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pasyesterday at 10:09 PM1 replyview on HN

how come the UK bailout was an expense? the US one paid for itself.


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rsynnottyesterday at 10:18 PM

The US bailout paid for itself... If you consider the equivalent of 0.6% growth, not adjusted for inflation, paying for itself. In practice the US's cost of borrowing the money was substantially more than that.