Bruce Cameron

Editor’s Note: The following column was originally published in 2009.

When it comes to men’s underpants, I believe in change.

According to Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the Federal Reserve, when men’s underpants sag, it bodes poorly for the economy.

The Federal Reserve is a quasi-public institution charged with making the public quasi-queasy with scary pronouncements about the economy. It was created in 1913 to provide the nation with a central banking system but has only recently begun to monitor your underpants.

In a brief statement about briefs, Greenspan apparently did some thinking “...