Hey, happy New Year, ladies and gentlemen. This is Current Yield Grants Interest Rate Observer of the Air.

I think Evan Lorenz. This is our first broadcast of the year 2022. And if so, well, I should add that I hope it is because I have no recollection of a prior

2022 broadcast.

Are you on the same wavelength, Evan?

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, that's good.

Okay, that's comforting.

But here we are, and it is great to be with the listeners of the current yield again.

It's great to be with the readers of Grant's Interest Rate Observer.

Again, this is our first coming up, Evan, is our first issue back from our not inordinately lengthy,

but to be sure, ample New Year's and Christmas break. And I don't know about you, but I'm like,

where is the space bar on the keyboard? One gets

disoriented. I've been pushing for the all picture issue. Yeah. Let me know how that works

where the powers that. Wait, I'm the power. I'm all for it. I'm all for it. A man who I think

knows exactly where the space bar is and many other keys on the keyboard as well as with her this morning.

He is Christopher Leonard, who is the author of a truly a must-read new book called The Lords of Easy Money.

The title sounds as if it were drafted in the offices of grants interest, random server,. I can assure you it was not. It was the Simon & Schuster production. Christopher is a

storied investigative journalist. His previous work has included the meat racket, the secret takeover of America's food business and New York Times best selling Coke land, the secret history of Coke industries and corporate power in America.

And I think if the technology is working, we will next hear Christopher Leonard's voice on the air.

Christopher, are you there?

I am here, and thank you so much for having me on.

I appreciate it.

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