The Engaged Electorate
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
16:59"Is it even possible to tally up the total impact of the financial crisis? Better Markets tried to give it a shot and puts the price tag at ‘no less than $12.8 trillion.’…$7.6 trillion is the estimated actual GDP lost between 2008 and 2018—what the country’s output would have been had the financial meltdown not occurred, according to data from the Federal Reserve Bank in St. Louis and forecasts from the Congressional Budget Office. The remaining $5.2 trillion is GDP loss that was avoided, but only because it was prevented by the ‘extraordinarily fiscal and monetary policy actions’ by the government during the crisis." —  Suzy Khimm 
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