My Y2K+10 Wish for You

There's a 10-year-old bottle of candy sitting on my shelf, a testament to our unending capacity to panic over the unlikely while we blithely ignore the real threats in our lives.

I had one dropped on every employee's desk when they returned from New Year's weekend in 2000. The bright gold label says, "I survived the Y2K hype at FRB."

Hard to believe it's 10 years since the Y2K debacle, when programmers extorted corporate America for billions of dollars to make sure computers wouldn't click...