A recent Wall Street Journal article has surprisingly good news: US companies are seeing the highest profit growth in two years with “two consecutive quarters of double-digit profit growth for the first time since 2011.” This surprisingly comes not from policies pursued in Washington, but the hard work of the private sector.

Christina Romer, chair of the President’s Council of Economic Advisors, recently admitted in an interview with CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo that it is effectively impossible to accurately measure how many jobs the stimulus saved, will save, created, or will create.