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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Markets Podcast. I'm Paul Sweeney alongside

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Speaker 1: my co host Matt Miller. Every business day we bring

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Speaker 1: you interviews from CEOs, market pros, and Bloomberg experts, along

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Speaker 1: at Bloomberg dot com slash podcast. Well, Matt, when I

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Speaker 1: first got to Wall Street in the mid eighties, uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, insider trading was a big thing. It was

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Speaker 1: all over the headlines, names like Ivan Bowski, Dennis Lavine,

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Speaker 1: movies like Wall Street. Um, apparently it is still a thing.

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Speaker 1: Our next guest is focused on a Caroline Crunchhaw. She's

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Speaker 1: a commissioner at the Securities and Exchange Commission based in Washington,

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Speaker 1: d c Uh. She's out with a Bloomberg opinion Colm

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Speaker 1: entitled Insider trading Loophole's need to be Closed. Caroline, thanks

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Speaker 1: so much for joining us here. We'd love to get

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Speaker 1: your thoughts on kind of where you think the state

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Speaker 1: of insider trading and enforcement of insider trading rules art

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Speaker 1: right now? Yeah, good morning, it's great to be here.

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Speaker 1: Before I start, I do have to say quickly that

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Speaker 1: the views I expressed today are my own and do

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Speaker 1: not necessarily reflect the views of the commission uh, my,

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Speaker 1: the staff, or my fellow commissioners. UM. But as to

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Speaker 1: your your question, you know, I think, um, you know,

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Speaker 1: insiders something insider trading is something we always take seriously. UM.

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Speaker 1: But UM right, you know, recent evidence suggests that some

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Speaker 1: of the rules designed uh to make sure that corporating

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Speaker 1: executives who always have insider information or material non public information,

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Speaker 1: UM you know sometimes uh, they they also are paid

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Speaker 1: are not uh you know, trading their stocks while they

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Speaker 1: have insider information. The SEC established about twenty years ago

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Speaker 1: a rule called B five one. And this rule UH

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Speaker 1: basically puts in place a schedule, fixed schedule for them

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Speaker 1: to make trades so that they're not trading on insider information.

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Speaker 1: But it makes sense, right because they get a lot

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Speaker 1: of these UM men and women get a huge portion

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Speaker 1: of their pay in stock. So in order to live

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Speaker 1: the life of a respectable chief executive, you've got to

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Speaker 1: you've got to sell the stock occasionally to pay for

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Speaker 1: your stuff. UM. But I guess the problem you found

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Speaker 1: is that they set up these schedules commissioner to sell

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Speaker 1: or delay the sale UH to to better position themselves

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Speaker 1: around an event that they know is coming up. That's

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Speaker 1: exactly right. UM. The recent academic evidence UH some by

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Speaker 1: my co author Daniel Taylor out of Wharton Business School

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Speaker 1: UM has shown that there are there are lots of

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Speaker 1: red flags with these plans UM, and that they can

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Speaker 1: be modified, they can be canceled, and that could allow

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Speaker 1: executives to time trades and thus perhaps to be trading

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Speaker 1: on insider information ahead of other investors are the rest

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Speaker 1: of the market. So, Carol, I excuse a sense of

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Speaker 1: the state of insider trading today, how prevalent is it.

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Speaker 1: UM has the SEC and other regulators, UM maybe learn

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Speaker 1: some things from back from those the nineteen eighties that

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Speaker 1: I that I referenced. You know, I think, UM, it's

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Speaker 1: there's always going to be insider trading. There's always going

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Speaker 1: to be UM. You know, folks who are inclined to

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Speaker 1: break the rules. That's why we have an enforcement program. UM.

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Speaker 1: They're actively looking at this. But I think UM, to

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Speaker 1: to the degree. Um, we want to modernize the rules

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Speaker 1: ten five one plans are an area that I think

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Speaker 1: we can really look to modernize and provide much clearer

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Speaker 1: uh perhaps level more level playing field and promote fair

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Speaker 1: I'm just telling you no, seriously, Um, Caroline, do you

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Speaker 1: because that's been brought up a lot in well the

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Speaker 1: Short sellers have been attacked, and um, maybe there have

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Speaker 1: been implications that maybe they even banned together to bring

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Speaker 1: So what's the political support or pressure or environment for

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Speaker 1: toughening up potentially insider trading rules. UM. Caroline just gives

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Speaker 1: a sense of kind of what's what what's the mood

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Speaker 1: make sure the markets are fair and efficient. UM. You know,

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Speaker 1: there is a Preferrara Commission that's that's looking at this. UM.

