Math Is Hard: David Ignatius Edition

As we all know, the folks at the Washington Post have some trouble with arithmetic. Back in 2007 a lead editorial on NAFTA told readers that Mexico's GDP had quadrupled from 1988 to 2007. The actual increase was a bit more than 83 percent.

In the same vein, columnist David Ignatius sang the praises of Turkey's economy in the paper today. He told readers:

"its economy has grown an annual average of 5.3 percent since 2002, the fastest rate of any country in the Organization for Economic Coopera...