 | By Grant Cresswell (Editor)
Last week the US Federal reserve decided to inject ANOTHER trillion US dollars to buy treasury bonds and mortgage securities. In another words they simply decided to print another trillion dollars, a tactic that amounts to creating vast new sums of money out of thin air. I came across this graphic on a respected health care site and thought it might help visualise just how much printed matter it would require and to help you put that number into perspective.
$100
Start with a simple $100 US 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:
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