Economics is Hip

Apparently economics is seeing a wave of new prospective students eager to be the next tenured econ-blogging superstar.

At Ohio's Oberlin College, registration in undergrad economics classes is up 25 percent this year, and the chair of the department says he's never seen anything like it. Host Robert Smith finds a similar surge in the classrooms of American University and across the country. So is undergraduate economics getting sexier? In a word: yes.

So when picking out that new grad school consider going into economics--everyone else is doing it.

(Fortunately, the loans you'll most probably be taking out will be payed off with stronger dollars once you get out of school and us all out of this recession with your economics know-how)