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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg P and L Podcast. I'm Pim Fox.

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Speaker 1: Along with my co host Lisa Bramowitz. Each day we

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Speaker 1: bring you the most important, noteworthy, and useful interviews for

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Speaker 1: us now to tell us about municipal finance and green

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Speaker 1: finance is Pat McCoy, Finance director for the New York

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Speaker 1: Metropolitan Transportation Authority. He directs the issuance of over three

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Speaker 1: billion dollars in municipal bonds annually. Pat McCoy, thank you

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Speaker 1: very much for being with us. Thanks for having me. Now.

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Speaker 1: You're responsible for the m t a's thirty four billion

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Speaker 1: dollar debt portfolio. How much of that would you like

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Speaker 1: to see go into green on the initiatives? Sure well.

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Speaker 1: Our our dead outstanding is actually closer to forty billion now,

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Speaker 1: so UM, look, we everything we do to move people

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Speaker 1: around this city on electrified rail, be it the subways

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Speaker 1: or commuter rails, is inherently green, and we've worked with

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Speaker 1: the Climate Bonds Initiative to UM to issue bonds that

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Speaker 1: labeled green, and as we continue to roll out our

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Speaker 1: funding of our capital program through the issuance of bonds,

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Speaker 1: I would expect that all of our transportation revenue bond

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Speaker 1: or dedicated tax fund bond issues will be green. Pat

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Speaker 1: do you ride the subway? I do? I do. I

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Speaker 1: I commute from Terrytown in Westchester, so I take Metro

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Speaker 1: north to Grand Central and then I take the lex

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Speaker 1: line down here to our office at too Broadway. What

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Speaker 1: project would you most like to see done next? Well,

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Speaker 1: you know, we have such a wide variety of projects

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Speaker 1: you know, signalization and our subways to improve service there

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Speaker 1: rails and move people around faster. That's a big project.

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Speaker 1: It's not funded, and we're aggressively looking to put that

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Speaker 1: program together and find funding. How much it cost. The

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Speaker 1: estimates are in the in the many billions. We don't

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Speaker 1: be a very expensive project. Now, you have a lot

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Speaker 1: of experience dealing with the financing of a variety of projects,

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Speaker 1: not only in your role is at the m T. A.

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Speaker 1: But also in previous roles, what can you tell people

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Speaker 1: who might be skeptical about green bond initiatives why you

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Speaker 1: believe they work, and maybe explain a little bit about

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Speaker 1: the attractiveness to the marketplace. Sure, you know, the green

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Speaker 1: bond space, in our view is a natural fit to

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Speaker 1: what the m t A is all about. As I said,

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Speaker 1: but according to the Climate Bonds Initiative Low Low Carbon

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Speaker 1: Transport criteria, everything we do to move people on rails

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Speaker 1: is green. That's that in and of itself is important.

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Speaker 1: And I think the MTA needs to get recognition in

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Speaker 1: the market for doing, for undertaking activity that is inherently green.

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Speaker 1: But what does that mean when you say green? Good

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Speaker 1: good good question. So we estimate that um, every trip

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Speaker 1: greenhouse gases going into the atmosphere. No, on an annualized basis,

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Speaker 1: that's about a nineteen million metric ton number, because the

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Speaker 1: alternative is taking some kind of fossil fuel based transport exactly.

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Speaker 1: So the alternative of people riding around in cars typically

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Speaker 1: one person, one car, UM, so we avoid nineteen million

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Speaker 1: about two million metric tons to provide the service that

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Speaker 1: we do, so the net benefit of seventeen million metric

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Speaker 1: tons avoided is inherently good for our region, for our state,

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Speaker 1: and for the for the economy. When you said that

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Speaker 1: the total debt load right now is forty billion dollars, UH,

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Speaker 1: I imagine it would climb considerably if all the projects

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Speaker 1: you would like to see done actually get okayed. In

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Speaker 1: the sign off, we had Richard Ravage, the former Lieutenant

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Speaker 1: Is that accurate? Well, you know, like, I have a

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Speaker 1: lot of respect for Dick. He's a friend, and I

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Speaker 1: think he is a wonderful UM UH spokesperson for infrastructure generally. UM.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to say Dick's off base on this.

