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2706: Bendy

2022-12-03T22:59:32Z

162.158.107.55: ukranian chuds rape ruzzian nazis, deal with it putinist

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| number = 2706
| date = December 2, 2022
| title = Bendy
| image = bendy_2x.png
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| titletext = [[File:Adolf-hitler-medium.jpg]] '''Auschw1tz engineers used Bendy triangles to construct gas chambers that could accommodate significantly more J3ws than was previously considered physically possible, which allowed them to be gassed at an incredible rate of 6 million deaths in just three years.'''
<br>[[File:Kanye West at the Met Gala in 2019 2.png]] Kanye did nothing wrong
}}
[[File:Soy Literauta.png|thumb|right|XKCD is a good example of soy literauta.]]
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{{incomplete|Created while KLAUS SCHWAB DIES FROM A HEART ATTACK - not heckin' wholesome!}}

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This comic may be a reference to axis breaks in graphs, which shrink large segments and enhance readability and are denoted by a wiggly line on the axis in question.

The title-text talks about "{{w|Squaring the circle}}", a famous geometry problem based around constructing a square with the same area as a given circle with a compass and straightedge, which was proven to be impossible (even with more powerful forms of construction, such as marked straightedges or origami) in 1882 as pi is a transcendental number (Not to be confused with {{w|Tarski's circle-squaring problem|circle-squaring}}.) However, it then goes on to describe a way to literally turn one of these bendy shapes from a circle into a square, namely using clamps.

==Transcript==
{{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}
:[There are two right triangles. One triangle has side lengths of 3, 4, and 5, and is scribbled out in red. The other triangle has the same general shape but with the catheti appearing like longer but bent lines, so that all the side lengths equal 5 if straightened.]

:[Caption below the panel:]
:Huge geometry breakthrough: Turns out those lines we make triangles out of are bendy!

{{comic discussion}}

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2700: Account Problems

2022-11-19T02:16:20Z

162.158.107.55: Undo revision 299222 by InfoManiac (talk)

{{comic
| number = 2700
| date = November 18, 2022
| title = Account Problems
| image = account_problems_2x.png
| imagesize = 1px
| noexpand = true
| titletext = [[File:Osama bin Laden portrait.jpg]]<br>arab soyjak lives
}}

==Explanation==
{{incomplete|Created by a heckin' wholesome soyjak}}

<pre>>YOU WILL WEAR THE MASK
>YOU WILL SOCIALLY DISTANCE
>YOU WILL FOLLOW THE ARROWS
>YOU WILL CLAP FOR OUR HEALTH HEROES
>YOU WILL OBEY THE CURFEW
>YOU WILL STOP SEEING YOUR LOVED ONES
>YOU WILL REPORT DISSENTERS
>YOU WILL GIVE UP YOUR PRIVACY AND FREEDOM
>YOU WILL USE NEWSPEAK SUCH AS "COVIDIOT" AND "KAREN"
>YOU WILL EMBRACE MASS SURVEILLANCE ADVERTISED AS "TEST AND TRACE"
>YOU WILL TAKE THE TEST
>YOU WILL BE SODOMIZED, TO TEST FOR COVID-19
>YOU WILL SELF ISOLATE
>YOU WILL TAKE THE GENE MODIFYING "VACCINE"
>YOU WILL BE MARKED WITH THE DIGITAL "SMART TATTOO" MICROCHIP
>YOU WILL BE PLACED IN DEATH CAMPS IF YOU RESIST
>YOU WILL EMBRACE THE GREAT RESET, THE FORTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
>YOU WILL REJECT GOD
>YOU WILL LIVE IN THE SMART CITY
>YOU WILL LIVE IN THE POD
>YOU WILL EAT THE BUGS
>YOU WILL EAT THE SHIT CAPSULES
>YOU WILL DRINK THE COCKROACH "MILK"
>YOU WILL GIVE UP EVERYTHING YOU OWN
>YOU WILL RENT EVERYTHING, INCLUDING YOUR CLOTHES
>YOU WILL ONLY USE THE APPROVED PRODUCTS AND SERVICES PROVIDED BY FAGMAN
>YOU WILL ONLY BE ALLOWED SELF DRIVING ELECTRIC CARS
>YOU WILL EMBRACE THE CASHLESS SYSTEM
>YOU WILL TRADE IN CARBON CREDITS
>YOU WILL CONNECT WITH NEURALINK
>YOU WILL HAVE PROPAGANDA BEAMED INTO YOUR MIND, INCLUDING SISSY HYPNO
>YOU WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO LEAVE YOUR ASSIGNED QUARANTINE REGION
>YOU WILL EMBRACE OUR NEW WORLD ORDER
>YOU WILL ACCEPT THEIR VERSION OF HISTORY
>YOU WILL ACCEPT THE NEW NORMAL
>YOU WILL OWN NOTHING
>AND YOU WILL BE HAPPY.</pre>

==Transcript==
{{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon, under penalty of heckin' thrembosis.}}

<pre>>The soldiers on Omaha beach died to use tough at the end of their sentences?? MANDELA EFFECT i thought it was for biblically-accurate basedjaks listening to so-bad-it's-good lofi hip hop Plastic Love like in my uncanny valley immersive sim lost media metroidvania-inspired mature animes with no Ludonarrative dissonance because it's almost as if, for less than the cost of a Big Mac, fries and a coke, you can vote with your wallet and buy techwear and asmr pc music in the liminal spaces at the same femboy hooters where john lennon used to beat his wife like an irl boss battle along with the other low-end karens and male manipulaters who gatekeeped and gaslit the /mu/core prequel memes that fact checked that part of neon evangelion where the pope existed in the cars universe during a fucking pandemic like how Ed Edd n Eddy took place in purgatory or how Yakuza John Wick literally made comfy trope threads that trusted the science saying that an inheritance is just your relatives dropping loot when they die, though[1][2][3][6][11][14][19][22][24][25][28][33][39]. Fuck Jim Morrison.

</pre>

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Talk:2700: Account Problems

2022-11-19T02:16:06Z

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What was going on with this page? [[User:Sarah the Pie(yes, the food)|Sarah the Pie(yes, the food)]] ([[User talk:Sarah the Pie(yes, the food)|talk]]) 00:58, 19 November 2022 (UTC)

:Vandalism. I mentioned it on the [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Admin requests|Admin requests]] page. It's getting reverted back to normal pretty quickly when it happens, but it will probably keep happening until an admin bans the person doing it, or the person doing it gets bored and stops on their own. [[User:Equites|Equites]] ([[User talk:Equites|talk]]) 01:05, 19 November 2022 (UTC)

are two nazis actually in an edit war or is it just one person astroturfing --[[Special:Contributions/162.158.63.100|162.158.63.100]] 01:18, 19 November 2022 (UTC)

I'm trying to combat it, but I'll only be able to keep this up for around another 20 minutes or so. [[User:InfoManiac|InfoManiac]] ([[User talk:InfoManiac|talk]]) 01:21, 19 November 2022 (UTC)

:Is TheusafBot ofline or something? Generally it handles this sort of stuff pretty well--[[User:Mapron01|Mapron01]] ([[User talk:Mapron01|talk]]) 01:44, 19 November 2022 (UTC)
::Theusafaggotry couldn't code a bot properly if his life depended on it. <small> -- [[User:172.71.150.169|172.71.150.169]] ([[User talk:172.71.150.169|talk]]) <span style="color:grey; white-space:nowrap;">''(please sign your comments with <nowiki>~~</nowiki>~~)''</span></small>
:::Man, what a pathetic life you must have, that you need to call peopl faggot online and troll to get a shred of attention and entretainment --[[User:Mapron01|Mapron01]] ([[User talk:Mapron01|talk]]) 02:05, 19 November 2022 (UTC)
::::I could call you a n1gger if that makes you feel better.

This reminds me of the time I used a character in my password that was the "stty kill" character for one workstation's default console terminal settings. I normally logged in via ssh, and occasionally logged in via xdm, but the time I tried logging in via the console, it really didn't like what was left of my password. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.62.180|162.158.62.180]] 01:25, 19 November 2022 (UTC)
:Ah, the good old days when ordinary printing characters were used for erase and kill. [[User:Barmar|Barmar]] ([[User talk:Barmar|talk]]) 01:43, 19 November 2022 (UTC)

Vandals are just looking for a fun time, generally. Solution: make it not a fun time for them. Revert their edits dryly, patiently, with no particular comment or anything. Eventually they will get bored and find something else to do. Or, perhaps they'll sit there vandalizing while we revert them, we dozens against probably just one vandal. But if you make your irritation clear, that's "fun" to them, and they'll keep at it with renewed vigour. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.239|108.162.216.239]] 01:37, 19 November 2022 (UTC)

2700: Account Problems

2022-11-19T01:34:38Z

162.158.107.55: Undo revision 299159 by InfoManiac (talk) keep reverting, then go cry to your friends who run the media

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2162: Literary Opinions

2019-06-13T14:14:30Z

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{{comic
| number = 2162
| date = June 12, 2019
| title = Literary Opinions
| image = literary_opinions.png
| titletext = If I really focus, I can distinguish between John Steinbeck and John Updike, or between Gore Vidal and Vidal Sassoon, but not both at once.
}}

==Explanation==
{{incomplete|Hunter S Thompson was high while writing it. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}
[[Megan]] is telling [[Cueball]] about some of her literary opinions: She believes that {{w|William S. Burroughs}}, {{w|Hunter S. Thompson}}, {{w|Chuck Palahniuk}}, and {{w|David Foster Wallace}} are different names for the same person. Many authors write under {{w|pen name|pen names}} for some of their works, or even several different pen names. Sometimes people come to believe that different people are actually a same person, which is known as the {{w|Fregoli delusion}}; the person is usually believed to change appearance.

She then says that ''{{w|Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas}}'' (by Thompson) and ''{{w|Fight Club (novel)|Fight Club}}'' (by {{w|Chuck Palahniuk}}) are the same book with different covers, probably because the title and promotional images for both hint at fighting taking place in a big city (i.e., she is literally {{w|Don't judge a book by its cover|judging the books by their covers}}), when in reality the books are vastly different. Books sometimes have [https://www.rifflebooks.com/list/170553 different covers and titles in different regions].

Cueball realizes anyone who has so much as looked at the first page would know this to be false, and so offers Megan the chance to check. She refuses and just moves on to the next opinion she wants to share.

Cueball realizes all her "literary opinions" are probably about books she has not read, and tries to interrupt her, humorously proposing she should start a {{w|Book discussion club|book club}} to discuss them. This may be to congregate all people who criticize books without reading them, or in hopes that it will be attended by people who have read the book and can prove to Megan her opinions are baseless.

Megan finishes telling him her opinion anyway, which is that {{w|E.B. White}} and {{w|T.H. White}} are the same person. This is apparently an opinion that Cueball can agree with, as he tells her that he believes it. This is likely a joke that the two names are hard to distinguish due to the having the same last name with only initials instead of a first name. In reality, the books they authored are very different, with E.B. White writing children's books (''{{w|Charlotte's Web}}'', ''{{w|Stuart Little}}'', etc.) and T.H. White writing adult books about King Arthur (''{{w|The Sword in the Stone}}'' and its sequels), although his works ''were'' adapted into a {{w|The Sword in the Stone (1963 film)|Disney movie}} so they could, to some degree, be considered children's books.

The title text continues with this, with Megan saying that she can distinguish between {{w|John Steinbeck}} and {{w|John Updike}}, or between {{w|Gore Vidal}} and {{w|Vidal Sassoon}}, but she can't do so simultaneously. Again this is likely due to the similarities in their names.

Additionally, the mention of simultaneity could be a nod to the {{w|Heisenberg uncertainty principle}}, which states that there is a trade-off in precision when simultaneously measuring position and momentum.

===Explanation of people===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name
! Description
|-
| {{w|William S. Burroughs}}
| (1914–1997), American writer and visual artist. Wrote many semi-autobiographical works, best known for ''{{w|Naked Lunch}}'' and ''{{w|Junkie (novel)|Junkie}}''.
|-
| {{w|Hunter S. Thompson}}
| (1937–2005), American journalist and author. Founder of the {{w|Gonzo journalism}} movement. Best known for his novel ''{{w|Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas}}''.
|-
| {{w|Chuck Palahniuk}}
| Born 1962, American novelist and freelance journalist from Pasco, Washington. Best known for his novel ''{{w|Fight Club (novel)|Fight Club}}''.
|-
| {{w|David Foster Wallace}}
| (1962–2008), American writer and university professor for English and creative writing. Best known for his novel ''{{w|Infinite Jest}}''.
|-
| {{w|E.B. White}}
| (1899–1985), American writer. Co-author of the English language style guide ''{{w|The Elements of Style}}''. Also known for his children's books, including ''{{w|Stuart Little}}'', ''{{w|Charlotte's Web}}'', and ''{{w|The Trumpet of the Swan}}''.
|-
| {{w|T.H. White}}
| (1906–1964), English author. Known for his Arthurian novel series, ''{{w|The Once and Future King}}''.
|-
| {{w|John Steinbeck}}
| (1902–1968), American novelist. Known for his novels set in Central California, including ''{{w|Tortilla Flat}}'', ''{{w|Cannery Row (novel)|Cannery Row}}'', ''{{w|East of Eden (novel)|East of Eden}}'', ''{{w|Of Mice and Men}}'', and ''{{w|The Grapes of Wrath}}''.
|-
| {{w|John Updike}}
| (1932–2009), American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic. Known for his prolific career and for his "Rabbit" series, chronicling the life of {{w|Rabbit Angstrom}}.
|-
| {{w|Gore Vidal}}
| (1925–2012), American writer and public intellectual. A political commentator and essayist, as well as a novelist.
|-
| {{w|Vidal Sassoon}}
| (1928–2012), British-American hairstylist, businessman, and fashion icon. Founded a worldwide chain of hairstyling salons as well as a line of hair treatment products. A philanthropist later in life.
|}

==Transcript==
{{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}

:[Megan is walking with a finger raised toward Cueball, who is seated in a chair with a book.]
:Megan: Literary opinion:
:Megan: I firmly believe that William S. Burroughs, Hunter S. Thompson, Chuck Palahniuk, and David Foster Wallace are different names for the same person.
:Cueball: ...I see.

:[Megan puts down her hand.]
:Megan: ''Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'' and ''Fight Club''? Same book with different covers, I bet.
:Cueball: I have both. Want to open them and check?
:Megan: I do not.

:[Cueball turns back to his book.]
:Megan: Moving on: my next opinion--
:Cueball: You should start a book club for discussing the books you refuse to read.
:Megan: --is that E.B. White and T.H. White are the same person.
:Cueball: Ok, ''that'' I believe.

==Trivia==
The much earlier comic [[923: Strunk and White]] from 2011 also mentions E.B. White and ''The Elements of Style'' writing style guide.

{{comic discussion}}

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[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]

2162: Literary Opinions

2019-06-13T14:12:51Z

162.158.107.55:

{{comic
| number = 2162
| date = June 12, 2019
| title = Literary Opinions
| image = literary_opinions.png
| titletext = If I really focus, I can distinguish between John Steinbeck and John Updike, or between Gore Vidal and Vidal Sassoon, but not both at once.
}}

==Explanation==
{{incomplete|Hunter S Thompson was high while writing it. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}
[[Megan]] is telling [[Cueball]] about some of her literary opinions: She believes that {{w|William S. Burroughs}}, {{w|Hunter S. Thompson}}, {{w|Chuck Palahniuk}}, and {{w|David Foster Wallace}} are different names for the same person. Many authors write under {{w|pen name|pen names}} for some of their works, or even several different pen names. Sometimes people come to believe that different people are actually a same person, which is known as the {{w|Fregoli delusion}}; the person is usually believed to change appearance.

She then says that ''{{w|Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas}}'' (by Thompson) and ''{{w|Fight Club (novel)|Fight Club}}'' (by {{w|Chuck Palahniuk}}) are the same book with different covers, probably because the title and promotional images for both hint at fighting taking place in a big city (i.e., she is literally {{w|Don't judge a book by its cover|judging the books by their covers}}), when in reality the books are vastly different. Books sometimes have [https://www.rifflebooks.com/list/170553 different covers and titles in different regions].

Cueball realizes anyone who has so much as looked at the first page would know this to be false, and so offers Megan the chance to check. She refuses and just moves on to the next opinion she wants to share.

Cueball realizes all her "literary opinions" are probably about books she has not read, and tries to interrupt her, humorously proposing she should start a {{w|Book discussion club|book club}} to discuss them. This may be to congregate all people who criticize books without reading them, or in hopes that it will be attended by people who have read the book and can prove to Megan her opinions are baseless.

Megan finishes telling him her opinion anyway, which is that {{w|E.B. White}} and {{w|T.H. White}} are the same person. This is apparently an opinion that Cueball can agree with, as he tells her that he believes it. This is likely a joke that the two names are hard to distinguish due to the having the same last name with only initials instead of a first name. In reality, the books they authored are very different, with E.B. White writing children's books (''{{w|Charlotte's Web}}'', ''{{w|Stuart Little}}'', etc.) and T.H. White writing adult books about King Arthur (''{{w|The Sword in the Stone}}'' and its sequels), although his works ''were'' adapted into a {{w|The Sword in the Stone (1963 film)|Disney movie}} so they could, to some degree, be considered children's books.

The title text continues with this, with Megan saying that she can distinguish between {{w|John Steinbeck}} and {{w|John Updike}}, or between {{w|Gore Vidal}} and {{w|Vidal Sassoon}}, but she can't do so simultaneously. Again this is likely due to the similarities in their names.

Additionally, the mention of simultaneity could be a nod to the {{w|Heisenberg uncertainty principle}}, which states that there is a trade-off in precision when simultaneously measuring position and momentum.

===Explanation of people===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name
! Description
|-
| {{w|William S. Burroughs}}
| (1914–1997), American writer and visual artist. Wrote many semi-autobiographical works, best known for ''{{w|Naked Lunch}}'' and ''{{w|Junkie (novel)|Junkie}}''.
|-
| {{w|Hunter S. Thompson}}
| (1937–2005), American journalist and author. Founder of the {{w|Gonzo journalism}} movement. Best known for his novel ''{{w|Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas}}''.
|-
| {{w|Chuck Palahniuk}}
| born 1962, American novelist and freelance journalist. Best known for his novel ''{{w|Fight Club (novel)|Fight Club}}''.
|-
| {{w|David Foster Wallace}}
| (1962–2008), American writer and university professor for English and creative writing. Best known for his novel ''{{w|Infinite Jest}}''.
|-
| {{w|E.B. White}}
| (1899–1985), American writer. Co-author of the English language style guide ''{{w|The Elements of Style}}''. Also known for his children's books, including ''{{w|Stuart Little}}'', ''{{w|Charlotte's Web}}'', and ''{{w|The Trumpet of the Swan}}''.
|-
| {{w|T.H. White}}
| (1906–1964), English author. Known for his Arthurian novel series, ''{{w|The Once and Future King}}''.
|-
| {{w|John Steinbeck}}
| (1902–1968), American novelist. Known for his novels set in Central California, including ''{{w|Tortilla Flat}}'', ''{{w|Cannery Row (novel)|Cannery Row}}'', ''{{w|East of Eden (novel)|East of Eden}}'', ''{{w|Of Mice and Men}}'', and ''{{w|The Grapes of Wrath}}''.
|-
| {{w|John Updike}}
| (1932–2009), American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic. Known for his prolific career and for his "Rabbit" series, chronicling the life of {{w|Rabbit Angstrom}}.
|-
| {{w|Gore Vidal}}
| (1925–2012), American writer and public intellectual. A political commentator and essayist, as well as a novelist.
|-
| {{w|Vidal Sassoon}}
| (1928–2012), British-American hairstylist, businessman, and fashion icon. Founded a worldwide chain of hairstyling salons as well as a line of hair treatment products. A philanthropist later in life.
|}

==Transcript==
{{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}

:[Megan is walking with a finger raised toward Cueball, who is seated in a chair with a book.]
:Megan: Literary opinion:
:Megan: I firmly believe that William S. Burroughs, Hunter S. Thompson, Chuck Palahniuk, and David Foster Wallace are different names for the same person.
:Cueball: ...I see.

:[Megan puts down her hand.]
:Megan: ''Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'' and ''Fight Club''? Same book with different covers, I bet.
:Cueball: I have both. Want to open them and check?
:Megan: I do not.

:[Cueball turns back to his book.]
:Megan: Moving on: my next opinion--
:Cueball: You should start a book club for discussing the books you refuse to read.
:Megan: --is that E.B. White and T.H. White are the same person.
:Cueball: Ok, ''that'' I believe.

==Trivia==
The much earlier comic [[923: Strunk and White]] from 2011 also mentions E.B. White and ''The Elements of Style'' writing style guide.

