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An almost daily report of interesting, unusual and noteworthy books that passed under my scanner.

An almost daily report of interesting, unusual and noteworthy books that passed under my scanner. An almost daily report of interesting, unusual and noteworthy books that passed under my scanner. An almost daily report of interesting, unusual and noteworthy books that passed under my scanner. An almost daily report of interesting, unusual and noteworthy books that passed under my scanner. An almost daily report of interesting, unusual and noteworthy books that passed under my scanner.

Posts Tagged «Linda J Blimes»

Jun 17 2008

The $3,000,000,000,000.00 War

Posted by: Alan in Book Reviews, Books, Non-Fiction

$3,000,000,000,000.00. Or, if you prefer, three trillion dollars. Any way you cut it, that’s A LOT of money. And according to Joseph E Stiglitz and Linda J Blimes, that’s how much the United States’ war in Iraq has cost, estimating conservatively. Stiglitz, a Nobel prize winning economist takes a fascinating look at the cost of the Iraq war. And the numbers are not pretty.