just sort of stumbled into. So you've done many other things besides that. We can't get into everything, but most notably, perhaps you were chief U.S. economist for HSBC Group, which is one of the largest banks in the world, or at least it used to be. I don't know where it still ranks today. It was number one when I left them. When they bought Carol McIntyne and McGinley, they were still the British colonial bank, 18th largest in the world. William Purvis took them from the British colonial bank to the largest bank in the world, which is where they were when I left in 1996. William Purvis was another one of those exceptional people, knighted by Queen Elizabeth, great banker. It was a privilege for me to get to know him a little bit. I would travel to Hong Kong or London and the scene. From time to time, I would be given projects to do for him. And that was also a wonderful experience. And I also survived quite a few mergers, I think a total of five in that process, which was a very (17/41)
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