What Does It Do?

So now we have this shift. We have the fedear reserve that's raised interust rate several times. They're saying they're going to rate the next rays is going tobe another half percentage point. So they keep talking about raising interest rates. We know it's slowed down housing starts, and we know it o slowed down the mortgage of financing and refinancing, which we kind of expected. That was the whole goal of it. And the question though is, what does it do?