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Speaker 1: bonds are an important funding uh component to the capital programs,

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Speaker 1: but not the only thing. We rely on. The cornerstone

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Speaker 1: bonds have typically been in that um what about a third.

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Speaker 1: But it will be an important piece of the picture,

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Speaker 1: all right. Which which train line is going to get

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Speaker 1: renovated next? That hasn't been announced. I wish I could

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Speaker 1: that's next. I'm very excited about that. Fat mcoy, Fat

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Speaker 1: McCoy find insurrector for the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

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Speaker 1: I sent a plaque. Yeah, that was you know, in

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Speaker 1: train station. It's true, It's true. I've I've spent a

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Speaker 1: lot of my life in train stations. Pat McCoy, thank

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Speaker 1: you again for joining us. Pleasure to be here. Thank you.

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Speaker 1: We are here. We are very lucky to say with

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Speaker 1: Sean McCarthy and Bob cochrane um. And you know, it's interesting.

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Speaker 1: We've seen a number of stories about unprecedented outflows from

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Speaker 1: the same story for municipal bonds. And I want to

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Speaker 1: start with Sean, what does this mean for municipalities that

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Speaker 1: an increase of thirty six billion dollars, so it's not insignificant.

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Speaker 1: Bob Cochrane, I'm wondering if you could just step back

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Speaker 1: A that was acquired by Assured. What makes Build America

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Speaker 1: the kinds of municipal debt that it underwrites that it

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Speaker 1: guarantees rather right, So Sean and I got together. We

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Speaker 1: Uh So we had a lot of experience in the industry,

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Speaker 1: failures in two thousand and eight nine and Build American

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Speaker 1: Mutual was a result of that collaboration. We spent almost

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Speaker 1: given that, and given that it's been a really benevolent

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Speaker 1: the fact that UM municipalities, their revenue UH strength has

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Speaker 1: fiscally sound position. So it's interesting for UM for for

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Speaker 1: BAM because as a mutual insurance company, we do a

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Speaker 1: number of things that are unique. One is that we

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Speaker 1: provide credit profiles, a financial description of each credit that

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Speaker 1: we do. We updated every year. It's available for free

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Speaker 1: on our website, and part of the logical outgrowth of

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Speaker 1: that is our green Star program. So the speaker before

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Speaker 1: us UH, Andrew Wyley, was talking about um UH green bonds.

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Speaker 1: credit analysis we already do on each credit about the

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Speaker 1: environmental and climate appropriate bonds, water treatment, water purification, UH,

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Speaker 1: renewable energy exactly, and all those things I think pair

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Speaker 1: That's UH comprises fifty three billion dollars worth of municipal

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Speaker 1: John welcome as always and as the senior markets editor

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Speaker 1: to convince you otherwise. But but, but outside of the US,

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Speaker 1: markets are value traps. The fact that the cheapest mainstream

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Speaker 1: something about why it might be cheap right there. But

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Speaker 1: outside the US, they're interesting opportunities. So is Italy interesting

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Speaker 1: or is it Italy is fascinating? I would even say

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Speaker 1: it's very entertaining. You have to be entertaining. No, No,

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Speaker 1: it's it's really if you want to make it, if

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Speaker 1: you if you want to try to be clever and

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Speaker 1: make an opportunity by opportunistic by don't do it now

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Speaker 1: in Italy because I don't see a way in which

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Speaker 1: this political standoff is resolved quickly. This isn't Greece. The

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Speaker 1: Italians really can try to call the Europeans bluff, and

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Speaker 1: the Europeans really can't have bring the kind of leverage

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Speaker 1: market can. So this is this is not the time

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Speaker 1: to dive in yet unless you really feel like you

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Speaker 1: might like mega millions. It might work out for you,

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Speaker 1: but I wouldn't recommend it my feet. It might be

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Speaker 1: trying to get the jackpot for one point six billion

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Speaker 1: dollar uh pool that's out there for the lottery that

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Speaker 1: nobody has won yet. John Author's senior markets editor for Bloomberg.

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