How Much is a trillion dollars?

One trillion dollars is a number that few people can comprehend. Here is an attempt to put this number into perspective.

A trillion dollars is the number 1 followed by 12 zeroes (1,000,000,000,000). Or you can think of it this way: One trillion $1 bills stacked one on top of the other would reach nearly 68,000 miles into the sky, or about one third of the way from the Earth to the moon.

US National Debt

Currently at 14.1 Trillion. View the US national debt clock.

Posted by TheSage on Feb 20 2011 in Random Info Tags: , , , , , ,

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