some airlines had raised taxes a p pre preemtive move in case they had to pay those taxes. >>> and now we have cnbc's john harwood joining us. keeping the interest rates through 2013 low, and is that what we wanted to hear? the market is responding well up 215 points? >> well, jonathan, the wild gyrations in the market that andy was describing shows that the market are trying to figure out what is going on just like we are. they don't have a better or clearer picture than anybody else. i do think that some in the markets wanted to see the fed act more decisively and go with a quantitative easing of qe-3 to pump more cheap money or long-term money into the economy and the counter pressures you saw to that, and you will see that the dissents, and the planting of the seeds of future inflation and driving down to value of the dollar and all of those things are forces acting on ben bernanke, and signalling that he is going to keep the rates low for an extended period of time through 2013,...