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Speaker 1: Yeah, Welcome to the Bloomberg Surveillance Podcast. I'm Tom Keane.

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Speaker 1: make your luck. And that's when Jeffrey Curry walks in

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Speaker 1: the studio from Golden Sacks with a bigger, larger macro

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Speaker 1: view on oil. And yet he knows there is a bank,

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Speaker 1: a financial arm of the oil business that happens to

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Speaker 1: look for oil called Xson as well. So we're gonna

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Speaker 1: fold some cell side here on x on Mobile earnings up,

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Speaker 1: the stock moves up three and jeff Curry here to

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Speaker 1: rip up the script on Big Oil. How is amery

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Speaker 1: can Big Oil doing right now? Not so much sell

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Speaker 1: side analysis, but from your purview, well, I think when

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Speaker 1: you look at their ability to tract capital, one of

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Speaker 1: the biggest issues right now is the E S G

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Speaker 1: issue and how do they restructure themselves such that they

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Speaker 1: be able to become more relevant in the de carbonized world.

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Speaker 1: And we think big oil is going to turn into

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Speaker 1: big energy, and they're gonna do that by buying gas

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Speaker 1: sst assets from l n G um gas here in

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Speaker 1: the US power assets. I just did a fabulous seminar

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Speaker 1: with Robert Litterman of great financial guides like Black Shoals.

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Speaker 1: He did a huge amount of work with Fisher Black

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Speaker 1: years ago, and he has led the study of climate

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Speaker 1: change and all that, and he led our session of

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Speaker 1: Sustained Bloomberg Sustainable Summit on XX on finally catching up.

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Speaker 1: Is big oil gonna go green? I'm not gonna say

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Speaker 1: they're gonna go go go green, but they're gonna put

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Speaker 1: a greater emphasis on green type assets. So they basically,

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Speaker 1: instead of um letting go of their dirty assets, they'll

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Speaker 1: add on more clean assets to balance out the overall

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Speaker 1: carbon footprint and so they become big energy. Does natural

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Speaker 1: gas factor into that as well? Oh, it's critical to it.

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Speaker 1: L n G is a really important part of that

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Speaker 1: overall strategy. The reason I bring this up is because

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Speaker 1: we've had a big deal, but it was three years

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Speaker 1: shall p G Right, So when is this stuff really

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Speaker 1: gonna stop happening? You're seeing the the f I D

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Speaker 1: build these capacity. Interesting because in terms of looking at

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Speaker 1: where the marginal growth globally comes for energy, it's on

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Speaker 1: the gas side, So you need to build these assets.

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Speaker 1: So what does that mean for crude supply? Jeff? If

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Speaker 1: they're going to go out and spend a lot of

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Speaker 1: money doing these other things, what does it mean for

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Speaker 1: the marginal Jeff Curry, Golden Sex with so much of

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Speaker 1: what you do in industry is what you don't do.

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Speaker 1: Did the Canadians get it right with the sands? In hindsight?

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Speaker 1: Was that like smart investment? And was maybe excellents smart

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Speaker 1: because they didn't do Canadian sands well. If you go

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Speaker 1: still didn't know what shale was, and by two thousand

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Speaker 1: the future. So I don't think it was a mistake

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Speaker 1: in the hind sighting it is, but at the back

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Speaker 1: in two thousand and five it sure wasn't a mistake.

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Speaker 1: Are the Saudis astute at those technological shifts or they

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Speaker 1: blind to them because everything is so perfect for their hydrocars. Well, again,

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Speaker 1: So if you go back to two thousand and five,

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Speaker 1: let's talk about the oil story of the morning. Iran.

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Speaker 1: Now the message to anyone buying oil from Iran was

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Speaker 1: talk about how much Crewed has ruled out rolled out

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Speaker 1: to what degree do you think it is? I've assault

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Speaker 1: um looking at Brenton's WC this morning, going to hundred

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Speaker 1: there is really that with you you have relatively strong demand.

