congressman, ted yoho. i think he shortened his name. it used to be yo ho, ho, ho, just kidding. he made this outrageous claim that contradicted economists all over the earth. we need to have that moment where we realize we re going broke. i think personally, it would bring stability to the world markets. your thought, howard. you know, we re still suffering. i talked to a top ceo today. we are still suffering from the near miss of 11. we had the near miss of 13. and he thought it would be better to go off the cliff. chris, this isn t economic thinking. this is apocalyptic thinking. and it s of a piece of with the way this part of the american political landscape thinks. everything is an apocalypse. and apocalypses are good. you want creative destruction. you want everything to fall apart. because it s only when everything falls apart that you pick up the true belief. whatever the tru believe is. whether it s the holy bible, whether it s the gold standard. whatever simplistic notio