Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Visualization - One trillion dollars

What can one do with a Trillion Dollars?

*Buy a $3 latte every day for ... 900 million years

OR

*Fund the military of ... all NATO countries combined

OR

*Run the US Federal Government for ... about three months

See the 1 minute video for more fun ideas for how to spend a trillion USD.

I found the link at http://infosthetics.com/

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3 comments:

  1. Philip Irving MitchellSeptember 2, 2009 at 7:52 AM

    I wonder how this fact puts the national debt in perspective. The debt suddenly seems lilke a small percentage. What am I missing?

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  2. Jekabs BikisSeptember 2, 2009 at 9:09 PM

    To me the video does almost the reverse; our national debt is $11.7 trillion, and the current year budget deficit (this year's addition to the national debt) is $1.4 trillion. These certainly seem like large numbers. Maybe I didn't understand what you meant by "a small percentage" (of what?). Even if we compare the national debt to the global GDP (~$55 trillion or so) the US debt still looms large, don't you think?

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  3. Philip Irving MitchellSeptember 3, 2009 at 6:33 AM

    Well, I think I'm mostly showing my ignorance. Thanks.

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