Waiting for the $5 million ball to drop
The New Year’s ball that dropped in Times Square last year cost about $5 million. Five million dollars:
- Throw off $50,000 per year, even at 1% interest
- Stretch over 484 miles in $1 bills laid end-to-end
- Is accrued on the US National Debt every two and a half minutes
- Would weigh over 17 tons in Lincoln cents
- Would put you in the top 0.1% of salary earners
- Was only five days worth of spending for Montgomery Brewster
Happy New Year!








2 Responses to “Waiting for the $5 million ball to drop”
By pennystocks on Jan 4, 2010 | Reply
can’t believe that much was acrued to our national debt in 2.5 minutes. OUCH!
By DeborAnn on Aug 5, 2010 | Reply
Why aren’t we smart enough to do something about this…and the other things that absolutely gag a buzzard?!?