I got a press release from the Treasury Department today, on Earth Day, with the headline: "Treasury Harnesses the Power of Wind."
Who says economists aren't funny? I don't know if the writer of this press release realized all the different jokes that you could make out of that headline. If not, the other people who proofread and approve Treasury press releases don't have a good sense of humor either.
As I read it, sitting in my office chuckling by myself, I pictured a press room full of reporters at the Treasury Department giggling as they opened their e-mails at the same time and read the subject line. Maybe the Treasury Department's public information officers felt like it was time for some levity after the tough economic news and financial market regulations they've been talking about for the past year and a half. It wasn't an unpleasant way to start my morning.
But with a quick Yahoo! search the only reference I found to the silly headline was one blog that repeated the headline and said, "No joke." Oh well, I guess most finance reporters just don't have the same sense of humor that I do.
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