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Welcome back to Inside the Hive.

I'm here with my co-host, Johei, and I'm Emily Jane Fox.

Johei!

Hello, we're back.

We have a great interview today and it's something that you and I have mentioned like 700 times

over the last year.

I think in every time we've gotten to talk over the last six months, we've said we really

should bring on an economist and then we haven't brought on an economist.

Well, today's the day, this week is the week, we have brought on an economist.

We've brought on an incredible economist, her name is Beth Ann Bovino.

She is the Chief U.S. economist at S&P, which feels like the economist to be talking to.

And I was a young lady and I was just out of journalism school, I worked at CNN, I used

to cover markets and I had no idea what markets were.

So I used to, every day, three times a day, do an update to the markets right on CNN.

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