Brenner on the worldly philosophers in my very first course. It's a great little book and I was just drawn to it because it sort of combined institutional understanding, history and quantitative analysis. And I thought that that was a good use of some of the abilities that I have. I'm not the strongest in anyone but when you work them all together I think I have a little bit of an edge. And so when I left Sweeney I got an MBA thinking business world was for me. Went to Wharton. I was a finance major. And after my MBA at Wharton I was offered a full fellowship. I had a university fellowship at Temple University in economics. And that fellowship in today's dollars it was tax free. It would be about close to $50,000 even though at the time it was $300 a month. But it was tax free and I had no duties. And I finished in two and a half years later. I had a parent of my PhD in January of 1609, defended the dissertation in December of the year before and then went to the Dallas Fed. So that (8/41)
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