1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:05,119 Speaker 1: When Harold James writes, people in economics stop and consider. 2 00:00:05,680 --> 00:00:09,200 Speaker 1: He is one of the great historians of the American 3 00:00:09,280 --> 00:00:14,120 Speaker 1: experiment and of the global experiment. Um truly iconic at Princeton, 4 00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:18,040 Speaker 1: and he's been given a most interesting job, which is 5 00:00:18,079 --> 00:00:21,920 Speaker 1: to be an historian of the I m F. Professor James, 6 00:00:21,920 --> 00:00:24,840 Speaker 1: wonderful to speak to you again. What are you doing for, 7 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:29,400 Speaker 1: Madam Legarde. Well, it's great to speak with you, and 8 00:00:30,160 --> 00:00:33,920 Speaker 1: so I'm going to write to the history or helped 9 00:00:33,960 --> 00:00:39,199 Speaker 1: to write the history of the International Monetary Fund in 10 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:45,960 Speaker 1: the century, so in the years of the enormous expansion 11 00:00:46,080 --> 00:00:49,400 Speaker 1: and the credit bubble, when people thought that the fund 12 00:00:49,440 --> 00:00:52,960 Speaker 1: was irrelevant, and then in the aftermath of the financial crisis, 13 00:00:52,960 --> 00:00:56,440 Speaker 1: when suddenly people want the fund again and need the fund. 14 00:00:58,160 --> 00:01:01,440 Speaker 1: It's an interesting organization because, as you mentioned, it has 15 00:01:01,480 --> 00:01:04,679 Speaker 1: gone in and out of favor. It is also morphed 16 00:01:04,720 --> 00:01:08,800 Speaker 1: over the years from Breton Woods to what it is today. 17 00:01:08,959 --> 00:01:11,600 Speaker 1: Can you go into it saying it is a success 18 00:01:11,760 --> 00:01:14,240 Speaker 1: or a failure or can you even judge it in 19 00:01:14,280 --> 00:01:18,679 Speaker 1: those terms? Well, it's really interesting. At the beginning, it 20 00:01:18,800 --> 00:01:22,440 Speaker 1: was supposed to be part of an overall security structure, 21 00:01:22,520 --> 00:01:27,679 Speaker 1: so that the the structure of the IMF exactly replicated 22 00:01:27,959 --> 00:01:32,520 Speaker 1: the United Nations organization. There were five permanent members on 23 00:01:32,520 --> 00:01:36,360 Speaker 1: the Security Council, and the five permanent members on the 24 00:01:36,360 --> 00:01:40,400 Speaker 1: Security Council were also the in the original plan going 25 00:01:40,440 --> 00:01:42,840 Speaker 1: to be the largest shareholder for the fund and have 26 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:45,640 Speaker 1: the permanent seats on the board. But in practice the 27 00:01:45,640 --> 00:01:48,400 Speaker 1: Soviet Union never joined the I m F and trying 28 00:01:48,440 --> 00:01:51,560 Speaker 1: to have the revolution, so the the UN evolved in 29 00:01:51,560 --> 00:01:54,840 Speaker 1: a kind of different direction. But I think at the moment, 30 00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:58,960 Speaker 1: when you're faced with these big security issues, and many 31 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:02,960 Speaker 1: of them have an economic and financial dimension, the security 32 00:02:03,040 --> 00:02:09,240 Speaker 1: world and the world of the financial flows and the 33 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:13,079 Speaker 1: regulation and supervision of them come closer together again, and 34 00:02:12,960 --> 00:02:16,120 Speaker 1: in that sense they they fund have a has a 35 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:20,520 Speaker 1: kind of new mission at the moment. Isn't it always though, 36 00:02:21,880 --> 00:02:25,440 Speaker 1: or hasn't it often been an organization in search of 37 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:29,040 Speaker 1: a mission. It has had to morph. Uh, it's it's 38 00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:34,200 Speaker 1: goals in its its job over the years, absolutely right. 