‘I am certain’: Harvard policy expert warns the true cost of the Iran war to U.S. taxpayers will exceed $1 trillion
After the Iraq War ended in 2003, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that the conflict had cost the United States $500 billion in direct costs, but economic and policy experts Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes disagreed. In a 2006 study, they calculated that the cost of the war was actually four times that calculated…