>> i'd like to welcome peter boockvar, no stranger to cnbc viewers and listeners. . >> thanks for having me. >> all right. listen, if you were king, before the election, the end of october this year, you could peg funds where you thought they would be appropriately placed, where would you have put that level? >> 1.75% to 2%, historically it's been 200 to 300 basis points above the rate of inflation. let's not get ahead of ourselves. let's call it around the rate of inflation, 1.75% to 2%. >> coming into 2016, what did janet yellin and her committee through all the various connect my dots, what did they peg as a number for rate hikes for 2016 at the end of 2015? >> in their crystal billion ball, they expected four rate hikes in 2016. >> and of course we received one. >> correct. >> is there any way we'll see more adversarial coverage of this really poor track record of predicting and giving us any type of significant forward guidance? the only way we'll get more adversarial coverage of this is, what, to have a donald trump when he becomes president, when he puts forw