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Speaker 1: And I think a lot of that sell off was

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Speaker 1: run up, it was I ran and the sell off

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Speaker 1: think the key point is you've got three reasons why

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Speaker 1: inventories are finally beginning to draw, so that the impact

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Speaker 1: is probably not as bad as people think. The downside

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Speaker 1: left Jeff Curry again, someone to the cell side. I'm

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Speaker 1: with the recovery in oil? Yes, it has. We've we've

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Speaker 1: seen inflationary Why is that inflationary? Presstionary pressure? Labor a

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Speaker 1: to say, is that you know which one is a

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Speaker 1: it's Friday. Do we do chicken? Okay, we can't. But

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Speaker 1: across the broader economy. Never enough time. Jeff Curry, thank

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Speaker 1: you so much with his work in London over the years.

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Speaker 1: Jeff is going to catch up to see Jeff. Eric

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Speaker 1: Ross is with us with great acuity, great granularity on Apple, Eric,

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Speaker 1: I just looked at the fancy Bloomberg chart on Apple,

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Speaker 1: and we're down something in the vicinity. Eric, we're down

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Speaker 1: something in the vicinity of three standard deviations. Three standard

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Speaker 1: Right now, it's been an abrupt move. Is it an

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Speaker 1: opportunity to buy shares today. But we see it that

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Speaker 1: Apple clearly missed what the guidance was being expected by

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Speaker 1: analysts out there. So they do to get actors, they

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Speaker 1: start looking at what's actually happening in in in their

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Speaker 1: business overall, and the smartphones are a s owing growth

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Speaker 1: type of business. But Apple continues to take more and

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Speaker 1: more share there. But if you look at everybody else

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Speaker 1: show me they're barely making a profit. They're seeing their

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Speaker 1: units continue to get ground down. It's it's a terrible market.

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Speaker 1: Apple is figured out the formula to make a tremendous

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Speaker 1: amount of six years ago. I mean, they've always been

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Speaker 1: the premium product, that's a fact they have. But they

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Speaker 1: know more. They're they're pricing dramatically last year and that

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Speaker 1: made a huge difference in the amount of money they

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Speaker 1: If you don't some of the parts analysis, I know

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Speaker 1: your targets to fifty, it's an opportunity for you folks.

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Speaker 1: Earlier this morning, Morgan Stanley cut their price target on Apple,

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Speaker 1: and there's other dynamics out there as well, But has

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Speaker 1: anybody done legit some of the parts, like what is

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Speaker 1: services actually worth? Uh? As far as services being worth

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Speaker 1: uh separately from itself, I mean it's trund It's it's

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Speaker 1: basically about ten billion in revenues a quarter slap on

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Speaker 1: something that's got Yeah, I mean a company that would

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Speaker 1: be separate by it's equivalent to that. What would be

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Speaker 1: the name you would come up with that would be

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Speaker 1: an equivalence to Apple Services? You can look at something

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Speaker 1: like it's a little bit different, but something like a salesforce.

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Speaker 1: You know, So you're talking about a multiple that's definitely

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Speaker 1: north of twenty and that's probably north of thirty right now.

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Speaker 1: We don't cover how does Apple price it right now? Again?

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Speaker 1: Compare that so you know, Apple you're talking about you know,

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Speaker 1: to UH stock buy back, They led to big payments

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Speaker 1: for the careholders. So we have seen the labor share

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Speaker 1: this strong economy, has not changed that. I talked that

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Speaker 1: what labor is getting is a smaller share than what

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Speaker 1: it used to be. And if you're growing the pie,

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Speaker 1: put your shrinking labor share. Labors doesn't care that the

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Speaker 1: pie growing what they wanted their share back. This has

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Speaker 1: been wonderful, Betsy Stevenson, thank you so much. With the

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Speaker 1: FOURD School, the University of Michigan, in the course republic service,

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Speaker 1: with the Department of Labor, as well for the Trump administration.

