Healing the economy

The Chicago Sun-Times yesterday unveiled its solution to our country's economic woes. Call it the commissar vanishes approach. Chicago Business reports:

In its year-ending stock quote tables, the paper accidentally printed prices from Jan. 03, 2004, giving the impression that the market's 2004 gains never occurred.

"I've had better days," says Business Editor Dan Miller.

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Mr. Miller says he spent much of the day returning phone calls from confused readers, explaining how a failure to erase a computer file with the 2004 quotes led to the error this year. He said that while most readers understood some would inevitably be disappointed.

"If you were an Intel owner, you probably thought you were doing great again all of a sudden," he says. "You weren't."

I like it. Can we roll the international relations section back a decade or so while we're at it?