Lost in Spades

For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.

The cost of the bank bailout in the US alone is estimated at $4.6 trillion — that’s $4,600,000,000,000 in real numbers, which is more than was spent on the Marshall Plan, the Louisiana Purchase, the wars in Korea, Vietnam and Iraq, the New Deal and the whole US space program put together, even if all those expenditures were translated into today’s money.     The No-Nonsense Guide to World History, New Edition. Chris Brazier. New Internationalist, 2011.