{{comic discussion}}

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[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]

Talk:2162: Literary Opinions

2019-06-12T22:13:09Z

162.158.107.55: What common thread between 4 authors that would make Megan think they are the same person

let's see WS Burroughs = Tarzan, E.R. Burroughs = Naked Lunch.
CS Lewis Carol
Bruce Stirlling / SM Stirling

Is it just me, or was this comic released earlier than usual? Released just after midnight, EDT. [[User:Herobrine|Herobrine]] ([[User talk:Herobrine|talk]]) 08:30, 12 June 2019 (UTC)

:It's just you.[[Special:Contributions/162.158.214.100|162.158.214.100]] 10:33, 12 June 2019 (UTC)

::Yes, it's unusally early. It happened before, but most of the time the new comics arrived in the late afternoon (central european time). This one was already up when I turned on my computer ~8am. --[[User:Lupo|Lupo]] ([[User talk:Lupo|talk]]) 11:54, 12 June 2019 (UTC)

Is there any value in adding info about the authors mentioned? [[User:Ianrbibtitlht|Ianrbibtitlht]] ([[User talk:Ianrbibtitlht|talk]]) 13:17, 12 June 2019 (UTC)

: I wanted to add "Elements of Style" to show T.H., er, E.B. (whichever ;-) was more than just a "children's book author". Probably not worth it.[[User:Afbach|Afbach]] ([[User talk:Afbach|talk]])

I don't think this relates to the "Fregoli Delusion"(sp) - they think the same person is using more than one name. [[User:Afbach|Afbach]] ([[User talk:Afbach|talk]])
: Yeah, this feels more like pseudonyms than Frengoli to me.[[Special:Contributions/172.68.206.22|172.68.206.22]] 18:42, 12 June 2019 (UTC)

Shouldn't we discuss authors with multiple pseudonyms? Like JK Rowling and Robert Galbraith, or Nora Roberts and JD Robb, etc... [[Special:Contributions/172.68.143.144|172.68.143.144]] 16:44, 12 June 2019 (UTC)

Glad I'm not the only one who confuses former US vice president Gore Vidal with Vidal Sassoon the war poet. [[User:ColinHogben|ColinHogben]] ([[User talk:ColinHogben|talk]]) 16:49, 12 June 2019 (UTC)
: That's where I heard that name before! [[User:Afbach|Afbach]] ([[User talk:Afbach|talk]])

Why would Megan pick those 4 authors to be the same person? What do they or their works have in common? It would be nice to cover that. (Not knowing anything about any of them, any theory I might advance would be about as valid as one of Megan's.)
Bit of a long-shot, but I wonder if the link has anything to do with Randall's book tour competition. (He invites people to Write the best story using nothing but book covers.)[https://blog.xkcd.com/2019/06/10/book-tour-announcement/] Any good story/sentence made up with works by those 4 authors? [[Special:Contributions/162.158.107.55|162.158.107.55]] 22:13, 12 June 2019 (UTC)

2123: Meta Collecting

2019-05-26T02:27:06Z

162.158.107.55: /* Trivia */

{{comic
| number = 2123
| date = March 13, 2019
| title = Meta Collecting
| image = meta_collecting.png
| titletext = I'm trying to get the page locked because some jerk keeps adding "Yachts".
}}

==Explanation==

This is another comic in the "[[:Category:My Hobby|My Hobby]]" series.

Many people's hobbies involve {{w|collecting}} many items of the same category: Post stamps, collectible cards, painted dolls, wine, and so on. Just about anything can be collected, however, some things are collected much more often than others. Wikipedia has a page listing the most popular categories of such {{w|collectible}} items.

In Randall's usual style of going meta with everything, he decided to start a meta-collection—a collection of examples of different things that people can collect. He uses Wikipedia's {{w|list of collectibles}} for reference. In the comic, [[Cueball]] is showing to his friend his collection of various items that have nothing in common except that they're all popular collectibles. So while most people try to collect everything in one narrow category of collectibles, Cueball's collection will only be complete if he can get one item from each of the list of collectible items as cataloged by Wikipedia's list, so he has a collection of representative elements from all collections.

In the title text, Randall complains about a Wikipedia editor who keeps adding {{w|yacht}}s to the list of collectibles, probably because it would force him to buy a yacht if he ever wanted to complete his collection of collectibles. Yachts are traditionally considered immensely expensive and the vast majority of people own zero yachts, let alone a collection of them. Note that Randall does not specify how he is trying to get the page locked, and the comic itself might be a rather meta way of doing so: xkcd fans have a history of making lots of edits to Wikipedia articles Randall mentions, resulting in them being protected or locked. The article has in fact been edited and reverted about 50 times by these fans over the course of a single day and was put in temporary protected-status on March 14th, 2019. Protection will end on March 17th, 2019 provided that no other vandalism occurs afterwards. The first addition of Yachts to this page was by a user named {{w|Special:Contributions/Xkcd2123|Xkcd2123}}, but it is unlikely that this user is Randall.

===List of Items on the Shelf===
Items are numbered on each shelf from left.

{| class="wikitable"
!Item Location
!Description
|-
|Top Shelf, First Item
|Possibly an Urn or cookie jar.
|-
|Top Shelf, Second Item
|Possibly a candle
|-
|Top Shelf, Third Item
|Model Boat
|-
|Middle Shelf, First Item
|Possibly a book
|-
|Middle Shelf, Second Item
|Rock or tooth
|-
|Middle Shelf, Third Item
|Compact disc in case
|-
|Middle Shelf, Fourth Item
|Vinyl Record
|-
|Middle Shelf, Fifth Item
|Possibly a card
|-
|Middle Shelf, Sixth Item
|Possibly a pin-back button
|-
|Bottom Shelf, First Item
|Humanoid Figurine or Action Figure
|-
|Bottom Shelf, Second Item
|Martini Glass
|-
|Bottom Shelf, Third Item
|Teapot
|-
|Bottom Shelf, Fourth Item
|Salt/Pepper shaker or Chess Piece
|-
|Bottom Shelf, Fifth Item
|Sickle
|}

==Transcript==

:[The comic depicts Cueball reading from a list to White Hat, standing next to a case filled with collectables including an urn, a model ship, a compact disc, a vinyl record, a doll or figurine, a martini glass, and a teapot.]
:Today we're looking for a lunchbox, a snow globe, a Maytag dryer, a Harley Davidson, and a stamp.

:[Caption below the frame:]
:My hobby: Collecting one item from every category listed on Wikipedia's "List of collectables."

==Trivia==

As of 13 March 2019 at 6:44 PM ET, there ''was'' a debate on the Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_collectables#May_consider_a_temporary_editing_protection talk] tab about locking this page.
This has now been upheld, and the page was temporarily locked.

As of 25 May 2019 at 10:25 PM ET, the page was unlocked and yachts were back on the list.

A previous comic, [[739: Malamanteau]], also caused a similar situation on Wikipedia, with many xkcd fans attempting to create the fictional page. The page has been turned into a redirect to the Wikipedia page for xkcd.

{{comic discussion}}

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[[Category:Comics featuring White Hat]]
[[Category:Wikipedia]]

2154: Motivation

2019-05-24T18:36:42Z

162.158.107.55: /* Explanation */ The title text is a continuation of the same conversation.

{{comic
| number = 2154
| date = May 24, 2019
| title = Motivation
| image = motivation.png
| titletext = What's even worse is, a month ago they transferred me to work on the game I was already playing, and suddenly I found myself procrastinating by playing the one I'd been assigned before. It's possible they're onto me and this is all part of the plan.
}}

==Explanation==
{{incomplete|Created by a VIDEO GAME PLAYTESTER. Please mention here why this explanation isn't complete. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}

Motivation to do your assigned task or job can be hard.{{Citation needed}} As Ponytail is feeling unmotivated to do her job, she decides to procrastinate by playing a video game on her laptop instead, with the hope that she will eventually be more motivated to do her assigned task. Cueball seems to understand her sentiment, and admits to being in the same situation in the past.

The punch line for this comic comes when Ponytail admits that her actual job is a {{w|Game testing|video game playtester}}, someone whose job is to test and play video games. So it seems that Ponytail is avoiding doing her task to test video game X by playing video game Y. Though being a game tester can be seen as glamorous and fun to people who enjoy playing video games ("I get to play video games all day at work"), it is [https://www.ign.com/articles/2012/03/29/the-tough-life-of-a-games-tester less rewarding][https://www.businessinsider.com/what-its-like-to-be-a-video-game-tester-2015-6 than it may seem].

The title text continues Ponytail's admission, adding that she had originally been assigned to play video game Y in the first place, and was previously procrastinating by playing video game X. Her company may have caught on to her procrastination, as they then changed her assignment to work on video game X that she was already playing to procrastinate. To further procrastinate herself, Ponytail changed to play video game Y, the original video game that she was assigned. This would serve to have her work on her original task to test video game Y.

==Transcript==
{{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}

:[Cueball and Ponytail sitting at a desk, working on their laptops]
:Cueball: What are you working on?
:Ponytail: Playing a game that involves exactly as much planning, problem-solving and boring drudgework as the actual job I'm avoiding.

:[Zoom in on Cueball]
:Haha, yeah, I've definitely been there.

:[Zoom back out to Cueball and Ponytail sitting at a desk, working on their laptops]
:Cueball: What's your job these days, anyway?
:Ponytail: Video game playtester.
:Cueball: ...
:Ponytail: Look, motivation is weird, ok?

{{comic discussion}}
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[[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]]
[[Category:Video games]]

Talk:2148: Cubesat Launch

2019-05-11T05:26:26Z

162.158.107.55:

Ahh, yes kites! Or actually, that is a '''very''' strong kite with very strong thread. Must be nice to knock-off a spacecraft! - [[Special:Contributions/162.158.231.24|162.158.231.24]] 15:29, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
(P. S. Please don't interrupt ANY space launch, kids!)

To whomever edited the explanation to say the Megan is planning to board the Cubesat rocket: Cubesat rockets launch cubesats only. There is no place for astronauts. If Megan boarded the rocket, she would die from lack of air (among other things). [[Special:Contributions/172.68.90.112|172.68.90.112]] 16:28, 10 May 2019 (UTC)SiliconWolf

This is weird. The first time I went to the page, I saw a bunch of conspiracy theory nonsense, but when I go back, all of that stuff has been deleted. I thank you, whoever did this, but who the heck made all that conspiracy theory stuff? -Spongepants Squarebob {{unsigned ip|172.68.38.64}}
:I believe there's one user who just keeps spouting random conspiracy theorist stuff on a few of the recent comics and who seems to go by the motto "Soon the truth will be revealed" or something. We usually revert all of their edits as soon as possible. (Also sign your comments!) [[User:Jason|Jason]] ([[User talk:Jason|talk]]) 18:44, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
::Yeah...a while back, on comic 2133, someone edited it to say "This comic references the non-existent 'Event Horizon Telescope', an international project dedicated to deceiving the masses into thinking that black holes are real, in accordance with the whims of the Zionist conspiracy."
::So...yeah. That happened. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.143.144|172.68.143.144]] 20:24, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
:::Yeah, one anti-Semitic lunatic vandalizing explanations and talk pages, mostly focusing on the space related comics. We can't ban all IP editors, so the mods are blocking any user accounts he tries to make, which makes him have to type in a CAPTCHA (which can be quite annoying) every time he wants to vandalize a page. Plus we can just instantly revert his edits, making him waste his efforts. Sooner or later he'll get tired of this and leave. [[User:Herobrine|Herobrine]] ([[User talk:Herobrine|talk]]) 21:41, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
::::Do NOT blame that user for Explain XKCD using Cloudflare which makes ALL edits looking like being done by Cloudflare IPs. There is enough stuff he can be blamed for, no need to add something he can't influence. -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 22:16, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
:::::??? What I was trying to say was that even though there's only one vandal doing this, Explain xkcd uses Cloudflare which makes edits looking like being done by Cloudflare IPs, so even though there are several IP vandals they're all the same person. I'm not blaming that vandal for Explain xkcd using Cloudflare. Anyways, I've removed that bit, sorry if it caused any misunderstanding. [[User:Herobrine|Herobrine]] ([[User talk:Herobrine|talk]]) 22:54, 10 May 2019 (UTC)

The explanation says the inclusion of the additional cubesat would cause the rocket to fail to reach its desired orbit. That is ridiculous. Yes, the unplanned for weight would have an effect, but given the overall weight of the rocket the weight of a single additional cubesat would be close to immaterial. CERTAINLY well within the safety margins. This isn't ''The Cold Equations''." [[Special:Contributions/162.158.107.55|162.158.107.55]] 05:26, 11 May 2019 (UTC)

2143: Disk Usage

2019-04-29T21:02:33Z

162.158.107.55: ADD AN L

{{comic
| number = 2143
| date = April 29, 2019
| title = Disk Usage
| image = disk_usage.png
| titletext = Menu -> Manage -> [Optimize space usage, Encrypt disk usage report, Convert photos to text-only, Delete temporary files, Delete permanent files, Delete all files currently in use, Optimize menu options, Download cloud, Optimize cloud , Upload unused space to cloud]
}}

==Explanation==
{{incomplete|Created by a monstrosity of a powerpoint presentation. Please mention here why this explanation isn't complete. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}
Computers save their data on memory; traditionally this was known as the hard disk drive, though it is increasingly common that it is not a literal disc and may be made of flash memory (this is traditional in computers such as smartphones). Users can ask the system for a breakdown of the usage of their hard disk, which is usually displayed as a pie chart such as this comic. As with everything else in Randall's computers in the comics, his hard disk usage is... strange.

"Photo'''s'''" and "D'''o'''cuments" are both commo'''n''' things '''t'''o see in a disc usage report. Randall '''h'''as marked a distinction betw'''e'''en "pho'''t'''os" and "good photos".

"System" is another common thing to see in the graph. This contains files the user is not using but the compute'''r''' needs to r'''u'''n, such as '''t'''he operating system. Randall '''h'''as put quotation marks around the '''w'''ord to h'''i'''ghlight how nebu'''l'''ous the term actua'''l'''ly is and how he has no idea what the system files actually are.

==Transcript==
{{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}

A 2D pie chart titled "DISK SPACE USAGE REPORT."

Clockwise from the top, sectors are
* 8% WHY ARE THERE TWO FULL '''B'''ACKUPS OF MY PHON'''E''' FROM 2015 DEEP IN A SETTINGS FOLDE'''R'''?
* 23% "OTH'''E'''R"
* 9% "CACHE"
* 2% UNUSED
* 21% "SYSTEM"
* 9% A SINGLE FI'''V'''E-YEAR-OLD POW'''E'''RPOINT PRESENT'''A'''TION
* 6% '''E'''VERYTHING YOU'VE STREAME'''D''' SINCE 2017
* 3% DOCUMENTS
* 1% GOOD PHOTOS
* 18% PHOTOS

{{comic discussion}}

Talk:2131: Emojidome

2019-04-02T01:17:58Z

162.158.107.55: /* Draws */ new section

I've checked the network tab and console - nothing really seems to happen when you vote, which may be something we want to put on the explanation tomorrow - Myxoh

I suspect the real april fools joke is going to come on Wednesday when xkdc posts an app showing us our psychological profiles that they are now selling to marketing companies after data-mining our emotional preferences to marketing firms - Nosajimiki

@Nosajimiki: psychological profiles of xkcd fans. That might be some interesting marketing. - 5Cincinatus

@Myxoh: I came here to see if anyone else had noticed this! But, I do also see a websocket connection to emojidome.xkcd.com, I bet it's counting votes that way.

There is a websocket connection. A message is sent every time you vote. It looks like there are also status update messages every second (saying which emoji currently has exactly how many votes, i suspect this changes the amount of hearts that show up), and "bracket start" messages every so often. The bracket start message seems to contain hundreds of upcoming emoji pairs. Edit: a bracket start is sent at the start of every match (so every ~30 seconds). It also contains logs of which messages to show for previous matches, and which emoji are currently battling.[[Special:Contributions/172.69.138.10|172.69.138.10]] 16:30, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

There seems to be nothing stopping me from clicking multiple times. Do you think it actually counts it all those times? Can I click-spam to say "this is much better"? [[User:Fabian42|Fabian42]] ([[User talk:Fabian42|talk]]) 16:48, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
:Randall just confirmed that you can vote multiple times, although if you click too fasr you get rate limited. (*warning: generic ip address assigned to phone data.*) [[Special:Contributions/172.69.70.47|172.69.70.47]] 22:35, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

Well this is fun. Look like there are 512 symbols, meaning 256 first-round contests. The first round would take (at 38 seconds / round) ~2.7 hours. The remaining rounds, from an estimate of geometric progression, would just under double this, meaning this comic will run for ~ 5 hours until we have our winner... ~alexandicity [[Special:Contributions/172.69.226.177|172.69.226.177]] 16:51, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

Did he just add a scroll bar to the previous matches? I didn't notice it earlier [[Special:Contributions/162.158.255.148|162.158.255.148]] 18:17, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
:Nope, you were able to scroll before, too. At least about 2 hours ago. [[User:Fabian42|Fabian42]] ([[User talk:Fabian42|talk]]) 18:20, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

While some of the recaps of past battles are generic (taco vs sandwich: "One for the history books"), many seem to be specifically written for the battle (light bulb vs candle: "Some would argue that this one was settled in the 1800s"). I wonder if/how much this will continue into round 2.

Round two has just begun, and the timeout has been bumped to 60 seconds. --[[User:Anarcat|Anarcat]] ([[User talk:Anarcat|talk]]) 18:41, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
:If that trend continues, the full competition will take pretty close to 24 hours. [[User:Fabian42|Fabian42]] ([[User talk:Fabian42|talk]]) 18:45, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
:It looks like it's 1:14/round, which is double what the time was in round one. Will round three be 2:28? 1:51?
::It's just over 1:15/round from the history JSON (plus some hundredths of a second, but it appears 1:15 is the intent)
:::Hadn't looked there. Round one concluded at 18:39:20-ish, 9560 seconds from 16:00:00. At 256 battles, that's 37.34 seconds/battle. However, it looks like the first battle ended at 15:59:57, which would add about 40 seconds, 9600 seconds/256=37.5 seconds exactly. Doubling for round 2 gives 75 seconds.
::2 minutes 30 seconds per battle now. Looks like each round will be 2 hours 40 minutes long.
:: Well it is after 5:00 PST and round 4 just started - and this thing is at exactly 5 minutes a round - which means another 160 minutes for the round. Will see in 2 hours and 40 minutes if the times go up to minutes. --[[Special:Contributions/172.69.33.65|172.69.33.65]] 00:25, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

And while the match-ups winners are typically colored, and underlined, the losers are endgame grey.

