It’s still a few days away, but I’m already excited for this Friday’s Wyoming Chronicle.  It’s my TV debut. More interesting to pretty much everyone but my parents — hi mom and dad! — though, is the person I’m interviewing: Dr. Rob Godby, chair of UW’s Department of Economics and Finance.  An interesting economist? Yes. I swear. And I’ve got pretty high standards. My senior year of college, I interned at the Federal Reserve Bank in Chicago. To reward me for tracking down some hard-to-find paper about the surge in productivity in the Albanian goat milk market after farms installed TV in barns (or something similar), my mentor gave me an opportunity no other intern had. He let me attend a talk given by none other then Alan Greenspan, Fed Chairman at the time. And what did I do? While sitting second row center? I fell asleep. 

Dr. Godby not only kept me awake, but actually explained the current recession — especially why it has affected Wyoming differently than the rest of the country — in ways I could understand. I hope you find him as interesting as I did.

– Dina Mishev