Visualizing One Trillion Dollars

World Economic Situation and Prospects 2009, a United Nations report on the world economy, is saying that the whole Bretton Woods international banking system, set up in 1944, and including the World Bank and the IMF, is bankrupt. There is no way to repair it and we are working on a replacement sustainable global economic infrastructure.

The United Nations will be a multi-polar, global federation of nations, with a cooperative, rather than a competitive, economic philosophy. Our economy will serve all the people of earth, rather than serving a few people at the expense of everyone else.

Everyone has been betrayed on a colossal scale and we must defend ourselves by exiting all assets and hunkering into cash. We’ve been betrayed and lied to by bankers, politicians, military brass, and corporate chiefs. By the way, cash is prescribed in that perfectly crafted document called the US Constitution. Gold & silver are the only forms of money that can legally satisfy debts public and private.

My rational and considered belief is that gold, as well as crude oil, will be anchors to the next global reserve currencies. What better route to stabilize both financial and commercial price systems? The following article will give you a good idea of where we’re headed in this global calamity: http://www.goldnewswire.net/gold-the-panic-phase#gold

Should a trillion dollars be enough? How about three or more, depending on how you look at the bailouts being thrown around?

http://www.nationofcards.com/2009/03/19/a-trillion-visualized/

Things in perspective. Really, mind blogging.Senate passed a bill taxing the bonuses. See my blog on the subject.

I think this is a rather poor way to describe this much money. I would rather understand it in terms of amount of physical labour – which is what it actually equates to. Not property.

Sorry,people.It is too late,the die has been cast.No way to pay back the 15 trill debt that will be there in 2011 That will be a 1,000 mile high pile of 1,000 dollar bills.The gov;t would have to borrow heavily just to pay the interest on that.
So, move to a nice indian reserve and allow the people there to teach you how to live in a sustainable way. Do not come to canada because we are in even deeper sh–. No trade, no money.
We shall be chopping wood and chase polar bears. JVO

i feel sick.

when whores and sons of whores run the country this is what u get!

My kids are going to be buried under that trillion extra debt, for that I can only hope to be the hell out of here by then…

Wow. One Trillion dollars…. one billion dollars doesnt even sound like much anymore as well.

The very need to count by trillions just shows how devalued the dollar has become. It also shows the real urgent need to drastically reduce the size of the U.S. government.

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/04/07/What-Does-a-Trillion-Dollars-Look-Like.aspx

O.K. Then what does 160 trillion look like, because thats what the American banks owe!

What, what WHAT?!

Government should something to help peoples

Once again – an incredible visualization of what we spend/waste in the name of capitolism

I’m sorry to inform Gerold or anyone else who thinks this is capitalism. This is not capitalism. Capitalism let’s bad business fail, not prop them up. Capitalism isn’t TARP, it isn’t any of the stimulus spending. This is purley government going wild. As an american people, we have given up our liberties for security, and nobody seems to mind…UNTIL someone puts it into perspective. And THEN, someone like Gerold goes right back and BLAMES CAPITALISM??? on the mess that we are in. Wake up America! PLEASE!!!

The distance around the world at the equator is about 132 million feet. That is equivalent to 264 million $1 bills laid end to end. Are you ready for this: One trillion dollars is equivalent to 380 ONE MILLION DOLLAR BILLS laid end to end around the world. When will our government understand?