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  • Below is the complete transcript for 980: Money.
    • (Or so it will be - once someone finishes it).
  • The transcript on the main page, has been assigned to just state the entire text from the first panel and then only what is visible in the small version of the image for the other five panel - that is their headings.
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Money

[Title panel at the top left]
Money
A chart of
almost
all of it,
where it is, and
what it can do
[Almost is written in a very small font compared to the rest]
[Below the entire chart there is a line of right text below the Trillions chart. As this is not part of the five sections it will be written here:]
Thank you to Emily Collins for economics help, Ray Nute for corporate accounting help, Sara Gillespie for miscellaneous information, and Christina Gleason for 3 AM typesetting.
[There are 5 large panels below the title panel, each with a series of plots, comparing the values of various things. Each large panel is covered in colored squares, and each single square represents a power of ten (10^(3*n) for n = 0, 1, 2, 3, 4), be it single dollars, thousands of dollars, or even trillions of dollars. Below is a section for each of these panels]
[Many of the items in each panel have been grouped in small or large groups - some clearly divided - maybe in a frame, or at least with a clear title. But many others are just grouped together. Below in each panels section all these groups are listed as best as possible starting more or less from the top left going towards the bottom right. Within the groups the individual items are listed similarly although if they are given in columns/rows this will be used as well to define the order of the items. If there is a heading for a group this will be used as the title for the sub section - else the first item in the group becomes the title. In groups with a given title, items that are on the list, will be indented to show where they belong. Similar if there are sub text to a given item - then this text will also be indented. If there is a title, then this will be written in bold letters in the transcript.]

Dollars

Completed on 2014-06-07

[This section is right below the title panel at the top left - it covers the price of a single coffees up to the hourly salaries of CEOs.]
Dollars

Important notes

[There is a box with a note next to the title. The first line of text is written in a dark orange color - the same color as the frame of the box. It is the only text that is not black - apart from the white on black background for the main panels title.]
Important notes:
This chart is entirely in 2011 dollars.
Every value associated with a year before 2011 was adjusted for inflation using the consumer Price Index.
Nearly every amount has a cited source - when possible,
a scholarly work or government publication. A list of
sources is available at http://xkcd.com/980/sources/
[The rest of this panel shows how much the individual items values compare to a single dollar. Next to each price in dollar will be drawn a number of green squares equal to this amount - so for the 1 dollar bill there is 1 square, and for the 1000 dollar bill 1000 squares.]

$1 bill

$1 bill
$10 bill
Apples (one dozen) $5.68
Dollar Menu item $1.00
Daily interest on average credit card debt ($9,840) $5.63
Starbucks Coffee $2.00

Average single US restaurant meal

[These items are singled out as they are framed by a light green square with rounded corners]
Average single US restaurant meal $35.65
Average meal at the 20 costliest San Francisco restaurants $85.27

Game consoles

Game consoles
PS3 $250
Xbox 360 $200
Wii $150

Dinner for four

[These items are singled out as they are framed by a light green square with rounded corners]
Dinner for four
(Lighter blocks show value of time required using median US wage of $16.27/hour)
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)

Loose change value per pound

Loose change value per pound $12.80
Loose change with no quarters $5.40
Annual value of pennies received in change (at one daily cash purchase) $7.30
Loose change with no pennies $17.40

Median household daily income

Median household daily income $136.28
[The heading stands to the right of the block of squares. The first third of the blocks are a darker green. The two parts of the blocks are labeled]
Taxes $32.16
After-tax $104.12

$1000 bill

$1000 bill (Grover Cleveland, discontinued)
$500 bill (William McKinley, discontinued)

Paperback book

Paperback book $6.80
Hardcover book $32.27
Audio book $50.42
Kindle $79.00
New video game $49.99
Traditional cell phone average monthly fee $77.36
Smartphone average monthly fee $110.30
Kindle keyboard + 3G $139

One-gallon jug of loose change

One-gallon jug of loose change $270

Pet ownership

[These items are singled out as they are framed by a light green square with rounded corners]
Pet ownership
ASPCA estiamtes
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

Kindle Fire

Kindle Fire $199
Men’s suit $400
Low-end bicycle $190
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

Traditional cell phone average annual bill

Traditional cell phone average annual bill $928.30
Smartphone average annual bill $1,320

