titled 'The India-U.S. partnership: $1 trillion by 2030' was highlighted in a report by Chidanand Rajghatta for the Times of India's India Business section