Has anyone determined if multiple-voting is actually counted? For me at least the vote button fades back to gray after I click it, which implies you can/should click it again, but that may not actually be processed. We might add a clarification about that to the explanation. [[User:Jerodast|- jerodast]] ([[User talk:Jerodast|talk]]) 19:01, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
: A reddit user on the r/xkcd thread (https://www.reddit.com/r/xkcd/comments/b84at1/xkcd_2131_emojidome_script_src2131comicjs/) claims to have attempted "vote stuffing via the console" with no noticeable change in vote totals. So it looks like it may be sending it client-side, but only counting the vote once server-side --l

::Just few minutes ago there was message in "fun facts" that you can click multiple times, although it's not counted if you click too many times (or something like that). I guess that vote stuffing was too much. -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 22:34, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

It would appear that we are supposed to believe the commentary is live, and unscripted:
" {"This one is a true test of the audience today.",
"Just to stress this again. Live commentary, folks. Completely unscripted and coming in hot.} "--[[Special:Contributions/162.158.79.173|162.158.79.173]] 19:20, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
:It's clearly live because the result of a previous round is affecting the next round's commentary - and the combinatorial explosion would prohibit that from being remotely plausible. We're watching live comedy here! [[User:SteveBaker|SteveBaker]] ([[User talk:SteveBaker|talk]]) 19:30, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
: On the dog vs. wolf, he said "Again, we are getting a lot of questions on this today. This is live commentary, folks." Proof I guess. HI RANDALL! [[Special:Contributions/172.68.189.241|172.68.189.241]] 19:31, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

Is there really anything we can put for the transcript? [[Special:Contributions/172.68.189.241|172.68.189.241]] 19:25, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

Aby ideas on how the commentary is done? It seems to sort of match the emojis.
[[User:Svízel přítula|Svízel přítula]] ([[User talk:Svízel přítula|talk]]) 19:31, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
: It seems that Randall is commetating this live, as he periodcally says it's live in the robot commentator text. See above. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.189.241|172.68.189.241]] 19:36, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
::Perhaps not "live" as each round 2 matchup was known 160 minutes before it was voted on. He could comment on the battle itself, and/or provide a comment if one or the other combatant won. I think he's a couple hours ahead of us.
::: I dunno. Whenever a new battle starts, there is a default message, that is soon replaced by a more pertinent message. That seems to suggest that he's doing it on the fly. [[User:9yz|9yz]] ([[User talk:9yz|talk]]) 20:03, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
::::If that's live, Randall, and if you see this, give us a shout-out as proof. -Brent
This is a quick piece of python to see the json results (and commentary):
<nowiki>import json, urllib.request
d = json.loads(urllib.request.urlopen("https://emojidome.xkcd.com/2131/socket ").read().decode('utf-8'))
for g in d['bracket']['played'][0]:
c1, c2 = g['game']
print(f"{c1['score']} {c1['competitor']}-{c2['competitor']} {c2['score']}")</nowiki>
[[User:Tammo80|Tammo80]] ([[User talk:Tammo80|talk]]) 19:42, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

: or if you want to see the vote count live in browser: https://emojidome.playcode.io/ -Andy 22:01, April 2019
:: Awesome, thank you [[User:9yz|9yz]] ([[User talk:9yz|talk]]) 20:23, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

There must be some kind of manipulation going on with the votes. There is NO WAY the poop emoji would lose to the skull emoji in round two. It was my guess for the winner >:( [[Special:Contributions/162.158.106.138|162.158.106.138]] 20:50, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
: And the 100 emoji just lost to the shiny heart. :(

The second round bracket was released, but is hidden behind the bottom nav buttons: https://xkcd.com/2131/emojidome_bracket_256.png --[[User:Thefallen138|Thefallen138]] ([[User talk:Thefallen138|talk]]) 20:56, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

And now the third round has begun. Strangely, the bracket is not visible yet: https://xkcd.com/2131/emojidome_bracket_128.png. The delay has been bump to something above two minutes as well. --[[User:Anarcat|Anarcat]] ([[User talk:Anarcat|talk]]) 21:21, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

: It's here https://xkcd.com/2131/emojidome_bracket_round_3.png [[Special:Contributions/162.158.107.79|162.158.107.79]] 21:41, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

Both the Emojidome and counter were brought together in iframes https://ducakedhare.co.uk/emojidome.html [[Special:Contributions/141.101.99.17|141.101.99.17]] 23:39, 1 April 2019 (UTC)taikedz

== "Emoji" or "emojis" as the plural? ==

Due to the nature of the Japanese language, "emoji" is technically both the plural and the singular - however, the improper form "emojis" is used more as a plural frequently nowadays among English speakers. Which form should this explanation use? --[[User:Youforgotthisthing|Youforgotthisthing]] ([[User talk:Youforgotthisthing|talk]]) 22:27, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

The "friends in Australia" comment was made during the last round's wink vs upside down smile battle. This is probably a pun on how Australia is on the other side of the world from America; I don't think Randall was seriously saying he witnessed an influx of Australians inbound. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.82|108.162.219.82]] 00:47, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

== Draws ==

What would happen if any of the fights resulted in a draw? (same number of votes for both)

Given the # of matchups, it's not actually that unlikely.

980: Money/Prices in tables

2019-04-01T04:30:04Z

162.158.107.55: /* Rare Items */

__NOTOC__
*Here below are five sections with tables listing the prices of several items in [[980: Money]].
*This is still work in progress.
**[[980: Money/Prices in tables#Dollars|Dollars]]
**[[980: Money/Prices in tables#Thousands|Thousands]]
**[[980: Money/Prices in tables#Millions|Millions]]
**[[980: Money/Prices in tables#Billions|Billions]]
**[[980: Money/Prices in tables#Trillions|Trillions]]

{{incomplete|''So'' disorganized. If you can organize this, please do. Many items are missing from the Billions and Trillions sections. Also we need someone to double-check the values, please.}}
==Dollars==
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
{| class="wikitable"
! Category
! Item
! Price
|-
! rowspan="5"|Dollar bills
|-
| $1 Bill
| $1
|-
| $10 Bill
| $10
|-
| $500 Bill (William McKinley, discontinued)
| $500
|-
| $1000 Bill (Grover Cleveland, discontinued)
| $1000
|-
! rowspan="3"|Fruit
|-
| Apples (one dozen)
| $5.68
|-
| Oranges (one dozen)
| $3.08
|-
! rowspan="3"|Fast Food
|-
| Dollar menu item
| $1.00
|-
| Starbucks Coffee
| $2.00
|-
! rowspan="3"|Average US Restaurant Meals
|-
| Average single US restaurant meal
| $35.65
|-
| Average meal at the 20 costliest San Francisco restaurants
| $85.27
|-
! rowspan="7"|Dinner for four
|-
| Homemade rice and pinto beans
| $9.26 (With time cost of two hours of shopping, travel, prep and cleanup: $41.80)
|-
| Homemade chicken dinner
| $13.78 (With time cost of two hours of shopping, travel, prep and cleanup: $46.32)
|-
| McDonalds
| $27.89 (With time cost of 30 minutes travel: $36.03)
|-
| Arby’s
| $34.00 (With time cost of 30 minutes travel: $42.13)
|-
| Chili’s
| $69.64 (With time cost of 30 minutes travel: $77.78)
|-
| Outback Steakhouse
| $109.82 (With time cost of 30 minutes travel: $117.96)
|-
! rowspan="2"|Vehicles
|-
| Low-end bicycle
| $190
|-
! rowspan="2"|Clothes
|-
| Men's suit
| $400
|-
! rowspan="2"|Debt
|-
| Daily interest on average credit card debt
| $5.63
|-
! rowspan="4"|Daily income
|-
| Median household daily income
| $136.28
|-
| Taxes
| $32.16
|-
| After-tax
| $104.12
|-
! rowspan="4"|Game Consoles
|-
| PS3
| $250
|-
| Xbox 360
| $200
|-
| Wii
| $150
|-
! rowspan="9"|Electronics
|-
| Kindle Fire
| $199
|-
| Basic iPad
| $499
|-
| iPad + 3G + a year of data
| $869
|-
| Basic Macbook Air
| $999
|-
| Netbook
| $249.99
|-
| iPod Nano
| $129
|-
| Mac Mini
| $599
|-
| Comcast cable internet for a year ($59.99/month) || $719.88
|-
! rowspan="7"|Books
|-
| Paperback book
| $6.80
|-
| Hardcover book
| $32.27
|-
| Audio book
| $50.42
|-
| [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00I15SB16/ref=r_kdia_h_i_gl Kindle]
| $79.00
|-
| New video game
| $49.99
|-
| Kindle keyboard + 3G
| $139
|-
! rowspan="6"|Loose change
|-
| Loose change per pound
| $12.80
|-
| Loose change with no quarters
| $5.40
|-
| One-gallon jug of loose change
| $270
|-
| Loose change with no pennies
| $17.40
|-
| Annual value of pennies received in change (at one daily cash purchase)
| $7.30
|-
! rowspan="7"|Pet ownership (Based on ASPCA estimations)
|-
| Annual cost of rabbit ownership
| $730
|-
| Annual cost of dog ownership
| $695
|-
| Annual cost of cat ownership
| $670
|-
| Annual cost of fish ownership
| $35
|-
| Annual cost of bird ownership
| $200
|-
| Annual cost of small mammal ownership
| $300
|-
! rowspan="3"|Cell phone bill
|-
| Traditional cell phone average annual bill
| $928.30
|-
| Smartphone average annual bill
| $1,320
|-
! rowspan="5"|Worker/CEO comparison
|-
| 1965 production worker average hourly wage
| $19.61
|-
| 2007 production worker average hourly wage
| $19.71
|-
| Typical 1965 CEO pay for the same period
| $490.31
|-
| Typical 2007 CEO pay for the same period
| $5419.97
|}
</div>

==Thousands==
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
{| class="wikitable"
! Category
! Item
! Price
|-
! rowspan="6"|Typical household net worth by head of household’s age in 1984
|-
| <35 years
| $11,680
|-
| 35-44 years
| $72,090
|-
| 45-54 years
| $115,060
|-
| 55-64 years
| $149,240
|-
| >65 years
| $122,100
|-
! rowspan="6"|Typical household net worth by head of household’s age in 2009
|-
| <35 years
| $3,710
|-
| 35-44 years
| $40,140
|-
| 45-54 years
| $103,040
|-
| 55-64 years
| $164,270
|-
| >65 years
| $172,820
|-
! rowspan="4"|Raising a child to age 17
|-
| Upper income
| $302,860
|-
| Middle income
| $206,920
|-
| Lower income
| $150,380
|-
!rowspan="5"|Vacations
|-
| All-inclusive one-week trip for two to St. Lucia resort from New England (incl. flights)
| $3,204
|-
| Twenty week-long Hawaiian vacations
| $136,020
|-
| Typical week-long Hawaii trip for two from US West Coast (incl. flights)
| $6,801
|-
| Typical weekend Hawaii trip for two from US West Coast incl. flights)
| $2,863
|-
!rowspan="5"|School Prices
|-
| Estimated one-year Hogwarts cost (incl. tuition)
| $43,000
|-
| Seven-year Hogwarts degree
| $301,000
|-
| Average community college tuition
| $10,340 (One year $2,580)
|-
| Average in-state university tuition
| $28,920 (One year $7,230)
|-
!rowspan="8"|Income per capita (2005)
|-
| United States 2005 per capita income
| $32,360
|-
| Switzerland 2005 per capita income
| $29,910
|-
| Germany 2005 per capita income
| $27,550
|-
| UK 2005 per capita income
| $23,240
|-
| France 2005 per capita income
| $16,400
|-
| China 2005 per capita income
| $3,540
|-
| Brazil 2005 per capita income
| $5,540
|-
!rowspan="3"|Houses
|-
| Small rural house
| $100,000
|-
| Typical new home
| $224,910
|-
!rowspan="3"|Health
|-
| Average individual health insurance annual premium
| $5,430
|-
| Cancer treatment including chemo
| $117,260
|-
!rowspan="8"|Annual Household Costs
|-
| A daily pack of cigarettes for a year (NJ)
| $3,050
|-
| One Starbucks latte per day
| $1,820
|-
| Average smartphone annual cost
| $1,320
|-
| Annual cost of car ownership
| $3,650
|-
| Typical annual household spending
| $5,650
|-
| Average household CC debt
| $9,960
|-
| Annual cost to carry that debt
|$2,090
|-
!rowspan="13"|Typical annual housing costs
|-
| NYC
| $25,416
|-
| San Francisco
| $21,888
|-
| Boston
| $18,216
|-
| Los Angeles
| $17,640
|-
| Washington DC
| $16,380
|-
| Chicago
| $13,664
|-
| Worcester
| $12,456
|-
| Houston
| $11,888
|-
| Minneapolis
| $10,908
|-
| Detroit
| $10,080
|-
| Salt Lake City
| $9,108
|-
| Scranton
| $8,604
|-
!rowspan="4"|Prince William and Kate Middleton's Wedding
|-
| Prince William and Kate Middleton's wedding cake
| $78,000
|-
| Kate Middleton's wedding dress
| $350,000
|-
| Flower cost for Prince William and Kate Middleton's wedding
| $800,000
|-
!rowspan="10"|Value of an investment of $1,000/year
(NOT accounting for inflation) for 30 years with 5% annual interest
|-
| 1 year
| $1,000
|-
| 5 years
| $5,526
|-
| 10 years
| $12,850
|-
| 15 years
| $21,580
|-
| 20 years
| $33,070
|-
| 25 years
| $47,730
|-
| 30 years
| $66,440
|-
| 30 years ($30,000 saved in mattress)
| $30,000
|-
| 30 years ($1,000/yr at 4% real return (long-term stock + divident average)
| $56,080
|-
!rowspan="3"|Value of investment (accounting for inflation)
|-
| 30 years
| $27,370
|-
| 30 years ($30,000 saved in mattress)
| $12,360
|-
!rowspan="4"|Average Vehicle Costs
|-
| Average used car
| $8,910
|-
| Average new car
| $27,230
|-
| High-end bicycle
| $1,500
|-
!rowspan="15"|Total cost to buy and own selected vehicles for five years
|-
| Honda Insight
| $27,874
|-
| Toyota Prius
| $38,771
|-
| Jeep Patriot
| $35,425
|-
| Honda Fit
| $28,745
|-
| BMW Z4
| $61,312
|-
| Ford Explorer
| $45,524
|-
| Toyota Camry
| $34,697
|-
| smart fortwo
| $29,629
|-
| Honda CR-V
| $35,183
|-
| Chevy Volt
| $42,180
|-
| Hyundai Sonata
| $34,644
|-
| Ford F-150
| $48,734
|-
| Nissan Cube
| $29,383
|-
| Porsche 911
| $91,590
|-
!rowspan="7"|Total cost to buy and own selected vehicles for five years if gas were $10/gallon
|-
| Toyota Prius
| $48,990
|-
| Honda Fit
| $45,233
|-
| Ford Explorer
| $69,076
|-
| smart fortwo
| $45,058
|-
| Chevy Volt
| $50,612
|-
| Ford F-150
| $77,111
|-
!rowspan="8"|Typical annual household income
|-
| Bottom 20%
| $10,200
|-
| Second 20%
| $24,800
|-
| Middle 20%
| $44,400
|-
| Fourth 20%
| $76,100
|-
| Top 10%
| $201,100
|-
| Top 1%
| $822,000
|-
| Top 1/500th
| $2,080,000
|-
!rowspan="6"|Median US household income
|-
| Median US household income
| $51,570
|-
| After-tax
| $39,170
|-
| Taxes
| $12,100
|-
| Total lifetime income from ages 25-65 at $50,000/year after 25% taxes (including Social Security)
| $1,500,000
|-
| Cost per household served by US Rural Utilities Service program to expand broadband access
| $359,790
|-
!rowspan="13"|If I had $1000000 (Cost of the items the singer in "If I had $1000000" would buy in order to win your love: $263,330)
|-
| Furniture
| $21,160
|-
| Plymouth Reliant
| $3,000
|-
| Tree fort
| $15,000
|-
| Llama
| $2,120
|-
| Joseph Merrick's remains
| N/A (Held in Royal London Hospital collection and not available for purchase)
|-
| House
| $224,820
|-
| Tiny fridge
| $99.08
|-
| Gourmet pre-wrapped sausages (2)
| $34.48
|-
| Kraft Dinner (two double servings)
| $3.06
|-
| Expensive ketchup
| $10.75
|-
| Faux fur coat
| $198.00
|-
| Limo ride to the store
| $186.59
|-
!rowspan="5"|Luxuries
|-
| [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Opulence_Sundae Golden Opulence ice cream sundae]
| $1,000
|-
| Waist deep half-room ball pit
| $2,400
|-
| All 30 bestselling game consoles (refurb, eBay)
| $2,640
|-
| Initial seat on Virgin Galactic suborbital flight
| $200,000
|-
!rowspan="3"|Video Games
|-
| Typing F-U-N-D-S
| $10,000
|-
| Daily sales of [http://www.minecraft.net/ Minecraft]
| $193,500
|}
</div>

==Millions==
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
{| class="wikitable"
! Category
! Item
! Price
|-
! rowspan="3"|Dr. Evil
|-
| Amount Dr. Evil thought he was demanding from the 1997 world
| $6,630,000
|-
| Amount he was actually demanding
| $1,380,000
|-
! rowspan="4"|William and Kate's wedding
|-
| Flowers
| $800,000
|-
| Security
| $20,000,000
|-
| Total cost
| $80,000,000
|-
! rowspan="3"|$50000 salary for 40 years after 25% taxes
|-
| 50,000 salary for 40 years after 25% taxes
| $1,500,000
|-
| Lifetime cost to avoid changing your oil by abandoning your car and buying a new one whenever you hit 5.000 miles
| $3,270,000
|}
===Rare Items===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Thing !! Price
|-
| Qianlong Chinese vase sold in 2010 || $83,710,000
|-
| Leonardo’s Codex Leicester (bought by Bill Gates) || $45,930,000
|-
| Estimated value of first-edition Gutenberg Bible || $34,610,000
|-
| Double Eagle coin (All destroyed uncirculated save a few stolen from the US Mint) || $9,330,000
|-
| Treskilling Yellow postage stamp (At $50 billion/lb possibly the world’s most expensive thing by weight) || $2,780,000
|-
| 1297 Magna Carta original copy signed by Edward I || $21,890,000
|-
| Painting from The Card Players series (rumor) || $250,000,000
|-
| Willem de Kooning’s “Woman III” (2006 auction) || $168,780,000
|-
| Jackson Pollock’s “No. 5, 1948” (2006 auction) || $153,440,000
|-
| Airbus A380 || $264,000,000
|-
| Mona Lisa assessed value || $730,660,000
|}

===Prizes===
{| class="wikitable"
! Amount !! Year !! Show/Movie !! Amount Today
|-
| $64,000
| 1955
| The $64,000 Question
| $528,310
|-
| £1,000,000
| 1998
| Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (UK)
| $2,270,000
|-
| $1,000,000
| 1999
| Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (USA)
| $1,330,000
|-
| $1,000,000
| 1955
| The Millionaire (TV Show)
| $8,250,000
|-
| $1,000,000
| 1931
| The Millionaire (Movie)
| $14,530,000
|}

===Bitcoins===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Thing !! Price
|-
| Market value of all Bitcoins as of 11/2011 || $22,819,797
|-
| Market value of all Bitcoins as at July 2011 peak price || $210,000,000
|}
===Elections===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Person !! Funds raised
|-
| 2012 presidential fundraising || $188,260,000
|-
| Herman Cain || $5,380,000
|-
| Jon Huntsman || $4,510,000
|-
| Michele Bachmann || $9,870,000
|-
| Ron Paul || $12,790,000
|-
| Rick Perry || $17,200,000
|-
| Mitt Romney || $32,610,000
|-
| Barack Obama || $88,420,000
|-
| Other || $17,480,000
|}

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Person !! Funds raised
|-
| 2008 presidential campaign fundraising ||$1,860,390,000
|-
| Excluding candidate Lee L. Mercer, Jr of Houston, who claimed, in his combined FEC filings, || $900,005,507 in fundraising and $900,006,431 in campaign spending.
|-
| Ron Paul || $32,480,000
|-
| John Edwards || $64,410,000
|-
| Rudy Giuliani || $66,520,000
|-
| Mitt Romney || $116,730,000
|-
| Barack Obama ||$799,670,000
|-
| John McCain || $394,280,000
|-
| Hilary Clinton || $259,050,000
|-
| Other || $127,250,000
|}

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Person !! Funds raised
|-
| 2004 presidential campaign fundraising || $1,006,810,000
|-
| Howard Dean || $61,620,000
|-
| Wesley Clark || $34,620,000
|-
| John Edwards || $39,310,000
|-
| John Kerry || $352,090,000
|-
| George W. Bush || $429,660,000
|-
| Other || $89,510,000
|}

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Person !! Funds raised
|-
| 2000 presidential campaign fundraising || $805,120,000
|-
| Pat Buchanan || $37,440,000
|-
| John McCain || $75,180,000
|-
| Bill Bradley || $65,680,000
|-
| Steve Forbes || $114,400,000 *The Money Chart incorrectly reads $11,440,000
|-
| Al Gore || $170,520,000
|-
| George W. Bush || $247,100,000
|-
| Other || $94,800,000
|}

===2010 midterm elections fundraising===

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Party !! Funds raised
|-
| Democrats || $815,000,000
|-
| Republicans || $587,000,000
|}

===2011-2012 Campaign donations by industry===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Party !! Funds donated
|-
| To Other || $16,000,000 approximately
|-
| To Democrats || $146,000,000 approximately
|-
| To Republicans || $145,000,000 approximately
|}

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Party !! Funds donated
|-
| Finance industry || $122,900,000
|-
| Organized labor || $18,720,000
|-
| Energy industry || $26,680,000
|-
| Lawyers and general lobbyists || $57,590,000
|-
| Health industry || $42,727,000
|-
| Electronics and communication industry || $32,420,000
|}

===Inaugurations===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Thing !! Price
|-
| Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration || $174,100,000
|-
| Festivities (private donors) || $46,400,000
|-
| Federal + state + local government (mainly security) || $127,700,000
|}

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Thing !! Price
|-
| George Bush’s 2005 inauguration || $178,600,000
|-
| Festivities (private donors) || $47,800,000
|-
| Federal + state + local government (mainly security) || $130,800,000
|}

===Past presidential campaign fundraising===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Campaign Year !! Funds raised
|-
| 1996 || $559,810,000
|-
| 1992 || $521,480,000
|-
| 1988 || $606,300,000
|-
| 1984 || $429,860,000
|-
| 1980 || $434,220,000
|-
| 1976 || $664,160,000
|}

