„Bailout-Committments“ der US-Regierung: 7,8 Billonen US$

Bisherige "Bailout-Committments" der US-Regierung im Herbst 2008

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Quelle:

New York Times, 26.11.2008

Eine weitere exakte Aufstellung findet sich bei Bloomberg.

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Barry Ritholtz (The Big Picture), Autor von Bailout Nation: How Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy, geht derzeit von ca. 4,6 Billionen US$ aus und vergleicht diese Summe mit früheren großen Ausgaben der Regierung wie den Marshall-Plan oder den Vietnam-Krieg (inflationsbereinigt).

People have a hard time conceptualizing very large numbers, so let’s give this some context. The current Credit Crisis bailout is now the largest outlay In American history. Jim Bianco of Bianco Research crunched the inflation adjusted numbers.

The bailout has cost more than all of these big budget government expenditures – combined:

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

TOTAL: $3.92 trillion

data courtesy of Bianco Research>

That is $686 billion less than the cost of the credit crisis thus far.

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

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).

Go figure: WWII was a relative bargain.

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Quelle: Voltagecreative

3. Dez. 2008: More Bailout Comparisons (The Big Picture)

9. Dez. 2008: Bailout Watch – An interactive cheat sheet on the trillions of dollars in federal rescue packages (The Big Money)

Veröffentlicht von Markus Wichmann am 28. November 2008

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