joining us right now is somebody we ran into last night, barry sternlicht is the chairman and ceo of >> what everyone else is doing. going to see as many events as possible and running into people like you guys. and ad libbing it. >> yeah, it's -- it's interesting, because it's been a crazy busy news cycle up to this point. things have maybe slowed down, as we hope people are taking a break to watch some of these games and see what's going on, but there are all of these things in the backdrop in the markets. you've got a fed meeting this week with the announcement coming tomorrow. what are you anticipating hearing? what would you like to hear? >> i think by now, everyone knows what i would like to hear. finally, the data is showing up, as we expected it to. you have core inflation below 2%. if they take out the rent component, which they should, and i think my whole industry has now rallied behind this war cry of like, why do i use old data for this one component of cpi. which is the rent component of the cpi. so, i hear it more and more. i know people are talking to the fed, like, e