===Millionaires===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Item !! Price
|-
| Darell Issa (R-CA) net worth || $304,000,000
|-
| Jane Harman (D-CA) net worth || $294,000,000
|-
| John Kerry (D-MA) net worth || $239,000,000
|-
| Mitt Romney net worth || $210,000,000
|-
| Jon Huntsmann net worth || $40,000,000
|-
| Average net worth of US senator || $13,400,000
|-
| Average net worth of US representative || $4,900,000
|-
| A billionare || $1,000,000,000
|}

===Value of a solid gold toilet (626 lbs) by year===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year !! Value (Approximate)
|-
| 1967 || $2,000,000
|-
| 1968 || $2,000,000
|-
| 1969 || $2,000,000
|-
| 1970 || $2,000,000
|-
| 1971 || $2,000,000
|-
| 1972 || $3,000,000
|-
| 1973 || $4,000,000
|-
| 1974 || $7,000,000
|-
| 1975 || $6,000,000
|-
| 1976 || $4,000,000
|-
| 1977 || $5,000,000
|-
| 1978 || $6,000,000
|-
| 1979 || $9,000,000
|-
| 1980 || $15,000,000
|-
| 1981 || $10,000,000
|-
| 1982 || $8,000,000
|-
| 1983 || $9,000,000
|-
| 1984 || $7,000,000
|-
| 1985 || $6,000,000
|-
| 1986 || $7,000,000
|-
| 1987 || $8,000,000
|-
| 1988 || $7,000,000
|-
| 1989 || $6,000,000
|-
| 1990 || $6,000,000
|-
| 1991 || $5,000,000
|-
| 1992 || $5,000,000
|-
| 1993 || $5,000,000
|-
| 1994 || $5,000,000
|-
| 1995 || $5,000,000
|-
| 1996 || $5,000,000
|-
| 1997 || $4,000,000
|-
| 1998 || $4,000,000
|-
| 1999 || $3,000,000
|-
| 2000 || $3,000,000
|-
| 2001 || $3,000,000
|-
| 2002 || $3,000,000
|-
| 2003 || $4,000,000
|-
| 2004 || $4,000,000
|-
| 2005 || $5,000,000
|-
| 2006 || $6,000,000
|-
| 2007 || $8,000,000
|-
| 2008 || $8,000,000
|-
| 2009 || $10,000,000
|-
| 2010 || $13,000,000
|-
| 2011 || $15,000,000
|}

===Value of a carry-on suitcase full of $100 bills (30,00 ct, 60lbs)===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year !! Value (Approximate)
|-
| 1967 || $20,000,000
|-
| 1968 || $19,000,000
|-
| 1969 || $18,000,000
|-
| 1970 || $17,000,000
|-
| 1971 || $16,000,000
|-
| 1972 || $16,000,000
|-
| 1973 || $15,000,000
|-
| 1974 || $13,000,000
|-
| 1975 || $12,000,000
|-
| 1976 || $12,000,000
|-
| 1977 || $11,000,000
|-
| 1978 || $10,000,000
|-
| 1979 || $9,000,000
|-
| 1980 || $8,000,000
|-
| 1981 || $7,000,000
|-
| 1982 || $7,000,000
|-
| 1983 || $7,000,000
|-
| 1984 || $6,000,000
|-
| 1985 || $6,000,000
|-
| 1986 || $6,000,000
|-
| 1987 || $6,000,000
|-
| 1988 || $6,000,000
|-
| 1989 || $5,000,000
|-
| 1990 || $5,000,000
|-
| 1991 || $5,000,000
|-
| 1992 || $5,000,000
|-
| 1993 || $5,000,000
|-
| 1994 || $4,000,000
|-
| 1995 || $4,000,000
|-
| 1996 || $4,000,000
|-
| 1997 || $4,000,000
|-
| 1998 || $4,000,000
|-
| 1999 || $4,000,000
|-
| 2000 || $4,000,000
|-
| 2001 || $4,000,000
|-
| 2002 || $4,000,000
|-
| 2003 || $4,000,000
|-
| 2004 || $4,000,000
|-
| 2005 || $3,000,000
|-
| 2006 || $3,000,000
|-
| 2007 || $3,000,000
|-
| 2008 || $3,000,000
|-
| 2009 || $3,000,000
|-
| 2010 || $3,000,000
|-
| 2011 || $3,000,000
|}

===Per US resident===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Item !! Value
|-
| $1 per US resident || $312,620,000
|-
| $1 per US household || $117,290,000
|-
| $10 from every US resident || $3,326,200,000
|-
| $10 from every US household || $1,179,180,000
|-
| Amount needed to live comfortably off investments || $4,090,000
|-
| EPA value of a human life || $8,120,000
|-
| Six Million Dollar Man (2011 dollars) || $29,870,000
|}

===Raptors===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Item !! Price !! Notes
|-
| One F-22 raptor || $154,500,000 ||
|-
| One velociraptor || $1,930,000 || (25% of Jurassic Park production budget amortized over three velociraptors)
|}

===Professional rapper net worth===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Rapper !! Net worth
|-
| 50 Cent || $100,000,000
|-
| 50 Cent (stage name) || $0.50
|-
| 50 Cent (adjusted for inflation) || $0.70
|-
| Birdman || $100,000,000
|-
| Dr Dre || $125,000,000
|-
| Jay-Z || $450,000,000
|-
| Diddy || $475,000,000
|}

===J.K. Rowling===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Item !! Value !! Notes
|-
| J.K. Rowling || $1,000,000,000 ||
|-
| J. K. Rowling had she become a rapper || $82,000 || Professional assessment by rapper/geek culture expert MC Frontalot
|}

===Annual hurricane forecast R&D funding===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Item !! Price
|-
| Annual hurricane forecast R&D funding || $20,000,000
|-
| Hurricane forecast improvement funding since 1989 || $440,000,000
|-
| Economic savings--during Hurricane Irene alone--due to limiting evacuations made possible by recent forecast advances || $700,000,000
|}

===Corporation Expenses===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Item !! Price
|-
| 30-second Super Bowl ad slot || $3,000,000
|-
| Annual cost to run Wikipedia || $18,500,000
|-
| Loss in NewsCorp value over hacking scandal || $750,000,000
|}

===Vehicles===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Item !! Price
|-
|Most expensive production car (Bugatti Veyron) || $2,400,000
|-
| Most expensive car ever sold (1957 Ferrari 250) || $16,390,000
|-
| Marginal cost to launch one shuttle || $450,000,000
|-
| Total shuttle program per launch || $1,451,000,000
|-
| One B-2 bomber || $2,500,000,000
|}

===Structures===

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Item !! Price
|-
| Large city office building || $100,000,000
|-
| Dubai Fountain || $224,540,000
|-
| Burj Khalifa || $1,521,000,000
|-
| New Yankee Stadium || $1,545,000,000
|}
===Video Games===

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Item !! Price
|-
| Minecraft sales by October 2011 || $56,780,000
|}

</div>

==Billions==
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">

===Harry Potter movie franchise total revenue===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Item !! Value
|-
| Harry Potter movie franchise total revenue || $21,000,000,000
|-
| Treasure found in a temple in India in 2011 || $22,000,000,000
|}

===Box office revenue===
Adjusted for monetary inflation but not ticket price inflation
Hilighted [sic]: films that earned more than 2009's ''Avatar''
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year !! Movie !! Revenue !! Highlighted
|-
| 2009 || ''Avatar'' || $783,510,000 ||
|-
| 2008 || ''The Dark Knight'' || $547,520,000 ||
|-
| 2003 || ''Shrek 3'' || $516,610,000 ||
|-
| 1999 || ''The Phantom Menace'' || $572,000,000 ||
|-
| 1997 || ''Titanic'' || $827,260,000 || Yes
|-
| 1994 || ''Lion King'' || $625,810,000 ||
|-
| 1993 || ''Jurassic Park'' || $625,810,000 ||
|-
| 1984 || ''Ghostbusters'' || $507,720,000 ||
|-
| 1983 || ''Return of the Jedi'' || $686,710,000 ||
|-
| 1982 || ''E.T.'' || $996,580,000 || Yes
|-
| 1980 || ''The Empire Strikes Back || $778,530,000 ||
|-
| 1977 || ''Star Wars'' || $1,681,000,000 || Yes
|-
| 1975 || ''Jaws'' || $1,067,510,000 || Yes
|-
| 1973 || ''The Exorcist'' || $1,019,000,000 || Yes
|-
| 1965 || ''The Sound of Music'' || $1,144,920,000 || Yes
|-
| 1962 || ''101 Dalmatians'' || $1,131,310,000 || Yes
|-
| 1960 || ''Ben-Hur'' || $561,090,000 ||
|-
| 1957 || ''The Ten Commandments'' || $532,570,000 ||
|-
| 1943 || ''Bambi'' || $1,391,000,000 || Yes
|-
| 1942 || ''Fantasia'' || $1,146,000,000 || Yes
|-
| 1940 || ''Gone with the Wind'' || $3,157,000,000 || Yes
|-
| 1938 || ''Snow White'' || $2,841,700,000 || Yes
|}

===Charity===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Area !! Amount given
|-
| US annual charitable giving || $294,850,000,000
|-
| To religious organizations || $102,000,000,000
|-
| To educational organizations || $42,240,000,000
|-
| To foundations || $33,450,000,000
|-
| To human services || $26,850,000,000
|-
| To societal benefit organizations || $24,570,000,000
|-
| To health organizations || $23,140,000,000
|-
| To international affairs || $15,980,000,000
|-
| To arts and culture || $13,460,000,000
|-
| To animals and environment || $6,750,000,000
|}
====Type of giving:====
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Type !! Amount given
|-
| Individual giving || $214,650,000,000
|-
| Foundation grantmaking || $41,560,000,000
|-
| Bequests || $23,140,000,000
|-
| Corporate giving || $15,500,000,000
|}

===Gates Foundation total giving since 1994===

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Area !! Amount given
|-
| Gates Foundation total giving since 1994 || $25,360,000,000
|-
| Global health || ~12B
|-
| US || ~4B
|-
| Developments || ~3B
|-
| Grants || ~1B
|}

===Book publishing industry revenue===

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Genre !! Revenue
|-
| Book publishing industry revenue || $28,320,000,000
|-
| Romance || $1,380,000,000
|-
| Trade books || $14,130,000,000
|-
| K-12 || $5,570,000,000
|-
| Professional || $3,750,000,000
|-
| Higher education || $4,560,000,000
|}

===Video game industry revenue===

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Area !! Revenue
|-
| Video game industry revenue || $48,900,000,000
|-
| United States || $18,830,000,000
|}

===Education===
{| class= "wikitable sortable"
|-
! Item !! Value !! Notes
|-
| Student loans outstanding || $955,800,000,000 ||
|-
| Federal student loans || $792,900,000,000 ||
|-
| Defaulted Federal student loans || $65,020,000,000 || Private total unknown
|-
| Private student loans || $163,900,000,000 ||
|-
| Total spending on primary and secondary education in the US || $612,470,000,000 ||
|-
| Teacher Salaries || $295,810,000,000 ||
|-
| Total annual higher education spending in the US || $355,110,000,000 ||
|}

===Harvard University revenue===

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Area !! Revenue
|-
| Tuition, donations, and fees || $1,425,000,000
|-
| Investments || $7,900,000,000
|}

In other words, if Harvard completely eliminated tuition, it would mean roughly a 15% budget cut.

===Education foundations===

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Foundation !! Amount given
|-
| Gates Foundation || $36,700,000,000
|-
| INGKA Foundation || $36,000,000,000
|-
| Howard Hughes Medical Institute || $14,800,000,000
|-
| Ford Foundation || $13,800,000,000
|-
| John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation || $6,100,000,000
|}

===Endowments of the 63 wealthiest universities===

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! University !! Endowments
|-
| Endowments of the 63 wealthiest universities || $277,570,000,000
|-
| Harvard || $32,000,000,000
|-
| Yale || $19,400,000,000
|-
| Princeton || $17,100,000,000
|-
| U of Texas || $16,610,000,000
|-
| Stanford || $16,500,000,000
|-
| MIT || $9,900,000,000
|-
| Columbia || $7,800,000,000
|-
| U of Michigan || $7,800,000,000
|-
| Texas A&M || $7,030,000,000
|-
| Northwestern || $7,030,000,000
|}

===Corporate revenue===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Corporation !! Revenue !! Profit !! Loss
|-
| Walmart || $421,800,000,000 || $16,390,000,000 ||
|-
| ExxonMobil || $354,700,000,000 || $30,460,000,000 ||
|-
| Chevron || $196,300,000,000 || $19,020,000,000 ||
|-
| Fannie Mae || $153,800,000,000 || || $14,010,000,000
|-
| GE || $151,600,000,000 || $11,640,000,000 ||
|-
| Berkshire Hathaway || $136,100,000,000 || $12,970,000,000 ||
|-
| PepsiCo || $57,840,000,000 || $6,320,000,000 ||
|-
| Coca-Cola || $35,840,000,000 || $11,800,000,000 ||
|-
| VISA || $8,100,000,000 || $2,700,000,000 ||
|-
| MasterCard || $5,500,000,000 || $1,850,000,000 ||
|-
| General Motors || $135,600,000,000 || $6,170,000,000 ||
|-
| Ford || $129,000,000,000 || $6,560,000,000 ||
|-
| Chrysler || $44,950,000,000 || || $653,000,000
|-
| AT&T || $124,600,000,000 || $19,860,000,000 ||
|-
| Verizon || $106,560,000,000 || $2,550,000,000 ||
|-
| Bank of America || $134,20,000,000 || || $2,240,000,000
|-
| JP Morgan Chase || $115,480,000,000 || $17,370,000,000 ||
|-
| Citigroup || $111,060,000,000 || $10,600,000,000 ||
|-
| AGI || $104,420,000,000 || $17,370,000,000 ||
|-
| HP || $126,000,000,000 || $8,780,000,000 ||
|-
| Apple || $65,230,000,000 || $14,010,000,000 ||
|-
| Microsoft || $62,480,000,000 || $18,760,000,000 ||
|-
| Google || $29,320,000,000 || $8,510,000,000 ||
|-
| Combined annual profit of the Fortune 500 companies || || $708,600,000,000 ||
|}

===US health care spending===

===Total annual tax breaks to the five largest oil companies===

===US GDP===
Combined economic value of all goods and services produced in a year
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Item !! Value
|-
| US GDP || $14,545,950,000,000
|-
| Government || $1,980,640,000,000
|-
| Real estate || $1,925,210,000,000
|-
| Non-rental Real estate || $1,737,500,000,000
|-
| Rental and leasing || $187,610,000,000
|-
| Nondurable goods || $739,300,000,000
|-
| Food, beverage, and tobacco || $212,330,000,000
|-
| Chemicals || $223,050,000,000
|-
| Petroleum and coal || $123,630,000,000
|-
| Apparel || $12,050,000,000
|-
| Paper products || $57,800,000,000
|-
| Plastics and rubber products || $58,410,000,000
|-
| Textile mills || $18,130,000,000
|-
| Printing and related supports || $33,790,000,000
|-
| Durable goods || $898,420,000,000
|-
| Computers and electronics|| $212,640,000,000
|-
| Metal products || $125,590,000,000
|-
| Machinery || $116,110,000,000
|-
| Wood products || $21,530,000,000
|-
| Furniture || $24,930,000,000
|-
| Motor vehicles, trailers, and parts || $80,560,000,000
|-
| Other transportation equipment || $93,440,000,000
|-
| Mineral products || $39,360,000,000
|-
| Metals || $44,710,000,000
|-
| Electrical equipment and components|| $53,260,000,000
|-
| Miscellaneous || $81,390,000,000
|-
| Finance and insurance || $1,207,030,000,000
|-
| Federal Reserve banks and credit intermediaries || $529,540,000,000
|-
| Insurance || $437,340,000,000
|-
| Investments || $180,500,000,000
|-
| Funds and trusts || $59,550,000,000
|-
| Professional and business services || $1,752,750,000,000
|-
| Waste management || $39,870,000,000
|-
| Administrative and support services || $358,110,000,000
|-
| Legal services || $225,830,000,000
|-
| Computer systems design and service || $174,730,000,000
|-
| Corporate management || $253,950,000,000
|-
| Other professional or technical services || $700,250,000,000
|-
| Health and education || $1,294,580,000,000
|-
| Social assistance || $93,750,000,000
|-
| Ambulatory health care services || $529,750,000,000
|-
| Hospitals || $466,390,000,000
|-
| Educational services || $159,580,000,000
|-
| Utilities || $276,210,000,000
|-
| Other services || $345,540,000,000
|-
| Construction || $553,750,000,000
|-
| Retail trade || $844,380,000,000
|-
| Wholesale trade || $804,410,000,000
|-
| Mining || $248,080,000,000
|-
| Mining (other than oil and gas) || $50,380,000,000
|-
| Mining support || $51,270,000,000
|-
| Oil and gas || $145,990,000,000
|-
| Agriculture || $137,120,000,000
|-
| Farms || $107,140,000,000
|-
| Forestry, fishing, and related || $30,080,000,000
|-
| Arts and entertainment || $528,620,000,000
|-
| Food service || $285,480,000,000
|-
| Performing arts, sports, and museums || $73,040,000,000
|-
| Amusements, gambling, and general recreation || $73,040,000,000 || This appears to be a mistake by [[Randall]] and should read $58,110,000,000
|-
| Accommodation || $111,990,000,000
|-
| Information || $658,630,000,000
|-
| Broadcasting and telecommunications|| $366,560,000,000
|-
| Information and data processing || $78,300,000,000
|-
| Film, video, and sound recording || $61,610,000,000
|-
| Publishing (including software) || $152,170,000,000
|-
| Transportation and storage || $401,280,000,000
|-
| Warehousing and storage || $40,590,000,000
|-
| Water || $14,730,000,000
|-
| Air || $36,770,000,000 || This appears to be a mistake by [[Randall]] and should read $63,680,000,000
|-
| Rail || $31,730,000,000
|-
| Truck || $116,520,000,000
|-
| Transit and land passenger || $24,110,000,000
|-
| Pipeline || $12,360,000,000
|-
| Other transport) || $97,560,000,000
|-
|}

===Billionaires===
{| class="wikitable"
! Category
! Person
! Networth
! Ten Richest Ranking
|-
! rowspan="14"|Technology
|-
| Carlos Slim Helú and family
| $74,000,000,000
| First
|-
| Bill Gates
| $56,000,000,000
| Second
|-
| Larry Ellison
| $39,500,000,000
| Fifth
|-
| Larry Page
| $19,800,000,000
|
|-
| Sergey Brin
| $19,800,000,000
|
|-
| Jeff Bezos
| $18,000,000,000
|
|-
| Steve Ballmer
| $14,500,000,000
|
|-
| Mark Zuckerberg
| $13,500,000,000
|
|-
| Paul Allen
| $13,500,000,000
|
|-
| Steve Jobs (D)
| $8,300,000,000
|
|-
| Eric Schmidt
| $7,000,000,000
|
|-
| Sean Parker
| $1,600,000,000
|
|-
| Steve Case
| $1,300,000,000
|
|-
! rowspan="9"|Politicians and alleged evil plutocratic puppet masters
|-
| Warren Buffett
| $50,000,000,000
| Third
|-
| Charles Koch
| $22,000,000,000
|
|-
| David Koch
| $22,000,000,000
|
|-
| Michael Bloomberg
| $18,100,000,000
|
|-
| George Soros
| $14,000,000,000
|
|-
| Silvio Berlusconi and family
| $7,800,000,000
|
|-
| Rupert Murdoch
| $7,600,000,000
|
|-
| David Geffen
| $6,000,000,000
|
|-
! rowspan="6"|Uncategorized
|-
| Bernard Arnault
| $41,000,000,000
| Fourth
|-
| Lakshmi Mittal
| $31,100,000,000
| Sixth
|-
| Amancio Ortega
| $31,000,000,000
| Seventh
|-
| Eike Batista
| $30,000,000,000
| Eighth
|-
| Mukesh Ambani
| $27,000,000,000
| Ninth
|-
! rowspan="5"|Walmart
|-
| Christy Walton and family
| $26,500,000,000
| Tenth
|-
| Jim Walton
| $21,300,000,000
|
|-
| Alice Walton
| $21,200,000,000
|
|-
| S. Robson Walton
| $21,000,000,000
|
|-
|-
! rowspan="5"|Fictional (source: ''Forbes'')
|-
| Carlisle Cullen
| $34,500,000,000
|
|-
| Scrooge McDuck
| $33,500,000,000
|
|-
| Bruce Wayne
| $6,500,000,000
|
|-
| Artemis Fowl
| $1,900,000,000
|
|-
! rowspan="4"|Fashion
|-
| Lilianne Bettencourt
| $23,500,000,000
|
|-
| Ralph Lauren
| $5,800,000,000
|
|-
| Ronald Lauder
| $3,100,000,000
|
|-
! rowspan="5"|Art and media
|-
| George Lucas
| $3,200,000,000
|
|-
| Oprah Winfrey
| $3,200,000,000
|
|-
| Five wealthiest rappers combined
| $1,250,000,000
|
|-
| J. K. Rowling
| $1,000,000,000
|
|-
! rowspan="2"|Donald Trump
|-
| Donald Trump
| $2,700,000,000
|
|-
|}

