Let's make this birthday one to remember.

61 years old (Born on April 18, 1964)

Happy birthday, Niall Ferguson! May your day be filled with celebrations grander than the British Empire's peak and financial prosperity more stable than the gold standard. With your brilliant analyses in "The Ascent of Money," you've taught us all that history isn't merely dates and facts—it's currency crashes, markets panics, empires rising (and occasionally stumbling dramatically), packaged neatly within unforgettable narratives.

From lecturing audiences at Harvard to enlightening minds at Stanford—in every institution from Oxford to NYU wearing tweed jackets like superhero capes—you’ve made economic history less intimidating and infinitely funnier. Here’s wishing you a year ahead that's rich enough to intrigue economists yet calm enough not to alarm historians. Cheers!