brendan, why have the markets hung along? well, we don t know what s happened yet. one of the things that you and i have been watching and talked about for the last seven years, markets have grown increasingly inured to the possibility of markets. we don t know. we don t know what the result is going to be. isn t that stunning that the markets have become desensitized to the words and rhetoric and threats of the president of the united states? it s like he neutered himself. how do you think is this going to play out in the g7? it s hard to predict, many of our allies are concerned and they re worried about this. talking about brendan, and trump is o the nixon playbook. we know what happened, nixon shot brenton woods. it s the exact same thing. nixon did it because he wanted