Einige hilfreiche Zahlen, damit man beurteilen kann, mit welch einer Art von Ereignis wir es hier zu tun haben.<\/p>\n
Der „Bailout“ (Wort des Jahres) ist teurer als der Zweite Weltkrieg.<\/p>\n
Er kostet mehr als der Marshall Plan, der Vietnamkrieg, das Mondprogramm, der Koreakrieg, der Irakkrieg, die NASA und der New Deal – zusammen!<\/p>\n
If we add in the Citi bailout, the total cost now exceeds $4.6165 trillion dollars. People have a hard time conceptualizing very large numbers, so let\u2019s give this some context. The current Credit Crisis bailout is now the largest outlay In American history.<\/em><\/p>\n Jim Bianco of Bianco Research crunched the inflation adjusted numbers. The bailout has cost more than all of these big budget government expenditures \u2013 combined:<\/em><\/p>\n \u2022 Marshall Plan: Cost: $12.7 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $115.3 billion TOTAL: $3.92 trillion<\/p>\n ____________________________________<\/p>\n That is $686 billion less than the cost of the credit crisis thus far.<\/p>\n The only single American event in history that even comes close to matching the cost of the credit crisis is World War II: Original Cost: $288 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $3.6 trillion<\/p>\n The $4.6165 trillion dollars committed so far is about a trillion dollars ($979 billion dollars) greater than the entire cost of World War II borne by the United States: $3.6 trillion, adjusted for inflation (original cost was $288 billion).<\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Louisiana Purchase: Cost: $15 million, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $217 billion
\n\u2022 Race to the Moon: Cost: $36.4 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $237 billion
\n\u2022 S&L Crisis: Cost: $153 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $256 billion
\n\u2022 Korean War: Cost: $54 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $454 billion
\n\u2022 The New Deal: Cost: $32 billion (Est), Inflation Adjusted Cost: $500 billion (Est)
\n\u2022 Invasion of Iraq: Cost: $551b, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $597 billion
\n\u2022 Vietnam War: Cost: $111 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $698 billion
\n\u2022 NASA: Cost: $416.7 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $851.2 billion<\/p>\n