Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Want to know what a billion dollars looks like?

Here's what one billion US dollars looks like:


If you've ever wondered what a billion looks like, well here it is.  Now, take 14,000 of those, stack them in a warehouse, and you wouldn't have enough money to pay down the US National Debt.

If you were to deposit 5 of those billion-dollar stacks in the bank every single year since year 0, you still wouldn't have enough this day to pay the debt down.




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