Visualizing One Trillion Dollars in Cash

This will impress.

Bud sent me an email with a PowerPoint presentation with the shots you can see here:

http://www.dailycognition.com/index.php/2009/03/25/what-1-trillion-dollars-looks-like-in-dollar-bills.html

I couldn’t find verification for these portrayals so I did some arithmetic of my own.

This is $10,000 in $100 bills.  We’re told the stack is ½ inches tall – that seems reasonable.

 

I used 6” x 2.5” as the size of a bill and one half inches for a $10k stack.  If that’s all correct then a $100 million skid of bills would make up a cube, three and one half feet on a side – only slightly over stated in this picture.

A $billion would be 10 skids and a $trillion would be 10,000 skids or 50 skids wide by 100 skids deep by 2 skids tall to reach the height of a man – so this is pretty close:

Wow.

  

The depictions on this site are interesting but more exaggerated I think.

http://usdebt.kleptocracy.us/