Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another Grant's podcast.

I'm Jim Grant.

With me today is Evan Lorenz, and at the controls, at the dials, is Olatana Gay.

Eric Whitehead, our normal engineer, our usual engineer,

is actually spent the 4th of July in Cuba for Pete's sake.

Yeah, we'll talk more about that next week when we have Eric in our presence.

I want to know some details.

It is lovely to be with you all, and I don't know.

I'd like first to get something off my chest. I walk from the subway

to our broadcasting studio here to Wall Street. And Evan, you have never seen so many

half-naked, slow-walking tourists in your life. Grants has been downtown for 34 years, and

every year brings fewer business people and more tourists.

I don't begrudge of the tourists, their presence here. I think it's nice they come down and see

us, but I do wish they'd walk a little more briskly, Evan. I wish they'd also like dress,

just a little bit more. So that will conclude this morning's editorial.

This podcast has brought to you as have been so many,

and for which we are grateful by Pitney Bowes and the Pitney Bowes Send Pro.

You'll be hearing more about our very gracious sponsor presently.

And I guess evidence also brought to us by us, right? It wouldn't be

the same without us. Evan, as you and I sit here with Olaton, something is happening in the world

of finance, having to do with interest rates, which have been as still as a dead pond for a while,

but today there is drama. Please enlighten this. What is happening?

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