What Does a Trillion Dollars Took 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.


$100

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.

$10,000

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.

$1,000,000 (one million dollars)

While
a measly $1 million looked a little unimpressive, $100 million is a
little more respectable. It fits neatly on a standard pallet...

$100,000,000 (one hundred million dollars)

And $1 BILLION dollars... now we're really getting somewhere...

$1,000,000,000 (one billion dollars)

Next
we'll look at ONE TRILLION dollars. This is that number we've been
hearing about so much. 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....

$1,000,000,000,000 (one trillion dollars)

(And notice those pallets are double stacked.)
So the next time you hear someone toss around the phrase "trillion dollars"... that's what they're talking about.




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