With all the talk about the government bailout in the news right now, I got to thinking about just how much money $700 billion dollars is. So here are some depressing numbers. $700,000,000,000 = 1.25 Iraq Wars (based on the ~$558 billion cost shown at this site at 12:30 am EDT on Sept 29, 2008) or 5 Apollo Programs (at ~$135 billion inflation-adjusted dollars for the entire program from conception … Continue reading What can $700 Billion Buy?