Why did it need a recession and a massive budget deficit for this to take place?

With their massive budget and their various advisers, the film-makers could so easily have tweaked these and got them right.

It would have been astonishing if near-zero interest rates and massive budget deficits had failed to stimulate demand.

There are no big delays, no collapsing walls and no massive budget deficits - at least, not by contemporary standards.

But they can still boast a huge squad and massive budget.