 Coming to Mercatus in 2016 was really coming home. It was an extraordinary deja vu. My name is Bill Beach, and my current position is the Commissioner of Labor Statistics at the Bureau of Labor Statistics at the Department of Labor. And while I was most recently at Mercatus, I was the Vice President for Policy Research. I came to Mercatus directly from the Senate Budget Committee, where I was Chief Economist. And I came to take the job, which I thought was the best job I would ever, ever have. My last year at Mercatus was largely spent mentoring staff, but not doing a lot of writing, because I was in the middle of a nomination process. It was a very odd time. I wanted to do a lot of writing, and I wanted to direct research and make an additional impact in the policy world. And then I got this nomination. And I had this sort of like, you know, back off from all of that while still staying engaged. Coming to Mercatus in 2016 was really coming home. It was an extraordinary deja vu. In the early 90s, I was sort of extrapolated from Kansas City, where my wife and I were just very happy and brought out to head up the Institute for Humane Studies. And in a rough way, it was probably in 1993, I believe we moved IHS into a really modern office building, and the IHS board became the mother chef for several other organizations. Those organizations were later put together by David Knot, but he became president of IHS, into what was now known as Mercatus. I had a kind of a role to play, a very sort of founding father role, but kind of almost like founding father before the revolution of putting these groups in contact with one another so they could get comfortable. I guess the total population of that building at the time that I left it back in 1995 might have been 23 when I came back to Mercatus. And I feel like it was a coming back. I come back to an organization that was 200. It was just an extraordinary experience. I just kept pinching myself the whole time I was here. Can I believe this organization? Look at it. And of course, the young people here are just fine. This is Mercatus. We've always been a big organization. No, it hadn't. In 1993, Mercatus did not exist. It was in pieces, the Center for Market Process and a few other pieces, but it's extraordinary managers over the course of that period of time that put this organization together.