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Calculating the Total Bailout Costs

QandO found this 12/2/2008 on ritholtz.com

More than a few people have asked me how I came up with the the $8.5 trillion figure for the total cost of the bailouts. Below is a table, plus the Excel Spreadsheet it came from. Note that this cost does not include the $5.2 trillion in Fannie/Freddie portfolios that the US taxpayer is now ...