When the feds do bail out the financial system, what will they d...

Courtesy Newsvine - business  Mon, 03/17/2008 - 01:57

The U.S. savings and loan crisis of the 1980s ended up costing taxpayers 3.2 percent of G.D.P., the equivalent of $450 billion today.

Some estimates put the fiscal cost of Japan's post-bubble cleanup at more than 20 percent of G.D.P.

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