>> i wish i could answer that one. it's critical issue because as you point out and as i've always believed, we underestimate the impact of stock prices on economic activity. asset prices are having a profoundly important effect and created the extent of the contraction globally and collapsed the value of collateral system and disabled finance. we have come all of the way ck, maybe more than halfway, it's had a positive effect. i don't know where the stock market is going but i will say this. that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we've been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about. >> final political point, mayor bloomberg. congressman rangel, should he stay in his job or step aside? >> it's not good for new york.