Like most of you, I yearn for shorter winters, more shirt-sleeve weather, less lashing from frigid winds.

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But sometimes I yearn for the days of former Fed chairmen Paul Volcker and Alan Greenspan, who revealed nothing of what the Fed was thinking.

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In those days, I did not yearn for the four-star meals or luxurious accommodations that other Parisian neighborhoods offered.

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And I have learned that even landlocked lovers yearn for the sea like navy men.

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