39 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:38,040 Speaker 1: There have been long periods when people really wondered whether 40 00:02:38,120 --> 00:02:42,720 Speaker 1: you needed and I am aff at all. So it 41 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:46,360 Speaker 1: was originally supposed to supervise the fixed exchange rate system, 42 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:49,880 Speaker 1: and when President Nixon took the dollar off the gold 43 00:02:49,880 --> 00:02:53,359 Speaker 1: standards in nine and the fixed exchange rate system collapse. 44 00:02:53,600 --> 00:02:55,520 Speaker 1: People said you didn't really need the fund anymore, and 45 00:02:55,560 --> 00:02:58,000 Speaker 1: then for a decade it was looking for a role, 46 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:00,480 Speaker 1: and then it found the role as the manager of 47 00:03:00,480 --> 00:03:04,800 Speaker 1: a death crisis. Professor James, is wonderful they have you 48 00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:08,000 Speaker 1: on today and with your teaching and study at Cambridge. 49 00:03:08,520 --> 00:03:12,359 Speaker 1: Most appropriate to ask you in our collective awe over 50 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:16,000 Speaker 1: the President of the United States lecturing the British people 51 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:19,560 Speaker 1: on whether they should stay in the Union. You're the 52 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:24,720 Speaker 1: one to ask, should the President be lecturing the British 53 00:03:24,880 --> 00:03:28,840 Speaker 1: I think he should. I I think this is absolutely 54 00:03:28,919 --> 00:03:32,600 Speaker 1: right because the debates in Britain has has taken a 55 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:36,320 Speaker 1: very very peculiar turn from at least from my perspective, 56 00:03:36,320 --> 00:03:38,960 Speaker 1: but I think many people think like this, that there's 57 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:43,880 Speaker 1: a there's a discussion, as you know, about Britain leaving 58 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:47,240 Speaker 1: the European Union. The vote in a referendum is on 59 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:51,360 Speaker 1: the twenty th of June, and it looks very balanced 60 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:55,560 Speaker 1: at the moment. There's a serious likelihood that the campaign 61 00:03:55,640 --> 00:04:00,160 Speaker 1: to win to do to leave might win, and but 62 00:04:00,440 --> 00:04:05,160 Speaker 1: it's it's very hard to see what what any positive 63 00:04:05,200 --> 00:04:10,280 Speaker 1: result of that would be UM. It presents enormous risks. 64 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:12,960 Speaker 1: And incidentally, the I m F has also been pointing 65 00:04:12,960 --> 00:04:17,600 Speaker 1: out the risks of of Brexit. UM so it's it's 66 00:04:18,279 --> 00:04:21,000 Speaker 1: full of risks. And is there a risk of the 67 00:04:21,080 --> 00:04:23,560 Speaker 1: Prime Minister or the future Prime Minister of the United 68 00:04:23,640 --> 00:04:30,279 Speaker 1: Kingdom tries to tell Washington what to do. I didn't. 69 00:04:30,320 --> 00:04:32,960 Speaker 1: I didn't think that's the right kind of analogy to 70 00:04:33,200 --> 00:04:37,760 Speaker 1: to make for this, because one of the cases I 71 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:40,920 Speaker 1: think that many people who are sympathetic to Brexit make 72 00:04:41,720 --> 00:04:45,520 Speaker 1: is that Britain doesn't really need Europe and Europe is 73 00:04:45,560 --> 00:04:48,719 Speaker 1: in decline. That Britain has a strong relationship with the 74 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:51,600 Speaker 1: rest of the world, exports to China and India, but 75 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:54,800 Speaker 1: above all has a really strong relationship to the United States. 76 00:04:54,800 --> 00:04:58,200 Speaker 1: And so the the hopes of the Brexit hears that 77 00:04:58,200 --> 00:05:01,839 Speaker 1: are often pinned on this idea. But those so called anglersphere. 78 00:05:02,920 --> 00:05:06,400 Speaker 1: But in those circumstances, it seems to be entirely appropriate 79 00:05:06,440 --> 00:05:09,680 Speaker 1: for the President of the United States to say, look, 80 00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:12,520 Speaker 1: this is not realistic. We're interested from this side of 81 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:16,200 Speaker 1: the Atlantic in Britain, because Britain is part of Europe. 