Economics for Everyone

MAY 23, 2010:  Being on a 6-month sabbattical leave in New Zealand, I clearly have too much time on my hands.  Proof?  Check out these two YouTube videos with economic themes -- and really, really bad acting.

The first (Lieutenant Stanfordo and the Curious Case of the Missing Recovery) had real talent behind it: Mike Connolly and his colleagues at Amistad Video in Toronto.  Thanks also to the CAW Communications Department for supporting this, shall we say, unorthodox approach to economics education.

As for the second (Financial Literacy for Bankers, featuring Mrs. Credit D. Fault), well, talent is not exactly the word that comes to mind.

I will anxiously await my Academy Award nomination (but won't hold my breath).

Case of the Missing Recovery: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTjEMTaJeEU

Financial Literacy for Bankers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uR12tLrK3P8