Combined net worth of the world's 1,210 billionaires $4,500,000,000,000

===Corporations===
by market capitalization (combined value of all stock)

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Company !! Value
|-
| Saudi Aramco (State-owned company--estimated market value) || $2,940,000,000,000
|-
| Apple || $358,310,000,000
|-
| ExxonMobil || $357,910,000,000
|-
| PetroChina || $280,160,000,000
|-
| IBM || $211,640,000,000
|-
| Microsoft || $211,340,000,000
|-
| Bank of China || $208,810,000,000
|-
| China Mobile || $201,510,000,000
|-
| Royal Dutch Shell || $199,780,000,000
|-
| Nestle || $193,700,000,000
|-
| Chevron || $188,030,000,000
|-
| Facebook 2011 valuation || $70,000,000,000
|-
| AT&T attempted T-Mobile purchase || $39,000,000,000
|-
| Facebook 2010 valuation || $33,450,000,000
|-
| Zynga 2011 valuation || $14,000,000,000
|-
| LivingSocial 2011 valuation || $2,980,000,000
|}

===US household income===

===Cost to buy the world a coke===

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Item !! Cost
|-
| Cost to buy the world a coke (2011 wholesale prices) || $2,240,000,000
|-
| Coca-Cola's annual marketing budget || $2,980,000,000
|-
| Cost to teach the world to sing (four half-hour lessons at $30 each) || $840,000,000,000
|}

===State government spending===

[map without amounts]

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
| Total US states' debt || $46,000,000,000
|}

====US foreign military aid====
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Area !! Amount
|-
| Total || $11,010,000,000
|-
| Afghanistan || $5,800,000,000
|-
| Israel || $2,410,000,000
|-
| Egypt || $1,320,000,000
|-
| Other || $5,800,000,000
|}

====US foreign humanitarian and economic aid====
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Area !! Amount
|-
| Total || $11,010,000,000
|-
| Iraq and Afghanistan || $5,370,000,000
|-
| West Bank and Ghana || $1,050,000,000
|-
| Africa (total) || $8,850,000,000
|-
| Other || $19,130,000,000
|}

===Ft. Knox gold reserves===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Item !! Value
|-
| Ft. Knox gold reserves (November 2011 prices) || $245,900,000,000
|-
| Unclaimed US treasury bonds || $16,000,000,000
|-
| All the tea in China || $4,210,000,000
|}

===Corporate tax deduction===

(Note: some of the corporate deductions are very technical, and even with the help of a technical accountant, I had trouble making sense of them. The text below is my best attempt at an English interpretation of the legalese.)

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Area !! Deductions
|-
| Corporate tax deduction || $125,180,000,000
|-
| Reduced tax on first $10 million of corporate income || $3,240,000,000
|-
| Delay of taxes on 'income' made from defaulting on a debt (Temporary stimulus measure) || $21,390,000,000
|-
| Temporary change to equipment depreciation rules allowing more (and sooner) deductions on the purchase of new equipment || $24,390,000,000
|-
| Clean energy, space, science, and tech R&D || $13,900,000,000
|-
| Miscellaneous rules for international corporate finance || $6,800,000,000
|-
| Foreign corporation income financing rules || $13,680,000,000
|}

===Individual tax deductions===
These are types of income, or uses of income, which the government has partly or fully exempt from tax, often to encourage some activity. This can be thought of as "spent" tax revenue, although it's not quite that simple; there's no guarantee that removing the deduction would add that amount of revenue, because the presence of the deduction may be affecting taxpayers' spending habits.
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Area !! Deductions
|-
| Small business health insurance|| $1,620,000,000
|-
| Federal employee expenses abroad || $7,910,000,000
|-
| EITC (anti-poverty low-income tax credit) || $78,760,000,000
|-
| Donations to charity || $39,130,000,000
|-
| Capital gains (investment income) || $78,760,000,000
|-
| Pension contributions || $84,940,000,000
|-
| Other || $64,970,000,000
|-
| Employee fringe benefits || $6,690,000,000
|-
| Scholarships || $2,130,000,000
|-
| Property taxes || $15,710,000,000
|-
| Employer-provided transportation || $3,850,000,000
|-
| Retirement accounts || $24,630,000,000
|-
| Cafeteria plans || $26,760,000,000
|-
| State and local bonds || $19,560,000,000
|-
| Company daycare || $3,140,000,000
|-
| College and university tax credits || $12,060,000,000
|-
| Mortgage interest || $92,040,000,000
|-
| Medicare Benefits || $55,850,000,000
|-
| Child care || $55,850,000,000
|-
| Employer health plans || $107,140,000,000
|-
| Making Work Pay (ending) || $60,510,000,000
|-
| First-time homebuyer credit || $8,820,000,000
|-
| Veterans' benefits || $5,570,000,000
|-
| Life insurance benefits || $25,750,000,000
|-
| Capital gains death exclusion || $25,750,000,000
|-
| Social security and railroad retirement || $27,170,000,000
|-
| Home sale capital gains || $15,200,000,000
|}

===Federal spending===

===Disasters===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Disaster !! Estimated Total Damage !! Notes
|-
| Japan 2011 Earthquake || $235,000,000,000 || reconstruction and recovery cost, World Bank estimate
|-
| Hurricane Katrina || $107,440,000,000 ||
|-
| 1988 US Drought || $78,060,000,000 ||
|-
| 1980 US Drought || $60,740,000,000 ||
|-
| Hurricane Andrew || $46,180,000,000 ||
|-
| 9/11 insured losses || $40,000,000,000 || For hurricanes, the rule of thumb is that total losses are roughly double insured losses. It is unclear if a similar rule exist for terrorism.
|-
| Hurricane Ike || $28,170,000,000 ||
|-
| Hurricane Irene || $8,000,000,000 || (estimated)
|}

===Hypothetical disasters===
Estimated total losses if the disaster happened today
(based on insurance industry modeling)
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Disaster !! Estimated Total Losses !! Notes
|-
| 1938 Long Island Express || $236,960,000,000 || if it had curved left and made landfall in New Jersey instead of Long Island
|-
| 1812 New Madrid, Missouri earthquake || $206,050,000,000 ||
|-
| 1926 Miami hurricane || $202,000,000,000 ||
|-
| 1909 San Francisco earthquake || $197,810,000,000 ||
|-
| 1907 Galveston hurricane || $82,420,000,000 ||
|-
| Long Island Express || $78,060,000,000 || (1938 New England Hurricane)
|-
| Charleston SC, quake of 1886 || $76,240,000,000 ||
|-
| 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake || $12,360,000,000 ||
|}

===Cost of electricity===
(Price of electricity to power all US homes for a year, by plant type)
{| class=“wikitable sortable”}'''Bold text'''
|-
!Plant Type !! Cost !! Notes
|-
|Advance combined cycle natural gas || 78,100,000,000 ||
|-
|Conventional Coal+Public Health Burden in Appalacia [sic]+Air pollution from power plants+Climate Impact || 117,340,000,000+55,400,000,000+118,300,000,000+40,030,000,000 ||
|}

===BP oil spill claims fund===

===New York CIty===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Area !! Combined Property Value
|-
| New York City || $806,490,000,000
|-
| Manhattan || $281,040,000,000
|-
| Queens || $208,180,000,000
|-
| Brooklyn || $201,230,000,000
|-
| Staten Island || $61,230,000,000
|-
| Bronx || $54,660,000,000
|}

===Megaprojects===

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Project !! Cost !! Notes
|-
| National missile defense shield cost through 2013 || $107,690,000,000 ||
|-
| F-22 Raptor program || $67,610,000,000 || halted
|-
| Planned Russian Bering Strait tunnel || $66,000,000,000 ||
|-
| Obama's 2011 high-speed rail proposal || $53,000,000,000 ||
|-
| Cost to build SF-to-LA high-speed rail || $45,000,000,000 ||
|-
| UK Crossrail || $26,490,000,000 ||
|-
| King Abdullah Economic City || $50,020,000,000 || High-speed rail $9,120,000,000
|-
| Hong Kong International airport || $27,120,000,000 ||
|-
| Manhattan Project || $24,400,000,000 ||
|-
| 2nd Avenue NYC subway line || $17,960,000,000 ||
|-
| Big Dig cost || $18,510,000,000 || as of 2008
|-
| Failed Army intelligence-sharing computer system || $2,700,000,000 ||
|-
| Bay Bridge span replacement || $6,300,000,000 ||
|-
| Downtown Dubai project || $20,270,000,000 || Burj Khalifa $1,520,000,000
|-
| Channel Tunnel || $22,960,000,000 ||
|-
| Nimitz-class carrier || $4,930,000,000 ||
|-
| Gerald R. Ford-class carrier || $9,000,000,000 ||
|-
| Amtrak 30-year plan for northeast corridor || $192,000,000,000 || Randall made a mistake here the value represented by the blocks is $117,000,000,000
|-
| City Qatar is building to host the 2022 World Cup || $207,000,000,000 ||
|-
| Apollo moon landing project || $192,000,000,000 ||
|-
| International Space Station || $138,000,000,000 ||
|-
| Space Shuttle program || $194,620,000,000 ||
|-
| US interstate highway system || $465,970,000,000 || The largest single public-works project in the history of mankind
|}

===Federal budget===

===Budget options===

===Stimulus spending===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Item !! Value
|-
| 2008 Total || $205,930,000,000
|-
| Individual tax breaks || $120,110,000,000
|-
| Student loan guarantees || $33,470,000,000
|-
| Business tax breaks || $52,360,000,000
|-
| 2009 Total || $747,950,000,000
|-
| Tax breaks || $307,530,000,000
|-
| Education || $90,460,000,000
|-
| Medicare/Medicaid || $80,500,000,000
|-
| Transportation || $32,560,000,000
|-
| Unemployment || $62,740,000,000
|-
| Infrastructure || $24,000,000,000
|-
| Other spending || $150,160,000,000
|}

===Bailouts===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Item !! Value !! Notes
|-
| 1980s-1990 S&L bailout || $78,300,000,000 || total cost to taxpayers
|-
| Cost to FDIC of bank failures || $19,000,000,000 || resulting from the 2008 financial crisis
|-
| TARP bailout funds distributed || $392,980,000,000 || Out of $700,000,000,000 available
|-
| Estimated TARP taxpayer losses || $41,660,000,000 ||
|-
| Value of outstanding TARP assets || $144,440,000 || Randall made a mistake here the chart should read $144,440,000,000
|-
| Bailout funds returned || $206,880,000,000 ||
|-
| Current Eurozone bailout fund || $1,361,700,000,000 ||
|}

===US Spending on Wars===
Including only direct spending on war operations, and not resulting veterans' benefits or interest on debt incurred.
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! War !! Cost
|-
| World War I || $334,000,000,000
|-
| Spanish-American War || $9,030,000,000
|-
| Civil War || $79,740,000,000
|-
| American revolution || $2,410,000,000
|-
| 1812 || $1,550,000,000
|-
| Mexican War || $2,380,000,000
|-
| World War II || $4,104,000,000,000
|-
| Korean War || $341,000,000,000
|-
| Vietnam War || $738,000,000,000
|-
| Persian Gulf War || $102,000,000,000
|-
| Iraq War || $784,000,000,000
|-
| War in Afghanistan || $321,000,000,000
|}

</div>

==Trillions==
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">

===Size of derivatives markets by year===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year !! Size of market
|-
| 1988 || $3,090,000,000,000
|-
| 1995 || $26,690,000,000,000
|-
| 2001 || $86,390,000,000,000
|-
| 2005 || $227,260,000,000,000
|-
| 2009 || $439,000,000,000,000
|}

====Size of credit default swap market by year (included in derivatives)====
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year !! Size of market
|-
| 2001 || $1,150,000,000,000
|-
| 2005 || $19,350,000,000,000
|-
| 2007 || $66,280,000,000,000
|-
| 2009 || $31,350,000,000,000
|}

===US household net worth===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Item !! Worth
|-
| US household || $58,740,000,000,000
|-
| Poorer half || $1,470,000,000,000
|-
| Richer half || $57,270,000,000,000
|-
| Richest 1% || $19,620,000,000,000
|}

===Total debt in the US===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Item !! Worth
|-
| Total debt in the US || $36,580,000,000,000
|-
| State and local government || $2,500,000,000,000
|-
| Household || $13,560,000,000,000
|-
| Federal government || $9,510,000,000,000
|-
| Business || $10,980,000,000,000
|}

===World GDP===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Area !! GDP
|-
| World || $62,900,000,000,000
|-
| North America || $17,850,000,000,000
|-
| United States || $14,530,000,000,000
|-
| South America || $3,070,000,000,000
|-
| EU || $16,240,000,000,000
|-
| Europe (incl. Russia and Turkey) || $20,130,000,000,000
|-
| Africa || $1,610,000,000,000
|-
| Asia || $17,530,000,000,000
|-
| Oceania || $1,310,000,000,000
|}

===Total public debt===
(Note: US figures are from 2011, while the other totals use 2010 debt in 2011 dollars, which is likely an underestimate.)
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Area !! Debt !! Notes
|-
| EU (total) || $13,340,000,000,000 ||
|-
| United States || $10,200,000,000,000 || (Plus internal government borrowing of 4,740,000,000,000)
|-
| Japan || $8,630,000,000,000 ||
|-
| Germany || $2,480,000,000,000 ||
|-
| Italy || $2,140,000,000,000 ||
|-
| India || $2,140,000,000,000 ||
|-
| China || $1,907,000,000,000 ||
|-
| France || $1,767,000,000,000 ||
|-
| United Kingdom || $1,654,000,000,000 ||
|-
| Brazil || $1,281,000,000,000 ||
|-
| Canada || $1,130,000,000,000 ||
|-
| Spain || $834,210,000,000 ||
|-
| Mexico || $584,860,000,000 ||
|-
| Greece || $460,180,000,000 ||
|}

===Energy reserves===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Type of energy !! World total proven [type] reserves !! US Reserves
|-
| Oil || $131,960,000,000,000 (November 2011 prices) || $20,580,000,000,000
|-
| Coal || $72,850,000,000,000 (2011 central Appalachian prices) || $20,020,000,000,000
|-
| Natural gas || $21,470,000,000,000 (2011 NYMEX prices) || $930,470,000,000
|}

===Value of 10 years of electricity generated if the surface of Texas was converted to:===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Thing !! Value
|-
| Solar power plants || $89,240,000,000,000
|-
| Wind turbines || $7,950,000,000,000
|}

===All US real estate===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Type !! Value
|-
| All || $28,380,000,000,000
|-
| Home || $23,010,000,000,000
|-
| Commercial (includes stores, apartments, industrial, etc.) || $5,370,000,000,000
|}

===Value of all gold ever mined===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Item !! Value
|-
| Value of all gold ever mined (late 2011 prices) || $9,120,000,000,000
|}

===Liquid Assets===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Item !! Value
|-
| World Total Liquid Assets || $77,000,000,000,000
|}

===GDP by year===
{|class=wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year !! GDP (total economic activity) the world (minus US) !! GDP (total economic productivity) of the US (minus government) !! US federal government
|-
| 1920 || || ||
|-
| 1930 || || ||
|-
| 1940 || || ||
|-
| 1942 || || || $500,000,000,000
|-
| 1943 || || || $1,000,000,000,000
|-
| 1944 || || || $1,000,000,000,000
|-
| 1945 || || || $1,000,000,000,000
|-
| 1946 || || || $500,000,000,000
|-
| 1947 || || $2,000,000,000,000 || $500,000,000,000
|-
| 1948 || || $2,000,000,000,000 || $500,000,000,000
|-
| 1949 || || $2,000,000,000,000 || $500,000,000,000
|-
| 1950 || || $2,500,000,000,000 || $500,000,000,000
|-
| 1951 || || $2,500,000,000,000 || $500,000,000,000
|-
| 1952 || || $2,500,000,000,000 || $500,000,000,000
|-
| 1953 || || $2,500,000,000,000 || $500,000,000,000
|-
| 1954 || || $2,500,000,000,000 || $500,000,000,000
|-
| 1955 || || $3,000,000,000,000 || $500,000,000,000
|-
| 1956 || || $3,000,000,000,000 || $500,000,000,000
|-
| 1957 || || $3,000,000,000,000 || $500,000,000,000
|-
| 1958 || || $3,000,000,000,000 || $500,000,000,000
|-
| 1959 || || $3,500,000,000,000 || $500,000,000,000
|-
| 1960 || || $3,500,000,000,000 || $500,000,000,000
|-
| 1961 || || $3,500,000,000,000 || $500,000,000,000
|-
| 1962 || || $3,000,000,000,000 || $1,000,000,000,000
|-
| 1963 || || $4,000,000,000,000 || $1,000,000,000,000
|-
| 1964 || || $4,000,000,000,000 || $1,000,000,000,000
|-
| 1965 || || $4,000,000,000,000 || $1,000,000,000,000
|-
| 1966 || || $4,000,000,000,000 || $1,000,000,000,000
|-
| 1967 || || $5,000,000,000,000 || $1,000,000,000,000
|-
| 1968 || || $5,000,000,000,000 || $1,000,000,000,000
|-
| 1969 || || $5,000,000,000,000 || $1,000,000,000,000
|-
| 1970 || || $5,000,000,000,000 || $1,000,000,000,000
|-
| 1971 || || $5,500,000,000,000 || $1,000,000,000,000
|-
| 1972 || || $6,000,000,000,000 || $1,000,000,000,000
|-
| 1973 || || $6,000,000,000,000 || $1,000,000,000,000
|-
| 1974 || || $6,000,000,000,000 || $1,000,000,000,000
|-
| 1975 || || $5,500,000,000,000 || $1,500,000,000,000
|-
| 1976 || || $6,000,000,000,000 || $1,500,000,000,000
|-
| 1977 || || $6,000,000,000,000 || $1,500,000,000,000
|-
| 1978 || || $6,500,000,000,000 || $1,500,000,000,000
|-
| 1979 || || $7,000,000,000,000 || $1,500,000,000,000
|-
| 1980 || $19,000,000,000,000 || $6,500,000,000,000 || $1,500,000,000,000
|-
| 1981 || $19,000,000,000,000 || $6,500,000,000,000 || $1,500,000,000,000
|-
| 1982 || $19,000,000,000,000 || $6,000,000,000,000 || $1,500,000,000,000
|-
| 1983 || $20,000,000,000,000 || $6,000,000,000,000 || $2,000,000,000,000
|-
| 1984 || $20,000,000,000,000 || $7,000,000,000,000 || $2,000,000,000,000
|-
| 1985 || $22,000,000,000,000 || $7,000,000,000,000 || $2,000,000,000,000
|-
| 1986 || $23,000,000,000,000 || $7,000,000,000,000 || $2,000,000,000,000
|-
| 1987 || $23,500,000,000,000 || $7,500,000,000,000 || $2,000,000,000,000
|-
| 1988 || $25,000,000,000,000 || $8,000,000,000,000 || $2,000,000,000,000
|-
| 1989 || $26,000,000,000,000 || $8,000,000,000,000 || $2,000,000,000,000
|-
| 1990 || $27,000,000,000,000 || $8,000,000,000,000 || $2,000,000,000,000
|-
| 1991 || $27,000,000,000,000 || $8,000,000,000,000 || $2,000,000,000,000
|-
| 1992 || $31,000,000,000,000 || $8,000,000,000,000 || $2,000,000,000,000
|-
| 1993 || $32,500,000,000,000 || $8,500,000,000,000 || $2,000,000,000,000
|-
| 1994 || $33,000,000,000,000 || $9,000,000,000,000 || $2,000,000,000,000
|-
| 1995 || $34,000,000,000,000 || $9,000,000,000,000 || $2,000,000,000,000
|-
| 1996 || $34,500,000,000,000 || $9,500,000,000,000 || $2,000,000,000,000
|-
| 1997 || $36,500,000,000,000 || $9,500,000,000,000 || $2,000,000,000,000
|-
| 1998 || $36,500,000,000,000 || $10,500,000,000,000 || $2,000,000,000,000
|-
| 1999 || $37,000,000,000,000 || $10,500,000,000,000 || $2,500,000,000,000
|-
| 2000 || $39,000,000,000,000 || $10,500,000,000,000 || $2,500,000,000,000
|-
| 2001 || $39,000,000,000,000 || $10,500,000,000,000 || $2,500,000,000,000
|-
| 2002 || $41,000,000,000,000 || $10,500,000,000,000 || $2,500,000,000,000
|-
| 2003 || $42,500,000,000,000 || $11,000,000,000,000 || $2,500,000,000,000
|-
| 2004 || $45,000,000,000,000 || $11,500,000,000,000 || $2,500,000,000,000
|-
| 2005 || $46,500,000,000,000 || $11,500,000,000,000 || $3,000,000,000,000
|-
| 2006 || $50,000,000,000,000 || $12,000,000,000,000 || $3,000,000,000,000
|-
| 2007 || $53,000,000,000,000 || $12,000,000,000,000 || $3,000,000,000,000
|-
| 2008 || $57,500,000,000,000 || $11,500,000,000,000 || $3,000,000,000,000
|-
| 2009 || $56,500,000,000,000 || $11,000,000,000,000 || $3,500,000,000,000
|-
| 2010 || $61,000,000,000,000 || $11,500,000,000,000 || $3,500,000,000,000
|-
| 2011 || $64,500,000,000,000 || $11,500,000,000,000 || $4,000,000,000,000
|}

