It’s difficult to understand the magnitude of large numbers. When we hear that Donald Trump lost almost a billion dollars in 1995, or $1,447,218,350.00 in 2016 dollars, it sounds huge — tremendous! — but just how big is it, really?
It’s so big the CPI inflation calculator returns an error if you try to figure out how much it is in 2016 dollars.
It’s so big it’s more money than people paid to go see Jaws, E.T., or Titanic in the United States.
It’s so big that it would take the adjusted gross incomes of 37,266 ordinary US taxpayers to equal it.
And the taxes he didn’t pay as a result? You and I had to foot the bill instead.