Hey, welcome to Current Yield, the Grants Interest Rate Observer podcast.

With me today, as always, Eric Whitehead of the controls, Phil Grant, who runs our almost daily grants,

and the great Evan Lorenz, the deputy editor of grants.

And also joining us today is John Haskell, who is in the

throws, the very fires of the emerging markets liquidation. John is the director of research

at Exploradoor Capital, which invest in Latin America. So he's going to tell us how things look at,

as it were, ground zero.

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So, John Haskell, welcome to you.

It's a pleasure to have you with us.

We thought of you today, John.

We were talking to you in the midst of a flaming crisis in emerging markets. And if you didn't know it,

John, perhaps you've heard of this. If you didn't know it, everything's going down, including the

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