Consider that all 32 NFL teams combined are valued at $80.7 billion, you could buy the league easily. That would still leave you room to buy up the other major sports leagues — the MLB ($46.2 billion), the NBA ($40.8 billion), and the NHL ($18.4 billion). You'd still have a ton left for a year's worth of Super Bowl halftime performers.
When you consider that Apple has sold only 11.2 million so far, that's a good amount.
Seeing as there were only 14,528 students enrolled this fall at Carnegie Mellon, this is a bit of a reach. But still ... that's a lot of education. Of course, that $1 trillion would fall short of paying off the collective student debt, which is at around $1.3 trillion currently.
According to the latest figures, there's 323.1 million people in the U.S. That's enough to hand each one of them a nice fat check. Not too shabby.
You could book The Rolling Stones, Rihanna, Madonna, Elton John and Taylor Swift to perform a joint concert together — that would cost you about $25.5 million. With $1 trillion, you could book them every day of the year for 107 years. (Sadly, we're guessing only the Stones would be left after that much time.)
The rich just get richer ...
The wealthiest people on earth became $1 trillion richer in 2017, more than four times last year's gain, as stock markets shrugged off economic, social and political divisions to reach record highs, Bloomberg reports.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos padded his nest the most in 2017, a $34.2 billion increase that kicked Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates from the top spot in October. Gates, 62, had held the spot since May 2013. But he's been donating much of his fortune to charity, including a $4.6 billion pledge he made to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in August.
Bezos, whose net worth topped $100 billion at the end of November, currently has a net worth of $99.6 billion compared with $91.3 billion for Gates.
By the end of trading Tuesday, Dec. 26, the 500 billionaires controlled $5.3 trillion, up from $4.4 trillion on Dec. 27, 2016.
We got to thinking: What could the extra $1 trillion get us? (We like to dream while we work.)