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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Surveillance Podcast with Tom Keene, Jonathan Barrow,

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Tournament. There is a crisis from call it Winnipeg

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Speaker 1: in the normal winter of Canada. An I'm down through

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Speaker 1: the Dakotas and to Texas. We've seen the snow at

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Speaker 1: the Alamo. It is a freeze. It is in many

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Speaker 1: cases of blizzard with massive hardship. We tried to go

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Speaker 1: out and find the guy qualified, and yes, that would

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Speaker 1: be the Railroad Commission of Texas Commissioner Jim Right. But

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Speaker 1: not for the reasons that you think. Jim Right grew

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Speaker 1: up west of Corpus Christie. He's a legitimate guy who

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Speaker 1: knows about the animals of Texas, the rodeo bull riding

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Speaker 1: at all. He has a visceral knowledge, Jim, what people

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Speaker 1: are putting up with right now. Jim, we want to

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Speaker 1: talk to you about the electric grid and the rest

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Speaker 1: of it, the energy markets. But I've got to ask

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Speaker 1: you this morning. You're living it tell us what the

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Speaker 1: ranchers are doing across the southern Midwest. Well, I'll tell

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Speaker 1: you from being a rancher myself. We've been out repairing pipes,

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Speaker 1: so we make sure that we have water and energy

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Speaker 1: uh uh to our livestock and water to our homes.

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Speaker 1: Is there a risk here or with modern technology, is

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Speaker 1: it going to be different than eight nine? I don't

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Speaker 1: see it being much different right now from those times

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Speaker 1: you know, pipes, pipes seem to break whenever it gets cold,

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Speaker 1: and you still have to go out and fix those. Well, Jim,

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Speaker 1: given the fact that extreme temperature may become something more

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Speaker 1: normal or perhaps more regularly occurring, and going forward, what

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Speaker 1: do you expect to be necessary to fortify the electricity

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Speaker 1: grid as we know it? You know, I think that

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Speaker 1: we're going to have to take a stronger look at

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Speaker 1: uh who's allowed priority on our grid system. Right now,

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Speaker 1: we're saying that the renewable energy has that priority, which

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Speaker 1: is discouraging our are reliable energy source, which seems to

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Speaker 1: and building the plants needed to pick up this power

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Speaker 1: demand in time times like these. Wait, but I just

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Speaker 1: really want to clarify this ship. Are you saying that

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Speaker 1: the problem here lies with the wind turbines, some of

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Speaker 1: the renewable energies and not with some of the pipelines

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Speaker 1: and freezing and other issues there is that what you're saying, Well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: in a certain way, you know, I think that as

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Speaker 1: we here in Texas has said that renewable energy has

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Speaker 1: priority on our grid. We've discouraged the people coming in

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Speaker 1: and building car plants that run off of natural gas,

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Speaker 1: which is more of a reliable source than than has

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Speaker 1: every and knows when and uh the sun is. So

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Speaker 1: I think that what we're experiencing today is the fact

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Speaker 1: that we just don't have enough plants to keep up

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Speaker 1: with our demand during times like these. What does the

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Speaker 1: Railroad Commission of Texas need to do to dovetail a

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Speaker 1: boom economy and the capitalism of Texas with the constraints

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Speaker 1: the limits that you face ecologically. Yeah, I think that, uh,

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Speaker 1: one of those big things is more on along the

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Speaker 1: and the benefits of our renewable energy. You know, both

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Speaker 1: both have places here in Texas. I think that we

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Speaker 1: make those coexisting along alongside one another, but while still

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Speaker 1: keeping a focus on improving our environment. You know, when

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Speaker 1: I look at the environment, I look at that in

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Speaker 1: two ways. It's not only what mankind's impact is our

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Speaker 1: planet Earth, but it's also are the impact caused by

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Speaker 1: the debt that we're accumulating trying to trying to continue

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Speaker 1: to protect what mankind's uh impact we seem to think

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Speaker 1: we have on on on Earth. You know, we we've

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Speaker 1: had some large issues here in Texas with flaring and

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Speaker 1: and did not create any type of impact on as

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Speaker 1: far as the missions is concerned. Jim right, you've got

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Speaker 1: a crisis right now in this weather. The crisis was

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Speaker 1: your stunning victory a year ago within this important position

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Speaker 1: How did a rancher from basically west of Corpus Christie

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Speaker 1: you provide that lesson is leadership to move Texas forward? Now?

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Speaker 1: I think It shows that people in Texas are are

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Speaker 1: to get issues resolved. Jim, it's fantastic to have you

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Speaker 1: stay close, and we wish to stay well. Jim, right there,

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Speaker 1: the Texas Railroad Commissioner. I look at the Swiss twenty

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Speaker 1: of Europe. John, it's about ready to move to a

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Speaker 1: Bank chief International strategist, and and let's just start right

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Speaker 1: What's your takeaway, Alan Well, I think the main cautionary

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Speaker 1: good reasons to be bearish in terms of bonds. I

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Speaker 1: think the fixed income story revolves around the reflation that

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Speaker 1: tilted towards access reflation um And I'm not necessarily saying

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Speaker 1: much a lagging indicator, lags growth by about eighteen months.

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Speaker 1: But in terms of growth and the potential for overheating

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Speaker 1: Biden money supply growth which is the highest ever. Financial

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Speaker 1: doing this for four or five, six decades, Alan, I

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Speaker 1: mean we have been wrong on inflation moving higher. Why

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Speaker 1: And you know, it's it's it's a it's a tough core.

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Speaker 1: the cyclic or elements will almost certainly show some uptick.

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Speaker 1: Allen is the reflectionary trade dependent on central banks remaining

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Speaker 1: at the start of another commodity supercycle. Alan, does that

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Speaker 1: see GDP growth rates. Um. You know, our baseline without

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Speaker 1: six percent plus GDP growth. We're looking at a eight

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Speaker 1: that Biden is promising. Alana. This is exactly why what

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Speaker 1: you're talking about to tie this all together, this is

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Speaker 1: exactly why people are saying that the old models of

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Speaker 1: what a bubble is, of what overheated is don't count

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Speaker 1: because this is a new era of central bank stimulus.

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Speaker 1: the alarm bell saying there is too much froth from

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Speaker 1: terms of fair valuations. But absolutely, if policy is this easy,

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Speaker 1: we don't really know, you know, how to appropriately value things.

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Speaker 1: And we're making a bet and making considerations that relates

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Speaker 1: to whether we will see inflation eighteen months hence or not. Really, that's,

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Speaker 1: to me is the macro question of the day. Alan,

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Speaker 1: great to catch up, sir, and I'm Ruskin at Deutsche Bank.

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