What's a trillion dollars?

What's a trillion dollars?

A trillion dollars = $1,000,000,000,000.
That's 12 zeroes to the left of the decimal point. A trillion is a million million dollars.

If you laid one dollar bills end to end, you could make a chain that stretches from earth to the moon and back again 200 times before you ran out of dollar bills! One trillion dollars would stretch nearly from the earth to the sun. It would take a military jet flying at the speed of sound, reeling out a roll of dollar bills behind it, 14 years before it reeled out one trillion dollar bills.


Hours @ fed min wage $6.55/hr that you would have to work to make 1,000,000,000,000

1 trillion dollars = 152671755725.190


40 hr work weeks to make 1 trillion dollars =3816793893.129


Work years to make 1 trillions dollars =73399882.560



That's before taxes and with no vacations


305255896 people in the us


$3275.940 per person if you split up 1 trillion dollars among them


Every one in the us has to work at fed min wage for 20.474625 work months to pay their part of 1 trillion dollars


This helped me to wrap my mind around this astronomical number


Now times this by 3 to pay to bailout banks that still will want to foreclose on your house