a big change nuthe eurozone is t happening. frankly, if i were the eurozone, i would want santa claus to put a new constitution in my stocking this christmas, but i don't think it's going to happen. >> also the european central bank, lower interest rates this week by half a percent. is this going to be a slow slog in europe and the main concern that the u.s. has in terms of the impact on the economy here? >> well, it's a huge concern, maria, but i do think we're creeping towards a solution, and that's a really ugly solution that i don't know if the germans should be happy with. and that's that the european central bank, even though they haven't wholeheartedly said they're going to do it, i do think it's pretty darn clear that that's the end game here, that they're going to end up absorbing a lot of the debt and maybe a lot of the losses. for a year or two, that will actually calm things down. then, of course, they've got to figure out what do they do when people start realizing inflation is going to be higher. they've been print