This is Current Yield, Grant's Interest Rate Observer of the Air.

I'm Jim Grant.

And with me as always is the great deputy editor of Grant, Evan Lorenz.

Good morning, Evan.

And Evan is in the same room, in the same borough as I, which is a rarity in this day and age of remoteness.

So it's good.

You look familiar, Evan.

It's good to see you again.

And Harrison Waddill is at the control panel this morning.

And, and our guest today is Steve Forbes, who happens to be the world's leading authority

on the Democratic contest for the 1892 presidential campaign.

Wow.

You did your research.

And the German and editor-in-chief of Forbes Media and himself noted, indeed, singular podcaster of the podcast, What's Ahead, author of books, presidential contender, 19-19-19-19-190.

1896, in 2000. And the country's lost

perhaps. I stood out of the way from McKinley in 1896. Well, perhaps, certainly it was the country's

loss, but it might well have been your gain that you remained a civilian in those two contests.

I don't know. It sounds like a tough job. But Evan, I noticed that markets seem to be a little discompopulated these days.

Yeah, after the last couple years, I didn't know they can go down.

Yeah, it seems unauthorized. More of that in a moment. But first, ladies and gentlemen,

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