The majority of what you see below has been taken from a web page located here: Web Page At DailyCognition.com

Here is a link to the main DailyCognition website It's an interesting website.

What I wanted to show, however, was what $14 Trillion Dollars looks like all stacked up....like they did the $1 Trillion Dollar Stack of $100 dollar bills.

So, here is the information from that page along with *THE* stack of $14 Trillion Dollars....which is what our National Debt is currently at. Actually, another figure I heard was that our National Debt just topped $14.7 Trillion Dollars!.

What ONE TRILLION dollars looks like in $100 dollar bills...

*AND*  What $14 TRILLION DOLLARS - which our National Debt has been reported to be - looks like in $100 dollar bills!.

Have you ever though about it. What would 1 trillion dollars look like, layed out in front of you?

I mean, these numbers numbers are tossed around like doggie treats.

So I thought I'd take Google Sketchup out for a test drive and try to get a sense of what exactly a trillion dollars looks like.

We'll start with a $100 dollar bill. Currently it's the largest U.S. denomination in general circulation.

Pretty much, everyone has seen a $100 bill. But fewer have owned them. :-)

They're also guaranteed to make friends wherever you go!

$100

 

A packet of one hundred $100 bills is less than 1/2" thick and contains $10,000.

It's fits in your pocket easily and is more than enough for week or two of shamefully decent fun.

$10,000

 

Believe it or not, this next little pile is $1 million dollars (100 packets of $10,000).

You could stuff that into a grocery bag and walk around with it.

$1,000,000 (one million dollars)

 

 

While a measly $1 million looked a little unimpressive, $100 million is a little more respectable.

It fits neatly on a standard pallet...

$100,000,000 (one hundred million dollars)

 

 

And $1 BILLION dollars... now we're really getting somewhere...

$1,000,000,000 (one billion dollars)

 

Next we'll look at ONE TRILLION dollars.

This is that number we've been hearing about so much.

What is a trillion dollars anyway?

Well, it's a million million. It's a thousand billion. It's a one followed by 12 zeros ($1,000,000,000,000)

You ready for this?

It's pretty surprising.

Here's what $1 trillion dollars looks like....

 

$1,000,000,000,000 (one trillion dollars)

 

(And notice those pallets are double stacked.)

So the next time you hear someone toss around the phrase "trillion dollars"... that's what they're talking about.


BUT WAIT!

We're not done yet!

It has been reported that our national debt is $14 TRILLION dollars! Actually, another figure which was mentioned was $14.7 Trillion Dollars. But for now we'll just show what a stack of $14 Trillion Dollars looks like.

Look below to see what $14 TRILLION DOLLARS looks like

$14,000,000,000,000 (14 Trillion) Dollars