How often does government wasteful spending make news? Is waste so common that it no one notices?

This black hole of government waste was too big to miss. Yet it was:

$8.5 trillion, a lottery size check of $5.3 million, for you and every other taxpayer.

Big enough for $8.5 trillion to be the size of 14.592 per cent of the world economy.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/03/worlds-biggest-economies-in-2017/

And big enough to be 60 per cent of this country's gross national product (GNP). The GNP measures a country's total economic output for one year.

But never too big for the fed's black hole. Regardless of size, the hole scarfs down trillions, makes it disappear, never to return or be seen again. Where did it go? Who wolfed it down?

How much was it really?

Bloomberg News is the world's largest financial news agency. On Nov. 24, 2008, they reported $8.5 trillion as the size of the fed black hole.

Congress called it the "Troubled Asset Relief Plan or TARP. Others called it the Big Bank Bailout.

Bloomberg reported: