WEBVTT - Single Best Idea with Tom Keene: Win Thin & Frances Donald

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<v Speaker 1>With a brief from wind Thin. He is of Burma.

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<v Speaker 1>He is definitive PhD from Colombia under Robert Undel, iconic

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<v Speaker 1>at Brown Brothers Harriman, and he's taken a new challenges

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<v Speaker 1>for the Bank of Nassau in the Bahamas. Win Thin

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<v Speaker 1>on the Pacific rim and international economics.

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<v Speaker 2>Daman, there're a long time m guys, so we've seen

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<v Speaker 2>this've been there, done this. It never ends well. Turkey's

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<v Speaker 2>tried to do this that it had finally reversed course

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<v Speaker 2>you mentioned Argentina. I've lost count. I can't you know,

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<v Speaker 2>lost count how many examples? So it's pretty much show

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<v Speaker 2>that you know, you graph independence, degrees of independence versus inflation.

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<v Speaker 2>It's uh, it's it's totally coordinated. We all know what

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<v Speaker 2>the law of unintended consequences. We can go down the list,

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<v Speaker 2>the immigration, the tariffs, Russia. There, they're just yielding so

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<v Speaker 2>many things that can go wrong. And the more sort

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<v Speaker 2>of risks that pile up, the more I think the tail,

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<v Speaker 2>the tail gets fat and fatter.

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<v Speaker 1>Uh, and I do worry about that win thin there

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<v Speaker 1>and the quantitative finance and the tails are take a

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<v Speaker 1>B curve of your high school class height. There's a

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<v Speaker 1>median number out of the tips of the shortest people,

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<v Speaker 1>out of the tips of the tallest people, there's a tail.

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<v Speaker 1>And under stress those tails they get thicker if you

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<v Speaker 1>will get they get thicker, they get higher if you will.

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<v Speaker 1>And that's what Wyin Thinn was talking about there. The

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<v Speaker 1>risks into Q three and Q four did a lot

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<v Speaker 1>of economics today, each and every person with a different opinion.

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<v Speaker 1>Francis Donald came in with a really interesting weaker GDP

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<v Speaker 1>but also somewhat tepid inflation as well. She gets an

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<v Speaker 1>animal spirit decent nominal GDP. But it's a complex mix here,

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<v Speaker 1>Francis Donald.

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<v Speaker 3>We have what we call a stagflation light type of outlook,

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<v Speaker 3>which is growth that is comfortably low but not collapsing.

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<v Speaker 3>So that's one where one you know, between one and

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<v Speaker 3>two percent top. The problem is the inflation side of

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<v Speaker 3>this sphere, which is that we continue to see above

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<v Speaker 3>two percent inflation and getting it as high in the

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<v Speaker 3>next six months is three point four on both the

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<v Speaker 3>CPI and the PCI number. So you're seeing this phenomenal

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<v Speaker 3>tension in the US economy. And what worries me about

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<v Speaker 3>it is that it's not particularly aggressive. It's not pandemic

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<v Speaker 3>level inflation that calls for clear policy response. It's a

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<v Speaker 3>very nefarious, uncomfortable, muddle through type of environment. And this,

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<v Speaker 3>I think is going to continue to dominate a lot

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<v Speaker 3>of the conversations and make it difficult to say we're early,

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<v Speaker 3>mid or late cycle. When you say it's difficult to see,

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<v Speaker 3>what I hear is that this way of thinking about

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<v Speaker 3>the economy as being in a business cycle is getting

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<v Speaker 3>substantially distorted by tariffs, by inequalities by government spending and

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<v Speaker 3>so reading that stories and what you've got.

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<v Speaker 1>Francis Donald of RBC Capital Markets. Indeed, she says, it

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<v Speaker 1>is mysterious. We are stealed and ready to have good

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