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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Penl podcast on Paul Swing You.

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg dot com. Well Leland Miller, a chief executive officer

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Speaker 1: of China beige Book International, has nailed at time and

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Speaker 1: again when it comes to looking at preliminary data coming

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Speaker 1: out of Chinese companies, nonofficial data and estimating the increase

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Speaker 1: or decrease in activity ahead of the official pm MY

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Speaker 1: data that we got out of China that was incredibly

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Speaker 1: ugly record weakness that we saw in the manufacturing sector.

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Speaker 1: Leland Miller was saying that that we were going to

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Speaker 1: see a contraction in the Chinese economy in the first quarter.

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Speaker 1: That seems almost to be an uncertainty. The question now

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Speaker 1: is going forward, how quickly can China ramp back up

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Speaker 1: production and get supply chains working again. Leland Miller joins

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Speaker 1: us here at our Interactive Broker Studios. So do you

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Speaker 1: have a set based on preliminary data luland of how

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Speaker 1: much we're seeing manufacturing come back online from China. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we're we're seeing firms go back to work, we're seeing

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Speaker 1: workers show up. So we're seeing a trend towards firms opening.

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Speaker 1: But the question is how productive are they are they

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Speaker 1: question about this. You know, when we break down the

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Speaker 1: It's better than it was two weeks ago. Uh, And

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Speaker 1: single day as it comes in, but this is China's

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Speaker 1: that Beijing has given us their bad data that will

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Speaker 1: be the low no matter what happens. And asteroid could

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Speaker 1: much of this going back to work will be a

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Speaker 1: cover for rising p M s and A and a

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Speaker 1: to growth. So is this literally, as I think about

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Speaker 1: getting them working again. Is that kind of what we're

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Speaker 1: Jent Paying wants growth back at all costs, and so

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Speaker 1: I mean does that seem like a dominant type of

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Speaker 1: question is, how can they throw enough junior people under

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Speaker 1: starting to sell itself as the global authority on pandemic control.

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Speaker 1: You know, will help you out here. We don't need

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Speaker 1: any favorites United States, Iran, you want our help, it'llly

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Speaker 1: you want our help, We're here, we show you how

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Speaker 1: to do it right. It's a it's a clever narrative.

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Speaker 1: It's ridiculous, but it's a clever narrative narrative. Leland Miller,

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Speaker 1: as always, we appreciate your commentary. When it comes to

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Speaker 1: all things China, we learned so much. Leland Miller is

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Speaker 1: you know, you have to really dig under the hood.

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Speaker 1: There a lot of questions surrounding the markets right now.

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Speaker 1: A key one is how long will the effect of

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Speaker 1: the shutdown that we saw in China effect manufacturers in

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Speaker 1: the United States will affect supply chains. There's no one

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Speaker 1: better to talk about that than Brooks Sutherland, Bloomberg opinion

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Speaker 1: trying to understand as people game plan this out, do

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Speaker 1: super Tuesday, a lot of delegates up for grabs. Who

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Speaker 1: I think there's just it's gonna be very hard for

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Speaker 1: You've got to win your home state. Same thing for

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Speaker 1: Elizabeth Warren. You can make an argument about Massachusetts proximity

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Speaker 1: successfully compete at the national level for the presidency. Professor

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Speaker 1: Sheller had given your experience working with a variety of

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Speaker 1: Republicans unify, even if they say they didn't want Trump

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Speaker 1: So this is just gonna be whoever it is. Bloomberg, Sanders,

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Speaker 1: If Amy Klobuchar drops out, then you know, creeping up

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Speaker 1: show that he can get some African American votes tomorrow

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Speaker 1: in addition to latinos, he becomes a viable alternative to

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Speaker 1: Bernie Sanders. So at some point Democrats are going to decide,

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Speaker 1: Michael Bloomberg is the founder and principal owner of Bloomberg

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Speaker 1: LP and this radio station. So Wendy, let's talk about

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Speaker 1: Mr Sanders here. Bernie Sanders can he beat Trump? And

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Speaker 1: do you think do you agree with the concern that

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Speaker 1: in terms of Trump supporters. And that's the magic ticket

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Speaker 1: think there are challenges to that for him in particular areas,

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Speaker 1: thing to watch is African American turnout turn out generally

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Speaker 1: you want to say, if people vote in the primary,

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Speaker 1: So if Bernie can generate high turnout in the primaries,

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Speaker 1: he's got an argument that those people will still come

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Speaker 1: I think it's going to be harder for him to

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Speaker 1: explain how he'll pay for things that he's promised to do.

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Speaker 1: But enthusiasm is the number one, you know, a component

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Speaker 1: amongst a decent size of the Democratic Party. Wendy Schiller,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for being with us. Wendy Schiller,

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Speaker 1: Professor of political science and public Policy at Brown University

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