Year Gone Past Feels Like One Long Day

In our last episode, while techie John was fetching a PBR and a solution to complex problems, Cook got a most unusual offer involving his hair. As a result, John, Cook, and Ben Bernanke are at the Wall Street Journal's New York City offices for an important live-streamed event.

Meredith Whitney: In 2012, the future of the global economy may hang by a slender thread... a thread as slender as one rock star's hair. Tell me, Mr. Cook, are you serious about running the Fed if you win this hair-growing contest?

Cook: Absolutely.

Whitney: And may I ask why you've brought a chicken with you today?

Cook: Um... uh... it's a reference to Franklin D. Roosevelt's pledge of "a chicken in every pot."

Chicken: Squawk!

Whitney: Is it your plan to return to New Deal policies?

Cook [with a wink]: That'd be telling.

Whitney: And how about you, Mr. Bernanke? What's in this for you?( Read more... )