rather than the nuclear energy account, because i think it would be also appropriate understa that accou. is there a reason for that? >> no. that was signed by people more like you than by me. >> uh-oh. i see what you're saying. >> no. i'm just saying that you had to put it somewhere. appropriate to put it in an nsa budget and -- >> okay. we'd be interested in working with you on that and i think there are aproep trapriaters wa to know where it came from and the more information the better. with regard to enriched uranium, if you could talk for a moment why you think it's so important. obviously we freed it for nuclear power plants. at one point we had a majority of enriched uranium in the world produced by the united states. i think we're down to about 25% of the world's supply of enriched uranium now, and maybe place to start is where do we get now that we aren't producing nearly as much as we used to? >> there are two parts to this. one is the military side of the security side, we have international treaties which we want to abide by. treaties which say that the uranium used in nucle

now, in fact, our policies have beenccommodating since 2008 and on beth account both accou doing okay. under my chairmanship, it has remained the and same and in the last three years, the dollar in the foreign exchange sense is roughly up and down, but the same as where it was three years ago so it is not a big problem, but it is important to distinguish the two components. you asked about interest rates on -- the second part of the question? >> it is on risk fueling asset bubbles. >> well, obviously, that is something that we have to pay close attention to. we have greatly expanded our ability at the fed to mon thor the system broadly to take a macro prudential approach, and right now, we don't see the obvious bubbles in the economy, but it is certainly something that we have to look at and continue to monitor. >> thank you for your response. mr. chairman, many citizens in the nation are concerned about the rides in gasoline prices at the pump. especially the working class. what measures can the federal reserve take to stabilize the recent rise in gas prices? >> well, we are concerne

. >> @rosswestgate is my twitter accou account. >> and @pedrozzi is mine. thanks for that, stephane. nick joins us for more. nick, what do you think of eurozone going. italy, it is worth pointing out contracted more than expected, minus 0.7% on the quarter. it's officially in recession. greece contract more than execed on the unemployment rate. if you've got it, you're not going to get much out of it. >> i think that's one of the most interesting questions there and away, isn't it, because the conventional growth will grow if do you a lot of it. there have been periods where the economy has been expanhandling fexpanhandl expanhandliexpanhandl expanhandling -- expanding for on skrus reasons. >> where is that -- this is the bigger question. giev a short-term question about greece. the bigger question is whether the fiscal compact and the plan that's been dictated by the germans is the right one or whether actually it leads up to budgets that can never be met because you're never going to get the growth that's needed to pay the debts down. >> well, that's righ