What Does a Trillion Dollars Look Like?

$100
Start with a simple $100 bill.

$10,000
A packet of $100 bills worth $10,000 is less than 1/2 inch thick.

$1,000,000
This little pile of cash can easily fit into any backpack and weighs just about 22 lbs.

$100,000,000
$100 million fits neatly on any standard pallet, weighing in at a little over one ton.

$1,000,000,000
$1 billion is ten pallets worth of cold, hard cash.

$1,000,000,000,000
Finally, here’s one trillion dollars.

What Does a Trillion Dollars Look Like?

The Federal reserve decided to inject another trillion to buy treasury bonds and mortgage securities.  In another words they simply decided to print another trillion dollars.  But what does that much money look like?  

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