Commentary “Besides,” added Papa, “sometimes the price of things goes up, like gas. The price of gas for our car went up twenty cents just last week! Maybe the same thing happens with teeth.” – Jan & Mike Berenstain, “The Berenstain Bears and the Tooth Fairy,” p. 8. Sister Bear has just lost a tooth. It had been loose for a time, and it finally came out in this children’s book series about first experiences. Mama and Papa Bear tell her to put the tooth under her pillow so that the Tooth Fairy can replace it with money. There’s quite a bit of economic learning that can be had from this simple story. It’s learning that seemingly never reached all manner of economists, politicians, and the journalistic enablers of each. In Sister Bear’s case, word on the street is that is that a quarter is no longer the going rate for a …