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Fri Jan-11-08 03:42 PM
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9. I am so relieved we have economist to explain these things ...

"That's the mother of all high numbers," said Loren Scott, a Baton Rouge-based economist.

Someone in Baker, Louisiana, 150km north-west of New Orleans, filed the claim that inflated the total from the trillions into the quadrillions. Baker is far from the epicentre of Katrina's destruction, but the city hosts a trailer park where hundreds of evacuees have lived since the storm.

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