How to tackle foreclosures and unemployment at the same time: Get some desperately-needed empirical data on loan mods.
Doing the Math to Find the Good Jobs: Mathematicians have the top three best jobs. Economists are in 11th place, just ahead of philosophers.
Preach What You Plan To Practice: "You can get better results from using hypocrisy than any other technique."
Choice of audit firm: "Ernst and Young, KPMG and PWC all have a reasonable chance of failing as a result of auditing Madoff feeder funds."