Joe Weisenthal

So there's still the live issue.

There is the

shifting political situation in many countries in which the very premise of like, well, how much independence should the central bank have to operate is being rediscussed.

That's right.

We're speaking during a week of local elections.

And then, of course, COVID, shock, maybe transitory, a one-off thing.

Governor Christopher Waller in the U.S., he had a good speech recently called One Transitory Shock After Another.

Of course, in this case, alluding to the war in Iran.

And so what does the price in oil and so forth mean for inflation?

There are so many interesting questions right now for anyone in the seat of a monetary policymaker.

We like talking to Americans who have served on the MPC.

Who've made it.

Yeah, well, we've, you know, Adam Pozen has been on the show.

A bunch of times.

So, yeah, it's plausible that you and I could be MPC members.

What is your role?

What does it mean to be an external member of the MPC at the BOE?

So you and Adam aren't the first.

So in the U.S., they report, but I guess in the Europe, they don't, right?

So you don't actually get those vote counts or you don't know who, if they dissented or what.