Reserved humor

At today's Brookings Institution colloquium, Prof.Bernanke was drole. Everyone is mentioning this one: "When we were trying to convince Congress to pass TARP, one congressman told me that his constituents were split on the matter: 'Half are saying no and the other half are saying hell no.'"


That's fairly funny, but he later said something funnier: "The problem is that many things that work in practice don't actually work in theory."