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# Wednesday
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/15851/
- Published: 2010-10-06T06:18:45.000Z
- Updated: 2010-10-06T06:18:45.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: TWE, #wpChunk

![elevator](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/elevator-225x300.jpg "elevator")

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Good to know: “\[T\]he best way to survive in a falling elevator is to lie down on your back. Sitting is bad but better than standing, because buttocks are nature's safety foam. Muscle and fat are compressible: they help absorb the G forces of the impact.” [Link](http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2010/09/17/129934849/how-to-survive-when-your-elevator-plunges?cc=share&sc=tw&ref=thedailyeudemon.com). \* \* \* \* \* \* \* Some goofy comedy out there this week. **Craig Ferguson**: "Research shows that the No. 1 place you can pick up infections from is a doorknob. That's why I always lick doorknobs clean before using them. . . . The best way to prevent a cold is to cover your mouth when you sneeze. I think that's why the Tyrannosaurus Rex went extinct. Because its arms were very short." **Jimmy Fallon**: The White House has issued an alert for American tourists traveling in Europe over fears of a terror attack. But the joke's on you, terrorists. We can't afford to go to Europe. . . . A new study found that almost 1 out of 10 Americans is depressed. Which, of course, just means 9 out of 10 Americans are annoying." \* \* \* \* \* \* \* Who's the most important econ journalist out there? [Apparently, James Grant, according to this Top 15 list](http://www.thedailybeast.com/galleries/2151/1/?ref=thedailyeudemon.com) assembled by Tunku Varadarajan. About Grant:

> Grant, who has a massive institutional following, is a contrarian with a profound knowledge of financial history. He writes with an enviable, almost courtly, elegance, and has a capacity to simplify complexity unmatched in his field. Also he writes with humility, aware of his (and everyone else's) inability to make foolproof forecasts. A gentlemanly, intellectually adroit conservative, he is at his best when addressing the many follies of the Federal Reserve.

> Quote-Unquote: “The trouble with Wall Street isn't that too many bankers get rich in the booms. The trouble, rather, is that too few get poor–really, suitably poor–in the busts.”

I've been toying with subscribing to Grant's newsletter, but it's almost $1,000 annually, and it's a short publication that comes out only 24 times a year. You can get the daily *Wall Street Journal* (print and online access) for 1/5th the cost.