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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio news.

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Speaker 2: Neil Data joins us. And now, Neil, what does this

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Speaker 2: signal for Chairman.

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Speaker 3: Paul get Going.

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Speaker 4: That's what it says, go fifty with a promise to

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Speaker 4: do as much as necessary to stabilize labor market conditions.

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Speaker 5: So again, Neil, I mean, and you think about these

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Speaker 5: numbers and the revisions. As Tom was just summarizing here,

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Speaker 5: the labor market, I guess it kind of falls into

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Speaker 5: what we were just saying many minutes ago, not nearly

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Speaker 5: as strong as people think it is.

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Speaker 4: No, I mean, the three month trend on non farm

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Speaker 4: private perils is running below one hundred thousand. I mean,

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Speaker 4: that's not a good number, you know, that's barely break even.

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Speaker 4: And I think it's arguably actually worse than that because

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Speaker 4: one of the reasons why the number even looked as

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Speaker 4: good as it did is because we saw an uptake

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Speaker 4: in construction employment among I think civil engineer contractors. And

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Speaker 4: so that's not going to last because everything we know

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Speaker 4: about construction right now is that units under constructure are

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Speaker 4: under construction collapsing. So why are we hiring all these

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Speaker 4: people to build one exactly? That's that implies a margin

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Speaker 4: squeeze for builders, which I don't think they can tolerate

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Speaker 4: right now. So I think it's the goods producing side.

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Speaker 4: I mean Tom mentioned manufacturing. I think that's notable because

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Speaker 4: a lot of people were thinking maybe you'd see some

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Speaker 4: It just didn't happen. Right on the good side of

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Speaker 4: the economy's week, cyclically sensitive industries are sluggish, and you

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Speaker 4: know this is all about the FED trying to create

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Speaker 4: a handoff from income le growth to credit led growth.

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Speaker 4: That's what this is about. So they need to keep

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Speaker 4: cutting until the credit sensitive areas of the economy.

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Speaker 2: Term joining us worldwide, Neil Dotta, we are commercial free

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Speaker 2: to the nine o'clock hour. Claudia sam Mark Zandi will

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Speaker 2: join in a moment. Ben Ladler will join us on

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Speaker 2: the equity market reaction in the view forward here later

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Speaker 2: in these twenty minutes. Futures at negative seventeen, the vixers

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Speaker 2: A twenty two level comes in nicely twenty point seven

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Speaker 2: six major bond market adjustments, making eight basis points two

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Speaker 2: under four percent three point nine eight percent ten year

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Speaker 2: yield three point sixty seven percent, Neil, I want you

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Speaker 2: to frame out for us what inflation will do given

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Speaker 2: a depressed GDP in the job market, moving the second

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Speaker 2: derivative here is moving to a worser space. What does

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Speaker 2: inflation then do further disinflation?

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Speaker 4: I mean absolutely, I think so. I mean, if you

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Speaker 4: look at core goods, non housing services, and housing rents,

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Speaker 4: I mean, those are those are the three ways to

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Speaker 4: slice the inflation data. The entire shortfall relative to the

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Speaker 4: FEDS target is in housing rents, which we know will

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Speaker 4: continue to normalize give the lagged you know, sort of

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Speaker 4: nature of that indicator relative to market based rents. Everything

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Speaker 4: else is basically normalized. So you know, again, I mean,

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Speaker 4: what's the upside risk for inflation if growth is running

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Speaker 4: below potential and the momentum under the unemployment rate is higher.

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Speaker 4: I mean that's kind of it's kind of I mean,

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Speaker 4: so there's no more of an inflationary impulse coming out

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Speaker 4: of the job market. That story is completely over, and

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Speaker 4: the FED continues to run a very very restrictive policy stance.

