but the carter ricardo actually said very clearly that this cany be a part of it when it is violated. >> my second question has to do with is there anyone in washington dc listening and inquiring and wanting to know more about what you are doing? >> many people who work on this besides myself, there is a lot of people for whom this is old hat, to be honest. and the difficulty is that a lot of discussion about deficits and debt is really unintuitive. the standard macroeconomic advice, that is really unintuitive and it makes it a lot easier and therefore we should cut back, which is true for a household and it's very hard to go through keynesian economic reasoning with this speech. that being said, there are many folks who do want a daily german approach to this. we have to make sure that we understand this is very compelling. >> do you mind speaking in the microphone for your question, please? >> in your book, you give an example of ricardo's assumptions did you kind of wisdom? >> yes, they are buried in footnotes. and it's actually, if you're interested in these issues with ricardo an