Now, this is Current Eald Grant's interest rate observer of the air, and I am Jim Grant,

and with me, as usual, Eric Whitehead at the control panel, the great deputy editor of grants,

Evan Lorenz, and Phil Grant, who edits and produces and conceives all those things,

almost daily grants, the invaluable daily,

nearly daily companion to people in the market. So I don't know about you guys, but I've been

feeling a little bit competitive about this podcast of ours. I hear that Ted Cruz has got

this impeachment podcast that's generating like millions and millions of listeners, maybe fewer

next week, but

still. And then there's Guinez Palos' Goop Wellness Podcast, which is just cleaning up in

ratings. She's not a Netflix show, too. Yeah. And I think we can do better. I think we can do

better. And I was thinking about what could propel us into the Paltro-esque rating sphere?

I thought, well, of course.

We are going on a campaign.

That campaign is to strike the word impossible from the dictionary.

As it is, impossible does figure in the dictionary.

It's in the Oxford English dictionary.

And here's what the OED says about the word impossible. First of all, it's an

adjective. It means it not possible that cannot be done or affected, that cannot exist or come into

being that cannot be an existing or specified circumstances. Now, that's make sense.

And what prompted this was Evan, something you said around the other day, was a report that Greece had issued three-month treasury bills.

Whatever the yield was, the most striking thing was the sign in front of the yield.

It was actually a minus sign for 26-week bills yielding minus five basis points. And so this brings me to the mathematical

...