What does one trillion dollars look like?

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What does one TRILLION dollars look like? 
Posted on March 8th, 2009

A packet of one hundred $100 bills is less than 1/2″ thick and contains $10,000. Fits in your pocket easily and is more than enough for week or two of shamefully decadent 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…

http://www.pagetutor.com/trillion/pallet.jpg

$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 so much about. What is a trillion dollars? Well, it's a million million. It's a thousand billion. It's a one followed by 12 zeros.

You ready for this?

It's pretty surprising.



$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.
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Yeah, it gets so old paying the bill for all the storage units it takes to warehouse my pallets of hundos.   






Here's a pic of $205M seized in a drug raid...





...that's alotta yay.

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A trillion of these will be a lot less...................................... worth

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Sad but true, a square of TP is probably worth more than any denomination of currency from Zimbabwe.

A trillion of these will be a lot less...................................... worth

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Yeah, it gets so old paying the bill for all the storage units it takes to warehouse my pallets of hundos.   






Here's a pic of $205M seized in a drug raid...


The guy that this stack belonged to was arrested in my town. my wife and I had lunch at the same place he was nailed the day before.





...that's alotta yay.