c and j f. how today? well, let's go to our tea producer, leslie petter, outside of the federal reserve. here in washington, d. c. r. leslie, what inside did we get from chairman power on wednesday? well, today to empower laid down the groundwork for pulling back easy monetary policy, so he discuss pulling back and tapering off of i said, purchases and as well, what are the interest rates for next year, particularly in support of these goals to federal open market committee kept interest rates near 0, an updated it's assessment of the progress of the that the economy has made toward the criteria specified in the committees forward guidance for interest rates. the committee also decided to double the pace of reductions in its asset purchases. beginning in mid january, we will reduce the monthly pace of our net asset purchases by $20000000000.00 for treasury securities and $10000000000.00 for agency mortgage backed securities. ah, oh, so yes, the economy is on track to expand rapidly as people are getting more vaccinated and businesses are opening. however, the rising coven cases in the oklahoma con varian has been f