Stress tests

This from a warning issued by The National Institutes of Health a few years ago:

"The number of Web sites offering health-related resources grows every day. Many sites provide valuable information, while others may have information that is unreliable or misleading."

Indeed.

See this from Bloomberg: Some analysts were more than a tad dismissive:

Some gems:

The report was “completely worthless,” said David Trone, an analyst at Fox-Pitt Kelton Cochran Caronia

My problem with this is sort of like Garrison Keillor and Lake Woebegon, where all children are above average,” said Nancy Bush, an independent bank analyst at NAB Research LLC

"A lot of triple talk,” said Jim Glickenhaus, who helps manage more than $1 billion, including shares of Bank of America Corp., at Glickenhaus & Co.

“The assumptions the regulators have used here seem to imply that they’re anticipating a bottoming out of the economic downturn,” said Jeff Davis, director of research at Howe Barnes Hoefer & Arnett in Chicago.

“The question I have, by using fourth-quarter numbers, is this skewed positively?” said Lawrence Kaplan, an attorney with Paul Hastings

“The anticipation over the white paper appears to be much ado about nothing,” said Josh Rosner, an analyst at independent research firm Graham Fisher & Co. in New York.