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Bailout cost U.S. $10K per head
A British pound atop a U.S. dollar
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Bill Radke: The global cost of fighting the financial crisis is a little clearer today. The BBC has figured out the world's largest economies have spent more than $10 trillion bailing out the system. From London, Stephen Beard has the details.
Steohen Beard: The BBC says that the G20 group of countries shelled out $10.8 trillion fighting financial meltdown. The U.S. spent the most overall: $3.6 trillion. That breaks down to $10,000 for every single American.
Britain, with its much smaller economy, was proportionately harder hit. The U.K.'s bailouts come to $50,000 per head. Much of the money was spent propping up the banks. As they pull out of trouble, governments should get back most of the cash.
But the BBC's figures highlight some long-term damage. A decade's worth of bank profits have been wiped out. Despite the more optimistic mood in Washington, it could be years before lending returns to previous levels and the leading economies fully recover.
In London, this is Stephen Beard for Marketplace.
No big deal, just add that $10K to the national debt. That's $122K for every man, woman, and child. However, children don't have $122K, so a more realistic method of apportioning this on a per household basis, and your share is about $546K:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-05-28-debt_N.htm
Mark my words, within about the next 5 years, the world is going sober up and stop lending us money. Then the poo will hit the whirling blades.
I would like to play out my credit card debt so that I can maintain the rest of my bill without not having enough to buy the necessities of everyday life. My girlfriend cannot get unemployed because she moved from a another state did not know about fine befor leaving that particular state have spent a lot of time looking for another job is very hard to do when so many people need a job,