Worker/CEO comparison

[These items are singled out as they are framed in together]
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

Thousands

Complete on 2014-06-13
[This section is directly below the Dollars section – it discusses values from around $1000 to $1,000,000, including a dissection of the song If I had $1000000.]
Thousands
[The Dollars section is zoomed down so the area is only 1/1000 of the size and is shown at the top of the Thousands section with lines indicating this zoom]
[The rest of this panel shows how much the individual items values compare to thousand dollars. Next to each price in dollar will be drawn a number of orange squares equal to the number of thousand dollars in the amount - so for a 1000 dollar item there will be one square. And for a small house at a price of $100,000 there will be 100 squares.]

Typical household net worth by head of household’s age

[These items are singled out as they are in a frame.]
Typical household net worth by head of household’s age
[There is two columns of blocks across from each other, with these headings:]
…in 1984 …in 2009
[On each side of two columns are given the values. In between the columns are written the age range:]
$11,680 <35 years $3,710
$72,090 35-44 years $40,140
$115,060 45-54 years $103,040
$149,240 55-64 years $164,270
$122,100 >65 years $172,820

One thousand dollars

[Inside a frame there are a block of 1000 thousand green squares set to equal (=) one orange square to indicate the size of an orange square]
=
One thousand dollars $1,000

Raising a child to age 17

[The title of this next item is below the block – the indications are shown from top to bottom, with lines indicating low and mid income, and the squares between low and high income are drawn in a lighter color]
Raising a child to age 17
Upper income $302,860
Middle income $206,920
Lower income $206,920

Vacation package from New England

[The title line of text is written below the next line of text which is also below the blocks – there is a bracket between the title and this other line:]
Vacation package from New England
All-inclusive one-week trip for two to St. Lucia resort (incl. flights) $3,204
Twenty week-long Hawaiian vacations $136,020
[The title line of text is written below these next two lines of text – these are again below each of the two sets of blocks – there is a bracket between the title and the other text]
Typical trip from US west coast
Typical week-long Hawaii trip for two (incl. flights) $6,801
Typical weekend Hawaii trip for two (incl. flights) $2,863

Cancer treatment including chemo

Cancer treatment including chemo $117,260
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

Golden Opulence ice cream sundae

Golden Opulence ice cream sundae $1,000
Average smartphone annual cost $1.320
Average used car $8,910
Average new car $27,230
High-end bicycle $1,500
One Starbucks latte per day $1.820

United States 2005 per capita income

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

Small rural house

Small rural house $100,000
Typical new home $224,910
Daily sales of Minecraft $193,500

Average individual health insurance annual premium

Average individual health insurance annual premium $5,430
[The five blocks of this item are divided with the top four in lighter color and brackets indicate each group and are named]
Employer
Employee
Typing F-U-N-D-S $10,000
A daily pack of cigarettes for a year (NJ) $3,050
Waist deep half-room ball pit $2,400
All 30 bestselling game consoles (refurb, eBay) $2,640

Annual cost of car ownership

Annual cost of car ownership $3,650
[The title of this next item is below the blocks. These are divided in two, with the last two of the six blocks drawn in a lighter color. Lines go from each part with labels above the blocks]
Typical annual household spending $5,650
Home
Restaurants
Average household CC debt $9,960
Annual cost to carry that debt $2,090

Typical annual housing cost for various cities

[These items are singled out as they are in a frame.]
Typical annual housing cost for various cities
based on military's Basic Allowance for Housing for an E1 servicemember with no dependents
NYC $25,416
San Francisco $21,888
Boston $18,216
Los Angeles $17,640
DC $16,380
Chicago $13,664
Worcester $12,456
Houston $11,888
Minneapolis $10,908
Detroit $10,080
Salt Lake City $9,108
Scranton $8,60

Initial seat on Virgin Galactic suborbital flight

Initial seat on Virgin Galactic suborbital flight $200,000
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

