Stacey Vanek-Smith

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2,095 appearances 7 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 19 Sep

Stacey Vanek-Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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We cannot conceive of it.

So I had this idea.

Like, none of us knows how big a trillion is.

It's too big.

But we all

how big a dollar bill is, right?

It's like 6.14 inches or something like that.

Now, if you had a dollar – if you had – now, our debt is $40 trillion.

That is how much our debt is.

It's $40 trillion.

If you had $40 trillion actual dollar bills –

and you like put them end to end, like you made a ribbon of dollar bills, how far do you think that ribbon would reach?

Like if you like, I guess started on the surface of the earth, like do you think you could get to the moon with $40 trillion bills?

Long end to long end, yeah.

Don't do math.

Yeah.

times.

Okay.

I would like to reveal my chart.

This is my chart to give us an idea of how big the debt is and to boldly

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