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Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Punch Bowl News Readback podcast. I'm joined by Dr.

Vault, our financial services reporter, Brendan Peterson, for a great conversation on his interview

with French Hill, who will be the top Republican and the chairman of the House Financial Services

Committee next year.

Brendan, thanks so much for joining. How are you?

Thank you, Max. I am doing well. I do want to stay for the record, for all those of you listening

at home. I do not embrace nor reject the title of Dr. Vault. I simply accept it,

but I try not to use it myself because I am not a medical doctor,

but I appreciate it.

Very humble.

And for all those listening at home, that's just the title we bestowed on Brendan for being

our financial services expert and, of course, one of the co-authors of a very popular

newsletter, The Vault Weekly and the Vault Quarterly and, you know,

the Vault Daily. It's everywhere. But if you want to know anything about the economy and Congress,

Brendan is your guy. Thank you. And on that note, Brendan, you recently spoke with a very powerful

person, French Hill. And the story that you wrote this week for our newsletter in the

readback, I just thought was so interesting.

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