"Bush Fired Larry Lindsey for Saying the War Might Cost $100 Billion" https://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2007/10/bush-fired-larr.html https://delong.typepad.com/sdj

"Bush Fired Larry Lindsey for Saying the War Might Cost $100 Billion" https://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2007/10/bush-fired-larr.html https://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2007/10/bush-fired-larr.html "On September 15, 2002, in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Lindsey estimated the high limit on the cost of the Bush administration's plan in 2002 of invasion and regime change in Iraq to be 1–2% of GNP, or about $100–$200 billion. Mitch Daniels, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, discounted this estimate as 'very, very high' and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld stated that the costs would be under $50 billion. Rumsfeld called Lindsey's estimate 'baloney'." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_B._Lindsey#Cost_of_the_Iraq_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_B._Lindsey#Cost_of_th...