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Speaker 1: Views on the jobs report were now joined on Bloomberg

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Speaker 1: Television and on Bloomberg Radio by Kevin Hasset, Council of

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Speaker 1: Economic Advisors Chairman, and he joins us from outside the

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Speaker 1: White House. Good morning to Kevin. Oh, it's great to

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Speaker 1: be here. Especially, had a great job to stay right,

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Speaker 1: a really good job. Today. The economy is booming, gets

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Speaker 1: running hot, Kevin. I guess that's a good reason for

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Speaker 1: the Fed to keep rising interest rates, isn't it? Oh?

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Speaker 1: You go right, to the thing that you know, I

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Speaker 1: can't talk about. You know, we respect the independence of

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Speaker 1: the FED. Uh. The thing I can say though, as

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Speaker 1: going north of three over a twelve month period for

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Speaker 1: the first time since before the Great Recession. And you know,

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Speaker 1: you and I have been talking about this for more

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Speaker 1: will get wage growth, but it will be supported by

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Speaker 1: higher productivity, and so it won't be inflationary. And so

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Speaker 1: we're definitely seeing the capital spending and now we're seeing

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Speaker 1: the wage growth that everybody said was impossible. We've got

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Speaker 1: this slow, quiet pick up in productivity and I think

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Speaker 1: that's really important and not many people are talking about it,

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Speaker 1: but on CAPEX, I think this is interesting. And the

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Speaker 1: last GDP report business investment didn't look good. It's decelerated

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Speaker 1: by a fair bit. Kevin, what's the view from the

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Speaker 1: White House as to why? Well, yeah, so, first, if

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Speaker 1: If you look there, then you you see you know,

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Speaker 1: basically they were up something like six percent for the quarter.

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Speaker 1: Imports of capital goods were up a lot, and so

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Speaker 1: we were expecting the capital goods UH spending in the

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Speaker 1: much more consistent with the key source data. And you

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Speaker 1: even saw it in the Job's report today. So so

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Speaker 1: down down in the details, you guys probably didn't have

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Speaker 1: make capital goods in this Job's report, they increase at

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Speaker 1: a rate of five points. And so there's definitely a

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Speaker 1: dissidence right now with all the data we see and

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Speaker 1: the capital spending in the GDP release. Now, those guys

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Speaker 1: making a mistake. No, they've got some nuanced micro data

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Speaker 1: at says the capital spending trend is continued. So Kevin,

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Speaker 1: I assume that is still in this bullish camp where

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Speaker 1: you expect to supply side response, where we can have

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Speaker 1: white growth but without the inflation repressions that come with

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Speaker 1: that better output in America, right, And don't forget that.

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Speaker 1: It's it's it's econ one oh one. Everybody who ever

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Speaker 1: as big as our own, and we find that it's

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Speaker 1: actually disinflation ary, just because that intuition from your first

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Speaker 1: economics class is accurate. And we're so we're seeing right now,

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Speaker 1: right is real wage growth. So so not only is

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Speaker 1: and so that means that we've got real wage growth,

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Speaker 1: which means that you know, underlying productivity is what's driving

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Speaker 1: wages Kevin, that's a bullish story. Here's another one for you.

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Speaker 1: A report that the President has asked officials to draw

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Speaker 1: by potential trite dale with China. Is that true? You know,

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Speaker 1: I've seen those reports that I can't comment one way

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Speaker 1: the president behind the scenes. That's all covered by executive privilege.

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Speaker 1: But I can tell you that the President had a

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Speaker 1: very promising call with President she. We're looking forward to

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Speaker 1: him having a very productive meeting when they meet at

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Speaker 1: the G twenty meetings. And you know, President Trump is

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Speaker 1: very very good at getting deals. That's something that we've

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Speaker 1: seen over and over. I who wrote the Art of

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Speaker 1: the Deal. But whatever the president's going to meet about anything.

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Speaker 1: You know, if he was going to meet and talk

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Speaker 1: helping him prepare for the G twenty meeting is not

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Speaker 1: really does well. I'm trying to understand, Kevin, if he's

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Speaker 1: preparing for the G twenty or preparing for the mid terms.

