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Trouble. you'll recall in 2008 really into when we now know the recession was already underway, you had ben bernackie. i hope they're not fooling themselves and i hope they've got some plan to move forward if the inevitable recession, because they happen, does arrive. i thought catherine's post. and i would exclude larry kudlow. whether he's got -- or even a crisis that could come from overseas, whether the uk crashes out of the eu, whether germany and other european countries fall into recession. or whether more importantly this trade war creates a worldwide slowdown, which it already has. ca...

One of the country's biggest security vulenter contracts can be the very old computer software. the federal election assistance commission held a meeting yesterday with state election officials and other stakeholders. it was prompted by an associated press report last month which found that a majority of the country's 10,000 voting jurisdictions are using outdated software. it is so old that microsoft is going to sta going to stop sending out updates next year. ben, how much of a problem is it? is that that we're going from free updates to maybe paid for updates? or is the software so old it's...

The meantime, you know, local jurisdictions are racing to do some of these patches themselves or in some cases they say, well, there's not enough time, we can't do this, we're just not going to use those machines at all. we are going to separate them entirely. just the ability of -- sometimes we're talking about poor cash-strapped jurisdictions, places that have trouble paying their water bills, places that have trouble putting in roads. they don't have an i.t. staff. we're having these people to be on the front line against foreign nation states. >> that is exactly what the problem. ben, than...