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Trillion Dollar Stimulus/Bailouts - 3/11/2009 4:08:59 PM   
LDRandAstarte


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Status: offline 		All this talk about "stimulus packages" and "bailouts"...

A billion dollars...

A hundred billion dollars...

Eight hundred billion dollars...

One TRILLION dollars...

What does that look like? I mean, these various numbers are tossed around like so many doggie treats, so I thought I'd take Photoshop and try to get a sense of what exactly a trillion dollars looks like.

We'll start with a $100 dollar bill. Currently the largest U.S. denomination in general circulation. Most everyone has seen them, slighty fewer have owned them. Guaranteed to make friends wherever they go.

$100

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

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

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

$1,000,000,000

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.

Ladies and gentlemen... I give you $1 trillion dollars..

$1,000,000,000,000
(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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RE: Trillion Dollar Stimulus/Bailouts - 3/11/2009 4:44:16 PM   
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RE: Trillion Dollar Stimulus/Bailouts - 3/11/2009 5:47:39 PM   
SpinnerofTales


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A trillion dollars is about one fourth of the losses this economy will suffer due to the mismanagement that brought us to this crisis.

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RE: Trillion Dollar Stimulus/Bailouts - 3/15/2009 3:43:47 PM   
LDRandAstarte


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You forgot one:

A trillion dollars is about one fourth of the losses this economy will suffer due to the mismanagement that brought us to this crisis.



I didn't "miss" anything!
I was not making any political comment or judgment. Nor was I pointing out what one gets for it.
I was simply saying "Look how fucking much money" a trillion dollars is.


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RE: Trillion Dollar Stimulus/Bailouts - 3/15/2009 4:16:06 PM   
SpinnerofTales


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ORIGINAL: LDRandAstarte

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ORIGINAL: SpinnerofTales

You forgot one:

A trillion dollars is about one fourth of the losses this economy will suffer due to the mismanagement that brought us to this crisis.



I didn't "miss" anything!
I was not making any political comment or judgment. Nor was I pointing out what one gets for it.
I was simply saying "Look how fucking much money" a trillion dollars is.



I will have to agree with you on that one. I looked up "One Trillion" in an advanced economic textbook and found it technically defined as "A shitload of money".

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RE: Trillion Dollar Stimulus/Bailouts - 3/15/2009 4:32:06 PM   
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I'll take 2 pallets please, thanks. 


Sir, may I please have another ?

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RE: Trillion Dollar Stimulus/Bailouts - 3/15/2009 4:33:49 PM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: SpinnerofTales

quote:

ORIGINAL: LDRandAstarte

quote:

ORIGINAL: SpinnerofTales

You forgot one:

A trillion dollars is about one fourth of the losses this economy will suffer due to the mismanagement that brought us to this crisis.



I didn't "miss" anything!
I was not making any political comment or judgment. Nor was I pointing out what one gets for it.
I was simply saying "Look how fucking much money" a trillion dollars is.



I will have to agree with you on that one. I looked up "One Trillion" in an advanced economic textbook and found it technically defined as "A shitload of money".



Yepper...right next to it was listed "Adj. WOW!!!!!"

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RE: Trillion Dollar Stimulus/Bailouts - 3/15/2009 6:54:04 PM   
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Status: offline 		A Trillion dollars is a million millions.

So you could spend 1,000,000 EVERYDAY for 2,740 YEARS NOT including interest.

Interest alone on say a 4% CD would be $110,000,000 that's a $110 million, PER DAY.

BTW total loss of paper wealth on wall street to date in approx. the last year or so...$7 Trillion.

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RE: Trillion Dollar Stimulus/Bailouts - 3/15/2009 11:20:04 PM   
rulemylife


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ORIGINAL: SpinnerofTales

I will have to agree with you on that one. I looked up "One Trillion" in an advanced economic textbook and found it technically defined as "A shitload of money".



But then you have to define a "shitload".

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RE: Trillion Dollar Stimulus/Bailouts - 3/16/2009 12:31:44 AM   
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Status: offline 		I have always heard it referred to as a "butt load".
See my sig on anal, lol. :)

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RE: Trillion Dollar Stimulus/Bailouts - 3/16/2009 12:43:32 AM   
rulemylife


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I have always heard it referred to as a "butt load".
See my sig on anal, lol. :)


Now that's just disgusting.

Let's try and stay true to our good Christian morals and refer to it as a shitload the way the Good Lord intended.

