If you controlled 10 Trillion dollars

[KG Living Legend]

 Your Job Title is Captain America. The savior for Mankind.
 
 And your job is to spend the money every ten years, you can't keep any yourself, they pay you very well to be Captain America.

[pokeKingCurtis]

If I had 10 trillion dollars, it would mean there was rampant inflation and probably economic apocalypse.

[KG Living Legend]

 Missing the point here. No collapse your managing this money you can do whatever you want with it. What would that be.

[freshinthehouse]

I think the point he is making is that there are no easy answers.  The value of money isn't fixed.  If you had 10 trillion dollars it would've came from somewhere.  If it came out of nowhere the value of the dollar would plummit.  10 trillion is a big chunk of the world's entire cash value. 

[BballTim]

I'd buy my girlfriend some flowers. Maybe.

  Yeah, I could buy my wife some flowers from Tibet or somewhere and have them delivered. First things first, though, hire some bodyguards to help keep the money-grubbing politicians away from me.

[Mr Green]

I would host an auction with the winner flipping a coin.

HEADS ... everything in Boston gets painted green. Buildings, windows, streets, sidewalks, light posts, cars, and such and such. BEST ST PATRICK'S DAY EVER!!

TAILS ... Los Angeles gets sent to the bottom of the Pacific. BEST DAY EVER!!

All unspent money AND all the auction proceeds are then given to orphans and homeless children.

[PAOBoston]

What would I do with 10 trillion dollars? Easy. 2 chicks at the same time.

[cletus1985]

What would I do with 10 trillion dollars? Easy. 2 chicks at the same time.

TP for the Office Space reference!

[Cman]

(1) Spend half to buy up and preserve "natural space" on this planet.

(2) Invest the other half in space exploration.

I think (1) would pretty much cement the legacy of my offspring for the next 500 years or so, and anything cool that came out of (2) would help humans think "bigger" and hopefully distract people from the petty differences that make the world so difficult sometimes.

That's just my 2 cents. I mean my 10 Trillion Dollars.
 

[mgent]

It's impossible to list the things you could do, instead I'd focus on making sure I did good things every time those situations presented themselves.

I'd probably try to date my favorite celebrities and give 1/10th to the church.  Outside of that, everything else is up for grabs.

One other thing is certain though, I'd put full effort into keeping my philanthropy secret.  Giving away 10 trillion doesn't mean anything if you talk about it in a thread.  You gotta do it just for the sake of being good.  If you're telling people (or letting them find out through omission) then you're not reaping any good, instead you're reaping thanks/praise.

Edit:  If you really wanted to do the most good, you'd probably yield interest on it and donate that, saving the 10 Trillion for when you die.

[D.o.s.]

Off the top:

Invest in sustainable food sourcing and responsible (i.e. planet friendly) energy, as well as market independence, for as many countries as possible--Azerbaijan and Cambodia shouldn't have a massive part of their economic infrastructure be dependent on the rest of the world's lust for blue jeans, for example.

Institute a world-wide system and standard for single-payer health care and disease research/vaccine development and dispersal.

Enable each country to establish a citizen's income.

[KG Living Legend]

 Interesting D O S, could you eloborate on this point here,   

  "Enable each country to establish a citizen's income"

[JChu1]

Well, my economics student brain is really churning at this problem haha.

But if I had a magic bunch of 10 Trillion dollars, I'd probably want to work a huge chunk of it into global investment in infrastructure processes (roads, bridges, etc) Also I'd work to sponsor things like the Google Internet balloon to connect the world in WiFi cause who doesn't want that? Then, I'd "spend" it all because there would be no way to invest even a trillion dollars into a central bank without hamstringing their fiscal policy so I'd buy a lot of goods in all of the developing countries in order to jump start their economies, mostly the aforementioned infrastructure improvements.

Other than that, buy a small house in Italy and just get League Pass and just chill...

[KG Living Legend]

 And one last thing. I never said the money is yours. You cannot put a single dime in your pocket. your a money manager of world finances.

[KG Living Legend]

 Your first Tommy point to you J Chu that was great. I like how your not greedy too.