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Monday, February 16, 2009

How Large is a Trillion

Sun and Moon
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  • A trillion:
  • 1,000,000,000,000.
  • A trillion:
  • One thousand billion, billion, billion.
  • A trillion:
  • $1 bills stacked = one hundred thousand kilometers high-1/3 of the way to the moon.
  • A trillion:
  • $1 bills placed end-to-end would be 97 million miles, almost the distance to the sun.
  • A trillion:
  • Spent at a rate of $1000 per minute would take 1,900 years to spend.

Our fiscal debt: Nearly $1 trillion

Our national debt: Nearly $10 trillion

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PER$PECTIVE: Pricele$$