About Nine Trillion Dollars (rob-barry.com) 5 points by hoobert 16y ago ↗ HN 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.
[–] apotheon 16y ago ↗ Somebody needs to show this to Paul Krugman:http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/how-big-is-9-tri...
[–] bhousel 16y ago ↗ 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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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.