===Estimated total economic production of the human race (so far)===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Thing !! Value !! Notes
|-
| Estimated total economic production of the human race (so far) || $2,396,950,000,000,000 || (roughly three-fifths of it since 1980)
|}
</div>
{{DEFAULTSORT:0980}}

980: Money/Prices in tables

2019-04-01T04:25:56Z

162.158.107.55: /* Millions */ Fixed

__NOTOC__
*Here below are five sections with tables listing the prices of several items in [[980: Money]].
*This is still work in progress.
**[[980: Money/Prices in tables#Dollars|Dollars]]
**[[980: Money/Prices in tables#Thousands|Thousands]]
**[[980: Money/Prices in tables#Millions|Millions]]
**[[980: Money/Prices in tables#Billions|Billions]]
**[[980: Money/Prices in tables#Trillions|Trillions]]

{{incomplete|''So'' disorganized. If you can organize this, please do. Many items are missing from the Billions and Trillions sections. Also we need someone to double-check the values, please.}}
==Dollars==
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
{| class="wikitable"
! Category
! Item
! Price
|-
! rowspan="5"|Dollar bills
|-
| $1 Bill
| $1
|-
| $10 Bill
| $10
|-
| $500 Bill (William McKinley, discontinued)
| $500
|-
| $1000 Bill (Grover Cleveland, discontinued)
| $1000
|-
! rowspan="3"|Fruit
|-
| Apples (one dozen)
| $5.68
|-
| Oranges (one dozen)
| $3.08
|-
! rowspan="3"|Fast Food
|-
| Dollar menu item
| $1.00
|-
| Starbucks Coffee
| $2.00
|-
! rowspan="3"|Average US Restaurant Meals
|-
| Average single US restaurant meal
| $35.65
|-
| Average meal at the 20 costliest San Francisco restaurants
| $85.27
|-
! rowspan="7"|Dinner for four
|-
| Homemade rice and pinto beans
| $9.26 (With time cost of two hours of shopping, travel, prep and cleanup: $41.80)
|-
| Homemade chicken dinner
| $13.78 (With time cost of two hours of shopping, travel, prep and cleanup: $46.32)
|-
| McDonalds
| $27.89 (With time cost of 30 minutes travel: $36.03)
|-
| Arby’s
| $34.00 (With time cost of 30 minutes travel: $42.13)
|-
| Chili’s
| $69.64 (With time cost of 30 minutes travel: $77.78)
|-
| Outback Steakhouse
| $109.82 (With time cost of 30 minutes travel: $117.96)
|-
! rowspan="2"|Vehicles
|-
| Low-end bicycle
| $190
|-
! rowspan="2"|Clothes
|-
| Men's suit
| $400
|-
! rowspan="2"|Debt
|-
| Daily interest on average credit card debt
| $5.63
|-
! rowspan="4"|Daily income
|-
| Median household daily income
| $136.28
|-
| Taxes
| $32.16
|-
| After-tax
| $104.12
|-
! rowspan="4"|Game Consoles
|-
| PS3
| $250
|-
| Xbox 360
| $200
|-
| Wii
| $150
|-
! rowspan="9"|Electronics
|-
| Kindle Fire
| $199
|-
| Basic iPad
| $499
|-
| iPad + 3G + a year of data
| $869
|-
| Basic Macbook Air
| $999
|-
| Netbook
| $249.99
|-
| iPod Nano
| $129
|-
| Mac Mini
| $599
|-
| Comcast cable internet for a year ($59.99/month) || $719.88
|-
! rowspan="7"|Books
|-
| Paperback book
| $6.80
|-
| Hardcover book
| $32.27
|-
| Audio book
| $50.42
|-
| [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00I15SB16/ref=r_kdia_h_i_gl Kindle]
| $79.00
|-
| New video game
| $49.99
|-
| Kindle keyboard + 3G
| $139
|-
! rowspan="6"|Loose change
|-
| Loose change per pound
| $12.80
|-
| Loose change with no quarters
| $5.40
|-
| One-gallon jug of loose change
| $270
|-
| Loose change with no pennies
| $17.40
|-
| Annual value of pennies received in change (at one daily cash purchase)
| $7.30
|-
! rowspan="7"|Pet ownership (Based on ASPCA estimations)
|-
| Annual cost of rabbit ownership
| $730
|-
| Annual cost of dog ownership
| $695
|-
| Annual cost of cat ownership
| $670
|-
| Annual cost of fish ownership
| $35
|-
| Annual cost of bird ownership
| $200
|-
| Annual cost of small mammal ownership
| $300
|-
! rowspan="3"|Cell phone bill
|-
| Traditional cell phone average annual bill
| $928.30
|-
| Smartphone average annual bill
| $1,320
|-
! rowspan="5"|Worker/CEO comparison
|-
| 1965 production worker average hourly wage
| $19.61
|-
| 2007 production worker average hourly wage
| $19.71
|-
| Typical 1965 CEO pay for the same period
| $490.31
|-
| Typical 2007 CEO pay for the same period
| $5419.97
|}
</div>

==Thousands==
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
{| class="wikitable"
! Category
! Item
! Price
|-
! rowspan="6"|Typical household net worth by head of household’s age in 1984
|-
| <35 years
| $11,680
|-
| 35-44 years
| $72,090
|-
| 45-54 years
| $115,060
|-
| 55-64 years
| $149,240
|-
| >65 years
| $122,100
|-
! rowspan="6"|Typical household net worth by head of household’s age in 2009
|-
| <35 years
| $3,710
|-
| 35-44 years
| $40,140
|-
| 45-54 years
| $103,040
|-
| 55-64 years
| $164,270
|-
| >65 years
| $172,820
|-
! rowspan="4"|Raising a child to age 17
|-
| Upper income
| $302,860
|-
| Middle income
| $206,920
|-
| Lower income
| $150,380
|-
!rowspan="5"|Vacations
|-
| All-inclusive one-week trip for two to St. Lucia resort from New England (incl. flights)
| $3,204
|-
| Twenty week-long Hawaiian vacations
| $136,020
|-
| Typical week-long Hawaii trip for two from US West Coast (incl. flights)
| $6,801
|-
| Typical weekend Hawaii trip for two from US West Coast incl. flights)
| $2,863
|-
!rowspan="5"|School Prices
|-
| Estimated one-year Hogwarts cost (incl. tuition)
| $43,000
|-
| Seven-year Hogwarts degree
| $301,000
|-
| Average community college tuition
| $10,340 (One year $2,580)
|-
| Average in-state university tuition
| $28,920 (One year $7,230)
|-
!rowspan="8"|Income per capita (2005)
|-
| United States 2005 per capita income
| $32,360
|-
| Switzerland 2005 per capita income
| $29,910
|-
| Germany 2005 per capita income
| $27,550
|-
| UK 2005 per capita income
| $23,240
|-
| France 2005 per capita income
| $16,400
|-
| China 2005 per capita income
| $3,540
|-
| Brazil 2005 per capita income
| $5,540
|-
!rowspan="3"|Houses
|-
| Small rural house
| $100,000
|-
| Typical new home
| $224,910
|-
!rowspan="3"|Health
|-
| Average individual health insurance annual premium
| $5,430
|-
| Cancer treatment including chemo
| $117,260
|-
!rowspan="8"|Annual Household Costs
|-
| A daily pack of cigarettes for a year (NJ)
| $3,050
|-
| One Starbucks latte per day
| $1,820
|-
| Average smartphone annual cost
| $1,320
|-
| Annual cost of car ownership
| $3,650
|-
| Typical annual household spending
| $5,650
|-
| Average household CC debt
| $9,960
|-
| Annual cost to carry that debt
|$2,090
|-
!rowspan="13"|Typical annual housing costs
|-
| NYC
| $25,416
|-
| San Francisco
| $21,888
|-
| Boston
| $18,216
|-
| Los Angeles
| $17,640
|-
| Washington DC
| $16,380
|-
| Chicago
| $13,664
|-
| Worcester
| $12,456
|-
| Houston
| $11,888
|-
| Minneapolis
| $10,908
|-
| Detroit
| $10,080
|-
| Salt Lake City
| $9,108
|-
| Scranton
| $8,604
|-
!rowspan="4"|Prince William and Kate Middleton's Wedding
|-
| Prince William and Kate Middleton's wedding cake
| $78,000
|-
| Kate Middleton's wedding dress
| $350,000
|-
| Flower cost for Prince William and Kate Middleton's wedding
| $800,000
|-
!rowspan="10"|Value of an investment of $1,000/year
(NOT accounting for inflation) for 30 years with 5% annual interest
|-
| 1 year
| $1,000
|-
| 5 years
| $5,526
|-
| 10 years
| $12,850
|-
| 15 years
| $21,580
|-
| 20 years
| $33,070
|-
| 25 years
| $47,730
|-
| 30 years
| $66,440
|-
| 30 years ($30,000 saved in mattress)
| $30,000
|-
| 30 years ($1,000/yr at 4% real return (long-term stock + divident average)
| $56,080
|-
!rowspan="3"|Value of investment (accounting for inflation)
|-
| 30 years
| $27,370
|-
| 30 years ($30,000 saved in mattress)
| $12,360
|-
!rowspan="4"|Average Vehicle Costs
|-
| Average used car
| $8,910
|-
| Average new car
| $27,230
|-
| High-end bicycle
| $1,500
|-
!rowspan="15"|Total cost to buy and own selected vehicles for five years
|-
| Honda Insight
| $27,874
|-
| Toyota Prius
| $38,771
|-
| Jeep Patriot
| $35,425
|-
| Honda Fit
| $28,745
|-
| BMW Z4
| $61,312
|-
| Ford Explorer
| $45,524
|-
| Toyota Camry
| $34,697
|-
| smart fortwo
| $29,629
|-
| Honda CR-V
| $35,183
|-
| Chevy Volt
| $42,180
|-
| Hyundai Sonata
| $34,644
|-
| Ford F-150
| $48,734
|-
| Nissan Cube
| $29,383
|-
| Porsche 911
| $91,590
|-
!rowspan="7"|Total cost to buy and own selected vehicles for five years if gas were $10/gallon
|-
| Toyota Prius
| $48,990
|-
| Honda Fit
| $45,233
|-
| Ford Explorer
| $69,076
|-
| smart fortwo
| $45,058
|-
| Chevy Volt
| $50,612
|-
| Ford F-150
| $77,111
|-
!rowspan="8"|Typical annual household income
|-
| Bottom 20%
| $10,200
|-
| Second 20%
| $24,800
|-
| Middle 20%
| $44,400
|-
| Fourth 20%
| $76,100
|-
| Top 10%
| $201,100
|-
| Top 1%
| $822,000
|-
| Top 1/500th
| $2,080,000
|-
!rowspan="6"|Median US household income
|-
| Median US household income
| $51,570
|-
| After-tax
| $39,170
|-
| Taxes
| $12,100
|-
| Total lifetime income from ages 25-65 at $50,000/year after 25% taxes (including Social Security)
| $1,500,000
|-
| Cost per household served by US Rural Utilities Service program to expand broadband access
| $359,790
|-
!rowspan="13"|If I had $1000000 (Cost of the items the singer in "If I had $1000000" would buy in order to win your love: $263,330)
|-
| Furniture
| $21,160
|-
| Plymouth Reliant
| $3,000
|-
| Tree fort
| $15,000
|-
| Llama
| $2,120
|-
| Joseph Merrick's remains
| N/A (Held in Royal London Hospital collection and not available for purchase)
|-
| House
| $224,820
|-
| Tiny fridge
| $99.08
|-
| Gourmet pre-wrapped sausages (2)
| $34.48
|-
| Kraft Dinner (two double servings)
| $3.06
|-
| Expensive ketchup
| $10.75
|-
| Faux fur coat
| $198.00
|-
| Limo ride to the store
| $186.59
|-
!rowspan="5"|Luxuries
|-
| [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Opulence_Sundae Golden Opulence ice cream sundae]
| $1,000
|-
| Waist deep half-room ball pit
| $2,400
|-
| All 30 bestselling game consoles (refurb, eBay)
| $2,640
|-
| Initial seat on Virgin Galactic suborbital flight
| $200,000
|-
!rowspan="3"|Video Games
|-
| Typing F-U-N-D-S
| $10,000
|-
| Daily sales of [http://www.minecraft.net/ Minecraft]
| $193,500
|}
</div>

==Millions==
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
{| class="wikitable"
! Category
! Item
! Price
|-
! rowspan="3"|Dr. Evil
|-
| Amount Dr. Evil thought he was demanding from the 1997 world
| $6,630,000
|-
| Amount he was actually demanding
| $1,380,000
|-
! rowspan="4"|William and Kate's wedding
|-
| Flowers
| $800,000
|-
| Security
| $20,000,000
|-
| Total cost
| $80,000,000
|-
! rowspan="3"|$50000 salary for 40 years after 25% taxes
|-
| 50,000 salary for 40 years after 25% taxes
| $1,500,000
|-
| Lifetime cost to avoid changing your oil by abandoning your car and buying a new one whenever you hit 5.000 miles
| $3,270,000
|}
===Rare Items===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Thing !! Price
|-
| Qianlong Chinese vase sold in 2010 || $83,710,000
|-
| Leonardo’s Codex Leicester (bought by Bill Gates) || $45,930,000
|-
| Estimated value of first-edition Gutenberg Bible || $34,610,000
|-
| Double Eagle coin (All destroyed uncirculated save a few stolen from the US Mint) || $9,330,000
|-
| Treskilling Yellow postage stamp (At $50 billion/lb possibly the world’s most expensive thing by weight) || $2,780,000
|-
| 1297 Magna Carta original coypy signed by Edvard I || $21,890,000
|-
| Painting from The Card Players series (rumor) || $250,000,000
|-
| Willem de Kooning’s “Woman III” (2006 auction) || $168,780,000
|-
| Jackson Pollock’s “No. 5, 1948” (2006 auction) || $153,440,000
|-
| Airbus A380 || $264,000,000
|-
| Mona Lisa assessed value || $730,660,000
|}

===Prizes===
{| class="wikitable"
! Amount !! Year !! Show/Movie !! Amount Today
|-
| $64,000
| 1955
| The $64,000 Question
| $528,310
|-
| £1,000,000
| 1998
| Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (UK)
| $2,270,000
|-
| $1,000,000
| 1999
| Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (USA)
| $1,330,000
|-
| $1,000,000
| 1955
| The Millionaire (TV Show)
| $8,250,000
|-
| $1,000,000
| 1931
| The Millionaire (Movie)
| $14,530,000
|}

===Bitcoins===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Thing !! Price
|-
| Market value of all Bitcoins as of 11/2011 || $22,819,797
|-
| Market value of all Bitcoins as at July 2011 peak price || $210,000,000
|}
===Elections===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Person !! Funds raised
|-
| 2012 presidential fundraising || $188,260,000
|-
| Herman Cain || $5,380,000
|-
| Jon Huntsman || $4,510,000
|-
| Michele Bachmann || $9,870,000
|-
| Ron Paul || $12,790,000
|-
| Rick Perry || $17,200,000
|-
| Mitt Romney || $32,610,000
|-
| Barack Obama || $88,420,000
|-
| Other || $17,480,000
|}

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Person !! Funds raised
|-
| 2008 presidential campaign fundraising ||$1,860,390,000
|-
| Excluding candidate Lee L. Mercer, Jr of Houston, who claimed, in his combined FEC filings, || $900,005,507 in fundraising and $900,006,431 in campaign spending.
|-
| Ron Paul || $32,480,000
|-
| John Edwards || $64,410,000
|-
| Rudy Giuliani || $66,520,000
|-
| Mitt Romney || $116,730,000
|-
| Barack Obama ||$799,670,000
|-
| John McCain || $394,280,000
|-
| Hilary Clinton || $259,050,000
|-
| Other || $127,250,000
|}

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Person !! Funds raised
|-
| 2004 presidential campaign fundraising || $1,006,810,000
|-
| Howard Dean || $61,620,000
|-
| Wesley Clark || $34,620,000
|-
| John Edwards || $39,310,000
|-
| John Kerry || $352,090,000
|-
| George W. Bush || $429,660,000
|-
| Other || $89,510,000
|}

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Person !! Funds raised
|-
| 2000 presidential campaign fundraising || $805,120,000
|-
| Pat Buchanan || $37,440,000
|-
| John McCain || $75,180,000
|-
| Bill Bradley || $65,680,000
|-
| Steve Forbes || $114,400,000 *The Money Chart incorrectly reads $11,440,000
|-
| Al Gore || $170,520,000
|-
| George W. Bush || $247,100,000
|-
| Other || $94,800,000
|}

===2010 midterm elections fundraising===

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Party !! Funds raised
|-
| Democrats || $815,000,000
|-
| Republicans || $587,000,000
|}

===2011-2012 Campaign donations by industry===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Party !! Funds donated
|-
| To Other || $16,000,000 approximately
|-
| To Democrats || $146,000,000 approximately
|-
| To Republicans || $145,000,000 approximately
|}

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Party !! Funds donated
|-
| Finance industry || $122,900,000
|-
| Organized labor || $18,720,000
|-
| Energy industry || $26,680,000
|-
| Lawyers and general lobbyists || $57,590,000
|-
| Health industry || $42,727,000
|-
| Electronics and communication industry || $32,420,000
|}

===Inaugurations===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Thing !! Price
|-
| Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration || $174,100,000
|-
| Festivities (private donors) || $46,400,000
|-
| Federal + state + local government (mainly security) || $127,700,000
|}

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Thing !! Price
|-
| George Bush’s 2005 inauguration || $178,600,000
|-
| Festivities (private donors) || $47,800,000
|-
| Federal + state + local government (mainly security) || $130,800,000
|}

===Past presidential campaign fundraising===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Campaign Year !! Funds raised
|-
| 1996 || $559,810,000
|-
| 1992 || $521,480,000
|-
| 1988 || $606,300,000
|-
| 1984 || $429,860,000
|-
| 1980 || $434,220,000
|-
| 1976 || $664,160,000
|}

===Millionaires===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Item !! Price
|-
| Darell Issa (R-CA) net worth || $304,000,000
|-
| Jane Harman (D-CA) net worth || $294,000,000
|-
| John Kerry (D-MA) net worth || $239,000,000
|-
| Mitt Romney net worth || $210,000,000
|-
| Jon Huntsmann net worth || $40,000,000
|-
| Average net worth of US senator || $13,400,000
|-
| Average net worth of US representative || $4,900,000
|-
| A billionare || $1,000,000,000
|}

===Value of a solid gold toilet (626 lbs) by year===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year !! Value (Approximate)
|-
| 1967 || $2,000,000
|-
| 1968 || $2,000,000
|-
| 1969 || $2,000,000
|-
| 1970 || $2,000,000
|-
| 1971 || $2,000,000
|-
| 1972 || $3,000,000
|-
| 1973 || $4,000,000
|-
| 1974 || $7,000,000
|-
| 1975 || $6,000,000
|-
| 1976 || $4,000,000
|-
| 1977 || $5,000,000
|-
| 1978 || $6,000,000
|-
| 1979 || $9,000,000
|-
| 1980 || $15,000,000
|-
| 1981 || $10,000,000
|-
| 1982 || $8,000,000
|-
| 1983 || $9,000,000
|-
| 1984 || $7,000,000
|-
| 1985 || $6,000,000
|-
| 1986 || $7,000,000
|-
| 1987 || $8,000,000
|-
| 1988 || $7,000,000
|-
| 1989 || $6,000,000
|-
| 1990 || $6,000,000
|-
| 1991 || $5,000,000
|-
| 1992 || $5,000,000
|-
| 1993 || $5,000,000
|-
| 1994 || $5,000,000
|-
| 1995 || $5,000,000
|-
| 1996 || $5,000,000
|-
| 1997 || $4,000,000
|-
| 1998 || $4,000,000
|-
| 1999 || $3,000,000
|-
| 2000 || $3,000,000
|-
| 2001 || $3,000,000
|-
| 2002 || $3,000,000
|-
| 2003 || $4,000,000
|-
| 2004 || $4,000,000
|-
| 2005 || $5,000,000
|-
| 2006 || $6,000,000
|-
| 2007 || $8,000,000
|-
| 2008 || $8,000,000
|-
| 2009 || $10,000,000
|-
| 2010 || $13,000,000
|-
| 2011 || $15,000,000
|}

