because I think it's very important. Because on the one hand, there are obviously many difficulties in gathering credible data in real time that tells a backward-looking picture about the Chinese economy. That's challenging enough. It's even harder to make projections about how the economy is going to look. And one of my questions is how do you incorporate the virus, the impact of the virus, and the impact of the monitoring and mitigation measures that will continue to be taken going forward? How do you incorporate that into your economic forecast for China? Well, one way is we collect data on it. So for instance, what we're doing for April is we're going to have an entirely new discrete survey out in the field asking people about supply chain questions, about possible COVID-19 relapse questions, asking about credit conditions, and how the economic stimulus and the aftermath is happening. I mean, we know that they're pumping an enormous amount of money into the economy. Everybody who's (29/57)
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