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All that 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, those numbers were tossed around like doggie treats, so I thought I'd try to get a sense of what exactly a trillion dollars looks like.
We'll start with a $100 dollar bill. Everyone has seen them, slighty 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 Tiger Woods-esque 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...
Now we'll look at ONE TRILLION dollars. This is the number we heard so much about. It's a million million. It's a thousand billion. It's a one followed by 12 zeros.
It's pretty surprising.
Ladies and gentlemen... I give you $1 trillion dollars...
(Notice those pallets are double stacked. And if I'd started with a one dollar bill, that image would be 10 x higher and 10 x longer than it is now.)
A billion dollars...
A hundred billion dollars...
Eight hundred billion dollars...
One TRILLION dollars...
What does that look like? I mean, those numbers were tossed around like doggie treats, so I thought I'd try to get a sense of what exactly a trillion dollars looks like.
We'll start with a $100 dollar bill. Everyone has seen them, slighty 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 Tiger Woods-esque 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...
Now we'll look at ONE TRILLION dollars. This is the number we heard so much about. It's a million million. It's a thousand billion. It's a one followed by 12 zeros.
It's pretty surprising.
Ladies and gentlemen... I give you $1 trillion dollars...
(Notice those pallets are double stacked. And if I'd started with a one dollar bill, that image would be 10 x higher and 10 x longer than it is now.)
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