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Teh One Who Knocks
05-17-2011, 07:23 PM
http://i.imgur.com/aFw1N.jpg

Muddy
05-17-2011, 07:26 PM
Jesus...

Dr Death
05-17-2011, 07:28 PM
I want one!

Acid Trip
05-17-2011, 07:40 PM
$10,000 = 1/2 inch

1,000,000,000,000 / 10,000 = 100,000,000 * .5 (inches high) = 50,000,000 / 12 (inches per foot) = 4,166,666.66 / 5280 (feet per mile) = 789.14 miles

A trillion dollars stacked on top of each other would be approximately 789 miles high. Wowza!

PorkChopSandwiches
05-17-2011, 07:49 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-Rnl7Orxdk

RBP
05-17-2011, 08:58 PM
:lol:

Southern Belle
05-17-2011, 10:29 PM
Reminds me of something I saw on facebook today
Where would you be if you had all the money your heart desires; fabulous home in the perfect neighborhood; no worries; you came home & had the finest meal waiting for you; your bathwater had been run; you had the perfect kids; your partner was awaiting you w/ open arms & kisses???
Well… Hellooooo!!!!! YOU’D BE IN THE WRONG DAMN HOUSE!
:lol:

Goofy
05-17-2011, 10:36 PM
What does a trillion dollars look like?

I aint opening my wallet again [-(

Yt Trash
05-18-2011, 01:55 AM
:shock:

Cactus
05-18-2011, 02:11 AM
that pretty cool

deebakes
05-18-2011, 03:37 AM
:shock:

lost in melb.
05-18-2011, 04:05 AM
I have no room to store it. Will have to pass :hand:

DemonGeminiX
05-18-2011, 08:15 AM
:-k

I have a two-car garage I could probably fit a quarter of it in.

Softdreamer
05-18-2011, 01:42 PM
I read somewhere that America debt now owes twice as much to "The Central Bank of China" than there is in circulating currency..

thats 5 times the amount show above
:wtf:

Teh One Who Knocks
05-18-2011, 02:27 PM
I read somewhere that America debt now owes twice as much to "The Central Bank of China" than there is in circulating currency..

thats 5 times the amount show above
:wtf:

Doesn't seem accurate in the least:



How much actual money is there in the world?
by Josh Clark


To make this question answerable in a finite amount of time, let's simplify things and ask, "How much money is there in actual United States dollars?" Since the statistics for the U.S. are easy to come by, we can examine this question in a couple of different ways.

The first way to look at it might be, "How much cash is there in U.S. currency?" If you took all the bills and coins floating around today and added them all up, how much money would you have? All of that hard and easily liquidated currency is known as the M0 money supply. This includes the bills and coins in people's pockets and mattresses, the money on hand in bank vaults and all of the deposits those banks have at reserve banks [source: Hamilton]. According to the Federal Reserve, there was $908.6 billion in the M0 supply stream as of July 2009 [source: Federal Reserve]. That sounds like an incredible amount, but think about it this way: According to the CIA, there were 307,212,123 Americans alive that month [source: CIA]. If you took all the cash and divided it up equally, each person should have about $3,000 in cash on them (or stuffed under the mattress). Obviously, there's some money missing, but there's an easy explanation for that: The Federal Reserve says that at any given time, between one-half and two-thirds of the M0 money stock of U.S. dollars is held overseas [source: Federal Reserve].

The rest of the money is held in bank accounts of various types, and the Federal Reserve tracks these funds in three different values known as the M1, M2 and M3 money supplies:

M1 represents all of the currency in the M0 money supply, plus all of the money held in checking accounts and other checkable accounts, as well as all of the money in travelers' checks. In July 2009, the M1 money supply for U.S. dollars equaled about $1,655.6 billion [source: Federal Reserve].

M2 is the M1 supply, plus all of the money held in money market funds, savings accounts and small CDs. In July 2009, the M2 money supply was about $8,326.8 billion [source: Federal Reserve].

M3 is M2 plus all of the large CDs. As of March 2006, the Fed no longer tracks the M3 money stock as an economic indicator. That month, M3 totaled around $10.3 trillion [source: St. Louis Fed].

All told, anyone looking for all of the U.S. dollars in the world in July 2009 could expect to find around $8.3 trillion in existence.

Even though the Fed can't say precisely where all the U.S. dollars are in the world, it does try to keep track of how much exists. Not every nation in the world has a well-established central bank, though. Find out why it's so difficult to track exactly how much money exists in the world on the next page.

http://money.howstuffworks.com/how-much-money-is-in-the-world.htm

redred
05-18-2011, 06:29 PM
i've seen a million in £5 notes in a place in the uk in the flesh it didn't seem that big and with all the building works i've been doing i've been paying cash out to builders £2.5k didn't seem that big a wad but that trillion looks a sizeable stack