Joe Nocera comes in to Weekend Edition to talk about a possible economic recovery. Neither Joe nor host Scott Simon ever get around to speculating that the Obama Stimulus package might actually be working. Even though right now is just about the time when the economists who crafted the plan said that it would start working.

While the bad unemployment news of the past few weeks was taken by all to be a sure sign that the stimulus was a failure and some even speculated that we needed to stop it right then before we wasted any more money.