$7.7 trillion dollars
View this link:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a5PxZ0NcDI4o#
Remember that old post comparing the bailout cost, then projected at $4.28tn, to various other large financial undertakings? Well, it was wrong, but not because the estimated costs were too high, but because they were too low. Bloomberg reports that the latest figure is just under $8tn! (Via Lenin.)