Trillion

The current debt limit stands at $15.2 trillion.

A light-year is the distance light travels in one year. It's 9.5 trillion (9,500,000,000,000) kilometers.

Global capital is too often unaccountable—nearly $8 trillion stashed away in tax havens, a shadow banking system that grows beyond the reach of effective oversight.

The total net worth of the world's richest people rose by 18% in 2016 to $7.67 trillion.

Comet Siding Spring is one of the long-period comets, those that require more than 200 years to orbit the Sun. These comets come from the Oort Cloud, a sphere of about a trillion ancient, icy objects located hundreds to thousands of times farther than the planets' orbits.

If the 5 trillion spiders in the Netherlands took to eating humans rather than insects, they’d consume all Dutch people in just three days.

Apple made history Thursday when it became the first publicly listed U.S. company to be valued at $1 trillion.

Student loan debt rose from $600 billion a decade ago to more than $1.4 trillion by the end of 2018.

The U.S. central banking system announced moves Thursday to stabilize the global financial system by putting $1.5 trillion into short-term lending markets, and the purchase of $60 billion in Treasury bonds to fuel the bond market.

Of the $1.5 trillion in student debt, one-third is owned by only 6% of all student loan borrowers, according to the Brookings Institution.