Posted on 05/07/2011 5:01:57 PM PDT by DeaconBenjamin
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 a trillion dollars looks like.
We'll start with a $100 dollar bill. Currently the largest U.S. denomination in general circulation. Most 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 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.
You ready for this?
It's pretty surprising.
Go ahead...
Scroll down...
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.
bump
At One million dollars a DAY and counting backwards, you would be at $770 Billion around the Birth of Christ.
You don’t hit $1 Trillion until you get to the Battle of Thermopylae.
What does 14 trillion look like?
“looks like we are screwed”
In more ways than one.
When we Zimbabwe ourselves to the point that a candy bar costs 1 trillion.
I'll hold you to that!
The Republican GOP controls the House and the pursestrings. For them to complain about Obama and Reid is disgusting and telling. All spending is their responsibility now. Do not give them a break.
$$$$$$ Bump.
I swear to God I saw a $15 dollar chicken in the market yesterday.
We are so screwed.
Someone once said that all paper money returns to it's intrinsic value, zero.
I actually found a 1964 silver dime last monday.
WooHoo!
I immediately went to coinflation.com to see what I had.
$3.20
Had I found it the previous friday it would have been $3.50
Today its $2.57
I cant eat the durn thing. We are so screwed.
1. For the average person, the concept of having $1 trillion is so unfathomable, they cannot relate and the numbers are irrelevant.
For the average politician, it's someone else's money, so the numbers are irrelevant for them as well.
What happens when they stop pumping the market with fiat money?
I know a lot of folks that are feeling pretty secure with their market returns as of late
Buy wheat
One dollar per second = 32,000 years.
Um ...
If you were spending $1 million per second, that converts to $60M per minute, $3.6B per hour, or $86.4B per day. At that rate you’d hit the $1T mark during the eleventh day of your spending spree.
The federal government doesn’t spend quite that fast (yet) so it takes a year to spend ~$4T.
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