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The Cost of War

4/17/202652 min

The United States has begun a conflict with Iran that two thirds of the American public does not understand. One question we can try to answer: how much is this conflict costing us? The surprising story of how the government learned to hide the costs of war, and how someone learned to get to the bottom of those costs anyway. Check out Professor Bilmes’ work. Support the show! To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Clips

When wars hiked taxes
Pentagon fails every audit
The real Iraq-Afghanistan bill
Week-one costs understated
Invisible long-term human costs
Two-million-dollar missiles vs drones
Base budget creep warning
No draft, no bill, more war

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Speaker 00:00

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  2. PJ Vogt· Host0:22

    Quick note before we start the show. We are doing an AMA. That's an ask me, I'm the proverbial me in this, ask me anything on the Search Engine subreddit. This is gonna be Friday, April twenty-fourth at noon Eastern. Don't feel like you have to ask me anything. It's more like we've done a bunch of recent episodes that people have emailed a lot of questions about. There was our big series on driverless cars. There was our episode about GLP-1s. There was our episode about Anthropic, the company behind Claude. And these are just things that generated a lot of questions from people, and we wanted to say if there's something that we've published recently that you wanted to know more about, or if you wanted to know why we did something or how we did something, or even if you just have general questions about how the show works, we're doing an ask me anything. I guess, yeah, anything, anything you want. Again, April twenty-fourth, Friday. This will be in the Search Engine podcast subreddit at noon Eastern Time.

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