he joins us from cambridge, massachusetts, jeffrey franco, welcome to the news are so clearly the euro, not as successful as some were predicting but not as big a failure as some we're hoping. what are its main achievements to you? thank oh i in different areas. it was a national success more so than most economists, i think are many economists. so we're, we're forecasting in another way. so failures of depends who, who successes seem to dominate. initially. that transition went very smoothly, which wasn't inevitable. the euro instantly became the world's number 2 international currency. other countries wanted to join and still want to join. a large capital flows flowed from the north to that for a free countries. but it was your course for your crisis, which a rapid increase in a true just turned off your correspondence in the beginning, a 2010 that really made the euro look like a mistake to some people. and it seemed to peer out some of the warnings at some skeptics had, had worn down by then in the 3rd stage i had, i think, i know relatively well since i mario draw. he that the gov