Jun 4, 2012 ... President Bush signed the massive spending bill under which the government  was operating when Obama took office. .... $26 billion for non-defense measures  (including funding for flu vaccine against the H1N1 virus, and for the International  Monetary Fund) in addition to $80 billion for the military. Only a ...
British economist John Maynard Keynes spearheaded a revolution in economic  thinking that overturned the then-prevailing idea that free markets would ... that  aggregate demand—measured as the sum of spending by households,  businesses, and the government—is the most important driving force in an  economy.
During World War II the Government was again forced to borrow heavily in order  to finance war with the Axis powers. After the war the debt gradually decreased  as a proportion of GDP, but in the 1970s, following a Sterling crisis, the British  Government was forced to seek help from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Oct 9, 2017 ... The War on Terror cost more than $2.1 trillion. Here are details on what was  spent each year, what happened, and its effect.
The most recent major report on these costs come from Brown University in the  form of the Costs of War, which totaled just over $1.1 trillion. The Department of  Defense's direct spending on Iraq totaled at least $757.8 billion, but also  highlighting the complementary costs at home, such as interest paid on the funds  borrowed ...
The war spending bill "actually spends more money on the International Monetary Fund than on the war."