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About Nine Trillion Dollars
If I had $9 trillion in singles, it’d weigh 20 billion pounds. That’s about one and a half times the mass of the Great Pyramid of Giza. Or 25 times the mass of the Empire State Building.
- apotheon 17y agoSomebody needs to show this to Paul Krugman: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/how-big-is-9-trillion/ http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/how-big-is-9-tri...
- bhousel 17y agoUgh, who cares. There are plenty of real reasons why $9T deficit is a problem.. Instead of that, people focus on these ridiculous spatial comparisons. I hate when people talk about stacks of bills to the moon, football fields filled with gold, gaza pyramids made of money. It's completely meaningless.