Thank you, Stacey, and thank you to the organizers for a thought-provoking conference. Provoking thought and discussion are very fitting ways to mark the centenary of the Division of Research and Statistics (R&S). In keeping with the conference theme, I have organized my remarks around the past, present, and future of R&S. My reflection on the past, while idiosyncratic, is also, I believe, indicative of a through line that characterizes the division historically. For me, that past begins in 1983, when I came to the Board as a newly minted college graduate to be a research assistant (RA) in the Government Finance ... (full story)