Every person has a hobby or love that nobody else understands. I have an uncle who collects clocks. Friends who still obsess over Star Wars trivia. They delve into the trivia and minutiae and spend countless hours mastering the details of their hobbies and wish for more time to pour into their specialty.
Mine is macro economics.
Yes, it's true.
I'll spare you the details on how this affair first started and then burst into flame, but suffice to say, every time there's a surge in oil prices, a currency crash or banking debacle, I seek out every last scrap of information on the crisis to understand why it happened and try to divine what comes next. I follow Paul Krugman closely, have read Stiglitz, read blogs on bond markets and all kinds of esoterica, and wish I had the math chops to really delve into the tough stuff.
This whole economic crash business has been a great time for me.
Dad, husband, MBA, homeowner, publisher of hyperlocal 
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