a trillion dollars

[Jacques]

I just could not figure out what a trillion dollars looks like.

I received that link this morning to help me visualize it.

From: _http://deliveriesgalore.com/2009/03/18/one-trillion-dollars/

What does a Trillion Dollars Look Like?

Have you ever wondered what one trillion dollars looks like? With all the talk about bailouts and stimulus packages - a million here, a billion there - it’s pretty easy to lose track of exactly how MUCH money they’re talking about.

$100
Let’s start with a simple $100 bill - nearly everyone has seen one, and most have used one at some point:

Ahh, hello Mr. Franklin…



$10,000
Now, lets take it a step further - a packet of $100 bills is less than 1/2 inch thick and is worth $10,000. This can easily fit in your pocket and can be used to buy a cheap car or a year of your kid’s tuition:

Vegas, here we come!



$1,000,000
This little pile of cash can easily fit into any backpack and weighs just about 22 lbs. Just in case you didn’t believe that those criminals in the movies couldn’t fit a million bucks in those briefcases, it’s very possible! You’re not likely to ever see this amount of cash in one place unless you work in a bank or are a high-level drug dealer:

What, you’re just gonna stand there? Get the money!



$100,000,000
Here we have $100 million - neatly fits on any standard pallet, weighing in at a little over one ton. You could stash this away in your bedroom and never work another day in your life. No one will ever see this kind of money in one place except Britney Spears and other celebrities:

That money isn’t going anywhere without a forklift…



$1,000,000,000
Now we’re talking big bucks… $1 billion - ten pallets worth of cold, hard cash. This is more than some countries’ GDP (Gross Domestic Product):

You wouldn’t even know what to do with this kind of money…



$1,000,000,000,000
Finally, here we are - one trillion dollars. That’s twelve zeros, go ahead and count ‘em! One MILLION million, or one thousand billion… This is just an obscene amount of money - the dollar value is more than all that are currently in circulation:

Can you still see the guy in the red shirt?

 

[PepperFritz]

Wow.

 

[RedFox]

Thanks for that Namaste.....I'm not sure if I'm reacting defensively, but I actually found that quite funny....it just makes the whole baleout situation even more absurd to me. Understandable in the context of the PTB's control of everyone, but none the less completely absurd.

 

[PepperFritz]

Stalin said, "One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic".

I think it's the same when it comes to money. We can only attach personal meaning to that which falls into our personal frame of reference. For the average person, $10,000 is a lot of money. For the millionaire, $1,000,000 is a lot of money. Anything beyond that is just a number, a statistic. In a way, it doesn't matter how high the number goes, in the public perception 300 trillion dollars is as meaningless as 3 trillion dollars, there's no frame of reference in which to "experience" it.

 

[Buddy]

Namaste, thanks for that post. It gives me a really interesting symbol to use when thinking about that amount of money.

 

[thevenusian]

Thank you for that series of graphics, Namaste. It clearly illustrates what a trillion is in a way I had not been able to visualize before.

 

[booky]

No problem ..Obama can print that in one week...next week another batch..heck in one month the USA is debt free...