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 Post subject: A Trillion Dollars
PostPosted: Tue Nov 29, 2011 10:55 am 
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This is to give everyone a gut feeling for how much a trillion dollars is.


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It's a million people with a million dollars. If you take every person in Boston in the daytime and gave them each a million dollars, then that's how much it is.


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I've heard of the pallet illustration before and that video does a good job of showing it.

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