guest, who has written a ton of books and scholarly articles, more numerous than we can go into, alan blinderrmer chair of the federal reserve, now professor at princeton. dr. blinder, i want to start with your assessment of how jay powell and this current fed have guided the markets and more importantly guided all of us here in this country to sort of understand what they are looking at, what they find important, and what type of confidence they are able to instill in us that they have inflation, or at least the broader idea of inflation, under control. dr. blinder: i think with two exceptions probably, their guidance has been excellent. i mean, evidence of that is what happened today. the markets, you know, they moved, of course, but they did not move radically on a very major change in fed policy. you think about doubling the taper pace and really changing dramatically the expected interest rates, so that was a lot for the market t swallow, and paving the way was communication and guidance beforehand, part of that story. i think the two places where they have not provided adequate guidance