💬 Quoted… “It was a friendly conversation.”

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell was tricked into talking with a pair of Russian comedians who were impersonating Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, a spokesperson for the US central bank confirmed yesterday. The spokesperson said that “no sensitive or confidential information was discussed” during the prank call.

• Clips of the video conversation with Powell were posted online yesterday by the two Russian comedians, who have done the same thing to other world leaders. Fed officials said some of the clips appear to have been edited and that the matter was referred to law enforcement.

🚫📰 Stat of the Day: 320 years = how long Wiener Zeitung, the world's oldest current newspaper, has published a daily print edition (aka since 1703). That is, until Austria’s parliament passed a law yesterday ordering the state-run paper – which used to report on Mozart when he lived in 18th-century Vienna – to transition to a once-monthly print edition alongside a daily online version.

🤯 Did You Know?... 2023 is the first year in history where the total number of female CEOs in the S&P 500 (41) isn’t lower than the combined number of CEOs with the name John/Jon or James, per a new Bloomberg analysis.

📖 Worth a Read: How BeReal missed its moment → (The Verge)