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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Surveillance Podcast. I'm Tom Keene. Along

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Speaker 1: perfect conversation. Now, Mike McKee, as always one of the

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Speaker 1: best in the world, the best at following this fat

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Speaker 1: sitting down with the St. Louis Fed President Jim blad

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Speaker 1: My good morning to you, Buddy, Good morning to you John,

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Speaker 1: and good morning to you Jim Bullard. Thank you for

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Speaker 1: joining us on Bloomberg Radio on TV. Thank you thanks

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Speaker 1: for coming out to our new museum here. Yeah, this

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Speaker 1: is the Money Museum. It's fascinating and if you're in St. Louis,

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Speaker 1: you should come visit it. We're sitting right next to

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Speaker 1: the sign that talks about hyper inflation, so it's it's

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Speaker 1: it's sort of a perfect spot for us here this morning.

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Speaker 1: A week ago, you were the lonely dissenter looking for

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Speaker 1: a fifty basis point rate increase. Now the chair has

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Speaker 1: all but promised a fifty basis point increase at least

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Speaker 1: that's the way the markets are taking it at the

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Speaker 1: main meeting. What happened in the last week, I think,

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Speaker 1: I mean, those that are interested can read my dissent

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Speaker 1: statement which is out last Friday and is on our

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Speaker 1: web page. Uh. I think the FED needs to move

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Speaker 1: aggressively to keep inflation under control. Our policy as we

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Speaker 1: sit here today is still a very large balance sheet

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Speaker 1: and very very low policy rate. We need to get

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Speaker 1: to neutral at least so that we're not putting upward

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Speaker 1: pressure on inflation during this period when we have uh

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Speaker 1: much higher inflation than we're used to in the US economy. Well,

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Speaker 1: when you say we have to get to neutral, how

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Speaker 1: quickly you have been arguing for more than two d

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Speaker 1: basis points. Yeah, I think faster is better. And I

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Speaker 1: think the nineteen tightening cycle or removal of accommodation cycle

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Speaker 1: is probably the best analogy here. That one was quite successful.

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Speaker 1: The FED moved three basis points in a single year

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Speaker 1: that we hit our two percent inflation target over the

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Speaker 1: next ten years. The economy boomed in the second half

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Speaker 1: It's like that we came out of the pandemic, we

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Speaker 1: got surprised by inflation. But now what you have to

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Speaker 1: not to be too disruptive, but I think fifty basis

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Speaker 1: point moves would definitely be in the mix. And UH

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Speaker 1: and then get to a level that we can be neutral,

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Speaker 1: But right now we're putting upward pressure on inflation. It's

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Speaker 1: a wrong place to be given where inflation is well.

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Speaker 1: As I noted, the markets, whether you look at swaps

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Speaker 1: The Fed doesn't like to surprise the markets. Should we

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Speaker 1: assume that that's what you're gonna do? Well, I you

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Speaker 1: know I can't. I'm just one person on the committee.

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Speaker 1: I don't know where the rest of the committee will be,

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Speaker 1: and the chair has to manage that process. Um. I

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Speaker 1: May fourth. Now, the economic data have been closely watched.

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Speaker 1: But from what you're saying, it doesn't sound like it

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Speaker 1: we don't really need a lot of more data here.

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Speaker 1: But you never know in this world and in this business,

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Speaker 1: you can always get surprised. Obviously, we've got geopolitical risk

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Speaker 1: think the best contribution we can make is to get

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Speaker 1: the exactly the kind of situation that you don't want.

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Speaker 1: going forward. So what we have to do is adjust

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Speaker 1: Then we can make adjustments from there and you can

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Speaker 1: get a soft landing. And I think so, Jim, but

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Speaker 1: of the St. Louis FET, thank you very much for

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Speaker 1: Tom wanted one person on the show, and it's our

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Speaker 1: For good reason. Angela Stent joins us now, the nonresident

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Speaker 1: Putin's World, Russia against the West and with the rest Angela,

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Speaker 1: let's start here. There is this Western centric conversation that

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Speaker 1: there is some instability building in the Russian government, that

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Speaker 1: you give me your line of thinking, God, what's happening

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Speaker 1: there have been demonstrations against the war, that thousands of

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Speaker 1: But we really don't have any proof that in Putin's

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Speaker 1: some of the oligarchs have obviously complained about what's happened

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Speaker 1: think we have to be very cautious about assuming that

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Speaker 1: a palace coup is underway. At the moment, Putin appears

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Speaker 1: lashing out verbally as we saw. But when we saw

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Speaker 1: he seemed to be very much in Church Angelo. When

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Speaker 1: it comes to lashing out. How much are we going

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Speaker 1: to see an escalation in the types of weapons used

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Speaker 1: he has cornered and isolated. Well, we're seeing obviously the

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Speaker 1: from energy independence to energy dominance and and energy independence.