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Speaker 5: Paul get one more in here, and Neil just and

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Speaker 5: you know, the unemployment rate, just for those that are

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Speaker 5: going to be watching the headlines, stay steady at four

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Speaker 5: point two percent here, right in line with expectations. What

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Speaker 5: does the FED think about an unemployment rate of four

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Speaker 2: Do you think?

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Speaker 4: I don't think they should think about an unemployment rate

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Speaker 4: about what's gone on over the last six months here,

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Speaker 4: which is what's gone out.

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Speaker 5: It's absolutely Neil dudd.

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Speaker 2: I know you got a publish, will feature that out

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Speaker 2: on Twitter. Neil Douta with Ren Mack will publish and

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Speaker 2: we thank him for careful market economic analysis. We now

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Speaker 2: bringing Claudia Sam chief economists New Century Advisors, and doctor

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Speaker 2: Mark Zandi, chief economists at Moody's. We had them on here,

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Speaker 2: oh thirty or sixty days ago, can't remember. It was

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Speaker 2: just lights out, great, great analysis, Claudia. I want to

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Speaker 2: on to the real Claudia Sam, I'm sick of the

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Speaker 2: Palm recession. Pinata, Can you just give us an update

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Speaker 2: without tire and feathering your reputation? Are we close to

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Speaker 2: a recession?

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Speaker 1: Doctor Sam so the increase unemployment rate is in a

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Speaker 1: range where we have historically been in recessions, right, But

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Speaker 1: that's a history, that's a past. We're not in a

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Speaker 1: recession right now, but we do have a weakening labor market, right,

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Speaker 1: So that's the important takeaway. But like, not a recession

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Speaker 2: And what I remember from two thousand and eight is

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Speaker 2: a Zandy rule. There's a Psalm rule, but there's also

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Speaker 2: the Zandy rule, which is to be optimistic about America,

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Speaker 2: Mark Sandy. If we get the decor cards I hear

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Speaker 2: from Neil and others in you frankly at Moodies as well.

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Speaker 2: Can corporations adjust and sustain off of a lower nominal

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Speaker 2: suggest everything goes down?

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Speaker 6: Tom, I think they're doing just fine. I mean, looking

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Speaker 6: I think the economy's doing fine and producing enough enough

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Speaker 3: So yeah, I'm not worried about that.

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Speaker 6: And you know, just broadly, you know, I'm all on

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Speaker 6: thought pretty much down the strike zone. I mean, you know,

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Speaker 6: the kind of right underlying job growth is one hundred

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Speaker 6: Four point two percent unemployment, that's kind of where you

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Speaker 5: Is it to the point there mark where the FED

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Speaker 5: can stay at twenty five basis points or is this

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Speaker 5: something that some are suggesting may push them to a

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Speaker 5: fifty basis point cut in September?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think it's twenty five. I mean, I would

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Speaker 6: And there's you know, I think there's good arguments to

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Speaker 6: as to you know, where the FED should be going here.

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Speaker 6: What is the so called equilibrium federal funds rate? What's

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Speaker 6: That is very uncertain and I think given that, I'd

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Speaker 3: And in this report, I don't see any reason to

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Speaker 5: Here, Claudia. Over the weekend, you'll be at some fancy

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Speaker 5: cocktail party and somebodys can come up to you and say, hey, Claudia,

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Speaker 5: how's the US labor market. What's your response?

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Speaker 1: It's not headed in the right direction. This is the

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Speaker 2: I mean to both of you, and then folks, we've

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Speaker 2: got huge academic caliber here. Mark, I'm gonna go to

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Speaker 2: you first, and then Claudia the same question the ECB

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Speaker 2: we slaves Mark Sandy to a green spanny and measured approach? Careful, careful, careful?

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Speaker 2: Why can't we go X beeps or why beeps or

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Speaker 2: Mark Sandy?

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Speaker 3: Well, I don't know Tom that you need to.

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Speaker 6: I mean, if the you know, the labor market was

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Speaker 6: i'd move quit more quickly. But you know the economy

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Speaker 6: It's been growing too strongly and it's kind of coming

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Speaker 3: Hey, one other quick point I wanted to make you know.

