"We were just having an exchange wondering if there was any listening-to-economists low hanging fruit out there."

"Not my area!" he declares cheerfully.

"Maybe I should drag you to econ lectures."

"You dragged me to this one."

"Does it count as dragging if you're the one steering the chair?"

"This isn't an econ lecture, it's a history lecture which happens to be about currency!"

"See, I told you,—"

"—not my area," Sahde says in unison with Ohan.

"That's why there need to be more lectures. I like econ ones."

"Maybe I could give you an Intro to Econ crash course."

"I took Intro, I'm not that specialised."

"All I've had formally is Basic Finance and the Bookmaking elective, but I read a lot."

"I haven't had anything formally but I also read a lot."

"They make everyone take Basic Finance. Unless you dropped out even earlier than I did?"

"I dropped out a little bit earlier than I was strictly allowed to."

"Well, you're not missing anything you couldn't have gotten out of a randomly selected six posts on Lotsa Math Budgeting."

"I figured as much, yeah."

"How did you get away with dropping out early?"

"'Get away with'?"

"With respect to compulsory education? Or did you only drop out once you were four?"

"Only once I was four," he agrees, "but as soon as I could, then."

"Then who wasn't strictly allowing you to?"

"My father."

"I see. I'm lucky in my parents being generally pretty amenable if I present a case. I mean, matters less now I'm five, but."

"Matters a lot less now that I do not live with him anymore," he agrees.