For those who think we've turned the corner...

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http://rogerpielkejr.blogspot.com/20...get-scale.html

A first task will be to understand the magnitudes of large numbers. This website has some very useful graphics. Here is what one million dollars looks like in $100 bills:

Here is what one billion dollars looks like:

And here is one trillion dollars (the dude in the red shirt can be seen standing next to the corner in the lower left!):

The US federal budget deficit in 2010 is estimated to be $1.6 trillion in a budget of about $4 trillion (source, XLS).

Table 1.1—SUMMARY OF RECEIPTS, OUTLAYS, AND SURPLUSES OR DEFICITS (−): 1789–2015
(in millions of dollars)
Year	Total			On-Budget			Off-Budget
	Receipts	Outlays	Surplus or Deficit(−)	Receipts	Outlays	Surplus or Deficit(−)	Receipts	Outlays	Surplus or Deficit(−)

2000	2,025,198	1,788,957	236,241	1,544,614	1,458,192	86,422	480,584	330,765	149,819
2001	1,991,142	1,862,906	128,236	1,483,623	1,516,068	-32,445	507,519	346,838	160,681
2002	1,853,149	2,010,907	-157,758	1,337,828	1,655,245	-317,417	515,321	355,662	159,659
2003	1,782,321	2,159,906	-377,585	1,258,479	1,796,897	-538,418	523,842	363,009	160,833
2004	1,880,126	2,292,853	-412,727	1,345,381	1,913,342	-567,961	534,745	379,511	155,234
2005	2,153,625	2,471,971	-318,346	1,576,149	2,069,760	-493,611	577,476	402,211	175,265
2006	2,406,876	2,655,057	-248,181	1,798,494	2,232,988	-434,494	608,382	422,069	186,313
2007	2,568,001	2,728,702	-160,701	1,932,912	2,275,065	-342,153	635,089	453,637	181,452
2008	2,523,999	2,982,554	-458,555	1,865,953	2,507,803	-641,850	658,046	474,751	183,295
2009	2,104,995	3,517,681	-1,412,686	1,450,986	3,000,665	-1,549,679	654,009	517,016	136,993
2010 estimate	2,165,119	3,720,701	-1,555,582	1,529,936	3,163,742	-1,633,806	635,183	556,959	78,224
2011 estimate	2,567,181	3,833,861	-1,266,680	1,893,113	3,255,668	-1,362,555	674,068	578,193	95,875
2012 estimate	2,926,400	3,754,852	-828,452	2,205,925	3,154,610	-948,685	720,475	600,242	120,233
2013 estimate	3,188,115	3,915,443	-727,328	2,422,390	3,285,517	-863,127	765,725	629,926	135,799
2014 estimate	3,455,451	4,161,230	-705,779	2,646,408	3,498,677	-852,269	809,043	662,553	146,490
2015 estimate	3,633,679	4,385,531	-751,852	2,777,742	3,687,663	-909,921	855,937	697,868	158,069

[ASH]

Re: For those who think we've turned the corner...

I guess we had best get busy printing more $100 bills. Clearly, it would take a long time to pay this off circulating the ones we've already made.

[lektrode]

Re: For those who think we've turned the corner...

I guess we had best get busy printing more $100 bills. Clearly, it would take a long time to pay this off circulating the ones we've already made.

i dont think theres enuf ink on the planet...
saw something to this effect a few weeks ago:

1 hour = 3600 seconds 1 day = 86400 seconds
1 million seconds = 11.5740741 days

1 billion seconds = 31.71 years

1 trillion seconds = 31,688 Years

[lakedaemonian]

Re: For those who think we've turned the corner...

I'd like to see one with gold ounce coins, silver KG ingots, and 55 gallon oil drums.

Kinda going in reverse(size wise anyway)

Start with base year 2000 and how much $1,000,000 USD(or another selectable currency) would buy of each.

Then redo it annually until 2010.

I think that would be FAR more interesting than the Wikileaks mumbo jumbo.