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.
If the bailout were a country
September 24, 2008
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Chris Kromm
Chris Kromm is executive director of the Institute for Southern Studies and publisher of the Institute's online magazine, Facing South.