How Much is a Trillion?
January 30, 2009 by Mark T. Rafter
How much is a trillion anyway? Pretty tough to get your head around just how big a number that is. I heard a great visual analogy the other day (someone had attributed it to Ronald Reagan).
If you have $1M in the form of a stack of $1000 bills, it reaches about 4.3 inches high.
How high is a stack of $1000 bills enough to make up a TRILLION dollars?
Over 66 MILES high. And since last September/October we have added nearly TWO TRILLION dollars to the national debt, that stack is 132 MILES HIGH
Holy deep guano batman!
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