let's bring in a is as bad as we fear, richard bernstein. so, now, i wonder how you process all of that -- which i just said, which points to maybe things that are a little better than had been expected up against your thought that interest rates are actually going to go higher and stay there longer than the consensus. >> yeah, well, tyler, you almost answered your own question if things aren't as bad as people think, the natural corollary to that should be that the fed will be raising rates higher than people think the reason that people believe that the fed has to pivot to use the word of the day is that they believe that the economy is on the precipice of some serious economic slowdown, recession or not recession. you know, the data is slowing. of course, we know that but it is hard to argue that the economy is on the precipice of some toe curling recession. >> so, a good relatively speaking, a better than anticipated economy actually gives the fed the cover it might need to raise rates higher to absolutely crush inflation >> i think that