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{ 2008 09 23 }

How expensive is the bailout?

To get a sense of just how big the bailout is, consider this:

1 million seconds is 11 days
 1 billion seconds is 32 years
 1 trillion seconds is 3 centuries.

So, if the bailout cost the US economy 1trillion, paying it back at a dollar a second could take centuries. Nice comparison.

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Posted by Stephen Kinsella on Tuesday, September 23, 2008, at 5:33 am. Filed under Weblogs. Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed. Comments are closed, but you can trackback from your blog.