{"id":38,"date":"2008-03-01T17:22:24","date_gmt":"2008-03-01T15:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bogvaerker.dk\/wordpress\/?p=38"},"modified":"2008-03-05T03:14:48","modified_gmt":"2008-03-05T01:14:48","slug":"a-3-trillion-dollar-war-with-615-billion-in-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bogvaerker.dk\/wordpress\/?p=38","title":{"rendered":"A $3 trillion dollar war with $615 billion in interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/politics\/features\/2008\/04\/stiglitz200804?printable=true&amp;currentPage=all\">http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/politics\/features\/2008\/04\/stiglitz200804?printable=true&amp;currentPage=all<\/a><br class=\"webkit-block-placeholder\" \/><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Times; font-size: 16px\">\u00e2\u20ac\u01538.\u00c2\u00a0<em>Add interest.<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0The U.S. has borrowed most of the funds used to wage the Iraq war. We will have to repay this debt with interest. If we include in our tally the interest payable on what we are borrowing over only the next 10 years, this adds another $615 billion to the price tag, and brings the total budgetary cost of the Iraq war into the neighborhood of $2.8 trillion.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0<span>War as business, with Lockheed-Martin et al in the pigs&#8217; trough, but clearly exceptionally good business for bankers.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/politics\/features\/2008\/04\/stiglitz200804?printable=true&amp;currentPage=all\u00e2\u20ac\u01538.\u00c2\u00a0Add interest.\u00c2\u00a0The U.S. has borrowed most of the funds used to wage the Iraq war. We will have to repay this debt with interest. If we include in our tally the interest payable on what we are borrowing over only the next 10 years, this adds another $615 billion to the price tag, and brings &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bogvaerker.dk\/wordpress\/?p=38\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A $3 trillion dollar war with $615 billion in interest&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bogvaerker.dk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bogvaerker.dk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bogvaerker.dk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bogvaerker.dk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bogvaerker.dk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bogvaerker.dk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bogvaerker.dk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bogvaerker.dk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bogvaerker.dk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}