study history in school. At least I didn't. So that sounds very fascinating, but you got into money and finance and you said you found the economy fascinating. So what was it that attracted you to this subject? Well, that's a good question. I mean, what's not to be fascinated and excited about? I suppose the more I got into it, the more crazy stuff was happening. I think, you know, particularly when I did my first book, my first book was about the Asian financial crisis in the late 1990s, the crisis that hit, you know, Korea, Thailand, first, well, first Thailand, then Indonesia, Korea, and then later Russia and Brazil. And looking back on that now, from the perspective that we have today, where, you know, we've already been through the global financial crisis of 2008, and COVID and all these other things that have happened. But that crisis really brought the world pretty close to the precipice. And I guess the transformative moment for me, I remember going to interview a guy at the (9/45)