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Speaker 3: The August data is always weak.

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Speaker 6: You know, we get very low response rates, initial response

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Speaker 2: Claudia, I got a s free month moving average of

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Speaker 2: got to go and hoc forward.

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Speaker 1: Well, I think again, it's like looking at how the

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Speaker 1: variables are changing. The unemployment rate has been rising. Yes,

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Speaker 1: it is still relatively low historically. We also have an

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Speaker 1: from and experienced and esteemed right, And so there's no

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Speaker 1: It's watching the change and knowing that once that changes

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Speaker 1: in place. The FED has been trying for two years

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Speaker 1: to cool off the labor market. That's why the funds

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Speaker 1: we don't need that slow wing. I think that changes everything.

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Speaker 2: Wander will Zamon Sandy with us right now? They move

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Speaker 2: the market higher. Futures negative thirty now negative twelve, deterioration

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Speaker 2: hun or four percent. Paul you home shopping this weekend.

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Speaker 5: I might be absolutely red headline crossing the Bloomberg terminal.

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Speaker 5: Traders pricing fifty percent chance of half point fed cut

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Speaker 5: this month, crossing the Bloomberg terminal Mark Sandy. Given the

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Speaker 5: as it relates to total payrolls and wages, what's your

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Speaker 6: I think and aggregate, you know, looking across all Americans,

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Speaker 6: they're continue to do their part.

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Speaker 3: They're hanging tough.

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Speaker 6: I mean, the train is being driven by folks in

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Speaker 6: I don't know, I don't think it's hyperperctly, but their

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Speaker 6: financial situation is probably as good as it's ever been.

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Speaker 3: And you know, got a.

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Speaker 6: Job, strong, real wage gains, They own stocks, stocks or

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Speaker 6: near record high zone home home vows or near record highs.

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Speaker 6: If they've got any debt at all, it's a thirty

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Speaker 6: by my calculation, they still have some excess cash that

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Speaker 6: that they're spending down now. So I think they're fine.

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Speaker 6: I do think the soft spot, obviously is lower income households.

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Speaker 6: They clearly are struggling. You know, they got nailed by

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Speaker 6: the high inflation. They took on a lot of debt

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Speaker 6: it's one thing when rates are low, but when rates

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Speaker 6: are really high. They mean, the credit card rate is

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Speaker 6: twenty two percent, a record high.

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Speaker 3: That's very painful.

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Speaker 6: They don't own stocks, they don't own a home, they rent, so,

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Speaker 6: you know, very different kind of perspectives. But you know,

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Speaker 6: at the end of the day, it's the folks in

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Speaker 2: I mean, I can't keep up. Did I tried to

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Speaker 2: get John Williams on the show Claudius Mark Sandy, John Williams.

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Speaker 2: That would have been good New York FED President John

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Speaker 2: Williams says, now appropriate to lower FED funds rate. Claudia,

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Speaker 2: when you were studying this at Michigan, this this this

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Speaker 2: ex post lag. Is this unusual the way our FED

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Speaker 1: Yes, particularly in the way monetary policy is quote unquote

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Speaker 1: supposed to be done like in the theories, right, but

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Speaker 1: that's a very clean, not realistic state. I understand why

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Speaker 1: the FED. When tools start breaking down and data don't

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Speaker 1: make as much sense, then you kind of you, you know,

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Speaker 1: this FED did lean into a very FED like tendency

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Speaker 1: on inflation. And if I had to hear so many times.

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Speaker 1: We have the luxury of time because the labor market

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Speaker 1: is so strong, it's like, well, guess what, it actually

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Speaker 1: wasn't as strong, and so there's a cost that they

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Speaker 1: to recalibrate some and get going I think would be

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Speaker 1: So I understand why this is a hard case to make.

