Katie Martin

I'm not a central banker, but this feels like you're getting ahead of yourself.

We'll see.

Well, we'll get this probably swan song from Jay Powell this week.

We're going to get all these heavy hitting earnings.

By the time we come back on Thursday, we're going to know a lot more about the world.

In the meantime, we're going to come back in just one sec with Longshore.

Alrighty, it is time for Long Short, that part of the show where we go long, a thing we love, or short, a thing we hate.

Rob, what you saying?

Well, yeah, you're lucky it didn't call you an ambulance.

Just humiliating.

Those watches are bad.

I am long the glorious victory of Iran over Trump.

I am, of course, referring to Iran's Hossein Vafayi, who defeated Judd Trump in the World Snooker Championship last night to go into the quarterfinals.

So, like, snooker is famous as, like, a...

pub sport in the UK.

But as far as I'm aware, listeners correct me if I'm wrong, Hossein Vafayi is the only Iranian player of any sort of stature in this game.

It's amazing.

How did this Iranian guy get so good at snooker?

And he's like a really unassuming guy.

And he beat someone called Trump?