Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Current Yield.

This is Grant's interest rate observer of the air.

And I am Jim Grant with you and with me as always, Eric Whitehead, who is sitting to my left.

He's just rather informally today is Eric.

We're going to the Mets game.

Yeah, after this podcast, that's the truth of it.

Weather permitting.

We don't care if it's range. We're going to go, at least.

Correct.

And the great Evan Lorenz, who is the deputy editor of Grants, is sitting across from me

and Phil Grant, from whom you have already heard.

He's the Mets fan.

He's sitting to my right.

And on the long-distance telephone from as far away as Finland, not Finland, not Finland, Pennsylvania. We're talking about Finland as Thomas Malin, who we think

is the clearest voice of reason in economics from the entire European continent. Yeah, that's the

consensus here at Grant. So Thomas, besides being the clearest voice in economics in Europe,

you're also the CEO of GNS Economics Limited, an adjunct professor of economics at the

University of Helsinki and vice chairman of Euro think tank. So with all of that, we welcome you.

Thank you. We think these are quite modest people for that. There is a lot of, I always continue

that to be an overstatement, but thank you.

I'll try to be the voice of reasons.

Yeah.

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