What does one trillion dollars look like?
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What does one trillion dollars look like?
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Re: What does one trillion dollars look like?
#2I wonder what it would look like if the stack was filled with one dollar bills rather than 100s. I'm sure the visualization would be quite mind boggling.
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#3$6.6 billion in cash was "lost"[0] and then found[1] in Iraq which I can now visualize as 66 pallets of cold hard cash. How do you lose that?
[0]http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2011/06/13/exp.tsr... [1]http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2011/10/26/once-thought-lost-a...
[Edit] There is $1.18 Trillion in circulation in the USA, about as much as in the last image: http://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/currency_12773.htm
Re: What does one trillion dollars look like?
#4I wonder what it would look like if the stack was filled with one dollar bills rather than 100s. I'm sure the visualization would be quite mind boggling.
bet it'd be 100x as big...
hah sorry had to.. but seriously would be crazy!
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#5$6.6 billion in cash was "lost"[0] and then found[1] in Iraq which I can now visualize as 66 pallets of cold hard cash. How do you lose that? [0] http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2011/06/13/exp.tsr... [1] http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2011/10/26/once-thought-lost-a... [Edit] There is $1.18 Trillion in circulation in the USA, about as much as in the last image: http://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/currency_1277…
Iraq is well known for its huge Sufis....
Re: What does one trillion dollars look like?
#6I wonder what it would look like if the stack was filled with one dollar bills rather than 100s. I'm sure the visualization would be quite mind boggling.
This is why some one wins a lottery and the wants to see the hard cash, its always in small bills. Showing them in large bills is a massive disappointment.
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#7One problem with these kinds of visualizations is that they're often used to visualize things like the U.S. federal budget or, especially, the federal debt. The problem is that to tell those stories accurately, the visualization of trillions of dollars should be accompanied by a visualization of 300 million people.
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#8The "mother" of the dollar bill stack visualizations was done by "crunchweb" in 2003/2006 to visualize the cost of the Iraq war (then 316 Billion - now > 1 Trillion)
Another good one - visualizing the cost of the 2008 financial crisis (581 Trillion)
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#9Re: What does one trillion dollars look like?
#10One problem with these kinds of visualizations is that they're often used to visualize things like the U.S. federal budget or, especially, the federal debt. The problem is that to tell those stories accurately, the visualization of trillions of dollars should be accompanied by a visualization of 300 million people.
Exactly. Since 50% of high growth companies are funded with less than $50,000, $1 trillion would fund the start of 20M young high growth companies. Fairly certain at least one of those, 20M, would have solved the financial crisis.
In other related news, as of a couple of years ago, my town has a beautiful new landscaped highway median, welcoming you as you enter the city.
Source: http://www.inc.com/magazine/201209/inc-staff/survey-of-inc-5...