About Nine Trillion Dollars(rob-barry.com)

5 pointsby hoobertvor 17 Jahren2 comments

http://www.rob-barry.com/2009/08/nine-trillion-dollars/

If I had $9 trillion in singles, it’d weigh 20 billion pounds. That’s about one and a half times the mass of the Great Pyramid of Giza. Or 25 times the mass of the Empire State Building.

2 comments

apotheonvor 17 Jahren

Somebody needs to show this to Paul Krugman:

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/how-big-is-9-tri...

bhouselvor 17 Jahren

Ugh, who cares. There are plenty of real reasons why $9T deficit is a problem.. Instead of that, people focus on these ridiculous spatial comparisons.

I hate when people talk about stacks of bills to the moon, football fields filled with gold, gaza pyramids made of money. It's completely meaningless.