{"id":2593,"date":"2009-03-05T17:48:16","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T01:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2009\/03\/05\/putting-a-trillion-dollars-in-perspective\/"},"modified":"2009-03-06T06:57:02","modified_gmt":"2009-03-06T14:57:02","slug":"putting-a-trillion-dollars-in-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2009\/03\/05\/putting-a-trillion-dollars-in-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"Putting a Trillion Dollars in Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pagetutor.com\/trillion\/index.html\"><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/bill.jpg' alt='bill.jpg' class='centered' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A unique graphic approach to visualizing a trillion bucks can be seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pagetutor.com\/trillion\/index.html\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>More amusing visualizations:<\/p>\n<p>A stack of 100 dollar bills totaling a trillion dollars would stand 740 miles high.<\/p>\n<p>A stack of one dollar bills totaling a trillion dollars would stand 74,000 miles high, or 30% of the distance to the Moon.<\/p>\n<p>If you string a trillion $1 bills end-to-end, you would get a belt of bills about 90 million miles long. That would reach past Mars\u2019s orbit in one direction and in the other direction, would almost reach the Sun.   <\/p>\n<p>Hat tip to National Review Online&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/corner.nationalreview.com\/post\/?q=MGY4ZDc3ZTczMjNkYTMzODJjZDlhMzNkYTE5OWQwNWE=\">Jonah Goldberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.robballen.com\/2009\/03\/06\/p3144-size-matters.post\">Robb Allen<\/a> for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A unique graphic approach to visualizing a trillion bucks can be seen here. More amusing visualizations: A stack of 100 dollar bills totaling a trillion dollars&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-money","category-whacko-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}