this is a joy, brian weinstein is with morgan stanley investment management, head of global fixed incomen. brian will join us in a moment. right now, the economy cannot be perfect. i put out on twitter, this is the first read of your autumn, ian rose and his team -- autumn, gideon rose and his team -- robert blackwell, and the giant, douglas erwin. these -- how do you full these politics? gideon: the world is starting to unravel or continuing to unravel. the strongest and dominant players in the world today are smash mouth, personalized, authoritarian dictators represented by the groups he saw on our cover x --i, -- cover, erdogan. these are people who are leading the authoritarian turn. they have the motion. they have the wind at their back. they are dominant. in terms of china, where they are heading, it is not a good place. xi's tenure is to restore party dominance. this is evolving into a major challenge to party dominance. this is not something i think xi manages to stomach. you to take awant collective lap. not so much at what did you get right, but reassess the morgan stanley caut