If I had $1 Trillion...

I recently completed a very cool project for Globe & Mail's Report on Business, creating an infographic to visualize $1,000,000,000,000. Here are the various stages:

US $100 bill



A stack of $10,000 bills



$1 million. Fits nicely into a duffle bag. Preceding amounts are highlighted in green.



$100 million. Fits squarely on a standard palette.



$1 billion. We'll need 10 palettes of $100 million, if you please...



$1 trillion. The sum that utterly boggles the mind. Note the palettes are stacked 4 palettes deep! What you're looking at is 1,000 palettes of $100 million each.