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So, Joe, I think on our last recording of our Libor series, I think I said that that was actually the last episode, but you know what, that was false advertising.

You could just, there's never enough LibOR is there? No and also it's kind of amazing but as we

continue to record these episodes more and more people want to actually talk about

LIBOR.

And I guess it kind of makes sense, after all,

this is the reference rate that affects,

you know, I can never keep track,

but I think it's something like 350 trillion dollars worth of assets so obviously it's absolutely

crucial for the financial system. Right I mean yeah as you say it makes sense that

people have so much to say about it given that it's been so crucial to the pricing of trillions of hundreds of trillions of dollars worth of assets and it's this sort of Herculean task to sunset it in some way and

transition to something else so I don't know maybe we should do like a month-long

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