think it paid off handsomely for me. What did you like about economic policy so much? The ability to translate what was happening in Washington at the Federal Reserve in Congress and how it affects the ordinary people who read the newspaper or listen to NPR or something like that. One of the things I discovered is that there's a kind of high priest language in economics that excludes many people from participating. I mean, the Federal Reserve has gotten a lot better, but in the old days you basically needed a decoder ring to know what they were talking about. And I discovered that I enjoyed being the translator and that there was actually a market for that. So for instance, during the financial crisis of 2007, 8, 9, I was on NPR's Morning Edition frequently trying to talk about really complex things in three minutes and 45 seconds. I discovered that I enjoyed doing that and a lot of people don't. That's fascinating. That must have been quite an experience. But to that point about the (6/40)
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