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What a joy it has been through surveillance this morning to speak to any number of women who have been out front with academic courage and professionalism within the industry including

Julia Coronado with us earlier and now for the entire hour thrilled to bring you

Abby Joseph Cohen who's at a wonderful commitment to my work at Bloomberg on the

economy and Bloomberg surveillance and that she would commit an hour to us

this morning is greatly appreciated. Abby you are the permable but the pros who know you know you're not, and you have shifted over the last number of months.

Why have you shifted from a real optimism on the stock market and on making

money over the long term to something that is more cautious? What brought about that shift?

Well, thank you very much for including me in your programming today.

I'm flattered to be given this much time.

In response to your question, I'm going to quote Lord Maynard Keynes, who when asked why he had changed this forecast, he said, when the facts change, I changed my mind. what do you do and as I take a look at things right now

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