“Things will get worse gradually, unless they get worse quickly.”

Unfortunetly Hechtmail will not allow for the embedded hyperlinks, am I using the term correctly, in this article in the NYT. But here are the two links, from the article in today's NYT and the Alan Auerbach paper on the mess we are in

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/10/business/economy/10leonhardt.html?em

http://www.econ.berkeley.edu/~auerbach/fiscal_future.pdf