This does not seem to be an auspicious time for a first Blog post.  This last week we have seen Commentator Bill O'Reilly and Congressman Barney Frank act in a most uncivilized way.  They each brought disrepute upon their own vocations.  And this at a time when we have put $700 Billion (plus) out there to try and stem a financial crisis--and don't, in truth, know if it will work.  There are those who confidently predict it will, and those who confidently predict it won't.  We don't even have consensus on what worked and didn't work in the Great Depression.  But, we do have a lot of confidence on the part of academics, politicians and commentators as to what did and didn't work.

I know it is hard to be humble, but folks should be checking their humble from time to time.