i want to bring back in danielle dimartino booth and gabriela santos.esting, because jay powell is between a rock and a hard place in two ways. i think the dual mandate, obviously, from time to time causes headaches. but now there's serious pressure on him, gabriela. president trump, he might actually post something on social media during the next 30 minutes. i know the fed says it doesn't bother them, but they're human, right? >> i'm sure they are human, but i'm sure they're also very focused on the dual mandate. and as chair powell said a couple of meetings ago, i think don't guess, assume or speculate, and they really focus on both sides of the mandate. but what was a bit confusing to the market was then at the december meeting, kind of explicitly calling out d.c. policy -- charles: right. >> -- as something that would shape their action this year. i think the way to square that circle is to say they won't be proactive about implementing policy based on potential policy, but they will very much monitor the impact on tear forecasts on both sides of th

qi research, their ceo, danielle dimartino booth. that was a phenomenal performance yesterday, you know? i think, i think even i personally have more confidence in the trump financial team, and my confidence level was already high. talk to us about your thinking. >> so incoming treasury secretary scott bessent was so even-keeled, so level-headed and so articulate. he was very calm in saying, look, i mean, if we're worried about fiscal dominance, then why on earth is the the dollar the strongest currency everywhere? and why is it so widely adopted? for all of the scare that it's going -- that other currencies are going to be adopted, that's just not the case. and as far as the central bank digital currency goes, charles, you know i have some very strong opinions on this. you know, it's kind of a progressive's dream, it's orwellian. it's 1987, it's big brother, and bessent is rational enough to know that in a country like the united states, we don't need people breathing down our throat, the government, and dictate thing what we buy, ho