loudermilk: ok. just assuming certain types of information from the role he's in, is there any idea if information was provided to the ccp what advantage,s with that give them? mr. powell: without knowing what it is -- i can tell you what staffers generally get, the economic analysis that we do in advance of an fomc meeting. you know, in modern central banking, we try to be as transparent as possible. i don't want to sound like i'm dismissing this case in which we take very, very seriously, just as you do. the truth is what we have that is secret knowledge of what we are going to do in the future and in modern central banking, the whole idea is to be transparent about what you were going to do. nonetheless, we take this case very seriously, to your question. rep. loudermilk: and i appreciate it. this is not adversarial at all, i'm just trying to get to what possibly the chinese could have gone and if they have anything with it. of course if you are unaware of the type of information accessed, you cou