{"id":737790,"date":"2026-06-15T09:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T09:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/737790\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T09:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T09:24:12","slug":"can-you-spend-1-trillion-we-hand-you-musks-fortune-to-find-out-business-and-economy-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/737790\/","title":{"rendered":"Can you spend $1 trillion? We hand you Musk\u2019s fortune to find out | Business and Economy News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__subhead\">Elon Musk just became the world\u2019s first trillionaire. We break down what $1 trillion can buy across 35 categories.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"avatar\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-hidden=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/author\/mohammed_haddad_201131616430386826\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/profile_mohammed-haddad-1780395767.jpg\"   aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Published On 15 Jun 202615 Jun 2026<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Elon Musk became the world\u2019s first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/economy\/2026\/6\/12\/spacex-ipo-debuts-in-us-markets-musk-becomes-worlds-first-trillionaire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">trillionaire<\/a> after his company SpaceX launched its initial public offering.<\/p>\n<p>A trillion is a 1 with 12 zeros, or 1,000 billions. To try to make sense of that, even if you burned through $1m every day, it would take 2,700 years to spend $1 trillion. With $1 trillion, you could fund global famine relief 166 times, provide clean water to everyone on Earth for 20 years, rebuild Gaza 14 times or give $125 to every person in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Because there\u2019s nothing like spending money, even imaginary money, to understand its scale, how would you spend $1 trillion? Use the + buttons to add items to your cart and see your allocation across 35 categories.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>*All values are estimates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elon Musk just became the world\u2019s first trillionaire. We break down what $1 trillion can buy across 35&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":737791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,63,99,6073,1379,110190,110191,44,1055,6075],"class_list":["post-737790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-business-and-economy","tag-features","tag-infographic","tag-interactive","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-us-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/737791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}