What Can You Buy With A Trillion Dollars?

By Queuebot in Everything Else on May 19, 2009 at 10:03 pm

Most people have a hard time envisioning a number as big as a billion, much less a trillion. How much money is a trillion dollars? Some examples may help to put that amount in perspective.

The G-20 summit committed to $1.2 trillion in new funds, with the aim of boosting the world economy, cleaning up banks, and increasing trade, among many other things. The stimulus plan is worth more than $800 billion and the second half of the bank bailout package is at $350 billion, which make up the $1.2 trillion, but the very idea of a trillion dollars exceeds what most of our minds, let alone a standard calculator, have the capacity to understand. What does a trillion dollars look like and what else could a trillion dollars buy?

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  1. Christophe
    May 19th, 2009 at 10:03 pm

    A big safe.

  2. VonSkippy
    May 20th, 2009 at 1:50 am

    About 734,646,000,000 euros

  3. LisaL
    May 20th, 2009 at 12:07 pm

    What would a trillion dollars buy me….. a big Scrooge McDuck safe where I could put all the money and swim through it cartoon style baby!

  4. tonybaloney
    May 20th, 2009 at 12:52 pm

    Laser moon base. With that much money, you could do anything you want. The only way to have fun would to become an actual James Bond villain.

  5. jm1656
    May 21st, 2009 at 2:06 pm

    Obama won the election, then paid of his boys with the Trillion dollar “Stimulus”.

  6. n204
    May 22nd, 2009 at 1:50 pm

    a mcdonalds cheese burger when the omans through with the economy

  7. dvs
    Apr 17th, 2010 at 9:30 pm

    I would buy 4 trillion pieces of 25 cent gum


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