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

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg dot Com, and of course on the Bloomberg. Of course,

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Speaker 1: we can rip up the script with Brian Levet of

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Speaker 1: Oppenheimer Funds. I mean, see if a one oh one

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Speaker 1: rates start going up and every CFO says to the CEO,

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Speaker 1: let's get going. I mean that's what happens, right. So

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Speaker 1: rates are going up, but you also have companies with

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Speaker 1: a lot of access to cash given the new changes

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Speaker 1: in the tax policy, given a prolonged period of economic activity,

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Speaker 1: so businesses are utilizing that cash. I think the bigger

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Speaker 1: question for investors, when you think about it from a

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Speaker 1: broad odd investment strategy, is whether or not this leads

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Speaker 1: to new, higher sustained levels of growth in the United States. Uh.

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Speaker 1: I'm somewhat skeptical. So while you might see some steepening

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Speaker 1: in the yield curve and a rotation as we've seen

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Speaker 1: a little bit to the more value oriented stocks, I

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Speaker 1: don't think that that's gonna be prolonged. I think ultimately

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Speaker 1: the US will slow within this environment, and um, we'll

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Speaker 1: go back to the environment of flatter yield curve, more

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Speaker 1: growth oriented names out performing well. Brian. If you believe

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Speaker 1: that that's the case, where should you put your money?

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Speaker 1: Should you be looking to Europe for example? I mean

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Speaker 1: European stocks have been languishing the last couple of months.

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Speaker 1: I suppose it depends on the time horizon. I mean,

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Speaker 1: we probably have a last leg of US strengthen here

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Speaker 1: in US dollar support and here. You know, ultimately, if

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Speaker 1: you're looking over a five to seven year time period,

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Speaker 1: you should consider that US equity returns are likely to

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Speaker 1: be more modest than they are outside of the United States.

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Speaker 1: And I know a lot of investors after a prolonged

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Speaker 1: period of US out performance are gonna have a hard

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Speaker 1: time reasoning what qualifies as modest. Because we've got the

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Speaker 1: SMP up nine and a half percent this year. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's been a prolonged period of US you and that's

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Speaker 1: not bad. Half ten percent? No, No, I mean, I

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Speaker 1: think you're a hero. I think I think US equities

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Speaker 1: over the next five to seven years probably returned something

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Speaker 1: more like five percent rather than the eight percent average

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Speaker 1: that investors have expected. You're likely to do better outside

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Speaker 1: the United States, simply given where valuations are and where

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Speaker 1: growth is likely to take. I think this is to me, folks,

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Speaker 1: one of the arch decisions of Q four and and

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Speaker 1: into two thousand nineteen. And I understand, you know the

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Speaker 1: international it's a different feel. But Brian, we've all got

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Speaker 1: to admit how humbling it's been that the single digit

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Speaker 1: crowd has been so wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, for

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Speaker 1: pushing ten years. We're only going to grow five or

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Speaker 1: six percent. Maybe we'll get well as long as people

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Speaker 1: have that kind of can't you be a contrarian and

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Speaker 1: trade against that? Well you could. I mean, we we've

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Speaker 1: we've been of the mind that this is the longest

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Speaker 1: this was gonna be the longest cycle on record. Investors

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Speaker 1: needs to own equities, um, and we were not of

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Speaker 1: the view that this was going to be a prolonged

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Speaker 1: period of modest returns in the United States. I mean,

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Speaker 1: this is secular bull market that started at very low

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Speaker 1: valuations and a zero interest rate. Where you are now

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Speaker 1: or valuations are higher. I don't think they're excessive, this

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Speaker 1: is not. But valuations are higher and the Federal Reserve

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Speaker 1: is raising interest rates. So it's a different part of

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Speaker 1: the cycle, and you might again get some last leg

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Speaker 1: of US strengthen here. But I'm talking more looking out

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Speaker 1: over the next five seven years. Think about what happened

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Speaker 1: in the late nineties, the the U s c O

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Speaker 1: curve was flattening. You've got another great period of of

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Speaker 1: of um US equity returns. Ultimately you had a recession

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Speaker 1: and in the years like go three oh four, oh five,

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Speaker 1: oh six, oh seven, emerging markets outperformed the United States considerably.

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Speaker 1: So is that where you want to go right now?

