mically. I don't know what that means but I'm going to say that the consensus of experts will be way worse than the economy. And I'm going to base it on some sort of a rule of thumb type stuff without a lot of analysis. Number one employment stays high. Number two we've had enough time to adjust our supply lines. You know maybe enough. Next every other country will be doing worse than us which I think there's an argument that that helps you to be the best of the worst because that gives your currency strength. Am I wrong about that? That as long as your currency is better than all the other places that are worse you're still okay. It's just that if your currency started looking bad compared to others well then you're in trouble. So we don't have to be good. We have to be better than other places right. So being better than other places is easier than it's ever been. That's never been easier. And I think the United States has more—the United States is willing to shoot itself to rebuild faster than any other country. I don't know that that's true by the way and that could be pure bigotry on my part but it feels like the US is more able to bury its own mistakes and just say all right everything we're doing up to this point was wrong. Let's do it all different. Rip it out. Rip it out by the roots. I think we do that faster and better than anybody. So I'm going to predict that our economy except for inflation—I'm going to allow that inflation will stay high for a while because it has to. And I'm going to give you a counter-intuitive when I say inflation stays high because it has to. It has to for good and for bad. Like we had to drain—we have to drain some cash out of the system. It's the only way to do it as far as I know. But as long as everything else keeps humming along, as long as America is less bad than all the alternatives I feel like we're going to have a good year next year which will be a problem for the 2024 election because Trump or whoever is running it might run into a strong economy. A weirdly strong economy. And you might be used to inflation by then. Yeah inflation will not be good next year. So let me be clear inflation will not be solved next year. That will be the problem that stays with us. But if everything else works it's going to be absorbable in the long run. All right so I'm going to make that prediction that the economy will be better than the consensus of experts. I don't know how much better.

Here's my second one. Trump has an opportunity that only one person has ever had before. Only one person in the history of the whole world has been in a position that Trump is likely to be in. And it goes like this. George Washington walked away from power when he didn't need to for the good of the country. He said although you know I think that's the historical interpretation. I suspect it was a little bit good for him as well but it got interpreted as you know the greatest move that really defined the whole country didn't it? Pret