Ruchir Sharma
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I said, we have tested all this.
And none of this really works in explaining, but you get me like an interest rate increase of even 50 basis points, over half a percent, given the amount of debt you have in the system today.
So firstly, the market did go down 20%.
But here's the big thing, which is what I think.
Two things happened which helped us.
One, the amount of fiscal stimulus which came on.
So it's like, you know, you have two levers in opposite direction.
On one hand, like interest rates...
On the other hand, you keep on spending.
And this is under Biden as well, right?
Which is that they kept on spending, spending, spending.