How Much is $1.1 Trillion Dollars?

Here is an excellent post by Amanda Shaw at First Things Blog detailing what $1.1 Trillion dollars can buy.

It’s 1.1 times ten to the twelfth power, or 1,100,000,000,000. To put that in perspective...

To put this further in perspective:

* The Marshall Plan cost $12.7 billion ($115.3 billion, adjusted for inflation)
* The space race cost $36.4 billion ($237 billion with inflation)
* The Korean War cost $54 billion ($454 billion with inflation)
* The New Deal cost $32 billion (estimated; $500 billion with inflation)
* The invasion of Iraq cost $551 billion ($597 billion with inflation)
* The Vietnam War cost $111 billion ($698 billion with inflation)

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