Economist cover fakes me out

When the latest issue (above) arrived two days ago I looked at the cover but couldn't figure out why a tilted dun-colored map of the U.S. was particularly worthy of being featured on the newspaper's (that's how they refer to it — rather than as a magazine) cover, since as a rule The Economist's covers are instantly graspable besides being wonderfully incisive.

I felt like I do when I don't get a New Yorker cartoon.

Anyway.

I knew I was missing something and yesterday I looked at the cover again, with the same initial take.

Come on, I said to myself, there's gotta be more.

And then the penny dropped and I realized I'd been looking at it "wrong," and that the image was meant to be "seen" as a Grand Canyon-like abyss symbolizing "America's fiscal hole."

Doh.

Anyone else have the

same problem?