Since the Deepwater Horizon explosion, BP's stock plunge has cost the company about $100 billion in market capital. That's on top of the billions it will spend on clean up, penalties, and liabilities to the Gulf economy. Visual Economics has a cheeky look at what BP could have bought with that money, from Yahoo, Inc, to an ice cream sandwich for everyone on earth, to a 3 Wolf Moon tee-shirt for everybody in the United States...
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Derek Thompson is a senior editor at The Atlantic, where he oversees business coverage for TheAtlantic.com. More
Thompson has written for Slate, BusinessWeek, and the Daily Beast. He has also appeared as a guest on radio and television networks, including NPR, the BBC, CNBC, and MSNBC.
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