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What does one TRILLION dollars look like?
All this talk about “stimulus packages” and “bailouts” … But what does a trillion dollars look like? The graphical illustration below comes courtesy of PageTutor. We’ll start with a $100 dollar bill. Currently the largest US denomination in general circulation. Most people have seen it, slighty fewer have owned it. Guaranteed to make friends wherever it goes. 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 so much about. What is a trillion dollars? Well, it’s a million million. It’s a thousand billion. It’s a one followed by 12 zeros. Ladies and gentlemen … I give you $1 trillion dollars … Notice those pallets are double stacked. … and remember those are $100 bills. So the next time you hear someone toss around the phrase “trillion dollars”… that’s what they’re talking about.
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The problem is weight. $100 bill is about 1 gram.
A million is 10 kilos – around 22 pounds – hard to carry in a grocery bag.
A billion – 10 tonne – 22,000 pounds Most trucks can’t handle it.
1 trillion, well…, 10,000 tonne, 22 million pounds. Commodity ship comes to mind.
It’s funny, in the UK I hear em say “thousand billion”. They don’t even have the word “trillion” integrated into their language. I mean, are we all going to become used to the word “quadrillion” soon? Geesh.