OK, the title’s not as dynamic as Camille Paglia’s Break, Blow, Burn, but I’m only an economist. Recently I’ve been trying to figure out several questions; including what do we mean by the stance of monetary policy, and what do we mean by a monetary shock? I suspect that at some deep level these are actually the same question, much as I suspect, “Does free will exist” and, “Is there such a thing as personal identity?” are the same question.