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modo_mario • yesterday at 2:20 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

>and turned a profit for the US government

Accounting for inflation and opportunity costs?


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jdlshore • yesterday at 5:12 PM

I dunno, man, you’ll have to figure that out for yourself. Wikipedia says “ In total, U.S. government economic bailouts related to the 2008 financial crisis had federal outflows (expenditures, loans, and investments) of $633.6 billion and inflows (funds returned to the Treasury as interest, dividends, fees, or stock warrant repurchases) of $754.8 billion, for a net profit of $121 billion.”