The Iraq War Will Cost Us $3 Trillion, and Much More

   Photo courtesy of Flickr under the Creative Commons license. Linda J. Bilmes and Joseph E. Stiglitz wrote this article in the Washington Post detailing the extent of the monetary costs of the Iraq war. Interesting with some good statistics…

Linda J. Bilmes, a former chief financial officer at the Commerce Department, teaches at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. Joseph E. Stiglitz, a professor at Columbia University, served as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Bill Clinton. They are co-authors of “The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict.”