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How To Visualize A Trillion Dollars (Video)

July 24, 2009 – 11:09 am

Personal finance site Mint.com has a great new video illustrating how much money a trillion dollars really is, and what you could buy with it. My personal favorite: With a trillion dollars, you could buy a $3 latte every day for 900 million years.

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How Much is $1 Trillion, Cont’d

May 4, 2009 – 5:36 pm

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 [...]

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Video: Do People Know How Big 1 Trillion Really Is?

May 1, 2009 – 8:54 am

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.

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Poll: How many millions are in a trillion?

May 1, 2009 – 8:52 am

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 [...]

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