Negative delay

摘要

Today's mail contained a federal notice about my tax-relief check. The check itself is "in the mail," but I can already feel my consumer sentiment surging with anticipation. I hope you feel the same way. As Congress worked its way through this latest tax-relief legislation, each member of Congress surely understood the great benefits of quick action to our economy. Unfortunately, a lot of little glitches, each inserting its own delay into the process, tend to get in the way of such legislation. As a result, I tend to visualize our government as a sort of huge, lumbering, dopey example of Brownian motion.