made sure that ben bernanke went to rosh hashanah services is first year in hard and took him to brookline for rosh hashanah dinner. bernanke told his parents have always been upset that can mannings down more meaning and judaism than he did. [laughter] >> but it turned out all right for both of them. bernanke goes to harvard. he gets a phd in economics, mit. is a shy, introverted guy. a fan of baseball statistics which seems to be a habit of central bankers. alan greenspan has the same fascination. he becomes the economic equivalent of a paleontologist. he spent his academic career trying to figure out how was it that otherwise smart people at the federal reserve in the '20s and 30s did such a lousy job and let us to the great depression. and it was a fascinating intellectual study, with, he thought, not much relevance today. you fast-forward a bit and february 2006, or 96 seats out of greenspan at the federal reserve. when he is sworn in, george bush comes to the fed for the swearing in, and describes our greenspan quite accurately as a rockstar, which he was at the time. sort of amazing