damage to their abercrombie & fitch image. rick: it had nothing to do with getting us to talk about abercrombie & fitch today on television. thank you, nicole, good to see you. jenna: you're still okay, you could still wear their clothes. okay. just checking. surprising comments from a prominent economist got our attention this week. the headline, fixing the economy, we got it all wrong. it's an "l.a. times" editorial that he wrote. he says the economic issues are worse than expected the solutions aren't worked, we need to start anew. the professor joins us now on the phone coming to us by way of vermont. this is not part of your economic strategies being in a place fro vermont so far from a studio you have to use a phone. >> i haven't thought about that. the place has been in the family for of 0 years. it's possible the fact that no studios were located within 40