"I predict that in the years ahead Enron, not Sept. 11, will come to be seen as the greater turning point in U.S. society." It's one of our all-time favorite quotes, and it was published 10 years ago this Sunday. As former Enron adviser Paul Krugman might say, this statement is false.

It was, of course, Krugman who wrote that statement, in his Jan. 29, 2002, New York Times column.