Quaker buys Snapple
Overpayment in 1994: $1.4 billion
Inflation-adjusted: $2.03 billion
In 1994, Quaker purchased the then new Snapple for $1.7 billion. Quaker's goal was to sell Snapple in every grocery store in the country, but Snapple was so successful in small brand name grocery stores, chains like Pepsi and Coca-Cola began making copy cat brands.
After three years with Snapple, Quaker sold the company for just $300 million.
Someone didn't do any research, since the amount of radiation leaked from Three Mile Island was less than that in a Banana.
The fact that The China Syndrome came out just before, was the cause of every retarded American freaking out and making it out to be bigger than it was. Like Boston, or 9/11.
Oh and Pearl Harbour should be on here, but i guess you can't put a price on the President of the USA sending thousands of soldiers to their deaths on purpose, just to piss off the American people and force them to demand America join in on WWII. All because FDR wanted to get his hands on the Wartime Surplus and increase his budget.
Actually, this page should only be American Military and how many trillions have been wasted on them.
truly, i don't know.