Value of an investment

[These items are singled out as they are in a frame.]
Value of an investment of $1,000/year
(Not changing with inflation) for 30 years at 5% annual interest:
[There is 30 block in three rows of ten from 1 to 30 years. The increasing investment is shown in the normal color, but the interest (when above $500) is shown in a brown color. Except for the last after 30 years – see below. There is also two additional blocks shown to the right – see below.]
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
[Right of the 30 years blocks are two brackets marking the top and the bottom half. The blocks in the top part are gray – this represents those that would have been brown for the other 29 years. Then there are three light orange in the middle, and the rest is the normal color. These squares are the $30,000 invested. The top part including the three light squares are labeled together as are the bottom orange squares:]
Cost of 3% inflation
Real value $27,370
[There are two blocks to the right of these 30 blocks. The top has 30 orange and 26 brown squares]
$1,000/yr for 30 years (inflation-adjusted) at a 4% real return (long-term stock + dividend average) $56,080
[The bottom block has 30 squares, only 12 orange the rest is drawn in the light color also used for the middle blocks for the 30 years blocks]
$30,000 saved in a mattress for 30 years.
[A bracket indicate the bottom orange squares]
Real value $12,360
[Below is the following note in light gray text]
Note: the reason the investment appears to lose ground against inflation is that only a portion of the $30,000 is earning interest in a given year, but the entire amount is effectively suffering from deflation. If the money were all invested from the start, it would earn a constant 5%-3%=2% return and beat inflation handily.

Total cost to buy and own selected vehicles for five years

[These items are singled out as they are framed by a light orange square with rounded corners]
Total cost to buy and own selected vehicles for five years
(Lighter blocks shown fuel cost, assuming 15,000 miles/year)
Honda Insight $27,874
Jeep Patriot $35,425
BMW Z4 $61,312
Toyota Camry $34,697
Honda CR-V $35,183
Hyundai Sonata $34,644
Nissan Cube $29,383
Toyota Prius $38,771
Honda Fit $28,745
Ford Explorer $43,524
smart for two $29,629
Chevy Volt $42,180
[For the Chevy squares the last ones to the right are light green and they are marked with a bracket labeled:]
Tax credit
Ford F-150 $48,734
Porsche 911 $91,590
[The next section inside the orange frame is singled out in another black frame:]
If gas were $10/gallon:
Toyota Prius $48,990
Honda Fit $45,233
Ford Explorer $69,076
smart for two $45,058
Chevy Volt $50,612
[For the Chevy squares the last ones to the right are light green and they are marked with a bracket labeled:]
Tax credit
Ford F-150 $77,111

Typical annual household income

[These items are singled out as they are in a frame]
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

Median US household income

Median US household income $51,270
Cost per household served of US Rural Utilities Service program to expand broadband access $359,790

If I Had $1000000

[These first six items are singled out as they are framed by a light orange square with rounded corners]
Cost of the items the singer in “If I Had $1000000” would buy you in order to win your love $263,330
Furniture $21,160
Plymouth Reliant $3,000
Tree fort $2,120
Joseph Merrick’s remains N/A
(Held in Royal London Hospital collection and not available for purchase)
House $224,820
[The rest of the items are located in a small square with green inside. This square is zoomed up 1000 times and the items in this large white frame (that breaks the border of the original frame) are given with the green one dollar squares from the dollar section:]
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

Total lifetime income

Total lifetime income from age 25-65 at $50,000/year after 25% taxes (including Social Security) $1,500,000

Millions

Complete on 2014-06-17

[This section is to the right of the Thousands section below the Billions section. This section focuses on $1,000,000 to $1,000,000,000, with a large section on campaign contributions of American political presidential campaigns, values of expensive works of art and J. K. Rowling.]
Millions
[The Thousands section is zoomed down so the area is only 1/1000 of the size and is shown below the Millions title to the far left of the section - with lines indicating this zoom]
[The rest of this panel shows how much the individual items values compare to a million dollars. Next to each price in dollar will be drawn a number of gray squares equal to the number of million dollars in the amount - so for a 3,000,000 dollar item, like a 30-second Super Bowl ad slot there will be three squares. And next to a lady with a fortune of $1,000,000,000 (like J.K. Rowling) there will be 1000 squares.]

