Just how much is 2.5 trillion dollars??

Question

The Federal Reserve has said it will have to lend to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac up to 2.5 trillion dollars.

That sounds a h**l of a lot.

On top of the war costs in Iraq and in Afghanistan.

And on top of the budget deficit Bush has run with year after year.

Plus the rising fuel costs

Gee

So anyway - who can put this amount of money into a context.

??

Answer 1

For a little over 2 trillion dollars, a person could buy 300 lamborghinis per day, every day, for 100 years.  Or if you prefer, 300 average new houses in the united states every day for 100 years.  Or about 12 million average new homes.

Answer 2

$2,500,000,000,000. Does that help?

Answer 3

2.5 trillion is incredibly large!

2,500,000,000,000!!!!

thats just huge! it's like getting 2,500,000,000,000 cheeseburgers!!

:D

Answer 4

You will need a bigger wallet to put it in, does that help.

Answer 5

Just who the h*ll gave you the right to look at my bank statement.

Answer 6

It's almost the equivalent of the entire projected cost of the Iraq War.

Think 1,000 piles of $2.5 billion dollars.

And yes, it's a lot of money, but crashing the largest mortgage company in the States would be more expensive - it could crash your economy.

Answer 7

It's a lot. A lot a lot.

Answer 8

Depends on who owns it. Us in the US spend over that amount everyday. Even some of the biggest companies spend that amount every year. So its not really too much now, but I wouldn't complain even if I got 1% of it!

Fannie Mae is actually controlled by our government and they pretty much put out loans to companies and people, so it doesn't really bother me that they would give them so much.

Answer 9

good question. in order to really feel and digest how much that is one has to start counting while keeping in mind that each number is a dollar bill! count to 2.5 trillion. i am still counting, i will get back to you as soon as i get there! i wonder how long that would take! i would suggest that to everyone! if you can even count that far that is !  peace

Answer 10

2.5 tousand million dollars