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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Surveillance Podcast. I'm Tom Keane. Daily

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg dot Com, and of course, on the Bloomberg I'm

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Speaker 1: not an essential worker, folks. What I do know is

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Speaker 1: they're out there in each city, each and every day.

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Speaker 1: Patrick Foy writes her is CEO of the Metropolitan Transit Authority,

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Speaker 1: over his brave essential workers, and he joins us right now,

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Speaker 1: PET four. I thought it was wonderful that the young

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Speaker 1: lad on his way to Rea just mentioned the West

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Speaker 1: End Line, the Sea Beach Line, the subway of another

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Speaker 1: time for Dr Fauci. What did he say to your

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Speaker 1: employees yesterday? Well, Dr Fauci introduced himselves to our employees

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Speaker 1: as Tony from Brooklyn UH and the most trusted person

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Speaker 1: in America. Urged all transit workers, all empty employees for

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Speaker 1: that matter, to get vaccinated. I thought it was a

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Speaker 1: powerful message coming from him him. I I invited him

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Speaker 1: when we talked UH in that in that in that call,

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Speaker 1: he told me about his UH commute and the Sea

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Speaker 1: Beach Line, which is a term that resonates with empty

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Speaker 1: a Alzheimer's. But his messages for all empty employees and

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Speaker 1: Todd frankly for all New Yorkers and Americans get get vaccinated.

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Speaker 1: The issue now is a supply of vaccines. As Governor

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Speaker 1: optimistic with the new president in place from a vaccination

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Speaker 1: point of view, and frankly optimism from a transportation point

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Speaker 1: of view as well. Tom, do you have the resources

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Speaker 1: translated money and funds to get vaccinated busy essential workers

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Speaker 1: still doing their jobs through the day. The answer is yes.

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Speaker 1: The The only limiting factor is not money. It's not time.

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Speaker 1: It's availability of doses. Uh. The new administration is going

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Speaker 1: to attack that aggressively. They talked about that yesterday. It's

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Speaker 1: not a question of time, it's not a question of overtime.

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Speaker 1: It's not a question of money. It's a question of

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Speaker 1: doses the governor. The governor has made that clear. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 1: when you talk about a question of money, the m

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Speaker 1: is postponed. We've pushed it off for several months. Look,

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Speaker 1: I'll quote the President's favorite, the poet uh Shamushini, when

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Speaker 1: he talked about this being a moment where hope and

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Speaker 1: history rhyme. I think the election of a transit friendly,

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Speaker 1: actually transit heavy transit user president and Joe Biden, the

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Speaker 1: ascension of Senator show Or to the Senate majority position

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Speaker 1: first ever from New York, the passage of the four

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Speaker 1: lots of reason to be optimistic. I've been pretty grim

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Speaker 1: in my prior appearances, and to be clear, the empty

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Speaker 1: an additional eight billion dollars over the next three years.

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Speaker 1: But the funding that we received at the end of

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Speaker 1: December will cover almost all of our deficit. We're good

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Speaker 1: for one. We won't need to reduce service we had

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Speaker 1: discussed or layoff thousands of people. Uh, And I think

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Speaker 1: this may be a moment or hope, hope, and history

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Speaker 1: do rhyme. Well, there's a financial deficit that you're hoping

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Speaker 1: to address. What about the reputational deficit? The idea that

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Speaker 1: there are a lot of people concerned about the transmission

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Speaker 1: of the virus. Unpacked trains, unpacked buses not so much

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Speaker 1: a consideration right now because they're not that packed. What

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Speaker 1: are you finding in studies about the transmission of COVID

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Speaker 1: of other diseases on public transportation? So a great question.

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Speaker 1: Let me approach it from two points of view. One

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Speaker 1: is what our customers thinking. Of our customers, survey's say

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Speaker 1: they've never seen subway stations or subway cars or buses

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Speaker 1: From a scientific point of view, uh, if mass compliance

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Speaker 1: north of single most important thing any customer can do

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Speaker 1: And the research indicates that transit has nowhere in the world,

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Speaker 1: been a significant contributor. We're very focused on on mass

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Speaker 1: be handing out masks again next next week. The mt

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Speaker 1: on the trains and on platforms. Patrick Floyd Michael Kimmelman

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Speaker 1: in The New York Times gave a Rave Rave, Rave

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Speaker 1: in the successful construction of Moynahan Well, a couple of things. First,

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Speaker 1: Michael Evans and others at Moynahan Station, Empire State Development.

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Speaker 1: These projects can get done. The other thing, Tom is

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Speaker 1: on Seventh Avenue and thirty third Streak, which is breathtaking

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Speaker 1: the Empire State Building, and you've got customers just pausing

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Speaker 1: thinking selfies, which is not a great thing to do

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Speaker 1: on an escalator by an escalator, by the way, but

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Speaker 1: it's just a striking entrance directly from thirty third Street

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Speaker 1: to the Long Island Railroad. Uh area. I love that. Tom.

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Speaker 1: By the way, did you hear that that Patrick was

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Speaker 1: talking about the beauty of it and that Yeah, you

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Speaker 1: do want to take a picture, but don't take a

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Speaker 1: picture on the escalator, not of Patrick Foyd. Congratulations and

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Speaker 1: his Mr Foyd mentions with the m t A get

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Speaker 1: vaccinated greatly appreciate your attendance. Catherine Hokel is a New

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Speaker 1: We're going to take a moment to step away from

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Speaker 1: his hoard to consider the most important athlete in America.

