Putting the U.S. Deficit Ceiling In Perspective

The Times helps by providing us with this sense of perspective on news that the U.S.’s credit limit has been increased to $9trillion:

$9 TRILLION

# Is roughly four times Britain’s GDP

# Equates to $1,500 for every man, woman and child in the world

# Would buy all the tea in China. In fact it would buy all the tea in the world for the next 2,000 years.

# Is enough to solve the Palestinian crisis by rehousing every Israeli and Palestinian family in a £1.5m detached house in Henley-on-Thames

# Would build 28 Eiffel Towers ” constructed out of gold.

Hmmm… a golden Eiffel tower. Maybe Steve Wynn should use that idea to gussy up Las Vegas further.