82 00:05:16,240 --> 00:05:20,760 Speaker 1: That is trying to meet common security challenges, common economic challenges. 83 00:05:21,240 --> 00:05:23,120 Speaker 1: Let's come back Harold James with us. He is a 84 00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:26,520 Speaker 1: historian for the International Monetary Phone and of course at 85 00:05:26,520 --> 00:05:30,200 Speaker 1: Princeton University. And I might point out an incredibly well 86 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:35,479 Speaker 1: timed Harold James is our definitive scholar on Germany and 87 00:05:35,640 --> 00:05:39,120 Speaker 1: particularly on their banking system. We will speak to Harold 88 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:43,200 Speaker 1: James about whether Deutsche Bank with all the great child 89 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:47,640 Speaker 1: challenges of German banking, of course, German banking within a 90 00:05:47,720 --> 00:05:50,360 Speaker 1: time of negative interest rates something I know, Madame le Guard, 91 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:52,240 Speaker 1: I mean, Madame lec Guard. If you're listening, I know 92 00:05:52,279 --> 00:05:56,320 Speaker 1: you want me to ask Harold James about negative interest 93 00:05:56,400 --> 00:05:59,359 Speaker 1: rates in Germany. And we'll do that. Michael McKee, Gainesville, Florida. 94 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:02,920 Speaker 1: I'm Tom Keene in New York. We will continue with 95 00:06:03,440 --> 00:06:07,240 Speaker 1: Professor James. A churn to the market. It is a Friday, 96 00:06:07,400 --> 00:06:11,560 Speaker 1: summer day with a decided churn. I would point out 97 00:06:11,600 --> 00:06:21,560 Speaker 1: weekend one ten s euro one. All right, let's check 98 00:06:21,600 --> 00:06:23,240 Speaker 1: out with Michael bar Now I'll get the latest world 99 00:06:23,279 --> 00:06:26,039 Speaker 1: in initial headlines. Michael, Mike time, Thank you very much. 100 00:06:26,120 --> 00:06:28,880 Speaker 1: Government officials from around the world today will sign the 101 00:06:28,920 --> 00:06:32,800 Speaker 1: Paris Global Climate Agreement. The signing will be held during 102 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:35,480 Speaker 1: a ceremony at the u N. Countries are required to 103 00:06:35,560 --> 00:06:39,719 Speaker 1: set non binding targets for reducing emissions. 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This morning brought you by Investco. 154 00:09:28,840 --> 00:09:32,840 Speaker 1: Investing isn't about meeting benchmarks, It's about achieving goals. Find 155 00:09:32,840 --> 00:09:36,679 Speaker 1: out how invest goes high conviction approach can help visit 156 00:09:36,720 --> 00:09:41,439 Speaker 1: investco dot com slash high conviction Michael McKee and Gainesville Florida. 157 00:09:41,800 --> 00:09:43,560 Speaker 1: I'm Tom keenan New York and we are honored to 158 00:09:43,559 --> 00:09:46,840 Speaker 1: bring you Harold James of Princeton and now at the 159 00:09:46,960 --> 00:09:50,120 Speaker 1: i m F where he is i m F Historian, 160 00:09:50,160 --> 00:09:54,520 Speaker 1: Professor James. You are the definitive voice on Germany within 161 00:09:54,559 --> 00:09:59,880 Speaker 1: our country. The President meets the Queen today and work 162 00:10:00,120 --> 00:10:04,640 Speaker 1: within England. Tell me about the generational shift that you 163 00:10:04,840 --> 00:10:08,920 Speaker 1: perceive in Germany. There was a Bismarck Germany, there was 164 00:10:08,960 --> 00:10:11,920 Speaker 1: World War Two, and then there were the leaders of 165 00:10:11,960 --> 00:10:14,520 Speaker 1: our child. So it's Conrad at an Hour, Billy Brand 166 00:10:14,880 --> 00:10:17,800 Speaker 1: and the rest. What is the new Germany? Where are 167 00:10:17,800 --> 00:10:24,280 Speaker 1: they heading towards? It's a very uncertain Germany today. But 168 00:10:24,440 --> 00:10:28,640 Speaker 1: I think also it's a Germany that is conscious that 169 