David Brancaccio

They say buying a share in, I don't know, whether Time magazine's person of the year will be artificial intelligence or if the most streamed song on Spotify next Tuesday will be Bad Bunny's Titi Me Pregunto is gambling.

And their prediction companies don't want states regulating?

Nancy, thank you.

The Financial Times just reported that the head of Europe's central bank will leave early, sometime before her term expires.

Christine Lagarde has been at the helm there since just before COVID times.

The FT site's an unnamed source familiar with Lagarde's thinking.

Susan Schmidt is at Exchange Capital Resources.

Good morning.

The Financial Times doesn't say just when Christine Lagarde might be out at the ECB, but it's interesting development.

Apparently, succession is a little more orderly than the process in the United States, where the president has been very vocal about wanting our central banker out.

Jay Powell's term ends this year.

I think it's May.

Most countries in the European Union use the euro as their currency, but a few countries have chosen to keep their own.

Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Sweden.

But that last one is considering ditching its krona for the euro.

Marketplace's Kaylee Wells explains.

When Kaylee mentioned Sweden and Los Angeles County are similar in size, that's by population, each with around 10 million people, give or take.

In terms of square mileage, Sweden is 16 times larger than L.A.

County.

In, in fact, Los Angeles, I'm David Brancaccio, Marketplace Morning Report.