I can’t believe it’s been five years already. We still miss you Erik.

Erik James Davis

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