is going on here. i take this as a very positive sign. bernanke wouldn't say this or think this or plan to do it if he wasn't seeing numbers that superintendent the economy is getting better. consumers are sawing more and spending intelligently, business managers are running businesses better. we're probably going to have growth a little bigger than people expect -- >> neil: but the world market enter its it as bad news because we have -- >> we have had an artificial economy for the last three years. he saved the economy. now he is in the process of mapping the economy. you look at the second part, managing is harder than saving because you can do different things rather than one thing. so the market feels uncertain about this. natural for it to be uncertain. in the risk off, risk on world, when they're not sure, they stop everything. >> neil: you were around during the '87 market crash and crashettes.