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Speaker 1: I mean, you want to look for things that people

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Speaker 1: on that the crowd is not interested in buying, So

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Speaker 1: move out of US equities, take your profits, pay your taxes,

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Speaker 1: and find something better again. I think we're gonna have

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Speaker 1: a last leg of dollar strength. What we would we

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Speaker 1: would favor is what's going to continue to be in

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Speaker 1: viewing this as a new you know, higher sustained growth

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Speaker 1: not so what kind of stocks, what kind of companies

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Speaker 1: are industries? I mean I would favor I would continue

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Speaker 1: to favor technology and discretionary in the United States and

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Speaker 1: outside of the United States, it's a it's a growth

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Speaker 1: bigger than the labor force of the US, Canada, and

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Speaker 1: Europe combined. So how do you buy a bear market?

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Speaker 1: If we say Shanghai's creator, Shanghai tech is created, how

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Speaker 1: when do you know to buy? Or do you just

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Speaker 1: with your time frame of five to seven year hold?

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Speaker 1: That solves a lot of problems, right, I think too

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Speaker 1: often investors are trying to time these things. We need

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Speaker 1: to make sure that we we can't do this back

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Speaker 1: tober First, we need to make sure we've got our

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Speaker 1: policy statements right, we know why we do what we do,

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Speaker 1: and if we're looking for long term growth as investors,

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Speaker 1: a lot of that's going to be an emerging market.

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Speaker 1: What do you do on your I mean, there's all

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Speaker 1: the focus on Europe and of course it's overarching theme

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Speaker 1: of immigration and migration. But how does Oppenheimer Funds find opportunity,

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Speaker 1: particularly in Eastern Europe. That's very different than inn Asia analysis, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean, the big story in Europe is going to

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Speaker 1: be a lot of the you know, a lot of

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Speaker 1: the brand names that we all love UM, So it's

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Speaker 1: gonna be a more of a company specific story than

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Speaker 1: a broad macro story. Yeah, we had some synchronized growth

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Speaker 1: in UM in seventeen. That's more of an abnormality than

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Speaker 1: on Chinese stimulus. So we shouldn't expect UM significant economic

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Speaker 1: of some of the structural issues in the periphery. But

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Speaker 1: it really comes down more to brands and luxury and

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Speaker 1: so what are we talking about LVMH. I mean, do

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Speaker 1: you want to be buying LVMH because of those four

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Speaker 1: million millennials, You probably not want to. Maybe Michael Core's

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Speaker 1: you heard the news today, Michael core is buying. That

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Speaker 1: is a big growth story UM in the world is

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Speaker 1: that citizens in the emerging markets are are starting to

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Speaker 1: wear wealth like we do in the United States. Did

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Speaker 1: you see how Oh Michael Barr walked into the studio

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Speaker 1: different than the Michael Barr. We all need something to

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Speaker 1: do with a football. Oh he was just like you were,

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Speaker 1: just looking like you know, the distant days, I would

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Speaker 1: make on this game? You bet like your middle child? Right,

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Speaker 1: you know, tell people, come on, I could tell Detroit

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Speaker 1: that Detroit Tom Brady, that's all that matter. That's the

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Speaker 1: New York Giants won a game, and we're talking about

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Speaker 1: Detroit Lions. Well exactly. You see how he wears Detroit

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Speaker 1: Lions blue. Not only is it blue, but it's a

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Speaker 1: correct Thanksgiving Day blue. I got my red and blue time, Michael,

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Speaker 1: like forty of those, forty of these shirts worn just

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Speaker 1: to give the Detroit Lions feel. How did they do this?

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Speaker 1: So wise? One? Well we look secondary for the Patriots,

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Speaker 1: they're not all that great, so careful not good morning

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Speaker 1: one of six weeks. I know, listen, and I love

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Speaker 1: you guys out in Boston. But like I said, I'm

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Speaker 1: a native Detroit and I guess Matt Patrician those a

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Speaker 1: little bit about the Patriots. That's where I was heading.

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Speaker 1: Is this coaching advantage had to be tangible. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: well we liked the kid that found a ten dollar

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Speaker 1: and so later on, you know, we'll come back to

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Speaker 1: earth the next one. Michael Barre say, good morning SEM

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Speaker 1: Boston FM, Washington, Good morning at Bay or PIM. We

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Speaker 1: gotta go back to gridlock. This is the week where

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Speaker 1: I get cut and chiseled everywhere. Don't worry about it.