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Speaker 1: We made the case ten years ago when shale started

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Speaker 1: to to emerge as a new and feasible technology. We

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Speaker 1: saw an enormous amount of supply growth and we thought

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Speaker 1: that you was gonna become independent. Now we think it's

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Speaker 1: gonna become dominant and regardless of policy. Remember, markets in

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Speaker 1: in the US are are very very powerful forces, and

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Speaker 1: UH with this kind of prices, we're gonna see a

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Speaker 1: lot more liquid natural gas exports out of the US.

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Speaker 1: Even even um UH Secretary carry UH former Secretary care

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Speaker 1: has actually agree. I agree that natural gas is now

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Speaker 1: critical to the energy transition. So we're gonna see more

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Speaker 1: of that. We're gonn see more petroleum product exports. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna see more chemicals exports, more fertilized or exports. Just

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Speaker 1: the US is gonna it's gonna really grow dreamand adically

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Speaker 1: its energy production base as the rest of the world

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Speaker 1: is facing the shortages. Remember the US, the US natur

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Speaker 1: gas price still five dollars and mbt US under five

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Speaker 1: doors and with you so um, that's about thirty doors

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Speaker 1: barrel of foil equivalent. So America has not only the

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Speaker 1: cheapest energy on the planet, but also the safest, John

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Speaker 1: Jonathan and and I think I think that that's These

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Speaker 1: are two very good reasons to UH to up investments

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Speaker 1: in the in the energy space in the US. And

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Speaker 1: I think we'll see that. Even I think President Biden

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Speaker 1: mentioned himself that that UH that there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: leases out there that that can still be drilled, and

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Speaker 1: I think they will. I think we'll see a turn

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Speaker 1: as as a previarious situation between the between Russia and

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Speaker 1: the Ukraine becomes more entrenched and and and presumably U

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Speaker 1: S sanctions, UK sanctions potentially sanctions could be there for years,

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Speaker 1: potentially degrading as well. The the profile of of commority

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Speaker 1: production for Russia, which which as you all know, is

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Speaker 1: usual the world's number one commority producer on many fronts.

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Speaker 1: In a big way. We've learned that the harder this

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Speaker 1: time around. Francisco gotta leave it there, Sir Francisco Blanche

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Speaker 1: their Bank America. Joining us now is Joe and Phebey,

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Speaker 1: partner and portfolio manager and advises capital management. Want to

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Speaker 1: start here with you, Joeann, and just go to the

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Speaker 1: price section of yesterday Yields up, banks down? Can we

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Speaker 1: start there, jo Anne? Why? Yeah? Sure? More and Jonathan

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Speaker 1: and team um. You know, clearly the market is adjusting

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Speaker 1: their expectations for bank earnings based on a flatter yield curve.

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Speaker 1: But people have to remember that a lot of the

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Speaker 1: sorts of loanable funds for banks does come from checking

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Speaker 1: accounts demand deposits on which they pay no interest. So

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Speaker 1: any increase in interest rates is going to be a

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Speaker 1: positive for net interest margins obviously be better with the

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Speaker 1: steper yield curve. Um And then I think the second

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Speaker 1: thing is the concern over the growing risk of recession,

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Speaker 1: which could impact the amount of loans that they make,

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Speaker 1: so lower loan allems would also tend to reduce their earnings.

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Speaker 1: But I think overall banks have a pretty positive outlook here.

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Speaker 1: Given what the FETE is saying, It's still looks like

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Speaker 1: we're gonna have growing production, growing loans. We're still in

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Speaker 1: a reopening recovery, even if it's a bit slower than

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Speaker 1: we originally expected. Given what's going on with commodities because

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Speaker 1: of the Russia War in Ukraine, buns are meanwhile joy

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Speaker 1: and pricing in a bit of recession risk. Are we

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Speaker 1: seeing the same sort of pricing in an equity markets

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Speaker 1: if you look below the surface, you know. I think

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Speaker 1: what we're seeing in the equity markets reflects the change

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Speaker 1: and interget expectations that began last programmer when the Fence

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Speaker 1: signal that it was going to start raising rights. We

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Speaker 1: saw these multiples come down really dramatically, and we saw

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Speaker 1: this big reallocation among large institutional money managers, utall investors, etcetera,

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Speaker 1: away from tech and high multiple stocks towards more cyclical stocks,

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Speaker 1: more consumer staples as well. And I think that reallocation.

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Speaker 1: I think we're seeing action in the market that suggests

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Speaker 1: that reallocation might be over and if investors want to

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Speaker 1: get some exposure to growth, give it a slowing aggregate economy.

