Change For A Nickel

Congress is still debating whether to give the Fed $700 billion today.  Trying to get your head around a million can be daunting but trying to get your head around a billion is almost impossible unless you break it down to something more simple.  Let’s see….

1. Here it is with all the donuts!     $700,000,000,000
2. How about scientific notation:   $7×10^11
3. 700 billion is 7 times the number of stars in our Milky Way galaxy!
3. If they distributed it to every man woman and child in the United States we would each get $2333.33. 
5. Conversely, if this whole thing goes south we end up owing that amount!!

No matter how you slice it, it’s a lot of frickin’ money!