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Linda Bilmes: "The $10 Trillion Hangover: Paying the Price for Eight Years of Bush"

Linda Bilmes: "The $10 Trillion Hangover: Paying the Price for Eight Years of Bush"

In a new article in Harper’s Magazine, Linda Bilmes and Joseph Stiglitz estimate that the cost of undoing the Bush administration’s economic choices, from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to the collapse of the financial system, soaring debt, and new commitments to interest payments and Medicare, all add up to over $10 trillion. [includes rush transcript]

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