Andrew Malcom at the L.A. Times explains:
Here's a quote from that Forbes story:
"It's not based on any particular data point," a Treasury spokeswoman told Forbes.com Tuesday. "We just wanted to choose a really large number."
They made it up to be sufficiently ginormous to frighten everyone into rapid action.
And it worked.
So it did, indeed.
2 comments:
I saw this yesterday. Makes you wonder about other things they say.
Concur. It has been remarkably like the run up to the Iraq war.
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