To date, the Fed Chairman, whose wizard-like prowess with the money supply has been credited for helping boost the U.S. economy to its longest peacetime expansion, has hinted he is more in favor of using the federal budget surplus to pay down the national debt.
So do the tech wizards whose new fortunes have raised the benchmarks for casual extravagance.
In the premiere, the running gag is a parody of all those documentaries about Silicon Valley wizards whose big idea began in a garage.
Otfried Preussler, a German children's author whose books about wizards, witches and water spirits sold 50 million copies and whose half-century-old word choices recently inspired fierce debate, died on Feb. 18 in Prien am Chiemsee, Germany.
One reason the movies work is that their scale never overwhelmed the extraordinary characters, especially the wizards whose very ordinary habits, prejudices, quirks and fears made this fantastical world recognizable.
For those unfamiliar with magic and muggles, Lord Voldemort was the evil wizard whose rise to unparalleled dominance in the wizarding world was thwarted by the innocent babe Harry Potter.
Its "hero" Rincewind is a rubbish wizard whose mother "ran away before he was born".
To do this magic, they must first escape Thomas, the terrible wizard whose wand is "education".
Name of: Paul Gascoigne, a young wizard whose progress ended up owing more to Hogarth than Hogwarts.
He was a stagecraft wizard whose love for abstraction — along with lights, projections and electronic music — was strangely life affirming.
