Oh, and thanks for the suggestion that we paraphrase the Bane speech from Batman as a template for my inaug-irrational speech.
In that 2006 speech he asked secularists not to dismiss religion as inherently irrational, and believers not to think that they alone should define the nation's morality.
For example, Alan Greenspan's "irrational exuberance" speech was given in 1996, not 2000.
Greenspan's "irrational exuberance" speech was clearly intended to caution the markets.
By 2005, stock prices were twice as high as they had been when Greenspan gave his "irrational exuberance" speech.
His "irrational exuberance" speech in 1996 contained references to, among other things, Alexander Hamilton, William Jennings Bryan and the Japanese stock market bubble.
500 -- a much better measure than the overused Dow -- is now below its level in late 1996, when Alan Greenspan gave his famous "irrational exuberance" speech.
One benchmark of a sort was reached when the Nasdaq composite index fell below 1,300.12, the level it was at on Dec. 5, 1996, when the Federal Reserve chairman, Alan Greenspan, delivered his celebrated "irrational exuberance" speech.
Indeed, aside from giving one speech about irrational exuberance, followed by a small rise in the Fed funds rate, Mr. Greenspan did nothing at all.
But two days later, on Dec. 5, 1996, Mr. Greenspan, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, wondered in a now-famous speech whether "irrational exuberance" might be infecting the stock market.
"I continue to urge the government and the people of the United States to ensure the prevention of such an incomprehensible, irrational and immoral act," Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said in a speech.
