There’s lots of talk about one trillion dollars being spent to support the economy. It’s a lot of money. (Here’s a site that offers a visualization of $1 trillion.)
Here are some statistics I came up with:
- If you took $100 bills and laid them end to end (with the short sides touching), $1 trillion would go from here to the moon and back twice, with enough left over to go around the perimeter of the United States.
- The cost to print $1 trillion in $100 bills would be $400,000,000 ($400 million).
- If you filled standard, 40-foot containers with stacks of $100 bills and put them on a train, it would take 209 railroad cars to carry it.
- The weight of the bills would be 22 million pounds (11,000 tons).
It’s a lot of money, isn’t it?
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