[ExI] extropy-chat Digest, Vol 55, Issue 2

[PJ Manney]

On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 11:47 AM, Tom Nowell <nebathenemi at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Meanwhile...$500 billion on...everyone's got a pet
> project that they think would help the world, advance
> human civilisation, do something amazing - and many of
> them have far, far smaller pricetags. Sometimes you've
> got to wonder at the waste of it all.

Actually, according to Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E.
Stiglitz and Harvard professor Linda J. Bilmes, that number is $3
Trillion so far -- and that's supposedly an "excessively conservative"
estimate.  And it's rising.

http://www.latimes.com/features/books/la-bk-roane30mar30,0,3004376.story

PJ