Adding Up the Stimulus Plan

摘要

If there's one thing we're supposed to have learned from this year of business scandals and disasters, it's the danger of believing numbers that are too good to be true. The Enron and WorldCom implosions are about made-up math, as is the uproar over Wall Street's overly optimistic analysts. Yet despite these object lessons, it looks like we're about to get suckered by another combination of wishful think- ing supported by nonsensical numbers.