Suffice to say, a trillion of anything is a lot. Since most people we’ve talked to aren’t entirely clear on how big it really is, for visual learners (like myself) we put together these graphics to illustrate the enormity of a trillion dollars. 

Want more visualizations? MightyBargainHunters.com has even more ways to wrap your head around that many zeroes:

• $10 trillion in Lincoln cents would make a solid cube over half a mile on a side. This dwarfs the tallest structures in the world.
• $10 trillion in one-dollar bills taped end to end stretch almost 970 million miles. This is five round-trips to the Sun. It takes light almost an hour and a half to travel this distance.
• $10 trillion accumulates over $1 billion in interest per day at 4%.  It accumulates in four seconds more than the average US worker makes in a year.
• $10 trillion would last Montgomery Brewster over 27,000 years, and you could pay off a hundred Dr. Evils with it.

So why is it important to know just how much a trillion dollars is? Because the U.S. National Debt is currently closing in on $12 trillion. Time to begin work on another penny cube!

Be Sociable, Share!

•