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Speaker 1: off of yesterday's program, which was just wonderful of people working,
Speaker 1: Eric and the team working on the geopolitics of the
Speaker 1: Eastern Mediterranean and all of that. We tried to shift
Speaker 1: back to the markets into the economy much more today.
Speaker 1: Just a stellar set of guests program. Note. I really
Speaker 1: want to shout out David Gurris the Big Take yesterday.
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Speaker 1: that's gotten rave reviews on Israel, on Iran. It was
Speaker 1: with our Nick Wattams and Company and Ethan Brown are
Speaker 1: our Tel Aviv bureau chief. I really can't say enough
Speaker 1: about the response mister Gurrs had off of The Big
Speaker 1: Take yesterday. Our response today was to speak about the
Speaker 1: Shreek Kamar is legendary. He's out of Los Angeles, iconic
Speaker 1: with TCW and others before that, closely associated with Mike
Speaker 1: Milkin's say the Milkan Institute. Shriek Kamar is adamant that
Speaker 1: we've got to get back to foundational theories of another
Speaker 1: time and place and even suggests with this persistent inflation,
Speaker 1: not we will, but we could see a rate increase
Speaker 1: he wants to go back to his mentor and PhD
Speaker 1: advisor at Columbia years ago, John Taylor, now at Stanford University.
Speaker 1: Shrek Kamar on the Taylor rule, You have.
Speaker 2: To go back to the pre pandemic long ago nineteen
Speaker 2: ninety's approach to Taylor rule, and it was first proposed
Speaker 2: Tom in nineteen ninety three. Janet Yellen, who was then
Speaker 2: in San Francisco, said she hopes that it can be
Speaker 2: adopted soon and thirty years later, there is no problem
Speaker 2: Chris toward it. It you need the tailored rule back. It
Speaker 2: is a very flexible formula taking into account whether your
Speaker 2: growth is above or below target, your inflation is above
Speaker 2: or below target, and based on that, should you be
Speaker 2: increasing a lowering interest rate. You put the formula out,
Speaker 2: you publish it in newspapers, speak about it on Bloomberg,
Speaker 2: and I will know what's going to happen to interest rate.
Speaker 1: Shi Kamara with one thought there and of course closely
Speaker 1: associated now with Stanford University in the Hoover Institution, one
Speaker 1: of the things we really tried to do today was
Speaker 1: stay on the markets. In the markets be course had
Speaker 1: a deep draw down. I'm kidding. Vis got out to
Speaker 1: a nineteen not twenty level. I guess that's some recent
Speaker 1: angst in the market, as you'd expect with all this
Speaker 1: going on in politics, and yes, some real earnings angst
Speaker 1: as well off of JP Morgan, Coben, Sachs, old Morgan Stanley,
Speaker 1: Bank of America less so thanks to Kennlean, CFRA was
Speaker 1: brilliant on Bank of America. He made real clear he
Speaker 1: thought this whole thing with subpar but Bank of America
Speaker 1: clearly having the ability to bounce back in future quarters.
Speaker 1: But so there we are into earning season, and of
Speaker 1: course what everybody's waiting for is tech, and tech to
Speaker 1: me is Apple. I know Microsoft comes out as well.
Speaker 1: May second will be Apple earnings. And it's good to
Speaker 1: catch up Gene Monster deep Water, and I went to
Speaker 1: you know something conventional, not China, not product, not iPhone,
Speaker 1: not goggles like Andrew Murphy, War's working with gene Mounster.
Speaker 1: I went back to use of cash. Munster went through
Speaker 1: the math of their free cash flow.
Speaker 3: They generate about one hundred billion in operating income, and
Speaker 3: so this is about a three hundred and fifty four
Speaker 3: hundred billion dollar revenue company. They'll probably do about ninety
Speaker 3: five billion. This year free cash flow will be around
Speaker 3: fifty five billion, So this is still a machine. When
Speaker 3: it comes to and I want to I think I
Speaker 3: bury the lead relative to that data point about their
Speaker 3: free cash flow is revenue growth. If you take what
Speaker 3: it will be in the March quarter, what they're going
Speaker 3: to report in a few weeks here, revenue growth over
Speaker 3: the past eight quarters has been down, will be down
Speaker 3: zero point four percent on average. So they continue to
Speaker 3: drive that kind of fifty billion plus free cash flow
Speaker 3: despite revenue being flat. I think it speaks to the
Speaker 3: strength of the business model that they have.
Speaker 1: I've been harping on this. It's maybe my theme for
Speaker 1: the year, which is there's a complete growth fixation within
Speaker 1: the financial media. It's about growing earnings, growing revenues, growing this,
Speaker 1: growing units, how many clicks do they have, how many
Speaker 1: iPods are they sold? Etc. And the iPhones, I should say.
Speaker 1: And the reality is a lot of companies and CFOs
Speaker 1: are less focused on growth at any cost and are
Speaker 1: looking at profit. In the profit model of something like Apple,
Speaker 1: just as one example, is just absolutely stunning. There's no
Speaker 1: other way to put it. It's one of the focuses
Speaker 1: that we have at Bloomberg surveillance is that we're always
Speaker 1: looking at the Bloomberg FA screen, the financial analysis screen,
Speaker 1: and we're saying, okay, growthy, growthy, growthy and all that,
Speaker 1: but what does the profit look like? How do they
Speaker 1: come down the income statement? What is free cash flow
Speaker 1: look horizontally? Pro tip. One of the great things I'm
Speaker 1: doing now this is not original, is I look at
Speaker 1: where they were in twenty nineteen and now where they
Speaker 1: are four years out, in five years out, in two
Speaker 1: thousand and twenty four, five years out will be you know,
Speaker 1: in two quarters, three quarters or so, and you'd be
Speaker 1: amazed how you can glean out industries such as banking
Speaker 1: or Yeah, there's been a free cashal lift, but not
Speaker 1: as much as you think. In these juggernauts with these
Speaker 1: high multiples, these big tech companies that are putting it
Speaker 1: on every quarter. We're having a lot of fun with this.
Speaker 1: It's single best idea, It's just two ideas. We have
Speaker 1: a committee, you know, we argue. I mean we at
Speaker 1: one meeting went forty five minutes to try to decide
Speaker 1: which two we would pick to put in the single
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Speaker 1: So we played the Rolling Stones, Otis Redding and other
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Speaker 1: sudden about the NBA. Think I'd Damien Sassauer bailed me
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