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Speaker 2: Doctor Xandy your opiniata for the Gloom Crew. I mean

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Speaker 2: seven eight oh nine, you said, everybody shut up, We're

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Speaker 2: going to fix this Zandy pandemic. Everybody shut up, We're

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Speaker 2: going to fix this. Give us an optimistic touch here

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Speaker 2: on how America will clear these traumas post pandemic. China

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Speaker 2: is slowing down, Claudia Sam's cats are miserable. Mark Zandy,

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Speaker 2: just as directly as you can give us. I need

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Speaker 2: some Xandy optimism now, or I can't get through the

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Speaker 2: weekend early.

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Speaker 3: I've got that reputation.

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Speaker 6: I didn't know that I'm that optimistic. Well look, uh,

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Speaker 6: I just look at a number. I mean, top four

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Speaker 6: point two percent unemployment. I mean, okay, maybe be nicer

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Speaker 6: if it were four. I'm I'm on board with that.

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Speaker 6: I mean, it's maybe on the soft side of one

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Speaker 6: point four point two percent unemployment. We're creating a lot

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Speaker 6: for you know, quite some time. Inflation that's back in

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Speaker 6: you know, we're growing at a potential. And by the way,

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Speaker 6: here's the thing that's really you know, makes me encouraged.

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Speaker 6: The economy's potential is very strong. I mean, we're seeing

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Speaker 6: a lot of labor force growth. That's one of the

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Speaker 6: that's the key reason why unemployment is not tired here

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Speaker 6: over the past year. That goes to immigration, and you know,

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Speaker 6: there's a lot of costs there. But the benefit, obviously

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Speaker 6: to argue that whether it's sustainable or not, but it

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Speaker 6: feels like there's a lot of good things happening underneath

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Speaker 6: all the business formation we beginning since the pandemic hit.

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Speaker 6: It's probably reaping benefit. And this is all before AI

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Speaker 6: that's a strong growing economy and the FED. The trick

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Speaker 6: for the FED here is, you know, let the economy

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Speaker 6: take the foot off the breaks sufficiently to allow the

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Speaker 6: economy to grow at its higher potential. That's a very

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Speaker 6: different issue or problem. If demand we're evaporating, that's not

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Speaker 6: what's going on here. So you know, objectively, take a

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Speaker 6: step back and take a look around.

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Speaker 3: This economy is good.

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Speaker 2: Paul. One quick question to Claudia sim because futures just

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Speaker 2: went green, which is a signal. Go Ben Ladler, so

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Speaker 2: quickly here go to Claudia. And then we got to

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Speaker 2: drag Ben Laidler.

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Speaker 5: An here Claudia Sam, I mean again, how do you

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Speaker 5: just when you sit back, you've had a few minutes

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Speaker 5: of the digestis how's the FED? How do you think

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Speaker 5: they're going to digest these numbers today?

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Speaker 1: I think the payroll numbers are going to be the concern.

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Speaker 1: And frankly, the piece of it that I found most

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Speaker 1: is concerning you are the July revision, the earlier revisions. Right,

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Speaker 1: that's the hiring rate has gotten to too low of

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Speaker 1: a place, and we're seeing it in the job and

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Speaker 1: then to see it, you know, July was actually even

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Speaker 1: a little worse than we thought on the job's number,

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Speaker 1: and so that I think that takes some pause.

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Speaker 2: She said, So I'm supposed to have dinner with Claudia

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Speaker 2: and Jackson hole. You know what they served elk and

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Speaker 2: the health's food was venison. I mean there's no fish

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Speaker 2: or nothing. Claudia Sam we gotta go. Thank you so much,

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Speaker 2: Claudia Sam just nailing these revisions. I want to want

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Speaker 2: to mention Anna Wong as well at Bloomberg and Mark Zandi,

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Speaker 2: thank you so much for being with us. Really appreciate

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Speaker 2: from Moody's his optimism on the American economic experiment.