<p>The typical healthy, educated American mind does not easily understand the magnitude of twenty-eight trillion dollars. Using an Excel workbook, I calculate the magnitude of the national debt. The result helps me to visualize national debt by creating imaginary stacks of one-dollar bills.</p>
<p>This episode is also available as a blog post: http://john-n-white.com/2021/06/13/were-in-the-money-for-now/</p>

The typical healthy, educated American mind does not easily understand the magnitude of twenty-eight trillion dollars. Using an Excel workbook, I calculate the magnitude of the national debt. The result helps me to visualize national debt by creating imaginary stacks of one-dollar bills. This episode is also available as a blog post: http://john-n-white.com/2021/06/13/were-in-the-money-for-now/

We’re In The Money—For Now

From engineering to political topics, no one lives in a vacuum. As John Donne taught, no man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. There is no human action that does not affect the whole of humanity. Math is hard? Ignorance is a cruel taskmaster. Saber es Poder—Knowledge is Power.

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