13 Ways to Spend $1 Trillion
Posted by yangga.8Jul 30
$1 Trillion Would Buy …
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1. 40,816,326 New Cars
The 2010 Volkswagen Jetta TDI wins Kiplinger’s Best in Class honors for cars in the $20,000-to-$25,000 price range. At a sticker price of $24,500 each, $1 trillion would let you drive away with a fleet of Jettas equivalent to 30% of all the cars already on U.S. highways. (The total U.S. car fleet is more than 135 million, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation, excluding trucks and SUVs.)
2. 5,574,136 Typical American Homes
3. 140 Billion Hours of Labor
4. A Year’s Salary for 14.7 Million Teachers
5. The Annual Salaries of All 535 Members of Congress for the Next 10,742 Years
6. The Star Power of LeBron James for the Next 50,000 Years
7. 1.33 Trillion Chocolate Bars
8. 1,333 Celebrity Divorce Settlements
9. A Guaranteed $6.3 Billion Payout for a 65-Year-Old Man Every Month for the Rest of His Life
10. A One-Year CD Yielding $15.5 Billion in Interest
11. Annual Base Pay for 59.5 Million U.S. Army Privates
12. Replace Annual Incomes for 19.2 Million American Families
13. Pay the Estate Taxes for 2,222 Billionaires
Source: finance.yahoo.com
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