Joe Weisenthal

Go on.

I love this take.

Right.

Yeah.

There are certain people that you don't get to know or you're, you know, when you're in your 20s or whatever, your peers or your peers.

And that's great.

But they probably aren't, for example, external members of the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee and so forth.

Or other such roles.

But as you get senior, you're like, oh, wow, I know that person.

I recognize that name.

As you guys like to say, who went to university in London, I went to uni with that person.

My impression is that everyone in London, quote, went to uni with literally everyone else, because I've heard you and Sid say that specific phrase so many times over the last decade.

And professional roles.

And it's a really interesting time, of course, to be talking about monetary policy.

I mean, I would say it's an interesting time.

It's always an interesting time to be talking about monetary policy.

But I would say it's a particularly interesting time because I could list several reasons for that.

So obviously, we are still in the wake of the incredible inflation wave that we had post-COVID.

And at least in much of the world, inflation has not returned to target.

In fact, in some countries, the rate hike cycle has begun.