If the bailout were a country

By Chris Kromm / September 24, 2008

How much is $700 billion, the estimated cost of the Wall Street bailout?

Put it this way: if the bailout were a country, it would be the 17th largest economy in the world -- bigger than the annual Gross Domestic Product of countries like Turkey, Sweden, Switzerland and Saudi Arabia, and just smaller than the Netherlands.

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