reports lately. we're going to pull back on our bond buying program, hike rates, that's always going to believe a risky maneuver. that's coming in the first quarter. >> i want to talk to you about that in terms of whether you're a central banker and talking monetary policy or a politician talking about fiscal policy, do they still have the tools to deal with this, if this new variant ends up giving us much more adversity than anyonei thi fed to raise rates because of this very thing. you don't want to have no ammo in another crisis. i wish they would have raised them last quarter before we knew about the delta variability. my concern is they raise rates, the delta -- sorry, the omicron variant is worse than we thought.