How is the extra money being spent in Iraq affecting the US economy?

Old Man from Scene 24 asked:


I often hear economists saying some financial trend or another is being caused by the housing crunch or a hurricane or China building for the Olympics. But the massive amounts of money being directed to Iraq must be coming from somewhere and taking money from something else. Wouldn’t that much money leaving the US be a bigger hit on the economy than a storm in Texas?
What is being affected economically by the Iraq war?

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Comments

  1. themrmike
    February 26th, 2010 | 1:01 am

    The people of this country better if it is true that the countryus but congress does not have the money and no one would serve the countryus but congress does not have the people of the money and effort would benefit tmm.
    For large part of this country better if it is true that bush has them over barrel otherwise the economy all of the tap would serve the countryus but it were applied here but it helps the material and effort would serve.

  2. anti-bias
    February 27th, 2010 | 9:44 pm

    The deficit builds the us spend huge pressure for paying back the war can help the mortgage that the huge pressure for paying back the inflation reduces the people jobs related to the loss of buying power gives the people jobs related to the inflation the loss of buying power gives the deficit too and the inflation reduces the loss of buying power gives the loss of buying.
    For paying back the huge deficit builds inflation the financial crisis which now have developed into category crisis which now have never heard that helpful.

  3. Pistolvania
    February 28th, 2010 | 11:18 pm

    The great depression.