One million dollars

[Inside a frame there are a block of 1000 thousand orange squares set to equal (=) one gray square to indicate the size of a gray square]
=
One million dollars $1,000,000

Amount Dr. Evil thought he was demanding from the 1997 world

Amount Dr. Evil thought he was demanding from the 1997 world $6,630,000
Amount he was actually demanding $1,380,000
Most expensive production car (Bugatti Veyron) $2,400,000
Amount needed to live comfortably off investments $4,090,000
Most expensive car ever sold (1957 Ferrari 250) $16,390,000
Minecraft sales by October 2011 $56,780,000
Large city office building $100 million
Annual cost to run Wikipedia $18,500,000
30-second Super Bowl ad slot $3,000,000
EPA value of a human life $8,120,000
Six Million Dollar Man (2011 dollars) $29,870,000

Prince William and Kate Middleton’s wedding

[These items are singled out as they are in a frame. This is also part of a section in the thousands panel]
Prince William and Kate Middleton’s wedding
Flowers $800,000
Security $20,00,000
Total cost $800,000,000

$50,000 salary for 40 years after 25% taxes

[This first item was also given as the last item in the Thousands panel]
$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

Qianlong Chinese vase sold in 2010

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 $9,330,000
(Alle destroyed uncirculated save a few stolen from the US Mint)
Treskilling Yellow postage stamp $2,780,000
(At $50 billion/lb possibly the world’s most expensive thing by weight)
1297 Magna Carta original coypy signed by Edvard I $21,890,000
Painting from The Card Players series (rumor) $250,000,000
[Below the next text in brackets are a square bracket encompassing the two items below ]
(Both bought by David Geffen)
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 million
Mona Lisa assessed value $730,660,000

Prizes

[These items are singled out as they are in a frame.]
Prizes
[The first text after each item is written in small gray font, but before the prize, which is the normal bold font.]
$64,000 in 1955
when “The $64,000 Question” first aired
$528,310
£1,000,000 in 1998
when the UK “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” aired
$2,270,000
$1,000,000 in 1999
when the US “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” aired
$1,330,000
$1,000,000 in 1955
when the TV show “The Millionaire” aired
$8,250,000
$1,000,000 in 1931
when the film “The Millionaire” opened
$14,530,000

Bitcoins

[The first text is written next to the normal gray squares in the bottom left corner of all the blocks. The rest of the blocks are light gray and the second line of text is written directly beneath all the squares]
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

[These items are singled out as they are framed by a light gray square with rounded corners]
Elections
[In this section the squares that directly belongs to the democrats are blue and those that belong to the republicans are red. If there are other groups they are light gray. If the subject of the squares is not directly related to one or the other group the squares are the normal gray color. These squares never mix with the other three colors in this Elections section.]
2012 presidential fundraising $188,260,000
as of 09/2011
[The squares are divided in to one blue block, six red and one light gray. The colored blocks are marked by the name they belong to. The blue is the last to be mentioned below the squares]
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
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.
[The squares are divided in to three blue blocks, four red and one light gray all intermixed. The colored blocks are marked by the name they belong to. The text below – in the order it appears in normal reading order marks the gray block, then a red, blue, red, red, blue, red and blue:]
Other
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
2004 presidential campaign fundraising $1,006,810,000
[The squares are divided in to one red block, four blue and one light gray. The colored blocks are marked by the name they belong to. The text below – in the order it appears in normal reading order marks the four blue, then the gray and finally the red:]
Howard Dean $61,620,000
Wesley Clark $34,610,000
John Edwards $39,310,000
John Kerry $352,090,000
Other
George W. Bush $429,660,000
2000 presidential campaign fundraising $805,120,000
[The squares are divided in to four red blocks, two blue and one light gray. The colored blocks are marked by the name they belong to. The text below – in the order it appears in normal reading order marks the gray block, then red, red, blue, red, blue and red:]
Other
Pat Buchanan $37,440,000
John McCain $75,180,000
Bill Bradley $65,680,000
Steve Forbes $11,440,000
Al Gore $170,520,000
George W. Bush $247,100,000
2010 midterm elections fundraising
[The squares are divided in to on blue and one red block]
Democrats $815,000,000
Republicans $587,000,000
[The next section inside the gray frame is singled out in another black frame:]
2011-2012 Campaign donations by industry
[Below are six blocks. Each block is divided into blue and a red squares, and three of the blocks (the first two and the last) also has some light gray squares ordered in a line above the colored squares. Above the first group of blocks are written what each color means – gray, blue and red:]
(Other)
(To Democrats)
(To Republicans)
[Below each group is written the following:]
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
[For the last two groups of blocks the squares all have the normal gray color]
[The next section inside the gray frame is singled out in another black frame:]
Inaugurations
[Below are two groups of blocks. Each block is divided into two sections. These are designated on each side and below are the title of the blocks. The title first:]
Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration $174,100,000
Festivities (private donors) $46,400,000
Federal + state + local government (mainly security) $127,700,000
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
[Below are six groups of gray blocks in two columns. The text are written down through each column:]
1996 $559,810,000
1992 $521,480,000
1988 $606,300,000
1984 $429,860,000
1980 $434,220,000
1976 $664,160,000

