easing. this was during the crisis itself in september of 2008. paulson and i and president bush were asking congress to pass the tarp build which would provide capital to help restore financial stability. the republican the democrats i m not picking on republicans. we had a meeting with the republican caucus in the house. they were saying, first of all, we don t want to do this. second of all, we re not seeing any problems in our home district. i said to them, you will. because i understood you can t have a collapse of the financial system and the rest of the economy emerge unscathed. the work i had done suggested that the financial crises can lead to very serious recessions. looking forward, do you think that the there s a great deal of concern in the united states, an unease about the economy.