the inflation and a bag of groceries and they can also see the empty shelves, and so they're not going to -- you know, in the past they've been told this is temporary, this isn't real. it doesn't look that way now. >> bret: yeah, mara, the transitory thing, a lot of people are saying this does not look transitory at all. >> well, it certainly is lasting longer than a lot of people in the it administration thought it would. does it go away next year? with simple he don't know. i can tell you it's pretty in artful to khaleda high-class problem and you know who wouldn't have called a high-class problem? joe biden himself. and anything that makes it harder for middle-class people to afford the stuff they need is a problem. not a high-class one. hob problem. and the problem for the bite in the administration is that everything in the economy is now on them, and that's why the president is moving -- trying to do something what the supply chains, backlogs, and hoping that inflation will be