One percent of what?

How can one lose $100B in one year? — I mean that’s a 1 with not 8, but 11 zeros after it: $100,000,000,000. Ok, so it’s $99B, but we’re not counting pennies here right?

It’s surely an awful lot of money to lose in one year, but who’s going to quibble about 1%?… OTOH, I can think of more than a few companies that would just go gang-busters if they had the 1% of the dollars missed in my lazy-math adjustment above…