Welcome to Current Mield.

This is Grant's interest rate observer of the air, and I am Jim Grant.

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

And as per usual, Henry French is at the control panel. And today,

sitting to my right, Derek Gilles-A-Cross from Evan and to Henry's left is Jeremy Mindich.

Great to be here. Yeah, founding, I'm going to call you a partner.

That works.

Scopia Capia. Yeah.

You know, I have, I began the day with three inflation shocks.

I bought the usual quartet of newspapers today.

It wasn't 1250.

It was 1350.

I remember a time when you plunk down 25 cents and silver and you got yourself, the Wall

Street Journal, New York Times, The Post, and the Daily News.

Okay, that was the first.

Second was, I got my teeth cleaned.

What do you think?

Worth it, right?

Yeah, really good.

Yeah, except it was $325 today rather than the prior $275 for cleaning and a glimpse in my mouth.

That's a privilege the dentist gets.

So that's up 18%.

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