💬 Quoted…​​ “Stamps really don’t mean anything to Janet at all.”

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is known around the world to be an avid stamp collector. At least six foreign leaders have given her stamps during diplomatic meetings over the past two years – and that’s not including a British chancellor, who last year gave her the most valuable stamp ever issued by the Royal Mail.

• There’s just one problem… Yellen doesn’t like stamps. But she previously listed her mother’s stamp collection – worth between $15,001 and $50,000 – in financial disclosure forms required for various government roles over the years.

👥 Stats of the Day: The number of people primarily working from home more than tripled between 2019 and 2021 (9 million → 27.6 million), per new Census Bureau data published yesterday. Commuting by public transportation was cut in half over that same period.

🌎 Around the World: Chinese President Xi Jinping officially met with Russian President Vladimir Putin at a summit in Uzbekistan yesterday, marking Xi’s first trip outside China since the early days of the pandemic.

🤯 Did You Know?... ​​The International Space Station is closer to Earth than San Francisco is to LA (257 miles vs. 383 miles).

📖 Worth a Read: The Search for Intelligent Life Is About to Get a Lot More Interesting → (NY Times)