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Derek Thompson - Derek Thompson is a senior editor at The Atlantic, where he oversees business coverage for the website.
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He is a visiting research fellow at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget at the New America Foundation. Derek has also written for Slate, BusinessWeek, and the Daily Beast. He has appeared as a guest on radio and television networks, including NPR, the BBC, CNBC, and MSNBC.
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What BP Could Have Bought With the Oil Spill Losses

By Derek Thompson

Jul 20 2010, 12:56 PM ET Comment

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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