Statistics concerning money movements greatly underestimate the real (including massive illegal) flows. The global merchandise trade is now close to $20 trillion a year, and the annual value of world trade in commercial services is close to $6 trillion.[4] Global foreign direct investment doubled between 2000 and 2019 and now approaches $1.5 trillion a year, while by 2020 global currency trading totaled nearly $7 trillion per day.[5] And numbers describing global information flows are many orders of magnitude higher than these money transfers—not just in terabytes or petabytes but in exa
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