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Speaker 1: I think there's always there's always interest in making sure

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Speaker 1: participants and investors. You know, in the last couple of days,

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Speaker 1: people have been telling us if you give for every

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Speaker 1: collect five more. Do you feel the same is true

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Speaker 1: with funding at the SEC you had more funding, could

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Speaker 1: you bust more inside traders? I think our enforcement division

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Speaker 1: could always do more. Our whole agency could always do

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Speaker 1: more with more funding. We do have limited resources, UH,

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Speaker 1: and that results in you know, often trying to decide

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Speaker 1: what cases over time or are going to be the

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Speaker 1: most effective, had the most market impact. UM. But we're

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Speaker 1: always out there, We're always making sure that UM, we're

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Speaker 1: what about politicians who engage in trading maybe a head

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Speaker 1: of legislation or after receiving classified information that seemed to

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Speaker 1: and the market crash. Is that a big issue? You know,

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Speaker 1: it's certainly it's certainly gotten a lot of attention. UM.

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Speaker 1: think that's something that that we are always looking at, UM,

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Speaker 1: make sure that you know, individuals with insider information or

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Speaker 1: joining us. Really fascinating column at say, Caroline Crenshaw wrote

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Speaker 1: with Daniel Taylor, a great piece and I recommend if anybody, um,

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Speaker 1: search Caroline Crenshaw and you'll find it. I did not

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Speaker 1: uh know about what seems like a pretty simple loophole,

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Speaker 1: and Paul I think it's um it's the kind of

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Speaker 1: this is what they're they're up there for, right, They're

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Speaker 1: gonna put a stop to this so that markets can

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Speaker 1: So Caroline Crenshaw, thanks very much for your time and

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Speaker 1: your service. This is Bloomberg going a busy, busy week

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Speaker 1: in terms of economic data. We had retail sales manufacturing

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Speaker 1: a great time it is then to speak to our

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Speaker 1: next guest, Constance Hunter. She's a chief economist at KPMG.

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Speaker 1: She joins us Constant, thanks so much for your time here.

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Speaker 1: Let's start with some of the economic data points we

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Speaker 1: got today. Retail sales UH and manufacturing activity came in

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Speaker 1: below expectations. A lot of folks are just saying, hey,

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Speaker 1: it's an aberration. We had a really bad weather across

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Speaker 1: the weather didn't help that UM. But when we look

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Speaker 1: say hello, Constance, Matt Miller here. It's been a long time,

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Speaker 1: you next year. That would be fabulous. I hope you come,

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Speaker 1: Me and Paul are lined up for the astros Nika shot.

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Speaker 1: So just as a public service announcement, we'll take it. UM.

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Speaker 1: as all the Street research maybe has it wrong. What

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Speaker 1: even the slightly above two percent. But the inflation year

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Speaker 1: the Great Depression. Now we didn't have that. I was

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Speaker 1: thinking to myself this morning yet, right, I mean, maybe

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Speaker 1: it could go, maybe it could all go. I don't

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Speaker 1: It could all go yes, it could. I would never

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Speaker 1: want to rule out the possibility we have a shock

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Speaker 1: I mean, obviously there's an element of it that's a

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Speaker 1: that's the bubble um. One thing that UM, it seems

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Speaker 1: clear to me is that the more the sector grow

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Speaker 1: I mean, if you give people the ability to transact

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Speaker 1: you know, the ability of governments to issue currency and

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Speaker 1: money to transaction UM. And I think the next battle

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Speaker 1: is trying to do, but I don't think that governments

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Speaker 1: are willing to let that happened. I mean it was

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Speaker 1: a cool experiment. I think at the beginning it grew

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Speaker 1: in kind of a dark hole. Regulators were not paying attention.

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Speaker 1: The technology was exciting it. But now it's getting so

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Speaker 1: lot more government interventions, and that could be maybe the

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Speaker 1: what ultimate see and still what what is very interesting

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Speaker 1: and and and and beautiful experiments? Vincent, about thirty seconds

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Speaker 1: makes the most sense to you? Um, well, a lot,

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Speaker 1: few good ideas. So most of the reopen trades that

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Speaker 1: cleek in the US I think have been played and overplayed.

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Speaker 1: I mean you'll get the wrestle wrest of two thousand

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Speaker 1: small gap value, all that stuff that has rallied so much,

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Speaker 1: that is corpus teamage shoes left. Uh. The only place

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Speaker 1: is where you could find one of the Jews I

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Speaker 1: I like Latin American currencies. You see a huge disconnect

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Speaker 1: between the performance of Latin American currencies and the performance

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Speaker 1: is the old prices and based ovices copper um and

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Speaker 1: and over time. These are commodity economies, so it's very

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Speaker 1: unlikely that divergence remains, so I would expect these two trampthon. Hey, Vincent,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much as always for joining us Vincent Ward,

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Speaker 1: global currency markets, suggesting maybe e M particularly Latin America,

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