How much is a trillion dollars ?

[Nick at Noon]

If you had spent $1,369,175 a day -- every day -- since the day Jesus
was born, you would have spent a trillion dollars -- sometime next
year.

Just in time to give the thieves on Wall Street a trillion.

[rug]

1. It's one dollar for every cell in your body.

[charlie]

2. If you got paid a dollar a second, 24/7

from the moment you were born, it'd be almost 32,000 years before you were a trillionaire.

[KharmaTrain]

3. Try It This Way...

Use the "investors" guide...say you take that $1,000,000,000,000 at 5% interest...here's what you get...

5% of $100k = $5,000 a year (not bad money to sock away for a rainy day)
5% of 1 million = 50k a year (a pretty decent retirement income, should one ever get to that point)
5% of 1 billion = $50 Million a year (the BFEE assets)
5% of 1 trillion = $50 BILLION a year (OFW!!!)

Yet for these people...it's only "numbers"...what's a few trillion among friends?

On edit: my math sucks

[charlie]

5. Last two are off by a zero

Still brain-roastingly huge pots of money, though.

[KharmaTrain]

6. Thank You...

Just redid the numbers...Sunday my brain takes the day off...(well most days it does...:rofl:)

What's even more staggering are the number of hands in that big money pie...not too many.


Cheers...

[charlie]

9. Add back a zero

Now you're lowballing. 50 million and 50 billion. Taxed at the ever-decreasing sweet capital gains rate. It sure pays to be the Indispensable Engines of American finance... like say, Paris Hilton.

:hi:

[Lasher]

4. Don't forget about the war in Iraq and the tax cuts for billionaires.

The national debt has doubled during the nightmare of the last 7 years and 9 months, to about $10 trillion. This $860 billion is just part of it.

[unhappycamper]

7. 2,816.9 of these

or

1,000 of these




or

less than two years of the military budget

[ThomWV]

8. 10 X

10 X

$1 One Dollar
$10 Ten Dollars
$100 One Hundred Dollars
$1,000 One thousand Dollars
$10,000 Ten thousand Dollars
$100,000 One hundred thousand Dollars
$1,000.000 One million Dollars
$10,000,000 Ten million Dollars
$100,000,000 One hundred million dollars
$1,000,000,000 One Billion Dollars
$10,000,000,000 Ten Billion Dollars
$100,000,000,000 One hundred billion Dollars
$1,000,000,000,000 One trillion Dollars

[YDogg]

10. more than a brazillion?

[radfringe]

11. cost of a loaf of bread by the time smirk-boy leaves office? n/t

[Donald Ian Rankin]

12. About $3300 dollars per American citizen.

N.T.

[foxer]

13. A million dollars in $100 bills weighs about 22 pounds

A trillion dollars weighs over 11,000 TONS, roughly the empty weight of the Titanic