What does one trillion dollars look like?
September 14, 2009 – 12:00 pm | by godThe “Trillion” word is being thrown around a lot by today’s “leaders, but just how much is that ?
This may help put things into perspective!
Here’s $10,000 a stack of hundred’s less than a half an inch thick.
Next one million dollars (100 packets of $10,000)
$100,000,000. While a measly 1 million dollars looked a little unimpressive, 100 million dollars is a little more respectable. It fits neatly on a standard pallet…
$1,000,000,000. A BILLION dollars… now we’re really getting somewhere…
$1,000,000,000,000. A 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. And notice that those pallets are double-stacked. So the next time you hear someone toss around the phrase "trillion dollars"… this is what they’re talking about.
3 Responses to “What does one trillion dollars look like?”
By Damon on Sep 14, 2009 | Reply
the total value of all actual cash currency in circulation in the US at at one time is only $2Trillion.
So basically half of all the actual bills of all denominations….put a match to it.