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Speaker 1: You're tall. Well that's true, but just say hi to

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Speaker 1: the came down here. You know, the Sikorski was down

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Speaker 1: the car down Fifth Avenue and you just stop at

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Speaker 1: sixty Street. They won't let you buy so a little walking.

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Speaker 1: Never heard anybody. I had to walk three blocks store. Goodness,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna wear out the shoe leather on those loafers. Right.

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Speaker 1: You want to talk giants football. That's why you haven't

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Speaker 1: talked to the last giants football. I do want to

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Speaker 1: talk giants. I mean I worked downtown, so the gridlock.

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Speaker 1: I can't add much to the conversation. Brian Levitt, thank

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Speaker 1: you so much for and I have friends coming up

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Speaker 1: one hour on the New York football giants. Right now,

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Speaker 1: Vers Yorks joins US with the National Foreign Trade Council

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Speaker 1: messaging of course on trade and all uh ruvers. Wonderful

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Speaker 1: to have you with us. How fragile is our trade

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Speaker 1: right now? Well, obviously we're in a period where we're

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Speaker 1: having significant fights with a number of countries. The biggest

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Speaker 1: concerning that, we've also had restrictions imposed on a number

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Speaker 1: of other countries in sectors like steel, wominum talk about

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Speaker 1: doing on tariffs retaliation by those countries. For the time being,

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Speaker 1: we've had retaliation on about two hundred and fifty billion

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Speaker 1: making deals. Well, it's different this time around. Perhaps, is

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Speaker 1: President and his team is simplistic about a true bilateral

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Speaker 1: trade debate which involves many different nations that many different

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Speaker 1: Foreign Trade Council, do you see that UH constituent to

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Speaker 1: versus the president's simple message. Yeah, I think that's the

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Speaker 1: biggest concern. You've hit your You've hit the mark very

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Speaker 1: well there, because you know, if you have global rules

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Speaker 1: those standards. But if you can strengthen the international rules

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Speaker 1: plan their global supply chains. You know, it helps both

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Speaker 1: a lot of bilateral tit for tat fights and bilateral agreements,

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Speaker 1: the rules become murkier. It's a more mercantilist environment for

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Speaker 1: of a longer term uncertainty that undermines their their their

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Speaker 1: competitiveness and their cost structure. Rufus, you are previously Deputy

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Speaker 1: Director General of the World Trade Organization also US Ambassador

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Speaker 1: to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. Do you

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Speaker 1: feel that those various bodies were effective in dealing with

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Speaker 1: what many countries have said is unfair trade practices by China.

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Speaker 1: And I'm not just talking about pricing, I'm talking about

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Speaker 1: things like intellectual property theft. Yeah, I think there's a

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Speaker 1: consensus that, you know, the rules have not been as

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Speaker 1: I don't think they're totally ineffective. I mean, China has

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Speaker 1: it is at least theoretically possible that especially Republicans, uh you,

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Speaker 1: could have to push this into next year in the

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Speaker 1: So if that's part of the plan, don't they need

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Speaker 1: I know that's outside of your wheelhouse, really, but they

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Speaker 1: get the government government funded. You know, that is still

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Speaker 1: But but you're correct that there's some uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: You know, it's like it's like there's a lot more

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Speaker 1: I mean the prospect of a government shutdown is is

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Speaker 1: before you let you go. Greg Noah Phelbin, Professor Phelman

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Speaker 1: of Harvard has a terse essay out Rosenstein must go

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Speaker 1: so Mueller can stay. It's a gamble but it's at

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Speaker 1: least the least bad option for continuing the Trump investigation.

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Speaker 1: Do you just presume a Supreme Court guy, that the

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Speaker 1: Supreme Court gets involved as they did with Nixon slash,

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Speaker 1: presume it is certainly know there's some issues out there,

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Speaker 1: like if Mueller decides the subpoena as the president, that

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Speaker 1: not sure that that is a Supreme Court issue. This

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Speaker 1: is not a case like um, you know, Ken Starr,

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Speaker 1: Mueller could be fired through the proper channels, UM, and

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Speaker 1: that would be a huge political controversy, but it wouldn't

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Speaker 1: level of the Supreme Court. There's a good chance something

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Speaker 1: we'll get to the Supreme Court involving the Mueller investigation,

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Speaker 1: but but but very hard to say that it's imminent

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Speaker 1: or or to say what it is. Greg S, thank

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Speaker 1: you so much greatly, appreciated, of course, on edge of

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Speaker 1: legendary and Supreme Court balance and coverage. Thanks for listening

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