The Audacity of Doing Nothing

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2009/02/11/the-audacity-of-doing-nothing/

Barack Obama promised on Monday not to rest as long as this economic downturn persisted.  He promised to act decisively, change whatever had to be changed, spend whatever had to be spent.  This is precisely what worries the investors to whom I spoke.  They'd rather see the audacity of doing nothing.