Well, welcome to current yield grants interest rate observer of the air.

I am Jim Grant, and with me as always is the great deputy editor of Grant, Evan Lorenz.

Good afternoon, Evan.

Good afternoon.

So I am calling in from Schoherry, New York, which is 35 miles or so west of Albany and about as many east of Cooperstown, New York, home of the Baseball Hall of Fame, and of the Glimmer Glass Opera.

And let's see, what other advertising things we may.

Oh, yes, this podcast is brought to you by, as always, in this difficult time of pandemic, by love and youth in spring, and by the October 19th Fall Grants Conference.

Evan, I think it's going to be a fabulous conference, and if people don't get their tickets today, there might not be any seats left.

It's my vision.

I agree. Hot destinations are selling out fast. That's my vision. I agree.

Hot destinations are selling out fast.

People should buy now.

Yeah.

And also, we have a third sponsor whose name is John Delberto.

John is our telephone sales agent.

And ladies and gentlemen, when he calls you to subscribe to grants, would you please say yes, it will make his day?

He asked me to mention that. But we have a guest

today. It's not just Evan and Jim complaining about the markets. We have with us, Paul Brodsky.

And Paul is a man of parts on Wall Street. I knew him way back when when he was focused on the gold market. And the two of us

had lunch late 2016 or early 2017. We had lunch in Harry's Wall Street, way way downtown, lower Manhattan.

And I blame the acoustics in Harry's, which were horrific for my failure to pick up on what

turned out to be a

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