Time for a Break

Considering the long and still growing list of items on the To Do list prior to the year's first camping trip this weekend, a short break is deemed necessary. Save for a quick update to the Southern California real estate sales charts after DataQuick releases fresh stats for May (probably later today), look for the next missive to appear here early next week.

Off to the Sierra Nevada Mountains again for some quiet time away from computers and crowds, we'll try to remember what it was like before so many hours of the day were spent so close to so many electronics - maybe even read some fiction.

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Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal took note of some comments posted in this space. They were sent a suggestion last week when the story of How Not to Fight Inflation was published, but its tone toward the dismal practitioners may have been a bit too harsh - they opted to note the sympathy expressed for poor Ben Bernanke yesterday instead.

Any mention is appreciated, however, with full knowledge of a break nearing, yesterday's post was really not one of the better efforts offered here - readers directed from that source are encouraged to return after your humble scribe's mind, fingers, and eyeballs have had a bit of a R&R.

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It really does crack me up to see the name of this blog in print in places like this - when the name was conceived, there was no consideration given to how it might appear when others referred to it.

Recall that last summer, during the Alan Greenspan send-off in Jackson Hole, the Washington Post saw fit to provide a link back here that stood in stark contrast to remarks by former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin. It is believed that this earlier inclusion was of the automated variety, as opposed to David Gaffen's note above, but you never know.

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This week's Economist cartoon (sometimes it doesn't arrive until Monday):