Are You Ready for This? The War's Stunning Price Tag

War's Stunning Price Tag
by Linda Bilmes and Joseph Stiglitz

Last week, at the annual meeting of the American Economic Assn., we presented a new estimate for the likely cost of the war in Iraq. We suggested that the final bill will be much higher than previously reckoned — between $1 trillion and $2 trillion, depending primarily on how much longer our troops stay. Jump to story.

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