===Value of a carry-on suitcase full of $100 bills (30,00 ct, 60lbs)===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year !! Value (Approximate)
|-
| 1967 || $20,000,000
|-
| 1968 || $19,000,000
|-
| 1969 || $18,000,000
|-
| 1970 || $17,000,000
|-
| 1971 || $16,000,000
|-
| 1972 || $16,000,000
|-
| 1973 || $15,000,000
|-
| 1974 || $13,000,000
|-
| 1975 || $12,000,000
|-
| 1976 || $12,000,000
|-
| 1977 || $11,000,000
|-
| 1978 || $10,000,000
|-
| 1979 || $9,000,000
|-
| 1980 || $8,000,000
|-
| 1981 || $7,000,000
|-
| 1982 || $7,000,000
|-
| 1983 || $7,000,000
|-
| 1984 || $6,000,000
|-
| 1985 || $6,000,000
|-
| 1986 || $6,000,000
|-
| 1987 || $6,000,000
|-
| 1988 || $6,000,000
|-
| 1989 || $5,000,000
|-
| 1990 || $5,000,000
|-
| 1991 || $5,000,000
|-
| 1992 || $5,000,000
|-
| 1993 || $5,000,000
|-
| 1994 || $4,000,000
|-
| 1995 || $4,000,000
|-
| 1996 || $4,000,000
|-
| 1997 || $4,000,000
|-
| 1998 || $4,000,000
|-
| 1999 || $4,000,000
|-
| 2000 || $4,000,000
|-
| 2001 || $4,000,000
|-
| 2002 || $4,000,000
|-
| 2003 || $4,000,000
|-
| 2004 || $4,000,000
|-
| 2005 || $3,000,000
|-
| 2006 || $3,000,000
|-
| 2007 || $3,000,000
|-
| 2008 || $3,000,000
|-
| 2009 || $3,000,000
|-
| 2010 || $3,000,000
|-
| 2011 || $3,000,000
|}

===Per US resident===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Item !! Value
|-
| $1 per US resident || $312,620,000
|-
| $1 per US household || $117,290,000
|-
| $10 from every US resident || $3,326,200,000
|-
| $10 from every US household || $1,179,180,000
|-
| Amount needed to live comfortably off investments || $4,090,000
|-
| EPA value of a human life || $8,120,000
|-
| Six Million Dollar Man (2011 dollars) || $29,870,000
|}

===Raptors===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Item !! Price !! Notes
|-
| One F-22 raptor || $154,500,000 ||
|-
| One velociraptor || $1,930,000 || (25% of Jurassic Park production budget amortized over three velociraptors)
|}

===Professional rapper net worth===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Rapper !! Net worth
|-
| 50 Cent || $100,000,000
|-
| 50 Cent (stage name) || $0.50
|-
| 50 Cent (adjusted for inflation) || $0.70
|-
| Birdman || $100,000,000
|-
| Dr Dre || $125,000,000
|-
| Jay-Z || $450,000,000
|-
| Diddy || $475,000,000
|}

===J.K. Rowling===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Item !! Value !! Notes
|-
| J.K. Rowling || $1,000,000,000 ||
|-
| J. K. Rowling had she become a rapper || $82,000 || Professional assessment by rapper/geek culture expert MC Frontalot
|}

===Annual hurricane forecast R&D funding===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Item !! Price
|-
| Annual hurricane forecast R&D funding || $20,000,000
|-
| Hurricane forecast improvement funding since 1989 || $440,000,000
|-
| Economic savings--during Hurricane Irene alone--due to limiting evacuations made possible by recent forecast advances || $700,000,000
|}

===Corporation Expenses===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Item !! Price
|-
| 30-second Super Bowl ad slot || $3,000,000
|-
| Annual cost to run Wikipedia || $18,500,000
|-
| Loss in NewsCorp value over hacking scandal || $750,000,000
|}

===Vehicles===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Item !! Price
|-
|Most expensive production car (Bugatti Veyron) || $2,400,000
|-
| Most expensive car ever sold (1957 Ferrari 250) || $16,390,000
|-
| Marginal cost to launch one shuttle || $450,000,000
|-
| Total shuttle program per launch || $1,451,000,000
|-
| One B-2 bomber || $2,500,000,000
|}

===Structures===

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Item !! Price
|-
| Large city office building || $100,000,000
|-
| Dubai Fountain || $224,540,000
|-
| Burj Khalifa || $1,521,000,000
|-
| New Yankee Stadium || $1,545,000,000
|}
===Video Games===

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Item !! Price
|-
| Minecraft sales by October 2011 || $56,780,000
|}

</div>

==Billions==
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">

===Harry Potter movie franchise total revenue===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Item !! Value
|-
| Harry Potter movie franchise total revenue || $21,000,000,000
|-
| Treasure found in a temple in India in 2011 || $22,000,000,000
|}

===Box office revenue===
Adjusted for monetary inflation but not ticket price inflation
Hilighted [sic]: films that earned more than 2009's ''Avatar''
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year !! Movie !! Revenue !! Highlighted
|-
| 2009 || ''Avatar'' || $783,510,000 ||
|-
| 2008 || ''The Dark Knight'' || $547,520,000 ||
|-
| 2003 || ''Shrek 3'' || $516,610,000 ||
|-
| 1999 || ''The Phantom Menace'' || $572,000,000 ||
|-
| 1997 || ''Titanic'' || $827,260,000 || Yes
|-
| 1994 || ''Lion King'' || $625,810,000 ||
|-
| 1993 || ''Jurassic Park'' || $625,810,000 ||
|-
| 1984 || ''Ghostbusters'' || $507,720,000 ||
|-
| 1983 || ''Return of the Jedi'' || $686,710,000 ||
|-
| 1982 || ''E.T.'' || $996,580,000 || Yes
|-
| 1980 || ''The Empire Strikes Back || $778,530,000 ||
|-
| 1977 || ''Star Wars'' || $1,681,000,000 || Yes
|-
| 1975 || ''Jaws'' || $1,067,510,000 || Yes
|-
| 1973 || ''The Exorcist'' || $1,019,000,000 || Yes
|-
| 1965 || ''The Sound of Music'' || $1,144,920,000 || Yes
|-
| 1962 || ''101 Dalmatians'' || $1,131,310,000 || Yes
|-
| 1960 || ''Ben-Hur'' || $561,090,000 ||
|-
| 1957 || ''The Ten Commandments'' || $532,570,000 ||
|-
| 1943 || ''Bambi'' || $1,391,000,000 || Yes
|-
| 1942 || ''Fantasia'' || $1,146,000,000 || Yes
|-
| 1940 || ''Gone with the Wind'' || $3,157,000,000 || Yes
|-
| 1938 || ''Snow White'' || $2,841,700,000 || Yes
|}

===Charity===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Area !! Amount given
|-
| US annual charitable giving || $294,850,000,000
|-
| To religious organizations || $102,000,000,000
|-
| To educational organizations || $42,240,000,000
|-
| To foundations || $33,450,000,000
|-
| To human services || $26,850,000,000
|-
| To societal benefit organizations || $24,570,000,000
|-
| To health organizations || $23,140,000,000
|-
| To international affairs || $15,980,000,000
|-
| To arts and culture || $13,460,000,000
|-
| To animals and environment || $6,750,000,000
|}
====Type of giving:====
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Type !! Amount given
|-
| Individual giving || $214,650,000,000
|-
| Foundation grantmaking || $41,560,000,000
|-
| Bequests || $23,140,000,000
|-
| Corporate giving || $15,500,000,000
|}

===Gates Foundation total giving since 1994===

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Area !! Amount given
|-
| Gates Foundation total giving since 1994 || $25,360,000,000
|-
| Global health || ~12B
|-
| US || ~4B
|-
| Developments || ~3B
|-
| Grants || ~1B
|}

===Book publishing industry revenue===

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Genre !! Revenue
|-
| Book publishing industry revenue || $28,320,000,000
|-
| Romance || $1,380,000,000
|-
| Trade books || $14,130,000,000
|-
| K-12 || $5,570,000,000
|-
| Professional || $3,750,000,000
|-
| Higher education || $4,560,000,000
|}

===Video game industry revenue===

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Area !! Revenue
|-
| Video game industry revenue || $48,900,000,000
|-
| United States || $18,830,000,000
|}

===Education===
{| class= "wikitable sortable"
|-
! Item !! Value !! Notes
|-
| Student loans outstanding || $955,800,000,000 ||
|-
| Federal student loans || $792,900,000,000 ||
|-
| Defaulted Federal student loans || $65,020,000,000 || Private total unknown
|-
| Private student loans || $163,900,000,000 ||
|-
| Total spending on primary and secondary education in the US || $612,470,000,000 ||
|-
| Teacher Salaries || $295,810,000,000 ||
|-
| Total annual higher education spending in the US || $355,110,000,000 ||
|}

===Harvard University revenue===

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Area !! Revenue
|-
| Tuition, donations, and fees || $1,425,000,000
|-
| Investments || $7,900,000,000
|}

In other words, if Harvard completely eliminated tuition, it would mean roughly a 15% budget cut.

===Education foundations===

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Foundation !! Amount given
|-
| Gates Foundation || $36,700,000,000
|-
| INGKA Foundation || $36,000,000,000
|-
| Howard Hughes Medical Institute || $14,800,000,000
|-
| Ford Foundation || $13,800,000,000
|-
| John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation || $6,100,000,000
|}

===Endowments of the 63 wealthiest universities===

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! University !! Endowments
|-
| Endowments of the 63 wealthiest universities || $277,570,000,000
|-
| Harvard || $32,000,000,000
|-
| Yale || $19,400,000,000
|-
| Princeton || $17,100,000,000
|-
| U of Texas || $16,610,000,000
|-
| Stanford || $16,500,000,000
|-
| MIT || $9,900,000,000
|-
| Columbia || $7,800,000,000
|-
| U of Michigan || $7,800,000,000
|-
| Texas A&M || $7,030,000,000
|-
| Northwestern || $7,030,000,000
|}

===Corporate revenue===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Corporation !! Revenue !! Profit !! Loss
|-
| Walmart || $421,800,000,000 || $16,390,000,000 ||
|-
| ExxonMobil || $354,700,000,000 || $30,460,000,000 ||
|-
| Chevron || $196,300,000,000 || $19,020,000,000 ||
|-
| Fannie Mae || $153,800,000,000 || || $14,010,000,000
|-
| GE || $151,600,000,000 || $11,640,000,000 ||
|-
| Berkshire Hathaway || $136,100,000,000 || $12,970,000,000 ||
|-
| PepsiCo || $57,840,000,000 || $6,320,000,000 ||
|-
| Coca-Cola || $35,840,000,000 || $11,800,000,000 ||
|-
| VISA || $8,100,000,000 || $2,700,000,000 ||
|-
| MasterCard || $5,500,000,000 || $1,850,000,000 ||
|-
| General Motors || $135,600,000,000 || $6,170,000,000 ||
|-
| Ford || $129,000,000,000 || $6,560,000,000 ||
|-
| Chrysler || $44,950,000,000 || || $653,000,000
|-
| AT&T || $124,600,000,000 || $19,860,000,000 ||
|-
| Verizon || $106,560,000,000 || $2,550,000,000 ||
|-
| Bank of America || $134,20,000,000 || || $2,240,000,000
|-
| JP Morgan Chase || $115,480,000,000 || $17,370,000,000 ||
|-
| Citigroup || $111,060,000,000 || $10,600,000,000 ||
|-
| AGI || $104,420,000,000 || $17,370,000,000 ||
|-
| HP || $126,000,000,000 || $8,780,000,000 ||
|-
| Apple || $65,230,000,000 || $14,010,000,000 ||
|-
| Microsoft || $62,480,000,000 || $18,760,000,000 ||
|-
| Google || $29,320,000,000 || $8,510,000,000 ||
|-
| Combined annual profit of the Fortune 500 companies || || $708,600,000,000 ||
|}

===US health care spending===

===Total annual tax breaks to the five largest oil companies===

===US GDP===
Combined economic value of all goods and services produced in a year
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Item !! Value
|-
| US GDP || $14,545,950,000,000
|-
| Government || $1,980,640,000,000
|-
| Real estate || $1,925,210,000,000
|-
| Non-rental Real estate || $1,737,500,000,000
|-
| Rental and leasing || $187,610,000,000
|-
| Nondurable goods || $739,300,000,000
|-
| Food, beverage, and tobacco || $212,330,000,000
|-
| Chemicals || $223,050,000,000
|-
| Petroleum and coal || $123,630,000,000
|-
| Apparel || $12,050,000,000
|-
| Paper products || $57,800,000,000
|-
| Plastics and rubber products || $58,410,000,000
|-
| Textile mills || $18,130,000,000
|-
| Printing and related supports || $33,790,000,000
|-
| Durable goods || $898,420,000,000
|-
| Computers and electronics|| $212,640,000,000
|-
| Metal products || $125,590,000,000
|-
| Machinery || $116,110,000,000
|-
| Wood products || $21,530,000,000
|-
| Furniture || $24,930,000,000
|-
| Motor vehicles, trailers, and parts || $80,560,000,000
|-
| Other transportation equipment || $93,440,000,000
|-
| Mineral products || $39,360,000,000
|-
| Metals || $44,710,000,000
|-
| Electrical equipment and components|| $53,260,000,000
|-
| Miscellaneous || $81,390,000,000
|-
| Finance and insurance || $1,207,030,000,000
|-
| Federal Reserve banks and credit intermediaries || $529,540,000,000
|-
| Insurance || $437,340,000,000
|-
| Investments || $180,500,000,000
|-
| Funds and trusts || $59,550,000,000
|-
| Professional and business services || $1,752,750,000,000
|-
| Waste management || $39,870,000,000
|-
| Administrative and support services || $358,110,000,000
|-
| Legal services || $225,830,000,000
|-
| Computer systems design and service || $174,730,000,000
|-
| Corporate management || $253,950,000,000
|-
| Other professional or technical services || $700,250,000,000
|-
| Health and education || $1,294,580,000,000
|-
| Social assistance || $93,750,000,000
|-
| Ambulatory health care services || $529,750,000,000
|-
| Hospitals || $466,390,000,000
|-
| Educational services || $159,580,000,000
|-
| Utilities || $276,210,000,000
|-
| Other services || $345,540,000,000
|-
| Construction || $553,750,000,000
|-
| Retail trade || $844,380,000,000
|-
| Wholesale trade || $804,410,000,000
|-
| Mining || $248,080,000,000
|-
| Mining (other than oil and gas) || $50,380,000,000
|-
| Mining support || $51,270,000,000
|-
| Oil and gas || $145,990,000,000
|-
| Agriculture || $137,120,000,000
|-
| Farms || $107,140,000,000
|-
| Forestry, fishing, and related || $30,080,000,000
|-
| Arts and entertainment || $528,620,000,000
|-
| Food service || $285,480,000,000
|-
| Performing arts, sports, and museums || $73,040,000,000
|-
| Amusements, gambling, and general recreation || $73,040,000,000 || This appears to be a mistake by [[Randall]] and should read $58,110,000,000
|-
| Accommodation || $111,990,000,000
|-
| Information || $658,630,000,000
|-
| Broadcasting and telecommunications|| $366,560,000,000
|-
| Information and data processing || $78,300,000,000
|-
| Film, video, and sound recording || $61,610,000,000
|-
| Publishing (including software) || $152,170,000,000
|-
| Transportation and storage || $401,280,000,000
|-
| Warehousing and storage || $40,590,000,000
|-
| Water || $14,730,000,000
|-
| Air || $36,770,000,000 || This appears to be a mistake by [[Randall]] and should read $63,680,000,000
|-
| Rail || $31,730,000,000
|-
| Truck || $116,520,000,000
|-
| Transit and land passenger || $24,110,000,000
|-
| Pipeline || $12,360,000,000
|-
| Other transport) || $97,560,000,000
|-
|}

===Billionaires===
{| class="wikitable"
! Category
! Person
! Networth
! Ten Richest Ranking
|-
! rowspan="14"|Technology
|-
| Carlos Slim Helú and family
| $74,000,000,000
| First
|-
| Bill Gates
| $56,000,000,000
| Second
|-
| Larry Ellison
| $39,500,000,000
| Fifth
|-
| Larry Page
| $19,800,000,000
|
|-
| Sergey Brin
| $19,800,000,000
|
|-
| Jeff Bezos
| $18,000,000,000
|
|-
| Steve Ballmer
| $14,500,000,000
|
|-
| Mark Zuckerberg
| $13,500,000,000
|
|-
| Paul Allen
| $13,500,000,000
|
|-
| Steve Jobs (D)
| $8,300,000,000
|
|-
| Eric Schmidt
| $7,000,000,000
|
|-
| Sean Parker
| $1,600,000,000
|
|-
| Steve Case
| $1,300,000,000
|
|-
! rowspan="9"|Politicians and alleged evil plutocratic puppet masters
|-
| Warren Buffett
| $50,000,000,000
| Third
|-
| Charles Koch
| $22,000,000,000
|
|-
| David Koch
| $22,000,000,000
|
|-
| Michael Bloomberg
| $18,100,000,000
|
|-
| George Soros
| $14,000,000,000
|
|-
| Silvio Berlusconi and family
| $7,800,000,000
|
|-
| Rupert Murdoch
| $7,600,000,000
|
|-
| David Geffen
| $6,000,000,000
|
|-
! rowspan="6"|Uncategorized
|-
| Bernard Arnault
| $41,000,000,000
| Fourth
|-
| Lakshmi Mittal
| $31,100,000,000
| Sixth
|-
| Amancio Ortega
| $31,000,000,000
| Seventh
|-
| Eike Batista
| $30,000,000,000
| Eighth
|-
| Mukesh Ambani
| $27,000,000,000
| Ninth
|-
! rowspan="5"|Walmart
|-
| Christy Walton and family
| $26,500,000,000
| Tenth
|-
| Jim Walton
| $21,300,000,000
|
|-
| Alice Walton
| $21,200,000,000
|
|-
| S. Robson Walton
| $21,000,000,000
|
|-
|-
! rowspan="5"|Fictional (source: ''Forbes'')
|-
| Carlisle Cullen
| $34,500,000,000
|
|-
| Scrooge McDuck
| $33,500,000,000
|
|-
| Bruce Wayne
| $6,500,000,000
|
|-
| Artemis Fowl
| $1,900,000,000
|
|-
! rowspan="4"|Fashion
|-
| Lilianne Bettencourt
| $23,500,000,000
|
|-
| Ralph Lauren
| $5,800,000,000
|
|-
| Ronald Lauder
| $3,100,000,000
|
|-
! rowspan="5"|Art and media
|-
| George Lucas
| $3,200,000,000
|
|-
| Oprah Winfrey
| $3,200,000,000
|
|-
| Five wealthiest rappers combined
| $1,250,000,000
|
|-
| J. K. Rowling
| $1,000,000,000
|
|-
! rowspan="2"|Donald Trump
|-
| Donald Trump
| $2,700,000,000
|
|-
|}

Combined net worth of the world's 1,210 billionaires $4,500,000,000,000

===Corporations===
by market capitalization (combined value of all stock)

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Company !! Value
|-
| Saudi Aramco (State-owned company--estimated market value) || $2,940,000,000,000
|-
| Apple || $358,310,000,000
|-
| ExxonMobil || $357,910,000,000
|-
| PetroChina || $280,160,000,000
|-
| IBM || $211,640,000,000
|-
| Microsoft || $211,340,000,000
|-
| Bank of China || $208,810,000,000
|-
| China Mobile || $201,510,000,000
|-
| Royal Dutch Shell || $199,780,000,000
|-
| Nestle || $193,700,000,000
|-
| Chevron || $188,030,000,000
|-
| Facebook 2011 valuation || $70,000,000,000
|-
| AT&T attempted T-Mobile purchase || $39,000,000,000
|-
| Facebook 2010 valuation || $33,450,000,000
|-
| Zynga 2011 valuation || $14,000,000,000
|-
| LivingSocial 2011 valuation || $2,980,000,000
|}

===US household income===

===Cost to buy the world a coke===

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Item !! Cost
|-
| Cost to buy the world a coke (2011 wholesale prices) || $2,240,000,000
|-
| Coca-Cola's annual marketing budget || $2,980,000,000
|-
| Cost to teach the world to sing (four half-hour lessons at $30 each) || $840,000,000,000
|}

===State government spending===

[map without amounts]

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
| Total US states' debt || $46,000,000,000
|}

====US foreign military aid====
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Area !! Amount
|-
| Total || $11,010,000,000
|-
| Afghanistan || $5,800,000,000
|-
| Israel || $2,410,000,000
|-
| Egypt || $1,320,000,000
|-
| Other || $5,800,000,000
|}

====US foreign humanitarian and economic aid====
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Area !! Amount
|-
| Total || $11,010,000,000
|-
| Iraq and Afghanistan || $5,370,000,000
|-
| West Bank and Ghana || $1,050,000,000
|-
| Africa (total) || $8,850,000,000
|-
| Other || $19,130,000,000
|}

===Ft. Knox gold reserves===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Item !! Value
|-
| Ft. Knox gold reserves (November 2011 prices) || $245,900,000,000
|-
| Unclaimed US treasury bonds || $16,000,000,000
|-
| All the tea in China || $4,210,000,000
|}

===Corporate tax deduction===

(Note: some of the corporate deductions are very technical, and even with the help of a technical accountant, I had trouble making sense of them. The text below is my best attempt at an English interpretation of the legalese.)

