Writing about the diminished number of billionaires yesterday took me into the realm of trillions of dollars - the remaining 793 of them being worth a collective $2.4tn. A trillion bucks is such a mind-bending sum of money: thank goodness someone's illustrated what it looks like in c-notes. That final image is two pallets high. If the billionaires pooled their wealth, you'd need to go almost five pallets high.
For contrast, here's a trillion pennies stacked up. (via MetaFilter)
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