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Stacked together, bills top 30-story office buildings

| October 4, 2008 9:00 PM

Perspective: A stack of crisp new $100 bills, about 3 feet high, is $1 million. $1 billion is 10 stacks of crisp new $100 bills, each as high as a 30-story office building. Seven thousand stacks of crisp new $100 bills, each as high as a 30-story office building, is the cost of the Wall Street bailout and they say the cost could rise to $1 trillion, which is more than 100 stacks of crisp new $100 bills, each as high as Mt. Everest!

LOU GOODNESS

Sagle