May gave me some studio time as the US regional bank SVB collapsed amongst rate increases of central banks globally. For me, studio time is explanation time: Most people don’t deal with finance stuff on a regular basis. But what finance and central banks do may be abstract but it is at the core of our society - they tender money. And I love telling stories around how that works.
Problem with bank failures is:
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They happen on a weekend and you can't get a haircut before going to the studio. pic.twitter.com/4Wk9nagZV1
I also was glad to get studio time in both English and German. And while I know most finance/econ terms in English first and in German second, it remains easier to talk about something naturally in my first language.