So this is Current Yield, Grants Interest Rate Observer of the Air.

With me as always is the great deputy editor of Grants, Evan Lorenz.

And Henry is not here at the control panel today and said we have Harrison Wood Dill,

who is ordinarily known for his fabulous executive and administrative work,

but Harrison is a sound engineer.

So if you can't hear anything, Harrison's email address is, no, I won't.

And with us, especially today, a pair of New York City real estate distressed entrepreneurs who do businesses Maverick. Maverick Capital is it, fellas?

Maverick Real Estate Partners. Partners, okay. David, Averham, and Ted Martel. So we'll be talking with David and Ted just a moment. Evan, I understand there was a CPI report this morning. What did it say?

Oh, prices keep rising, just not quite as fast as they were before. Plus 3% year over year in June.

That's good, right? Well, I still think prices are up like 18% over the last three years,

so that wasn't quite as good. Yeah, everyone talks about the rate, but very few stop to linger

to reflect on the theft of purchasing

power that is killing of rather than month to month or year over year. So thank you for that

clarification. And Evan, I saw you most characteristically burst into laughter yesterday upon

reading a news story. And I would like you to tell the listeners about what you saw. And yeah,

go ahead.

The Wall Street Journal had probably the single best expose of this week, if not this month.

The world's greatest stone thrower, which is Elon Musk. He's challenged Mark Zuckerberg,

the CEO of Meta, formerly Facebook, to a cage match, which Elon Musk's mother then called off.

Apparently is trying to get... His mother called off? His off his mother told not to and he's a good boy

Yeah all appearances to the contrary he apparently was using company funds to build himself a giant glass house in Austin Texas

Apparently the glass is quite expensive the architects to and eventually rose to the board and now the board's investigating it for

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