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Cheering for stimulus buys into 1930s myth

It takes only a few seconds to make history new again. Leaders around the world are talking up economic stimulus, channeling U.S. President Barack Obama, who in turn is channeling Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Obama bases his confidence on an old story line with some appealing parallels to today: A disastrously high stock market caused by excessive faith in ...

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