Yes. These are College Freshman Essay economics, where you know just enough to declare it's time to go bold and are still stupid enough to believe it will work.

It's not that there's no strategy, it's that it was designed by reckless amateurs who haven't done the reading, haven't consulted with anyone that understands all the trade-offs, and have an uncapped appetite for risk.

The TV version works out perfectly, since the writers control the ending.