Picture This...One Trillion Dollars

"You spend a billion here and a billion there.
Sooner or later it adds up to real money." --
U.S. Senator Everett Dirksen

All this talk about "stimulus packages" and "bailouts". A billion dollars here. A hundred billion dollars there. Eight hundred billion dollars here. One TRILLION dollars there. How can we relate to it all? Well, let's 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.

$100... One HUNDRED dollars

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 a week or two of shamefully decadent fun.

$10,000... TEN THOUSAND dollars

Newly printed $1 dollar bills

Believe it or not, this next little pile is $1 MILLION dollars (100 packets of $10,000). You could stuff it all into a grocery bag and walk around with it. Not recommended.

$1,000,000... One MILLION dollars

And while a measly $1 million looks a little unimpressive, $100 million dollars is a little more respectable. It all fits neatly on a standard pallet.

Newly printed bills packaged for shipment

$10,000... TEN THOUSAND dollars

And here's $1 BILLION dollars. Now we're really getting somewhere.

$1,000,000,000... One BILLION dollars

A billion seconds* ago it was 1959.
A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.
A billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the Stone Age.
A billion days ago nobody walked on two feet on the planet Earth.

*One number per second.

Next we'll look at one TRILLION dollars. This is the number we've been hearing so much about, lately. What is a trillion dollars? It's a million million dollars. It's a thousand billion dollars. It's a one followed by 12 zeros. Are you ready? It's pretty shocking. Go ahead. Scroll down.

Ladies and gentlemen, here's $1 Trillion Dollars.

$1,000,000,000,000... One TRILLION dollars

NOTICE the scaled size of the MAN at the LOWER LEFT. Also notice the pallets are double stacked. And remember these are $100 bills. So the next time you hear someone toss around the phrase "trillion dollars"... this is what they're talking about.

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PICTURE THIS... ONE TRILLION PENNIES

1,000,000,016,640, i.e., one trillion, sixteen thousand, six hundred and forty pennies.
Or one cube, measuring 273 x 273 x 273 feet.

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