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Area !! Deductions
|-
| Corporate tax deduction || $125,180,000,000
|-
| Reduced tax on first $10 million of corporate income || $3,240,000,000
|-
| Delay of taxes on 'income' made from defaulting on a debt (Temporary stimulus measure) || $21,390,000,000
|-
| Temporary change to equipment depreciation rules allowing more (and sooner) deductions on the purchase of new equipment || $24,390,000,000
|-
| Clean energy, space, science, and tech R&D || $13,900,000,000
|-
| Miscellaneous rules for international corporate finance || $6,800,000,000
|-
| Foreign corporation income financing rules || $13,680,000,000
|}

===Individual tax deductions===
These are types of income, or uses of income, which the government has partly or fully exempt from tax, often to encourage some activity. This can be thought of as "spent" tax revenue, although it's not quite that simple; there's no guarantee that removing the deduction would add that amount of revenue, because the presence of the deduction may be affecting taxpayers' spending habits.
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Area !! Deductions
|-
| Small business health insurance|| $1,620,000,000
|-
| Federal employee expenses abroad || $7,910,000,000
|-
| EITC (anti-poverty low-income tax credit) || $78,760,000,000
|-
| Donations to charity || $39,130,000,000
|-
| Capital gains (investment income) || $78,760,000,000
|-
| Pension contributions || $84,940,000,000
|-
| Other || $64,970,000,000
|-
| Employee fringe benefits || $6,690,000,000
|-
| Scholarships || $2,130,000,000
|-
| Property taxes || $15,710,000,000
|-
| Employer-provided transportation || $3,850,000,000
|-
| Retirement accounts || $24,630,000,000
|-
| Cafeteria plans || $26,760,000,000
|-
| State and local bonds || $19,560,000,000
|-
| Company daycare || $3,140,000,000
|-
| College and university tax credits || $12,060,000,000
|-
| Mortgage interest || $92,040,000,000
|-
| Medicare Benefits || $55,850,000,000
|-
| Child care || $55,850,000,000
|-
| Employer health plans || $107,140,000,000
|-
| Making Work Pay (ending) || $60,510,000,000
|-
| First-time homebuyer credit || $8,820,000,000
|-
| Veterans' benefits || $5,570,000,000
|-
| Life insurance benefits || $25,750,000,000
|-
| Capital gains death exclusion || $25,750,000,000
|-
| Social security and railroad retirement || $27,170,000,000
|-
| Home sale capital gains || $15,200,000,000
|}

===Federal spending===

===Disasters===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Disaster !! Estimated Total Damage !! Notes
|-
| Japan 2011 Earthquake || $235,000,000,000 || reconstruction and recovery cost, World Bank estimate
|-
| Hurricane Katrina || $107,440,000,000 ||
|-
| 1988 US Drought || $78,060,000,000 ||
|-
| 1980 US Drought || $60,740,000,000 ||
|-
| Hurricane Andrew || $46,180,000,000 ||
|-
| 9/11 insured losses || $40,000,000,000 || For hurricanes, the rule of thumb is that total losses are roughly double insured losses. It is unclear if a similar rule exist for terrorism.
|-
| Hurricane Ike || $28,170,000,000 ||
|-
| Hurricane Irene || $8,000,000,000 || (estimated)
|}

===Hypothetical disasters===
Estimated total losses if the disaster happened today
(based on insurance industry modeling)
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Disaster !! Estimated Total Losses !! Notes
|-
| 1938 Long Island Express || $236,960,000,000 || if it had curved left and made landfall in New Jersey instead of Long Island
|-
| 1812 New Madrid, Missouri earthquake || $206,050,000,000 ||
|-
| 1926 Miami hurricane || $202,000,000,000 ||
|-
| 1909 San Francisco earthquake || $197,810,000,000 ||
|-
| 1907 Galveston hurricane || $82,420,000,000 ||
|-
| Long Island Express || $78,060,000,000 || (1938 New England Hurricane)
|-
| Charleston SC, quake of 1886 || $76,240,000,000 ||
|-
| 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake || $12,360,000,000 ||
|}

===Cost of electricity===
(Price of electricity to power all US homes for a year, by plant type)
{| class=“wikitable sortable”}'''Bold text'''
|-
!Plant Type !! Cost !! Notes
|-
|Advance combined cycle natural gas || 78,100,000,000 ||
|-
|Conventional Coal+Public Health Burden in Appalacia [sic]+Air pollution from power plants+Climate Impact || 117,340,000,000+55,400,000,000+118,300,000,000+40,030,000,000 ||
|}

===BP oil spill claims fund===

===New York CIty===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Area !! Combined Property Value
|-
| New York City || $806,490,000,000
|-
| Manhattan || $281,040,000,000
|-
| Queens || $208,180,000,000
|-
| Brooklyn || $201,230,000,000
|-
| Staten Island || $61,230,000,000
|-
| Bronx || $54,660,000,000
|}

===Megaprojects===

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Project !! Cost !! Notes
|-
| National missile defense shield cost through 2013 || $107,690,000,000 ||
|-
| F-22 Raptor program || $67,610,000,000 || halted
|-
| Planned Russian Bering Strait tunnel || $66,000,000,000 ||
|-
| Obama's 2011 high-speed rail proposal || $53,000,000,000 ||
|-
| Cost to build SF-to-LA high-speed rail || $45,000,000,000 ||
|-
| UK Crossrail || $26,490,000,000 ||
|-
| King Abdullah Economic City || $50,020,000,000 || High-speed rail $9,120,000,000
|-
| Hong Kong International airport || $27,120,000,000 ||
|-
| Manhattan Project || $24,400,000,000 ||
|-
| 2nd Avenue NYC subway line || $17,960,000,000 ||
|-
| Big Dig cost || $18,510,000,000 || as of 2008
|-
| Failed Army intelligence-sharing computer system || $2,700,000,000 ||
|-
| Bay Bridge span replacement || $6,300,000,000 ||
|-
| Downtown Dubai project || $20,270,000,000 || Burj Khalifa $1,520,000,000
|-
| Channel Tunnel || $22,960,000,000 ||
|-
| Nimitz-class carrier || $4,930,000,000 ||
|-
| Gerald R. Ford-class carrier || $9,000,000,000 ||
|-
| Amtrak 30-year plan for northeast corridor || $192,000,000,000 || Randall made a mistake here the value represented by the blocks is $117,000,000,000
|-
| City Qatar is building to host the 2022 World Cup || $207,000,000,000 ||
|-
| Apollo moon landing project || $192,000,000,000 ||
|-
| International Space Station || $138,000,000,000 ||
|-
| Space Shuttle program || $194,620,000,000 ||
|-
| US interstate highway system || $465,970,000,000 || The largest single public-works project in the history of mankind
|}

===Federal budget===

===Budget options===

===Stimulus spending===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Item !! Value
|-
| 2008 Total || $205,930,000,000
|-
| Individual tax breaks || $120,110,000,000
|-
| Student loan guarantees || $33,470,000,000
|-
| Business tax breaks || $52,360,000,000
|-
| 2009 Total || $747,950,000,000
|-
| Tax breaks || $307,530,000,000
|-
| Education || $90,460,000,000
|-
| Medicare/Medicaid || $80,500,000,000
|-
| Transportation || $32,560,000,000
|-
| Unemployment || $62,740,000,000
|-
| Infrastructure || $24,000,000,000
|-
| Other spending || $150,160,000,000
|}

===Bailouts===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Item !! Value !! Notes
|-
| 1980s-1990 S&L bailout || $78,300,000,000 || total cost to taxpayers
|-
| Cost to FDIC of bank failures || $19,000,000,000 || resulting from the 2008 financial crisis
|-
| TARP bailout funds distributed || $392,980,000,000 || Out of $700,000,000,000 available
|-
| Estimated TARP taxpayer losses || $41,660,000,000 ||
|-
| Value of outstanding TARP assets || $144,440,000 || Randall made a mistake here the chart should read $144,440,000,000
|-
| Bailout funds returned || $206,880,000,000 ||
|-
| Current Eurozone bailout fund || $1,361,700,000,000 ||
|}

===US Spending on Wars===
Including only direct spending on war operations, and not resulting veterans' benefits or interest on debt incurred.
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! War !! Cost
|-
| World War I || $334,000,000,000
|-
| Spanish-American War || $9,030,000,000
|-
| Civil War || $79,740,000,000
|-
| American revolution || $2,410,000,000
|-
| 1812 || $1,550,000,000
|-
| Mexican War || $2,380,000,000
|-
| World War II || $4,104,000,000,000
|-
| Korean War || $341,000,000,000
|-
| Vietnam War || $738,000,000,000
|-
| Persian Gulf War || $102,000,000,000
|-
| Iraq War || $784,000,000,000
|-
| War in Afghanistan || $321,000,000,000
|}

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==Trillions==
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===Size of derivatives markets by year===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year !! Size of market
|-
| 1988 || $3,090,000,000,000
|-
| 1995 || $26,690,000,000,000
|-
| 2001 || $86,390,000,000,000
|-
| 2005 || $227,260,000,000,000
|-
| 2009 || $439,000,000,000,000
|}

====Size of credit default swap market by year (included in derivatives)====
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year !! Size of market
|-
| 2001 || $1,150,000,000,000
|-
| 2005 || $19,350,000,000,000
|-
| 2007 || $66,280,000,000,000
|-
| 2009 || $31,350,000,000,000
|}

===US household net worth===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Item !! Worth
|-
| US household || $58,740,000,000,000
|-
| Poorer half || $1,470,000,000,000
|-
| Richer half || $57,270,000,000,000
|-
| Richest 1% || $19,620,000,000,000
|}

===Total debt in the US===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Item !! Worth
|-
| Total debt in the US || $36,580,000,000,000
|-
| State and local government || $2,500,000,000,000
|-
| Household || $13,560,000,000,000
|-
| Federal government || $9,510,000,000,000
|-
| Business || $10,980,000,000,000
|}

===World GDP===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Area !! GDP
|-
| World || $62,900,000,000,000
|-
| North America || $17,850,000,000,000
|-
| United States || $14,530,000,000,000
|-
| South America || $3,070,000,000,000
|-
| EU || $16,240,000,000,000
|-
| Europe (incl. Russia and Turkey) || $20,130,000,000,000
|-
| Africa || $1,610,000,000,000
|-
| Asia || $17,530,000,000,000
|-
| Oceania || $1,310,000,000,000
|}

===Total public debt===
(Note: US figures are from 2011, while the other totals use 2010 debt in 2011 dollars, which is likely an underestimate.)
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Area !! Debt !! Notes
|-
| EU (total) || $13,340,000,000,000 ||
|-
| United States || $10,200,000,000,000 || (Plus internal government borrowing of 4,740,000,000,000)
|-
| Japan || $8,630,000,000,000 ||
|-
| Germany || $2,480,000,000,000 ||
|-
| Italy || $2,140,000,000,000 ||
|-
| India || $2,140,000,000,000 ||
|-
| China || $1,907,000,000,000 ||
|-
| France || $1,767,000,000,000 ||
|-
| United Kingdom || $1,654,000,000,000 ||
|-
| Brazil || $1,281,000,000,000 ||
|-
| Canada || $1,130,000,000,000 ||
|-
| Spain || $834,210,000,000 ||
|-
| Mexico || $584,860,000,000 ||
|-
| Greece || $460,180,000,000 ||
|}

===Energy reserves===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Type of energy !! World total proven [type] reserves !! US Reserves
|-
| Oil || $131,960,000,000,000 (November 2011 prices) || $20,580,000,000,000
|-
| Coal || $72,850,000,000,000 (2011 central Appalachian prices) || $20,020,000,000,000
|-
| Natural gas || $21,470,000,000,000 (2011 NYMEX prices) || $930,470,000,000
|}

===Value of 10 years of electricity generated if the surface of Texas was converted to:===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Thing !! Value
|-
| Solar power plants || $89,240,000,000,000
|-
| Wind turbines || $7,950,000,000,000
|}

===All US real estate===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Type !! Value
|-
| All || $28,380,000,000,000
|-
| Home || $23,010,000,000,000
|-
| Commercial (includes stores, apartments, industrial, etc.) || $5,370,000,000,000
|}

===Value of all gold ever mined===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Item !! Value
|-
| Value of all gold ever mined (late 2011 prices) || $9,120,000,000,000
|}

===Liquid Assets===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Item !! Value
|-
| World Total Liquid Assets || $77,000,000,000,000
|}

===GDP by year===
{|class=wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year !! GDP (total economic activity) the world (minus US) !! GDP (total economic productivity) of the US (minus government) !! US federal government
|-
| 1920 || || ||
|-
| 1930 || || ||
|-
| 1940 || || ||
|-
| 1942 || || || $500,000,000,000
|-
| 1943 || || || $1,000,000,000,000
|-
| 1944 || || || $1,000,000,000,000
|-
| 1945 || || || $1,000,000,000,000
|-
| 1946 || || || $500,000,000,000
|-
| 1947 || || $2,000,000,000,000 || $500,000,000,000
|-
| 1948 || || $2,000,000,000,000 || $500,000,000,000
|-
| 1949 || || $2,000,000,000,000 || $500,000,000,000
|-
| 1950 || || $2,500,000,000,000 || $500,000,000,000
|-
| 1951 || || $2,500,000,000,000 || $500,000,000,000
|-
| 1952 || || $2,500,000,000,000 || $500,000,000,000
|-
| 1953 || || $2,500,000,000,000 || $500,000,000,000
|-
| 1954 || || $2,500,000,000,000 || $500,000,000,000
|-
| 1955 || || $3,000,000,000,000 || $500,000,000,000
|-
| 1956 || || $3,000,000,000,000 || $500,000,000,000
|-
| 1957 || || $3,000,000,000,000 || $500,000,000,000
|-
| 1958 || || $3,000,000,000,000 || $500,000,000,000
|-
| 1959 || || $3,500,000,000,000 || $500,000,000,000
|-
| 1960 || || $3,500,000,000,000 || $500,000,000,000
|-
| 1961 || || $3,500,000,000,000 || $500,000,000,000
|-
| 1962 || || $3,000,000,000,000 || $1,000,000,000,000
|-
| 1963 || || $4,000,000,000,000 || $1,000,000,000,000
|-
| 1964 || || $4,000,000,000,000 || $1,000,000,000,000
|-
| 1965 || || $4,000,000,000,000 || $1,000,000,000,000
|-
| 1966 || || $4,000,000,000,000 || $1,000,000,000,000
|-
| 1967 || || $5,000,000,000,000 || $1,000,000,000,000
|-
| 1968 || || $5,000,000,000,000 || $1,000,000,000,000
|-
| 1969 || || $5,000,000,000,000 || $1,000,000,000,000
|-
| 1970 || || $5,000,000,000,000 || $1,000,000,000,000
|-
| 1971 || || $5,500,000,000,000 || $1,000,000,000,000
|-
| 1972 || || $6,000,000,000,000 || $1,000,000,000,000
|-
| 1973 || || $6,000,000,000,000 || $1,000,000,000,000
|-
| 1974 || || $6,000,000,000,000 || $1,000,000,000,000
|-
| 1975 || || $5,500,000,000,000 || $1,500,000,000,000
|-
| 1976 || || $6,000,000,000,000 || $1,500,000,000,000
|-
| 1977 || || $6,000,000,000,000 || $1,500,000,000,000
|-
| 1978 || || $6,500,000,000,000 || $1,500,000,000,000
|-
| 1979 || || $7,000,000,000,000 || $1,500,000,000,000
|-
| 1980 || $19,000,000,000,000 || $6,500,000,000,000 || $1,500,000,000,000
|-
| 1981 || $19,000,000,000,000 || $6,500,000,000,000 || $1,500,000,000,000
|-
| 1982 || $19,000,000,000,000 || $6,000,000,000,000 || $1,500,000,000,000
|-
| 1983 || $20,000,000,000,000 || $6,000,000,000,000 || $2,000,000,000,000
|-
| 1984 || $20,000,000,000,000 || $7,000,000,000,000 || $2,000,000,000,000
|-
| 1985 || $22,000,000,000,000 || $7,000,000,000,000 || $2,000,000,000,000
|-
| 1986 || $23,000,000,000,000 || $7,000,000,000,000 || $2,000,000,000,000
|-
| 1987 || $23,500,000,000,000 || $7,500,000,000,000 || $2,000,000,000,000
|-
| 1988 || $25,000,000,000,000 || $8,000,000,000,000 || $2,000,000,000,000
|-
| 1989 || $26,000,000,000,000 || $8,000,000,000,000 || $2,000,000,000,000
|-
| 1990 || $27,000,000,000,000 || $8,000,000,000,000 || $2,000,000,000,000
|-
| 1991 || $27,000,000,000,000 || $8,000,000,000,000 || $2,000,000,000,000
|-
| 1992 || $31,000,000,000,000 || $8,000,000,000,000 || $2,000,000,000,000
|-
| 1993 || $32,500,000,000,000 || $8,500,000,000,000 || $2,000,000,000,000
|-
| 1994 || $33,000,000,000,000 || $9,000,000,000,000 || $2,000,000,000,000
|-
| 1995 || $34,000,000,000,000 || $9,000,000,000,000 || $2,000,000,000,000
|-
| 1996 || $34,500,000,000,000 || $9,500,000,000,000 || $2,000,000,000,000
|-
| 1997 || $36,500,000,000,000 || $9,500,000,000,000 || $2,000,000,000,000
|-
| 1998 || $36,500,000,000,000 || $10,500,000,000,000 || $2,000,000,000,000
|-
| 1999 || $37,000,000,000,000 || $10,500,000,000,000 || $2,500,000,000,000
|-
| 2000 || $39,000,000,000,000 || $10,500,000,000,000 || $2,500,000,000,000
|-
| 2001 || $39,000,000,000,000 || $10,500,000,000,000 || $2,500,000,000,000
|-
| 2002 || $41,000,000,000,000 || $10,500,000,000,000 || $2,500,000,000,000
|-
| 2003 || $42,500,000,000,000 || $11,000,000,000,000 || $2,500,000,000,000
|-
| 2004 || $45,000,000,000,000 || $11,500,000,000,000 || $2,500,000,000,000
|-
| 2005 || $46,500,000,000,000 || $11,500,000,000,000 || $3,000,000,000,000
|-
| 2006 || $50,000,000,000,000 || $12,000,000,000,000 || $3,000,000,000,000
|-
| 2007 || $53,000,000,000,000 || $12,000,000,000,000 || $3,000,000,000,000
|-
| 2008 || $57,500,000,000,000 || $11,500,000,000,000 || $3,000,000,000,000
|-
| 2009 || $56,500,000,000,000 || $11,000,000,000,000 || $3,500,000,000,000
|-
| 2010 || $61,000,000,000,000 || $11,500,000,000,000 || $3,500,000,000,000
|-
| 2011 || $64,500,000,000,000 || $11,500,000,000,000 || $4,000,000,000,000
|}

===Estimated total economic production of the human race (so far)===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Thing !! Value !! Notes
|-
| Estimated total economic production of the human race (so far) || $2,396,950,000,000,000 || (roughly three-fifths of it since 1980)
|}
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