About Nine Trillion Dollars

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If I had $9 trillion in singles, it’d weigh 20 billion pounds. That’s about one and a half times the mass of the Great Pyramid of Giza. Or 25 times the mass of the Empire State Building.

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Somebody needs to show this to Paul Krugman:

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/how-big-is-9-tri...

Ugh, who cares. There are plenty of real reasons why $9T deficit is a problem.. Instead of that, people focus on these ridiculous spatial comparisons.

I hate when people talk about stacks of bills to the moon, football fields filled with gold, gaza pyramids made of money. It's completely meaningless.

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