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Exactly Is One Trillion Dollars? (S636b)
From: tom on 3/20/2009 All this talk about "stimulus packages" and "bailouts"... A billion dollars... A hundred billion dollars... Eight hundred billion dollars... One TRILLION dollars... What does that look
like? I mean, these various numbers are tossed around like so many
doggie treats, so I thought I'd take Google
Sketchup out for a test drive and try to get a sense of what exactly
We'll start with a
$100 dollar bill. Currently the largest U.S. denomination in general
circulation. Most everyone has seen them, slightly fewer have owned
them. Guaranteed to make friends wherever they go.
A packet of one hundred $100 bills is less than 1/2" thick and contains $10,000. Fits in your pocket easily and is more than enough for week or two of shamefully decadent fun. .
Believe it or not, this next little pile is $1 million dollars (100 packets of $10,000). You could stuff that into a grocery bag and walk around with it. .
While a measly $1 million looked a little unimpressive, $100 million is a little more respectable. It fits neatly on a standard pallet... .
And $1 BILLION dollars... now we're really getting somewhere... .
Next we ' ll look at ONE TRILLION dollars. This is that number we've been hearing about so much. What is a trillion dollars? Well, it's a million million. It's a thousand billion. It's a one followed by 12 zeros. You ready for this? It's pretty surprising. Go ahead... Scroll down... Ladies and gentlemen...
I give you $1 trillion dollars...
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(And notice those pallets are double stacked.) So the next time you
hear someone toss around the phrase "trillion dollars"... that ' s what
they ' re talking about..
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