Hey, welcome to Current Yield. This is Jim Grant on behalf of Grant's interest rate observer.

And yeah, this is our podcast. This is not to be confused with a print edition of grants,

which you read. This is oral. So having cleared that up, I want to welcome today's roundtable.

First of all, the great deputy editor of grants, Evan Lawrence.

Hey, I'm.

Good morning, Jim, or good afternoon.

Afternoon, I think it is.

Well, not to be dogmatic, it's morning some places.

But in the eastern time zone of the United States, it was definitely afternoon.

In fact, the market probably has closed now.

Hey, short sellers, was it a good day or a bad day?

A brief.

A little of both.

Okay, okay.

With us today are two guests, Thomas Morton and Prem Naomi, who are professional short sellers.

They decide which stocks are likely to go down and they take the appropriate action.

They borrow the share and sell them and wait for them to go broke, essentially.

But we'll get into the nuances of that line of work in just one moment.

But, hey, Evan, we closed an issue of Grant last night

if memory serves. No? We did. It does, which is why I'm a little bit confused today, just

still getting my bearings. This, ladies and gentlemen, this is our first issue back from our summer

vacation. And I can't speak for Henry or I can't speak for Evan. But in my case, I come back after a lot, and like, where's the space bar and the type write?

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