The Senate deal to avoid the fiscal cliff will add about $4 trillion to the deficit over the next ten years.
So what's an extra $4 trillion? Trillion is a word we didn't used to use much. But it gets thrown around today as if it were a mere million or billion.
That's probably because it's a number so large that it's really, really hard to imagine.
Some clever folks have put together one minute videos that show how much a trillion really is...
So what's an extra $4 trillion? Trillion is a word we didn't used to use much. But it gets thrown around today as if it were a mere million or billion.
That's probably because it's a number so large that it's really, really hard to imagine.
Some clever folks have put together one minute videos that show how much a trillion really is...
