- Every Breath Bernanke Takes
"Every Breath Bernanke Takes" is a video parody by the
Columbia Business School student comedy club "Follies" of the Police song "Every Breath You Take". It purports to be fromR. Glenn Hubbard , Dean of the Business School, in response to Hubbard's being a runner-up to the Fed Chairmanship assumed byBen Bernanke .In the video, a Hubbard look-alike sings about the pain of being passed over, and vows to keep a close eye on Bernanke should he make any mistakes. (Sample lyric: "First you move your lips / And hike a few more BPS. / When demand then dips / And the yield curve flips / I'll be watching you"). The video quickly became popular on
Wall Street and in economics classrooms around the country.Steven Levitt , author ofFreakonomics , called it "the best economics humor ever". As of September 2007 it had been viewed over 1 million times.In August 2007, Jack Stack, the outgoing CEO of Czech bank Ceska Sporitelna, recorded a similar video as a goodbye to his employees, which press reports called "a parody of a parody".
External links
*" [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u2qRXb4xCU Every Breath Bernanke Takes] " on Youtube
* [http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/1027757651.html?dids=1027757651:1027757651&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Apr+27%2C+2006&author=Nell+Henderson&pub=The+Washington+Post&edition=&startpage=D.01&desc=A+Fed+Wannabe+Feels+Students%27+StingWashington Post stub] , April 27, 2006
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/06/technology/06online.html?ex=1190088000&en=42cc40ce45411d55&ei=5070NY Times mention]
*NY Times Dealbook post: [http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2006/04/28/weekend-video-columbia-b-schoolers-rock-on-fed-chief/]
*Steven Levitt post: [http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2006/05/02/the-best-economics-humor-ever/]
*Article on Jack Stack parody: [http://eux.tv/article.aspx?articleId=12468]
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