Car-Guy
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How much is a trillion & US Debt
I was watching the news this morning and they were talking about the US debt. Not unusual. Someone made the comment that the current US debt was well over 19 trillion. (>19,000,000,000,000) There's been other threads on this forum on "how much is a million dollars, etc" which I can visualize. Heck I can even get my mind around a billion dollars, but a trillion is hard for me to visualize in my mind. Yes, I know it just a few more zeros added in the right places. So, just for fun, I looked it up and like so many things, I found endless examples. Sorry if this has been discussed before, but if so, maybe a refresher would be interesting to some on this forum.
Here's one of the "many" links I found useful in explaining what a trillion is.
And here's the US debt clock along with a lot of other interesting info.
U.S. National Debt Clock : Real Time
I was watching the news this morning and they were talking about the US debt. Not unusual. Someone made the comment that the current US debt was well over 19 trillion. (>19,000,000,000,000) There's been other threads on this forum on "how much is a million dollars, etc" which I can visualize. Heck I can even get my mind around a billion dollars, but a trillion is hard for me to visualize in my mind. Yes, I know it just a few more zeros added in the right places. So, just for fun, I looked it up and like so many things, I found endless examples. Sorry if this has been discussed before, but if so, maybe a refresher would be interesting to some on this forum.
Here's one of the "many" links I found useful in explaining what a trillion is.
And here's the US debt clock along with a lot of other interesting info.
U.S. National Debt Clock : Real Time
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