so we learn that abe is looking at a couple hundred billion plus of stimulus, core rhoda, of course,ith the bank of japan they have to have formal numbers put on this, it's floating a balloon, is there no end to what japan is going to try to do and it's kind of scary. i mean if you look at their debt to gdp, long slides since 1989 and almost 40,000 in the nikkei currently under 17,000, why do they keep doing something that, obviously, doesn't seem to be working? >> it's a tough question to answer, rick, but your fundamental point is exactly right. the interrelationship of the economies globally, money does not know borders as you know. the money will find its own level. and i think what happens in japan, what happens in italy, what happens in turkey, clearly affects what happens in the rest of the world. and i think that if you look at another factor that was discussed in the last meetings, the normal rate of employment, in other words the neutral rate of employment, the -- where there is no impact on inflation by rising employment, is also up for question. we're even challenging som