There have been numerous explainations and visual aides describing a trillion dollars, so I thought I'd join in too.
I looked into how much a skyscraper costs and I found this 61-storey building ready to go up in Louisville for $380 million.
If we just call it a cool $500 million, then $1 trillion dollars will buy you 2000 skyscrapers, or about what you see in the picture below. I think it's a picture of Portland, OR. Either that or Hong Kong. Click on it to get the full image.
Countering the Neoconservative Defense of the British Empire
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Not surprisingly, neoconservatives have tried to rehabilitate the British
Empire, calling it benign and a civilizing force in Africa and Asia. Like
all oth...
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