i hope you're right, but i'm assuming dr. larik and johnson aren't as in agreement in your rosy scenario. >> i think i'm more optimistic because i believe the germans are going to drive europe to a stable fiscal union. it will take a number of years. we're debating before the conference whether this was the 17th summit and the 19th republican debate in republican presidential candidate debate, or the 19th summit and the 17th republican presidential debate. we have many more summits to go, but they'll get there. i believe. but there is a large risk. one of my colleagues uses an analogy. he says this is a dangerous operation. you could have the most skilled surgeon in the world, but things can go wrong. and so something could go wrong. i think the germans have now found the tools to do that nchs, which are just to keep the interest rates really high on all the politicians that are of the week countries and that will force them to do what german threats and pleading and reasoning did not succeed in doing for two years. and secondly, t