thank you. >> thank you very much 3789 professor phil heymann asked a couple of good questions. as you formulate your questions, and we'll invite you in a moment to ask them. a couple of questions, would the taliban object to reduced production if you asked them? if you increase the cost of production rever knew goes up and would profits -- revenue goes up but would profit go up is the question? why don't the farmers ask for the help? revenues do increase with law enforcemenn is the kinddof question and the then the interesting one as well, what difference on the ground would your recommendation be? >> first i should say, it is true that economists have massively messed up the economy. fortunately this piece of economic analysis was done by three people, none of them has a degree in economics. mine is in policy analysis and john is good at economics but his b. scrmbings in physics. none of us are to be blamed for the meltdown. why don't we farmers ask for reduction? we do. that was the whole great new deal. culture policys is to cut back on production to support agricultural pri