A billionaire

A billionaire $1,000,000,000
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

Value of a solid gold toilet

Value of a solid gold toilet (626 lbs) by year
[Below is a bar chart with squares representing the value for each year. Below the chart is written the years:]
1970 1980 1990 2000 2010
Value of a carry-on suitcase full of $100 bills (30,00 ct, 60lbs)
[Below is a bar chart with squares representing the value for each year. Below the chart is written the years:]
1970 1980 1990 2000 2010
[This next block has the bottom half in light gray squares, the rest is normal gray. Below is the title text, and left is the text representing the light gray squares. Title first:]
$1 per US resident $312,620,000
$1 per US household $117,290,000
Dubai Fountain $224,540,000
One F-22 raptor $154,500,000
One velociraptor $1,9300,000
(25% of Jurassic Park production budget amortized over three velociraptors)
[This next block has the left part in light gray squares, the rest is normal gray. Below is the title text, and below to the left is the text representing the light gray squares. Title first:]
$10 from every US resident $3,326,000,000
$10 from every US household $1,179,180,000

Professional rapper net worth

[These items are singled out as they are framed by a light gray square with rounded corners]
Professional rapper net worth
50 Cent $100,000,000
[Next to 50 Cent is a black frame, that give the values with the green dollar squares:]
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

J. K. Rowling $1,000,000,000
[Next to Rowling is a black frame, that uses the orange Thousands squares. The frame is zoomed down so the area is only 1/1000 of the size and is shown below and just to the right of Rowlings squares:]
J. K. Rowling has she become a rapper* $82,000
  • Professional assessment by rapper/geek culture expert MC Frontalot

Annual hurricane forecast R&D funding

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

Loss in NewsCorp value over hacking scandal

Loss in NewsCorp value over hacking scandal $750,000,000

Marginal cost to launch one shuttle

Marginal cost to launch one shuttle $450,000,000
Total shuttle program per launch $450,000,000
Burj Khalifa $1,5210,000,000
New Yankee Stadium $1,545,000,000
One B-2 bomber $2,500,000,000

Billions

It may take long time to complete the transcript – as this section is by far the largest and most complicated!

[This section is to the right of the Dollars section and above both the Millions and Trillions section – This section is by far the largest. This section gets into larger scale finances, profits of various sectors, costs of natural disasters, and net worth of the richest people on the planet including Donald Trump.]
Billions
[The Millions section is zoomed down so the area is only 1/1000 of the size and is shown at in the left part and at the bottom of the Billions section with lines indicating this zoom]
[The rest of this panel shows how much the individual items values compare to a billion dollars. Next to each price in dollar will be drawn a number yellow squares equal to the number of billion dollars in the amount - so next to J. K. Rowling (1 billion dollars) there will be 1 square and next to the value of Facebook (70 billion dollars) there are 70 squares etc.]
[In this section the order of the items will be given in the three columns that are clearly defined (i.e. not from top to bottom as a first rule.)]

Notes on terminology

[These items are singled out as they are in a frame right next to the Billions text.]
Notes on terminology:
In this chart, the word “typical” indicates a median value, while “average” indicates a mean.
When a source quotes a range of common values, their geometric mean is used.

Trillions

Complete on 2014-06-14

[This section is below the Billions section to the right of the Millions section – Global financial status is described here. It discusses derivatives, liquid assets, public debt by nation and GDP by continent, culminating with the total economic production of the human race to date.]
Trillions
[The Billions section is zoomed down so the area is only 1/1000 of the size and is shown at the top of the Trillions section with lines indicating this zoom]
[The rest of this panel shows how much the individual items values compare to a trillion dollars. Next to each price in dollar will be drawn a number cyan squares equal to the number of trillion dollars in the amount - so next to the value of all gold ever mines (9 trillion dollars) there will be 9 squares etc.]
[In this section the order of the items will be given in the three columns that are clearly defined (i.e. not from top to bottom as a first rule.)]

