Just how much is a Trillion dollars and what does it look like??

[WasntMe]

When talking about the dept that countries have now swelled themselves up to in recent years it can be hard to sometimes conceptualize just how much that really is. The number is can be so dauntingly large that it is hard to truly imagine what it would look like stacked up in front of you.


So for those interested here is a repost I am making from this website ( http://www.pagetutor.com/trillion/index.html ) that does, IMO, a pretty good job of illustrating the concept of what $1,000,000,000,000 would actually look like......

What does one TRILLION dollars look like?




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.

Can you now imagine what 14 trillion in dept looks like?









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28 pallets high ...

 

[flubnutz]

i just calculated that, at $30,000 a pop for 5 minutes fun with a porn star, Charlie Sheen would have 316.8 years of 24/7 fun lined up.

 

[medmaker420]

the sad part is, we sit here and bitch but we are allowing this shit to happen.

money is only worth something as long as a person believes in it, like santa and god.

 

[medmaker420]

double post

sorry

 

[EclipseFour20]

Got a stack of $1,000 bills 4.3 inches high? then you are a MILLIONAIRE...if that stack is 68 miles high, then you are a TRILLIONAIRE!

Well there you go!

 

[RicoT]

And to really put it into perspective concerning our country's debt... We're FOURTEEN trillion dollars in the NEGATIVE! http://www.usdebtclock.org/

 

[WasntMe]

USA is at 14 ? ...thanks

 

[FreezerBoy]

I saw $1,000,000 once. It was on display in Vegas, I want to say the Horseshoe Casino. Now I know what a trillion looks like... cool.

 

[lost in a sea]

it would be in the shape of a pyramid then fall over killing everyone

 

[draztik]

Unfortunately it is mathematically impossible to pay back the debt. It's a matter of time until hyper inflation begins. We are headed into hyper-inflationary depression the likes the world has never seen. Not only did they print trillions of dollars to add to the money supply but the entire world uses U.S. Dollars as the world reserve currency. China and Russia are the two largest economy's compared to the U.S. In December they both agreed to ditch the U.S dollar as their trade currency and decided to resume trading in the Chinese currency. They are taking their dollar reserves and they are buying record amounts of gold and silver. The OPEC nations are deciding to ditch the dollar to trade oil and are going to use gold. Our nation is asleep. In 1913 the power to print our money was handed over to a privately owned bank or system whatever you want to call it, it's "official" name is "The Federal Reserve Bank". I have news for you guys, it's not federal there are no reserves and they aren't a bank. They (Federal Reserve Bank) have robbed the American people blind. They also are destroying the world trade currency. Once the U.S. Dollar is replaced as the world trade currency all those dollars are going to spent and will be headed here. Let me help you put this into perspective. Our money was made out of gold and silver. $1.40 in quarters and dimes (pocket change) made from 1964 and under were all made of 90% silver 10% copper. That $1.40 of pocket change looks identical to the quarters and dimes we use every day the only difference is that $1.40 of quarters and dimes made from 1964 and under is worth $31.00 just in the metal value. And that's only the start. Gold and silver are real money paper is not. Our country was rich, our money itself made us rich. Now they tricked everyone into accepting fiat paper money. Buy as much gold and silver as you can to hedge against inflation or become a victim of the inevitable.

 

[CalcioErba2004]

damn and i thought $150k cash was a lot!

 

[Lazyman]

Unfortunately it is mathematically impossible to pay back the debt. It's a matter of time until hyper inflation begins. We are headed into hyper-inflationary depression the likes the world has never seen. Not only did they print trillions of dollars to add to the money supply but the entire world uses U.S. Dollars as the world reserve currency. China and Russia are the two largest economy's compared to the U.S. In December they both agreed to ditch the U.S dollar as their trade currency and decided to resume trading in the Chinese currency. They are taking their dollar reserves and they are buying record amounts of gold and silver. The OPEC nations are deciding to ditch the dollar to trade oil and are going to use gold. Our nation is asleep. In 1913 the power to print our money was handed over to a privately owned bank or system whatever you want to call it, it's "official" name is "The Federal Reserve Bank". I have news for you guys, it's not federal there are no reserves and they aren't a bank. They (Federal Reserve Bank) have robbed the American people blind. They also are destroying the world trade currency. Once the U.S. Dollar is replaced as the world trade currency all those dollars are going to spent and will be headed here. Let me help you put this into perspective. Our money was made out of gold and silver. $1.40 in quarters and dimes (pocket change) made from 1964 and under were all made of 90% silver 10% copper. That $1.40 of pocket change looks identical to the quarters and dimes we use every day the only difference is that $1.40 of quarters and dimes made from 1964 and under is worth $31.00 just in the metal value. And that's only the start. Gold and silver are real money paper is not. Our country was rich, our money itself made us rich. Now they tricked everyone into accepting fiat paper money. Buy as much gold and silver as you can to hedge against inflation or become a victim of the inevitable.

The good news is, Ron Paul is now the chairman, and will be performing an audit of the federal Reserve. That oughtta be fun!

 

[DrPoison]

Hey draztik, have you checked out the new "Wall Street" movie? Although it's a movie, it show's how greedy bankers and the Federal Reserve Bank can/will and have destroyed the USA economy. It's only a matter of time. I think we are doomed as a nation!

 

[whodare]

if you buy 3000 dollars in silver now and it reaches gold it would be worth 1.5 mil

 

[Duplicate]

This is what a terabyte looks like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRnwJNIYZpg

 

[onthaherb]

Scale... no one understands it!

 

[EclipseFour20]

If Obama confiscated every investment in the US Stock Market--he would have about $14 trillion...just about the same as USA GDP....or about the same as the debt.

In 2002, total US real estate was valued around $23.5 trillion, with the household sector taking about $11 trillion....and home values dropped around $1.7 trillion last year.

Happy days are here again...yahooo!

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

Scale... no one understands it!

Hell yeah, a ferkin' trillion is so damn big we have to analogize just to fathom, much less understand.

I read somewhere that a trillion dollar stack of $1 bills would be 67 miles high. Imagine falling off that wallet, lol.

 

[EclipseFour20]

Hell yeah, a ferkin' trillion is so damn big we have to analogize just to fathom, much less understand.

I read somewhere that a trillion dollar stack of $1 bills would be 67 miles high. Imagine falling off that wallet, lol.

You mean $1,000 bills....if the stack was $1 bills then it would be 68,000 miles high. YIKES! That would be a very long fall.

 

[David762]

Inflation, Hyper-Inflation, and the Federal Reserve

Inflation, Hyper-Inflation, and the Federal Reserve

if you buy 3000 dollars in silver now and it reaches gold it would be worth 1.5 mil

OTOH, I just bought 8 silver dollars (no numismatic value beyond their silver content) coined before the existence of the private for-profit Federal Reserve Bank last night, and they cost me about $200, including taxes. That, my friends, is inflation. I cannot wait (LOL) to see what hyper-inflation looks like ...

BTW, did you know that at one time USA private citizens could take their freshly mined silver bullion to the USA Treasury to be stamped into silver dollars, free of charge? Of course, that was before the existence of the private for-profit Federal Reserve Bank.
Or that the legislation that created the Federal Reserve Bank was passed by Congress on the 23rd of December 1913 -- a Congress that Should have been closed for the People's Business, since nearly all of Congress were on their way home for the Christmas holidays?
President Woodrow Wilson signed that enabling legislation into law, but as he was leaving office he expressed regret at having created the Federal Reserve Bank, saying that he had set loose "a viper in the lap of liberty".