Yep, a stunner.

Guess we know a bit more about the NYT's standards for eptness, and maybe something about the attraction to 'econ' ... as a topic almost anyone can fake well-enough for a modrin audience.

Can't manage either sympathy or empathy for these perpetual children and their terminal affluenza infection.
What I can't guess, is why he's writing about his/her utter failure to recognize a standard Murican dream-state, that in which these naifs dwell. Bet he's not on staff much longer.
Unless of course -- all their employees are cut from the same cloth..
Sackcloth? (Ashes are free.)

'Credit crisis'? Hardly; seems more like a tale of tawdry-grade dumbth.
At the velocity-of-money: a 9 on that famous Laughter Curve?