I have a Ph.D. from The University of Chicago. Chicago's economics department is among the world's most illustrious -- and, needless to say, superior to Iowa's. For the record, I have nothing original or particularly constructive to add to our cultural dialogue about the economy. As reference point, you might be interested to know that I am only now becoming a consistently profitable trader, after nearly seven years of unrelenting toil and well over $100,000 of losses. The bottom line: I can state, with authority, that our corn-Fed economist is a talentless hack. After all, it takes one to know one.