November 3, 2009 – 5:45 pm
Welcome to this week’s edition of our Tuesday Top 5, our new weekly tips post to help you manage your money in five easy steps.
Today we tell you the five things you need to know if your end goal is retiring a millionaire. Sound like a pipe dream? It’s not if you start early enough.
Think you [...]
Since we received such a positive response to our “How many times larger is a trillion than a million?” video last week, we decided to round up some interesting statistics to help people visualize just how big one trillion is. For example, if you started with $1 trillion and spent $10 million every day it [...]
This week Congress approved President Obama’s $3.5 TRILLION budget. So we wanted to know how many Americans grasp just how big a trillion really is.
Q: How many times larger is a trillion than a million? Would you say…
One Thousand Times- 18%
Ten Thousand Times- 12%
One Hundred Thousand Times- 21%
One Million Times- 21%
Ten Million Times- 17%
Don’t Know- 12%
Check out our new video: We went out in front of the White House and asked people a [...]