Where on the planet that stimulus will come from, I cannot be sure.

But there is also agreement that in practice the stimulus usually comes too late to do much good.

Any stimulus Congress could now deliver would come too late.

Again we notice that the initial stimulus comes from a memory of Dorothy's.

For a moment, until the next stimulus came along.

It now looks like fiscal stimulus will come about in early November, two months after the event.

There is no doubt, however, from which alien planet the stimulus for this madness comes.

The stimulus to the economy will come now, when it is needed.

And with news of the Bryant case, the stimuli can come nonstop.

Yet, the plunge stopped in the second quarter of 2009 - just as the stimulus came on line.