Economically Speaking

In econ today we were discussing the Federal Reserve System. At least I think we were. I was too busy playing with my springloaded pen to pay attention. I had taken the spring out of my pen, and replaced it with a three inch long super-spring.

Obviously nothing good could come of this, and I found that out today. While I was playing with the spring and trying to screw the pen together, I accidently let go and the pencap flew clear across the entire room bounching off the chalkboard and narrowly avoiding my teacher.

Oops.


Eventually I learned that we were infact talking about the Federal Reserve and my teacher brought up Alan Greenspan. "You know, I've been teaching economics since Alan Greenspan's been the chairman of the Federal Reserve." (Greenspan became the chairman in late 1986 or 1987.)

"Wow, do you realize that means you've been teaching econ since before I was born?" I said.

I think she got pretty depressed, becuase she let class out about a half hour early.