"The latest war request would push the total cost of military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and other efforts since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to $277 billion, according to the CBO. That figure well exceeds the inflation-adjusted $200 billion cost of World War I and is approaching the $350 billion cost of the Korean War, according to Commerce Department figures. "With the current and projected future U.S. central government deficits, supplying bombs to the military is tightly linked to supplying bonds to the treasury market. Lots of them.
Fair and balanced comments about the world from the everyday perspective of a welfare-state citizen.
Bomb Supply => Bond Supply
The costs for the war in Iraq are increasing, reports the Washington Post:
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Popular Posts
-
Liquidity crunch in global financial market, Long-term security food supply, disruptive supply chain and energy security are main global ri...
-
I came to Texas Christian University from a relatively small town between San Antonio and Austin called Seguin, Texas. The majority of Segui...
-
Good news for me: Even though the ecosystem ranking for this blog has fallen from "Flippery Fish" to god knows what slimy little ...
-
The Swedish Newspaper Dagens Industri this morning published an article that tried to explain the much debated weakness of the Swedish Krona...
-
Shortly after an earthquake occurs in the U.S. its Geological Survey reports it a list of "Recent Earthquake Activity" on its ho...
-
On blog@stefangeens.com, Stefan gives "A guided tour of English-language Swedish blogs": Fortunately, there are many English-l...
-
A friend of mine recommended the site mathschallenge.net for those interested in mathematical puzzles and challenges, including programming...
-
Per square meter prices for condos in the central Stockholm region has decreased recently, according to statistics from brokers, diagram abo...
-
I don't know if it is because of the headline of the latest post, or if it is the lack of policing (my bad), but comment spam relating t...
-
Amid faltering job-growth pressures have risen on the Riksbank to cut rates. There is hence a fierce debate focused on these two issues goin...
No comments:
Post a Comment