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Speaker 1: If you are a parent appalled by the jackocracy of America,

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Speaker 1: the machine that makes people one sport wonders whether they

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Speaker 1: go on to acclaim or not. Josh Allen is the

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Speaker 1: most important athlete in America, not because he's with Hocal's

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills, but because he was undrafted unloved and because

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Speaker 1: Kathy Hoko, what does Josh Allen mean? To hear? Buffalo?

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen symbolizes all of all that is Buffalo, the underdog,

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Speaker 1: the scrappy kid who never got respect. That's been the life.

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Speaker 1: I grew up in an industrial area where a lot

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Speaker 1: local aid. Can you assume you'll get that aid from Washington? Well,

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Speaker 1: been the Trump administration that was the barrier. We need

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Speaker 1: we've lost during this pandemic. We spoke about this a lot,

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Speaker 1: So they ought to understand that America is not with them.

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Speaker 1: America wants Washington to fight this pandemic with every resource

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Speaker 1: it has, and that includes three and fifty billion dollars

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Speaker 1: going to state and local government so we can start

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Speaker 1: paying to get this vaccine out there and helping downtown

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Speaker 1: And so we're focused on this and Republicans better not

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Speaker 1: getting away. In the meantime, Cathy, The New York State

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Speaker 1: rate in the nation. How realistic is this, Kathy, mean,

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Speaker 1: what's the potential consequence in terms of the tax base

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Speaker 1: out is the worst case scenario, and that's if we

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Speaker 1: don't receive the fifteen billion dollars that we really think

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Speaker 1: we should be getting upwards of fifteen billion dollars. And

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Speaker 1: then only and then, and only then. The governor said,

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Speaker 1: So our best option is to have a fifteen billion

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Speaker 1: deal in the reality we cannot sustain a budgets deposits

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Speaker 1: of vaccinations in the vaccine rollout. What is the issue

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Speaker 1: right now that slowing things down? From your side, what

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Speaker 1: would you like to say, Oh, it's absolutely supplied. The

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Speaker 1: Defense Production Act if it had been invoked by President

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Speaker 1: Trump even six months ago to have the PPE. Remember,

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Speaker 1: how to go to China and compete with other countries.

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Speaker 1: That was disgusting. So now we have the same scenario,

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Speaker 1: we could be ramping up vaccine production. So I was

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Speaker 1: at two of our sites yesterday. I was at Jones Beach,

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Speaker 1: I was at Aqueduct, and I opened up all the facilities.

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Speaker 1: And upstate New York we have mass distribution sites. They're

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Speaker 1: doing about five a day, sometimes a thousand. We could

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Speaker 1: the staff. We have everything in place. It is simply

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Speaker 1: to give us the supply. We can get it out.

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Speaker 1: We're ready for it. We've been waiting. Our residents are

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Speaker 1: desperately waiting for this. But with and we've actually administered

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Speaker 1: nine percent of the vaccines that we've been given. That's

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Speaker 1: one of the highest in the nation. I think I

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Speaker 1: heard today that Georgia had already administered about So we're

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Speaker 1: Of New York Kathy howk Cathy come back saying the

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Speaker 1: conversation we need to continue on the vaccine rollout. John,

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Speaker 1: what we're trying to do is get back on script

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Speaker 1: with investment in finance. We can do that with this guest,

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Speaker 1: Mike uh. John Wilson has just been really nuanced in

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Speaker 1: supple from Morgan Stanley. It just fantastic. The whole same

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Speaker 1: coming out of March into Spring and beyond, Mike Wilson

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Speaker 1: you're shorting the company. But Steven, what does dollar do

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Speaker 1: the dollars used to value bitcoin. Um. I find the

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Speaker 1: cold currency world, generally speaking, a difficult world. And I

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Speaker 1: don't do anything in currency. Whatever I invest overseas, I

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Speaker 1: always hedged the currency UM. So it's just not something

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Speaker 1: that I ever have a very strong opinion about one

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Speaker 1: way or the other. Steve, I's one final question I

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Speaker 1: think very very important, and it's just understood you or

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Speaker 1: new Burger Berman could set up your own process to

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Speaker 1: What do you think about the new manufacturer of speculation

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Speaker 1: to bring companies public? I mean, it scares me a

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Speaker 1: little bit that that, you know, it seems to have

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Speaker 1: which you know, the thirty three and thirty four Act

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Speaker 1: very good job. Um. I think it'd be very interesting

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Speaker 1: and we'll see if he addresses it. Until but until

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Speaker 1: until somebody addresses it, it's going to go on. We'll see.

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Speaker 1: This is right where I wanted to go. Mr Gesler

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Speaker 1: widely presumed to come in and take a tougher tone.

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Speaker 1: Did these spects occur because of a lesser fair structure

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Speaker 1: of the Trump administration? No? I don't. Maybe to a degree.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the the head of the sec UM under

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Speaker 1: the Trump took a very lessie fair attitude. But I

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Speaker 1: think that's part of it, but I think more importantly

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Speaker 1: it's it's it's a function of the free money out there,

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Speaker 1: and both license at the FED has given people to

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Speaker 1: speculate at will Berg and Steve Iceland, generous of your time,

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Speaker 1: did I greatly appreciate it with new Berger Berman and

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