When expanded, a quadrillion dollar looks like $1,000,000,000,000,000. While that's a lot of zeroes, one can only imagine how that much money would look like in real life. However, this question ...

– But that’s not all — a man with $92 quadrillion could buy and sell every bank in the world, and the treasury of every country. He could buy all the gold, all the silver and all the oil.

And if the national debt rises for 60 years at the rate it has risen during the previous 30, it will then exceed $1.5 quadrillion. (A quadrillion is a thousand trillions).