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:32,320 Speaker 1: it's in a new position of leadership in Europe. And 170 00:10:33,320 --> 00:10:38,679 Speaker 1: Mrs mackeo is undoubtedly the European figure. So a long 171 00:10:38,679 --> 00:10:40,839 Speaker 1: time ago, Henry Kissinger is supposed to have asked the 172 00:10:40,920 --> 00:10:42,960 Speaker 1: question who do I call when I want to speak 173 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:44,920 Speaker 1: to Europe? And there wasn't an answer at that time. 174 00:10:45,320 --> 00:10:48,120 Speaker 1: And now it's really clear that if the American President 175 00:10:48,160 --> 00:10:51,840 Speaker 1: wants to speak to Europe, he speaks to the Chancellor 176 00:10:51,920 --> 00:10:56,000 Speaker 1: of Germany. UM. But there's a kind of pushback against 177 00:10:56,080 --> 00:10:59,959 Speaker 1: Mrs Mantell in Germany. UM, in large part, I think 178 00:11:00,120 --> 00:11:04,959 Speaker 1: driven by the crisis that developed last summer, since the 179 00:11:04,960 --> 00:11:08,120 Speaker 1: flow of very very large numbers of Syrian and other 180 00:11:08,160 --> 00:11:13,120 Speaker 1: refugees into Germany. I don't I don't speak German, so 181 00:11:13,720 --> 00:11:17,199 Speaker 1: let me do it in French. Appoint mercle the deluge. 182 00:11:17,320 --> 00:11:19,319 Speaker 1: I mean, who who's next? There doesn't seem to be 183 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:22,800 Speaker 1: anybody who can step in, so she's weakened, but she 184 00:11:22,800 --> 00:11:26,640 Speaker 1: she doesn't and can't go away. That's that's absolutely right 185 00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:31,160 Speaker 1: that there is no obvious alternative to Mrs Mantell, and 186 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:36,200 Speaker 1: it's in part on her side a careful strategy. She's 187 00:11:36,640 --> 00:11:40,280 Speaker 1: destroyed one crown prince after another, so there's no obvious successor, 188 00:11:40,720 --> 00:11:44,040 Speaker 1: and there's no obvious reason why she should step down 189 00:11:44,080 --> 00:11:46,640 Speaker 1: at the moment, and I think most people are expecting 190 00:11:46,679 --> 00:11:50,160 Speaker 1: that she would go into the next election lead Germany 191 00:11:50,160 --> 00:11:54,000 Speaker 1: after the next election, put a new coalition together. She's 192 00:11:54,040 --> 00:11:56,559 Speaker 1: unpopular with the right of her party, but she's actually 193 00:11:56,720 --> 00:12:00,360 Speaker 1: very very popular with the left center party is with 194 00:12:00,440 --> 00:12:04,160 Speaker 1: the Social Democrats and bubble with the Green Party. Within 195 00:12:04,200 --> 00:12:07,560 Speaker 1: the political economics, you wrote an acclaim in folks, I 196 00:12:07,559 --> 00:12:11,400 Speaker 1: mean acclaimed book out of all things Deutsche Bank. Did 197 00:12:11,400 --> 00:12:14,560 Speaker 1: you realize the impact that book would have when you 198 00:12:14,600 --> 00:12:18,040 Speaker 1: when you wrote it, Well, it was at this this 199 00:12:19,160 --> 00:12:23,760 Speaker 1: very strange movement in the nineties when when everything was 200 00:12:23,840 --> 00:12:28,720 Speaker 1: changing politically, and you know, also the legacy of the 201 00:12:28,720 --> 00:12:31,240 Speaker 1: Second World War was being approached in a different way 202 00:12:31,280 --> 00:12:36,280 Speaker 1: and people were thinking about the big property transfer robberies 203 00:12:36,320 --> 00:12:38,480 Speaker 1: that have taken place, and that that was really a 204 00:12:38,480 --> 00:12:41,000 Speaker 1: major theme of that book and that sets up perfectly 205 00:12:41,040 --> 00:12:43,160 Speaker 1: the Deutsche Bank of Now. Maybe you're not prepared to 206 00:12:43,200 --> 00:12:46,880 Speaker 1: comment on this or particularly your affiliation with the International 207 00:12:46,920 --> 00:12:50,360 Speaker 1: Monetary Fund, but Professor James, can you comment on the 208 00:12:50,480 --> 00:12:55,320 Speaker 1: challenges of the new Deutsche Bank given that unique access 209 00:12:55,440 --> 00:13:02,000 Speaker 1: between Germany and London. Well, it's it's I think one 210 00:13:02,040 --> 00:13:05,000 Speaker 1: of those areas where there are obviously going to be 