Friday, Sep 11, 2009
US National Debt
Cnbc: What Does $11 Trillion Look Like?
It is also interesting to note that this number is approximately 13 times the amount of US currency in circulation, according to the Treasury bulletin, which lists the amount at $853.6 billion as of December 31, 2008.
Posted by mark @ 11:07 AM (536 views) Add Comment
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1. alan said...
Economist interactive debt map.
http://beta-buttonwood.economist.com/content/gdc
Go back to 2000 and see how it all developed and where its heading next....
2. Bearly Legal said...
If that graphic is anything to go by, Americans are going to need really big wheelbarrows when hyperinflation sets in.
3. matt_the_hat said...
What does 11 trillion look like... well on a computer something like this
10100000000100100011000101111011000000000000
4. 51ck-6-51x said...
Or in my head ( or my python code ) it looks something like this:
1.1 * 10 ** 12
Of course it's binary representation is exactly as MTH said ( although it's always useful to quote the base, hence I'd prefix it with 0b )
If you really want to be confusing about it though you could say;
11 trillion is about eleven five billionths of the number of atoms in a water droplet.
5. mark said...
or a very big debt!
image that on your credit card
6. jack c said...
mark - imagine writing it off !