how much did the game changed yesterday, alan ruskin, with disinflation codified in the united statesow whether disinflation was codified, things did certainly change in the fx market. we have been entrenched in this narrow range for most of this year. euro-dollar in particular was seemingly cap that 1.1090. three broke that level it has opened the floodgates and the dollar is on the defensive against all currencies. it has codified a change in the fx market. tom: i looked at a very fancy regression of the blended dxy index back 20 years, and certainly off the great financial event of 2008 i can look for further 8% dollar weakness. do you see that kind of scale to go further with dollar weakness? alan: tom, i do. when you look at these big dollars cycles, you know, historically we used to have six or seven years of uptake, then nine, maybe 10 years of dollar famine, as it were. this cycle got broken up because of coven in particular, and we had a longer uptake -- uptick. 25% down on the index, so we have probably gone maybe a quarter of the way through a particular down cycle. even if