Author: JH

I took this image earlier this week because I found that the brick wall and the huge flag create an interesting effect as to scale. The scene (in Midtown, near 42nd Street) also reminded me of the Moscow flair of Berlin’s Karl Marx Allee. Given the current outrage of many Americans, that the credit crisis is now supposed to be solved through state ownership of struggling corporations that are “too big to [let them] fail,” I like the irony here.

So, how big then is a trillion? In my currency, if you take the average height of a traffic cone (let’s just assume a standard model, close to 20 inches) and multiply it by one trillion, this will get you to the moon and back how many times? Once? Twice? 10 times? I have bad news: 651 times.

For reasons unknown to me, the Treasury Department still measures in Dollar. With a national debt of around 10 trillion (as of today), that may become increasingly difficult. Mind you: There is no inflation when it comes to traffic cones…

If you haven’t already, watch this – it will be worth it: “One Planet One Chance,” by Magnum In Motion.