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RE: Trillion Dollar Stimulus/Bailouts - 3/16/2009 1:11:55 AM   
VanessaChaland


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ORIGINAL: rulemylife

quote:

ORIGINAL: VanessaChaland

I have always heard it referred to as a "butt load".
See my sig on anal, lol. :)


Now that's just disgusting.

Let's try and stay true to our good Christian morals and refer to it as a shitload the way the Good Lord intended.



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RE: Trillion Dollar Stimulus/Bailouts - 3/16/2009 5:48:30 AM   
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ORIGINAL: LookieNoNookie

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ORIGINAL: rexrgisformidoni

I'll take 2 pallets please, thanks. 


Sir, may I please have another ?


I'm good with 1 pallet...and I'll take fries with that if you don't mind.

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RE: Trillion Dollar Stimulus/Bailouts - 3/16/2009 8:16:23 AM   
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ORIGINAL: MrRodgers

BTW total loss of paper wealth on wall street to date in approx. the last year or so...$7 Trillion.



And with derivatives turned into financial WMDs looming somewhere between 50 and 500 trillion, we could see between 7 and 70 times that wealth loss we have seen in the past year.  In other words, bankruptcy for the nation. 

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RE: Trillion Dollar Stimulus/Bailouts - 3/16/2009 10:28:15 AM   
UncleNasty


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Status: offline 		This is all well and good as the theory of monopoly money (which is pretty much what our "created out of thin air" fiat currency is) but in reality it is citizens that have to pay on all of this and that amounts to giving up the most precious things we have - our time and our energies (we don't get to make it by turning on the presses).


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RE: Trillion Dollar Stimulus/Bailouts - 3/16/2009 5:29:42 PM   
LookieNoNookie


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ORIGINAL: MrRodgers

A Trillion dollars is a million millions.

So you could spend 1,000,000 EVERYDAY for (1,000 days...sorry) 2,740 YEARS NOT including interest.

Interest alone on say a 4% CD (on a trillion...would be would be 40 billion a year...or....$109,000,000.00 per day...okay...they got that part right)  $110,000,000 that's a $110 million, PER DAY.

BTW total loss of paper wealth on wall street to date in approx. the last year or so...$7 Trillion.


(Actually...a trillion is 1,000 million...everything after 100 is 1,000 something {it's math})

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RE: Trillion Dollar Stimulus/Bailouts - 3/16/2009 5:44:56 PM   
marysdream


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my grandmother would have been proud!
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RE: Trillion Dollar Stimulus/Bailouts - 3/16/2009 5:47:03 PM   
Lynnxz


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ORIGINAL: LookieNoNookie

quote:

ORIGINAL: MrRodgers

A Trillion dollars is a million millions.

So you could spend 1,000,000 EVERYDAY for (1,000 days...sorry) 2,740 YEARS NOT including interest.

Interest alone on say a 4% CD (on a trillion...would be would be 40 billion a year...or....$109,000,000.00 per day...okay...they got that part right)  $110,000,000 that's a $110 million, PER DAY.

BTW total loss of paper wealth on wall street to date in approx. the last year or so...$7 Trillion.


(Actually...a trillion is 1,000 million...everything after 100 is 1,000 something {it's math})


A billion is after a million. O.o

There's a million millions in a trillion.

Not that I'll ever have cause to count that high.


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RE: Trillion Dollar Stimulus/Bailouts - 3/16/2009 5:59:46 PM   
LookieNoNookie


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ORIGINAL: Lynnxz

quote:

ORIGINAL: LookieNoNookie

quote:

ORIGINAL: MrRodgers

A Trillion dollars is a million millions.

So you could spend 1,000,000 EVERYDAY for (1,000 days...sorry) 2,740 YEARS NOT including interest.

Interest alone on say a 4% CD (on a trillion...would be would be 40 billion a year...or....$109,000,000.00 per day...okay...they got that part right)  $110,000,000 that's a $110 million, PER DAY.

BTW total loss of paper wealth on wall street to date in approx. the last year or so...$7 Trillion.


(Actually...a trillion is 1,000 million...everything after 100 is 1,000 something {it's math})


A billion is after a million. O.o

There's a million millions in a trillion.

Not that I'll ever have cause to count that high.




Ooooops....I sit corrected....a trillion is indeed a million million....it is also 1,000 billion.

(My error).

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RE: Trillion Dollar Stimulus/Bailouts - 3/16/2009 9:27:19 PM   
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Status: offline 		a trillion ounces of silver was created out of thin air.


and 300 billion ounces of gold, created out of thin air.

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