{"id":2456,"date":"2008-03-10T11:56:57","date_gmt":"2008-03-10T17:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/authors-us-economy-could-fall-casualty-to-wars-cnncom\/"},"modified":"2008-03-10T11:58:24","modified_gmt":"2008-03-10T17:58:24","slug":"authors-us-economy-could-fall-casualty-to-wars-cnncom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/authors-us-economy-could-fall-casualty-to-wars-cnncom\/","title":{"rendered":"Authors: U.S. economy could fall casualty to wars – CNN.com"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In 2008, its sixth year, the war will cost approximately $12 billion a month, triple the “burn” rate of its earliest years, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz and co-author Linda J. Bilmes report in a new book. <\/p>\n

Beyond 2008, working with “best-case” and “realistic-moderate” scenarios, they project the Iraq and Afghan wars, including long-term U.S. military occupations of those countries, will cost the U.S. budget between $1.7 trillion and $2.7 trillion — or more — by 2017. <\/p>\n

Interest on money borrowed to pay those costs could alone add $816 billion to that bottom line, they say.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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