Austan Goolsbee
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I told the way I phrased it to our people.
I said, look, you're working at the Fed and this is 80%.
working at NASA and it's 20% working at the DMV.
And we've got to like hold the DMV part down and emphasize the NASA part because it is, it's super, it's only this much of the universe, but in this part of the universe, it makes a huge difference what the Fed does.
That's what I wish.
Oh, God, that would be so great if it was like a crank.
Like in Princess Bride, where they're like, how many years do we take out of the person's life?
There's a huge wood table.
Yeah.
The shades come down.
Washington, D.C.
It's in Washington, D.C., in the Fed Martin building.
The Fed has reversed dog years.
So, like, you could be here seven years, and they're like, you're the rookie.
You know, this is your first year.
So, I started telling everybody, when I started going to the meetings, I was like, this is the coolest room.
This is the coolest thing in the world.
And all the old divers say, oh, you should have seen the other room.
It was even better.
Okay.