how critical is it for secretary kittner and congress to get the fiscal house in order so you can get monetary house in order quite >> well, first of all, let me be clear that there is a big difference between connotative easing and the fiscal debt, the government debt. we engaged in quantitative easing or is called a credit easing because it's been focused at trying to get the credit markets functioning again. we did that for two reasons. first because we hit the zero down and therefore normal interest rate cuts wouldn't achieve the goal anymore. and secondly because of this extraordinary environment, many markets were not functioning properly and we felt ways to get those markets better and we've had some success in doing that. we have already begun a process of phasing out or reducing many of these extraordinary actions. for example, as you look at the portion of our balance sheet related to short-term financial institutions to commercial paper market, and two other kinds of international swaps with foreign central banks and other kinds of short-term lending. that amount has droppe