The indirect cost to the household is far greater.

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The money we send to Washington, which is a direct cost to our pocketbooks and also an indirect cost since the money often is used to finance counterproductive programs that further damage the economy.

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Most of the cost of cybercrime, it concludes, is indirect, such as spending on antivirus software or other corporate defences.

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Though direct revenues alone would not make Galileo profitable, adding in the indirect economic gains resulting from better navigation of land, sea and air vehicles would produce a benefit-to-cost ratio of as much as 4.6 to 1.

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