2/20/2009

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How Much is a Trillion Dollars?

Filed under: Economy, Money, Ramblings, Serious Topics, Weird — Nathan @ 6:44 pm

My source is KAKE news.
Over the past few months, we have seen so much money tossed around. Numbers like $800 billion, $900 billion even a trillion dollars. But, just how much is a trillion dollars?

The latest version of the economic stimulus bill is only a few hundred billion away from a trillion.

An article on CNN.com by Christine Romans has some amazing facts about a trillion dollars.

One trillion is equal to 1,000 billion. one trillion has 12 zeros after the one. (That may be handy if you have to write a check some day!) :P According to the article, one trillion in one dollar bills would reach 68,000 miles into the sky, or one-third of the way to the moon. If you lived one trillion seconds, you would be 32,000 years old. If you spent a million dollars a day, if would take you well over 2,000 years to spend a trillion dollars. Another annoying thing to think about is that if you had $1,000,000,000,000 to give to every person in the world, every man, woman, child, you could give at least $147.00 to every person.

Is our government spending enough money? Too much? Too little? How much should we the taxpayers be spending?

1 Comment »

  1. A trillion dollars here, a trillion dollars there – sooner or later it starts to add up.

    Comment by John Dekker — 2/21/2009 @ 1:15 am

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