Linda Blimes and Joseph Stiglitz - The Iraq War in dollars and cents

Linda Blimes and Joseph Stiglitz - The Iraq War in dollars and cents
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Early on, the Bush administration estimated the Iraq war would only cost about $50 billion at most. But now — five years later — Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz and Harvard professor Linda Bilmes say their research finds that the real cost of the war — past, present and future costs — will easily reach $3 trillion.

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