Wall Street's had to go through big changes over the years.

Before, to play with data, you had to go to someone else, manipulate it, ask them for more data.

The speed of Ridgeline helps me do that in one place, at one time, in one moment.

Ridgeline is a cumulative advantage.

As a general theme, the administration wants to improve sentiment going into midterms, right?

We're going to have this very consequential midterm election, household sentiment's very weak,

affordability is at the absolute top of their priority list.

Hello and welcome to the Barron Streetwise podcast.

I'm Jack Howe, and the voice you just heard is John Hill.

He's the head of U.S. inflation market

strategy at Barclays. He joined us to talk about the Trump administration's efforts to bring

down interest rates. We'll talk about the Federal Reserve. There could be tangents,

pottery, dinosaurs. Probably not those two specifically, but let's see what happens.

Listening in is our audio producer Alexis Moore.

Hi, Alexis.

Hi, Jack.

Did you see that the 30-year fixed mortgage rate just hit its lowest level in three years?

What is it?

Well, I'm going to tell you.

I'm going to give you a number.

And I want your immediate response.

How excited does this rate make you on a scale from one to 30 years?

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