get folks that are struggling more. the problem here and this goes to your broader question is that the fed has limited tools and for the last, not just few years, but 40 years, i would argue, politicians on both sides of the table have been pushing the ball to the fed and saying you deal with these problems. we don't want to take the tough voices and that's where we are right now. that's the squaring of this very large, awkward circle. >> okay. to their ability, to square that circle, the fed got inflation wrong, right? denied that it was, you know, as intractable as it's proven to be so late to raise interest rates and they kept interest rates low for far too long and helped contribute to a stock market bubble. why should we believe that this time we should get it right and bring inflation now just enough without taking the economy. >> well, jim, that's a very good question. you know, i think -- i don't know, and one of the reasons we don't know is we are dealing