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Speaker 1: I think they're gonna have to come back to those

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Speaker 1: strong secular growth companies, you know, whether it's company exposed

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Speaker 1: to the server market, data centers, etcetera. So I think

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Speaker 1: that is really what we've seen in the equity markets

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Speaker 1: has been a big reallocation. Plus you know the expectation

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Speaker 1: that growth overall is going to slow down. Joanna, do

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Speaker 1: you lean into that or do you think they're equities

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Speaker 1: right now are not listening to the message being sent

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Speaker 1: by bonds. Yeah, I think you know, it's always the

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Speaker 1: case that bond market is gonna look a little bit

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Speaker 1: more closely at the recession risk. But you know, one

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Speaker 1: thing to be aware of is where else are investor

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Speaker 1: is gonna go? Equities is really the only game in

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Speaker 1: town in terms of building some source of appreciation. And

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Speaker 1: if you're a long term investors, as our clients are,

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Speaker 1: I think you can ride out this volatility, but be

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Speaker 1: you know, let's make no mistake, it's going to be

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Speaker 1: volatile for a while given these geo political risk But

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Speaker 1: the equity market I think still holds now lots of

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Speaker 1: opportunity for investors with a long term view to get

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Speaker 1: some exposure to secular growth even if the economy slows down,

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Speaker 1: even in a recession, there are ways to build in

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Speaker 1: some insurance against some of these risks that we're seeing now,

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Speaker 1: whether it's defense, named cybersecurity, energy, there are a lot

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Speaker 1: of ways to build insurance into portfolios in this kind

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Speaker 1: of environment. So, Joanne, what you're saying kind of echoes

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Speaker 1: what our colleague John Author's wrote in his Bloomberg opinion

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Speaker 1: piece today. That is, essentially, yes, higher yields and theory

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Speaker 1: can threaten equities, especially those that command higher multiples. But

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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, a more aggressive FED

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Speaker 1: is going to be worse for bonds than it is

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Speaker 1: for stocks. Is that essentially the thesis you subscribe to. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think that's a fair statement, and I think we

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Speaker 1: have to put the injury strates into perspective. Um First

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Speaker 1: of all, inter strates, at two and a half three percent,

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Speaker 1: it's still incredibly low. Historically, it's still a relatively cheap

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Speaker 1: source of funds. And remember, corporations tend to borrow longer term,

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Speaker 1: so they're looking more at the tenure in the thirty year,

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Speaker 1: and those seem to be anchored by FED credibility. Con Clearly,

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Speaker 1: the market does expect inflation to come down, and that's

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Speaker 1: why we're not seeing such a build up in rates

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Speaker 1: at the longer end of the herb. And also we

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Speaker 1: have so much demand for the tenure globally because it's

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Speaker 1: the safe harbor, because you know, pension funds have to

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Speaker 1: be there, Central banks are going to be there. So

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Speaker 1: I think that helps to anchor the long term cost

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Speaker 1: for corporations, which does suggest more investments, more expansion. Job

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Speaker 1: openings are still record highs, and so I think we're

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Speaker 1: still going to see expansion on the production side of

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Speaker 1: the economy, even while we see some constraints on consumers.

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Speaker 1: Then Joan Pheeney always fantastic to catch out with you

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Speaker 1: of Advisors Capital Management, David Rumasty, we are so lucky

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Speaker 1: is here with us. As markets grapple with the conflict

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Speaker 1: in Ukraine, a big question has been why things have

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Speaker 1: been so sanguine if incredibly volatile. What was Ken's response

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Speaker 1: to adjust this incredible willingness to look past some of

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Speaker 1: the conflict and continue to buy well. Ken has built

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Speaker 1: one of the greatest hedge funds in our countries, just

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Speaker 1: and also now has built a great trading operations Citadel Securities,

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Speaker 1: And in those kind of situations, you have to know

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Speaker 1: what the geopolitical forces are going to be and what

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Speaker 1: they're likely to do in terms of their impact on

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Speaker 1: the markets. So he has a team of people that

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Speaker 1: are looking at this situation, but nobody really knows right

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Speaker 1: now exactly what's going to happen. But he's obviously worried

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Speaker 1: about it because it will impact markets and affect his trading,

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Speaker 1: and it also affect his Citadel Securities business. Kenn has

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Speaker 1: had more impact than almost any major financial person on

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Speaker 1: the markets in the last number of years because Citadel

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Speaker 1: Security has become one of the biggest market makers in

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Speaker 1: the countries. And also his hedge fund is done spectacularly well,

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Speaker 1: probably the most the second most profitable hedge fund in

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Speaker 1: our country's history. And this has called a lot of

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Speaker 1: people's attention, especially as he consolidates a lot of equity

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Speaker 1: trading volumes within the Citadel Securities unit. How much do

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Speaker 1: you talk about the need to keep a wall between

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Speaker 1: these businesses, to keep them separate in both perception and actuality. Well,

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Speaker 1: he does keep them separate because they're obviously potential Inflix,

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Speaker 1: but he's obviously had it walled off and he has

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Speaker 1: separate teams of people. Uh. They are owned by about

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Speaker 1: fifty people. His hedge fund is owned by about fifty

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Speaker 1: people including himself, and his Citadel Securities owned about fifty

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Speaker 1: people including himself. He's obviously the largest shareholder in each.

