This is just wild. The cost of the 2008 US Government Bailout, as of November, has been $4.6165 trillion. To put things into perspective, that’s more than all of the following… combined:

• Marshall Plan: $12.7 billion, Inflation Adjusted: $115.3 billion
• Louisiana Purchase: $15 million, Inflation Adjusted: $217 billion
• Race to the Moon: $36.4 billion, Inflation Adjusted: $237 billion
• S&L Crisis: $153 billion, Inflation Adjusted: $256 billion
• Korean War: $54 billion, Inflation Adjusted: $454 billion
• The New Deal: $32 billion (Est), Inflation Adjusted: $500 billion (Est)
• Invasion of Iraq: $551 billion, Inflation Adjusted: $597 billion
• Vietnam War: $111 billion, Inflation Adjusted: $698 billion
• NASA: $416.7 billion, Inflation Adjusted: $851.2 billion

Total (adjusted for inflation): $3.92 trillion