One Trillion Dollars

Here is an excellent illustration of how much money one trillion dollars is (i.e., $1,000,000,000,000 or 1 million million dollars). It is hard to get your head around, but this graphic helps. That is a person in the bottom left hand corner of the stack of money. (Source: www.pagetutor.com)



"...and remember, those are $100 bills."

One trillion is the cost of our wars waged in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001. China holds $1.02 trillion in U.S debt.