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Speaker 1: But he also recently sold for Citel Securities. He sold

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Speaker 1: um a piece of it five percent to Sequoia Securities

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Speaker 1: or to Sequoia I should say, uh venture fund, and

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Speaker 1: also to a Paradigm which is a crypto company, and

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Speaker 1: he kind of hinted in the interview that now they'll

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Speaker 1: probably begin in the not too distant future to make

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Speaker 1: markets on crypto currencies, which he hadn't done before. He's

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Speaker 1: been a skeptic of cryptic crypto, and now he says

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Speaker 1: he's less skeptical. Well, David, what caused that change of heart? Well,

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Speaker 1: when markets move a certain way and your force of

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Speaker 1: the markets, you recognize the markets are saying something that

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Speaker 1: you didn't recognize was the case earlier. So he's now

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Speaker 1: been a skeptic of crypto since his beginning, but now

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Speaker 1: he's kind of said the markets has two trillion dollars

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Speaker 1: of value in crypto currency. So if you're going to

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Speaker 1: be a player in the in making markets for people,

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Speaker 1: you can't afford to not be in that crypto market.

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Speaker 1: So what opportunities is that create for him and prosided

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Speaker 1: Almore broadly, well, crypto now has a gigantic following among people,

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Speaker 1: and I think it's going to get bigger. And this

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Speaker 1: is one of the reasons. What we've learned recently is

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Speaker 1: that the governments can take away your assets pretty quickly. Now,

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Speaker 1: everybody's not a Russian oligarch, but these Russian oligarchs thought

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Speaker 1: they had all their money hidden in various places where

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Speaker 1: they can get anytime, anytime they wanted, and so did

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Speaker 1: the Russian government. Russian government thought they could get its

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Speaker 1: assets anytime. Now we can see the governments can freeze

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Speaker 1: and confiscate your assets. So many people are looking at

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Speaker 1: this around the world and saying, wait a second, maybe

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Speaker 1: I need to have some assets that the government can't

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Speaker 1: get to, or they're hidden, or they're anonymous, And I

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Speaker 1: suspect you'll see a lot of people in China and

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Speaker 1: other places where they want to hide wealth buying more

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Speaker 1: and more cryptocurrency. So I think it's going to be

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Speaker 1: a big growth business. It's one of the really important

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Speaker 1: points that will be discussed. It is at nine pm tonight.

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Speaker 1: I look for to looking at the full interview, David,

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Speaker 1: but before we let you go, I do want to

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Speaker 1: shift gears a little bit. We've been hearing from FED officials.

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Speaker 1: We heard from FED Chair J Powell yesterday, today, this morning,

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Speaker 1: just moments ago, Jim Bullard of the St. Louis Fed

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Speaker 1: coming out saying that he does think that we can

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Speaker 1: achieve a soft landing, even as the FED moves to

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Speaker 1: a more restrictive policy, based on the on the ground

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Speaker 1: experience that you have with the firms you're investing in.

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Speaker 1: Do you think that it is achievable? Well, nobody really knows,

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Speaker 1: but I think the Fed is done a reasonably good

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Speaker 1: job of recognizing now that interest rates probably need to

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Speaker 1: go up. And the question is how much and how

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Speaker 1: how frequently? And I think the markets are now assuming

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Speaker 1: about a six uh six different times this year, we'll

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Speaker 1: probably have rate increases, probably of twenty five basis points

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Speaker 1: each time, but it's not impossible there could be a

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Speaker 1: fifty basis point increase at some point, depending on what

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Speaker 1: the inflation numbers are. I do think the FED has

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Speaker 1: probably said, uh, it may have missed the market a

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Speaker 1: little bit, and maybe it could have been a little

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Speaker 1: bit earlier and maybe a little bit stronger in fighting inflation.

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Speaker 1: I think the word transitory is one that's now probably

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Speaker 1: not going to be used again. Well, and of course

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Speaker 1: credibility do you think the FED has lost or still has? Here?

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Speaker 1: The FED has enormous credibility around the world because of

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Speaker 1: when the memoirs are written by people, they will say, well,

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Speaker 1: maybe they could have acted a little bit sooner. But

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's a gigantic problem. And then now

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