NBC News correspondent Andrea Mitchell is a part of one of Washington’s most formidable power couples through her marriage to Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan. Asked during a Time magazine/CNN.com interview this past week as to whether Mr. Greenspan ever engaged at home in “Greenspeak” — i.e., the art of ambiguous economic pronouncements — Ms. Mitchell observed:

“Occasionally. In fact, he claims he proposed three times before I was able to understand. He was so oblique.”