Department of awful statistics

By Megan McArdle
Apparently, NBC thinks everyone in America is going to work for the Chicago Tribune in 2009.  Liz Wogelmuth catches a headline apparently claiming that the economy is going to shrink more than 200% next year.  That's right, not only will we produce absolutely nothing in 2009, but we'll take an axe to a substantial plurality of the nation's assets.

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2009/01/department-of-awful-statistics/4542/