Aircraft Carrier

: Some of these costs are easy to calculate, according to The Moscow Times. When the U.S. government, for example, buys an aircraft carrier, it not a terribly complicated exercise to determine how much money was spent: even if there isn't a single budget line-item you can just add up all of the contracts and purchase orders. Whether seen or unseen, any government action will inevitably have a range of impacts on the economy. It the unseen costs where things can get a little tricky. By changing the calculus in which private actors engage, government policy can have a real economic impact orders of magnitude larger than the direct costs of implementation. There is an economic cost to purchasing an aircraft carrier as opposed to paying for a new highway or bridge, just as there is an economic cost to having the government take money away from the private sector to pay for anything at all. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.