We are in danger of making a dangerous U-turn on economic policy because our judgment is clouded by common misconceptions about the government’s stimulus programs. In some cases, Republican leaders have deliberately distorted some of these programs to spread doubts about the Democrats’ policies. In other cases, urban myths have sprouted up without anyone deliberately fertilizing them.
Two dangerous myths about the stimulus
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