211 00:13:05,440 --> 00:13:10,440 Speaker 1: enormous issues if they that the British would leave the 212 00:13:10,480 --> 00:13:14,320 Speaker 1: EU because a lot of dutcher Banks operations international operations 213 00:13:14,400 --> 00:13:17,880 Speaker 1: shifted to London and in some ways Doutcher Bank isn't 214 00:13:18,080 --> 00:13:22,520 Speaker 1: really very much of a German bank anymore. But over 215 00:13:22,559 --> 00:13:26,880 Speaker 1: the past years it's been trying to do what they 216 00:13:27,200 --> 00:13:30,439 Speaker 1: they they've talked about it as a culture change or 217 00:13:30,480 --> 00:13:35,080 Speaker 1: a culture shift, and actually get back a bit from 218 00:13:35,200 --> 00:13:39,320 Speaker 1: this international investment banking that they pursued and really didn't 219 00:13:39,320 --> 00:13:41,200 Speaker 1: do very well at and it was very, very risky 220 00:13:41,840 --> 00:13:45,760 Speaker 1: um in two thousand and eight in the immediate aftermath 221 00:13:45,800 --> 00:13:51,080 Speaker 1: of Lehman. Obviously every international bank was was vulnerable, but 222 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:55,120 Speaker 1: the vulnerability of Dutcher Bank was enormous and if it 223 00:13:55,160 --> 00:13:57,920 Speaker 1: had required a rescue by the German government at that point, 224 00:13:58,600 --> 00:14:01,840 Speaker 1: it would have really been too large to rescue. So 225 00:14:02,640 --> 00:14:06,280 Speaker 1: you know, the same kind of discussion in Germany as 226 00:14:06,320 --> 00:14:09,080 Speaker 1: you have in other countries. Those large banks have to 227 00:14:09,120 --> 00:14:14,920 Speaker 1: be safer, and the regulators are pushing in that direction. Well, 228 00:14:15,400 --> 00:14:17,240 Speaker 1: this kind of brings us back to where we started 229 00:14:17,280 --> 00:14:20,240 Speaker 1: with with the I m F. Is it going to 230 00:14:20,280 --> 00:14:25,080 Speaker 1: be needed even more than it has been in Europe 231 00:14:25,120 --> 00:14:28,640 Speaker 1: and under Battom Leguard, Is it actually going to play 232 00:14:28,840 --> 00:14:34,000 Speaker 1: a role. It's very peculiar that it said it was 233 00:14:34,120 --> 00:14:36,720 Speaker 1: needed in Europe Patrol. I mean, I think this is 234 00:14:36,760 --> 00:14:40,040 Speaker 1: going to be one of the big big questions when 235 00:14:40,040 --> 00:14:43,960 Speaker 1: you look at the long term legacy if the the institution, 236 00:14:44,040 --> 00:14:48,000 Speaker 1: because it would have been much better if Europe had 237 00:14:48,160 --> 00:14:51,360 Speaker 1: dealt with the situation on its own in when the 238 00:14:51,520 --> 00:14:56,000 Speaker 1: when the Great Crisis first first emerged, but the many 239 00:14:56,000 --> 00:14:59,400 Speaker 1: people in Europe, including the German government, then it didn't 240 00:14:59,480 --> 00:15:03,800 Speaker 1: feel the Europe have the technical capacity in the scale 241 00:15:03,800 --> 00:15:07,600 Speaker 1: of the outside judgment to be able to deal with 242 00:15:07,640 --> 00:15:09,760 Speaker 1: a complicated crisis in grease, and so the fund was 243 00:15:09,800 --> 00:15:14,280 Speaker 1: brought in at that point and it's it's it's involved 244 00:15:14,280 --> 00:15:16,480 Speaker 1: it in all kinds of issues that it really wasn't 245 00:15:16,520 --> 00:15:20,920 Speaker 1: ideally set up to face. This has been wonderful. Thank 246 00:15:20,920 --> 00:15:23,080 Speaker 1: you so much, Harold James and for Inston and I 247 00:15:23,120 --> 00:15:27,360 Speaker 1: am f historian as well. Michael McKeon Gainesville, Florida. I'm 248 00:15:27,400 --> 00:15:30,960 Speaker 1: Tom keane in New York. You're listening to Bloomberg's surveillance 249 00:15:34,360 --> 00:15:36,760 Speaker 1: coming up with all due respect. Highlight brought you by Landover. 250 00:15:36,840 --> 00:15:38,280 Speaker 1: If it's in your nature to cast off the every 251 00:15:38,320 --> 00:15:40,280 Speaker 1: day and seek adventure, the Discovery Sport was built to 252 00:15:40,280 --> 00:15:42,640 Speaker 1: help your search. Visit Landover ty state dot com or 253 00:15:42,720 --> 00:15:46,000 Speaker 1: call one find four w D for details. Landover Above 254 00:15:46,040 --> 00:15:46,480 Speaker 1: and Beyond