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calysto in politicartoons

What One Trillion Dollars Looks Like

Mar 28, 2009 21:57

This is what one trillion dollars looks like... when made up of stacks of one hundred dollar bills:

( A series of images, some are quite large. They are work safe, but maybe not heart-attack safe. )

facts, national debt, economics, politics, defecit, money

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bord_du_rasoir March 29 2009, 02:02:05 UTC

One trillion is so huge html can't handle it.

calysto March 29 2009, 02:02:59 UTC

I fixed it. sorry.

bord_du_rasoir March 29 2009, 02:09:08 UTC

No worries. I just thought it was funny.

calysto March 29 2009, 02:09:48 UTC

by the way, good for you for not using internet explorer.

the code was hosed with a stray quotation mark. IE ignores stray marks but browsers like firefox don't. Since the tool I use to upload posts uses IE as its internal browser for formatting I didn't catch the screwup until I loaded it in a real browser.

so, good for you. :) you don't suck.

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bord_du_rasoir March 29 2009, 02:08:33 UTC

And the US will produce 14.7 times the last image in 2009 alone.

I'd like to see how 14.7 trillion looks at single-pallet height in relation to something of perhaps comparable size. A stadium? A Wal-Mart? A parking lot? Manhattan?

calysto March 29 2009, 02:10:22 UTC

good point, that would be interesting. and disturbing.

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bord_du_rasoir March 29 2009, 02:46:57 UTC

These are good questions.

Wiki wiki...

"GDP can be defined in three ways, all of which are conceptually identical. First, it is equal to the total expenditures for all final goods and services produced within the country in a stipulated period of time (usually a 365-day year). Second, it is equal to the sum of the value added at every stage of production (the intermediate stages) by all the industries within a country, plus taxes less subsidies on products, in the period. Third, it is equal to the sum of the income generated by production in the country in the period-that is, compensation of employees, taxes on production and imports less subsidies, and gross operating surplus (or profits).[2] [3]"

2. http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/data_gdp_backgd.htm
3. http://www.bea.gov/national/pdf/nipa_primer.pdf

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saramiskismet March 29 2009, 03:46:27 UTC

it took me a sec to notice that the last image is also double-stacked.

omg money

thebigbadbutch March 29 2009, 03:51:03 UTC

I wish I were the guy in the last image.

Also, I hate in movies where someone is supposed to bring a million dollars to a negotiation or a drug deal or something and they bring 10 suitcases. A million dollars could fit a million dollars in a Wal-Mart sack if necessary and it would be way less noticeable.

/rant

anfalicious March 29 2009, 03:56:17 UTC

I was thinking "money fight, whilst swimming in money, wearing a money suit"

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thebigbadbutch March 29 2009, 04:23:13 UTC

I don't really like money. I wish I were that guy because I have to take a major dump and think a trillion dollars would be just enough to get rid of the dingleberries as well as make a nice warm campfire.

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polyanarch March 29 2009, 13:24:46 UTC

Don't worry. They'll just print more.