1.0 link 186186 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-fraad-wolff/by-the-numbers_b_186186.html A defining element of the ongoing economic crisis has been an endless series of large numbers. Everything seems to be measured in the billions, hundreds of billions and trillions. So it is with large, global losses and bail-outs. Contextualizing and making real such large numbers is rare. What follows is an attempt to ground many of the leading numbers bandied about of late. I have used all publicly available numbers and divided them by the US population. The idea is...

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