What does one trillion dollars look like?

Intended as an informational supplement to some of the other political / bailout related threads, I thought I'd post a graphic that was forwarded to me by a friend. Here's what a trillion dollars looks like in $100 bills:

In order:
100 bucks
10,000 bucks
1 million bucks
100 million bucks
1 billion bucks
1 trillion bucks

Hmmm...that looks like a military cemetery.

i came.

When the government spends it, that's not what it looks like.

The money doesn't even exist! It's imaginary!

Here's $200M from a drug bust a couple of years back.

That's bigger than my bed

Who the hell took the time to stack that

I think I'd go insane stacking that much damn money.

Not if you count the way I count; one, one for me, two, two for me, three, three for me, etc

I can't imagine having sex on that much money would be very comfortable. At least not stacked up like it is.

If you changed the denomination from $100's to $1's and went backwards, that would be a good representation of a lot of people's retirement accounts over the last 10 yrs.

wow, that is mind boggling, i would love to have a spare room to stack my cash... right now i only have enough to fill a shoe box with singles

Man, I'd be robbing the shit out of that drug money. You know the police pocketed at least some of that. I wouldn't blame them.

I knew I should have gotten a bigger mattress...

way back when, I once actually saw a million dollar bill. It was in a company my dad worked for at the time. A Life Insurance company.

There's no such thing as a million dollar bill. Maybe you were playing monopoly high or something.

I'm pretty sure there was. I forgot where I saw it though.

U.S. Treasury - FAQs: Denominations of Currency

^I trust this guy about this

It's true. There never was a Million dollar bill. It just makes sense. Why would the Fed ever assign that much value to one piece of currency (paper)? The only reason the $100k certs were issued were to document a transaction between the US Treasury and the Fed (tp print money).

Now I wonder what it was. It had one heck of a lot of zeros, and it was currency. 30 years and creeping senility I guess...

A lot of zeros? You were probably looking the US congress.

we had some pallet stacks of money like that come through work last year..
you wouldnt believe the amount of security they had escorting it to a plane.. they shut down the ramp and everything. they had it in these weird clear plexi boxes and you could see the cash bundled up.

judging by the pictures up top, it mustve been about 500million depending on the bills
thats about as close as ive ever been to money like that