it's working, they have to do it quite slowly this morning i had former ecb president john claude trichet the topic was differences between things, relationships. we talked about taxes. i'd like to look at that whole topic in a different light feedback loops you know, after the crisis we had, in my opinion, many negative feedback loops, inversions, calibration of tax policy between countries, not calibrated correctly you had regulations growing on all sides of all borders globally, and, of course, we had central banks and lots of stimulus now, forgetting whether we needed them, we should have done them, that was the world we had. and that feedback loop started to grow, because when one something does something where government is growing, productivity is shrinking, makes it easier for other governments to continue. and the crisis was a big reason -- wow, pits are getting busy here. that's a short rate pit. maybe we should be watching the market, as well, but the distortions reversing, negative feedback loops are turning positive on taxes. you know what, as we lower taxes, other countries