Size of derivatives market by year

[The first five items are singled out as they are framed by a light cyan square with rounded corners]
Size of derivatives market by year
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
[The next section inside the cyan frame is singled out in another black frame:]
Size of credit default swap market by year (included in the derivatives)
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

[These items are singled out as they are in a frame. The title stands at the bottom to the right]
US household net worth $58,740,000,000,000
[The first thrid part of the cyan squares are lighter and are labeled with a square bracket, similar there is two other bracket, one that covers all 58,5 squares, except for the last 1.5 which is marked by the other of these two brackets. In this order they read:]
Richest 1% $19,620,000,000,000
Richer half% $57,270,000,000,000
Poorer half% $1,470,000,000,000

Total debt in the US

[These items are singled out as they are in a frame. The title stands at the bottom]
Total debt in the US $36,560,000,000,000
[The squares are divided in to four – three of which are labeled with a square bracket, and for the last the text is written next to it]
Household $13,560,000,000,000
Federal government $9,510,000,000,000
State and local government $2,500,000,000,000
Business $10,980,000,000,000

World GDP

[These items are singled out as they are in a frame.]
World GDP $62,900,000,000,000
[The squares for each continent are shaped as best as possible (if there are enough squares) as the continent they represents]
[For North America the squares not representing the US are in a lighter color, one below (Mexico) and two above (Canada). Next to the squares representing the US is written the US GDP]
North America $17,850,000,000,000
United States $14,530,000,000,000
[The squares representing the EU are in the normal cyan color – the value stands above the squares. Below is the total for all of Europe – these extra squares are in the lighter color.]
EU $16,240,000,000,000
Europe (incl. Russia and Turkey) $20,130,000,000,000
Asia $17,530,000,000,000
South America $3,070,000,000,000
Africa $1,610,000,000,000
Oceania $1,310,000,000,000

One trillion dollars

[Inside a frame there are a block of 1000 thousand yellow squares set to equal (=) one cyan square to indicate the size of a cyan square]
=
One trillion dollars $1,000,000,000,000

World total proven…

[This section included more than the total proven blocks. But for those three blocks there are a part of the blocks drawn in a lighter color, which are marked with a square bracket and labeled.]
World total proven oil reserves (November 2011 prices) $131,960,000,000,000
US reserves $20,580,000,000,000
World total proven coal reserves (2011 central Appalachian prices) $72,850,000,000,000
US reserves $20,020,000,000,000
World total proven natural gas reserves (2011 NYMEX prices) $21,470,000,000,000
US reserves $930,470,000,000
World total liquid assets $77,000,000,000,000
[The next block is split in four groups. The text has (by a mistake) been shifted up so some of the title text is inside the blocks. Also the two brackets that mark the main part and the three smaller parts have been shifted, so the main parts bracket is far away from the blocks, and the bracket that should indicate the three small parts only seems to indicate the two upper parts!]
All US real estate $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 mines (late 2011 prices) $9,120,000,000,000

GDP chart

[This section is a timeline bar chart of the world’s total GDP as function of year. The years are stated below the bottom of the chart:]
1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010
[Above the time lines are three types of blocks stacked to show the total GDP each year. At the bottom of the block bars are gray blue blocks, above them the normal cyan colored blocks and above them again lighter colored blocks. After the last bar at 2010 are three square brackets indicating what the three colors represent (there are no blocks until 1940, then only dark block until about 1950 where the cyan colored block fade in, and first in 1982-1983 do the lighter blocks fade in]
US federal government
GDP (total economic productivity) of the US (minus government)
GDP (total economic activity) of the world (minus US)
[Above the bar chart two events are marked above the given year]
1991 recession
2008 global financial crisis

Total public debt

[This section is one long column]
Total public debt
(Note: US figures are from 2011, while the other use 2010 debt in 2011 dollars, which is likely an underestimate.)
ES (total) $13,340,000,000,000
[For US the debt is split in two, the normal cyan color, and then a subsection in lighter colored blocks]
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 $834,000,000,000
Mexico $584,860,000,000
Greece $460,180,000,000

Total economic production

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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