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Speaker 1: Is this campaign politics or make an economic policy. What

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Speaker 1: could you be more clear about your question doesn't want

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Speaker 1: to deal with now I can. I can say that

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Speaker 1: there's a big, big incentive for the administration to get

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Speaker 1: And I think a lot of people would like real

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Speaker 1: clarity as to whether some of this is disingenuous or not,

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Speaker 1: whether there is a real effort to get a trade deal,

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Speaker 1: some better stories ahead of the midterms. Look, if you

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Speaker 1: look at the U s m c A deal, which

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Speaker 1: at the free trade talks that we've begun with Europe

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Speaker 1: and with Japan, the progress that President Trump made with

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Speaker 1: President Yunker, you can see that his objective in the

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Speaker 1: trade space is better policy. Better policy is good for America.

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Speaker 1: It makes growth go up, it makes markets go up.

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Speaker 1: And better policy is you know, it's our objective, it's

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Speaker 1: our long run objective. And the g TWITY meeting has

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Speaker 1: been on the schedule you forever. And the fact that

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Speaker 1: Presidency and President Trump are going to meet at the

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Speaker 1: g TWITY meeting has been something that's been considered for

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Speaker 1: a very long time. And so the notion that we

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Speaker 1: would consider great policy just because it will get us reelected,

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Speaker 1: it's it's cookie. I mean, come on, we consider great

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Speaker 1: policies because we're patriots, we love America. We want to

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Speaker 1: make workers wages go up by even more than three

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Speaker 1: point present. Let's talk about something else. Let's talk about

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Speaker 1: the deficit and the debt. Kevin John Bolton said the following,

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Speaker 1: and I find this fascinating. Let me read it too.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure you're familiar with the quote. It is a

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Speaker 1: fact that when your national debt gets the level hours

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Speaker 1: And that kind of threat ultimately has a national security consequence,

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Speaker 1: for it is the deficit and national security risk. I

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Speaker 1: think certainly if you run, uh, you know, all the

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Speaker 1: to be revised. Every economist will tell you. And if

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Speaker 1: you didn't do that, then you'd run the risk of

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Speaker 1: all sorts of things like not having enough money to

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Speaker 1: defend our country. And I'm sure that that's the kind

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Speaker 1: of thing that John Bolton has in mind. Uh. You know, again,

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Speaker 1: in economic models, there's a great opportunity in the US

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Speaker 1: if we have a fiscal consolidation what economists call it,

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Speaker 1: that it would be a big positive for growth. That's

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Speaker 1: absolutely true. But is there a near term risk that

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Speaker 1: or something like that? Like, absolutely not. In fact, usually

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Speaker 1: the near term models that model the near term effects

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Speaker 1: Kynesie and so, one of their metrics of stimulus is

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Speaker 1: the deficit, right, and so they would say we're being

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Speaker 1: stimulative right now. So I asked this question of mcmulvaney

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Speaker 1: in the last couple of weeks as well, Kevin, I'd

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Speaker 1: love your insight on it too. Is the g IP

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Speaker 1: really still the Party of Fiscal Responsibility? Oh? Sure, sure?

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Speaker 1: But no, no, okay, but let's think about it this way. So,

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Speaker 1: so GDP growth was one point six percent where President

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Speaker 1: Trump took office. You agree with that. Wage growth was

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Speaker 1: in the tubes. Every new factory was being built in

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Speaker 1: Ireland instead of here. We had the highest corporate tax

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Speaker 1: on earth, and a military that was really, really had

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Speaker 1: worrisome readiness because so little money had been spent on

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Speaker 1: and the result has been what we're talking about that

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Speaker 1: got north of three percent wage growth, we've got real

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Speaker 1: wage growth, the capital spending boom, and a military that's

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Speaker 1: you know, got about set a step again. And so

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Speaker 1: I think that after we have prioritized those objectives, that

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Speaker 1: of course it's natural for us to then think about

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Speaker 1: what the next step should be. And that's why President Trump,

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Speaker 1: agencies to submit budgets that are that show a five

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Speaker 1: be deficit. But there are some contradictions here, Kevin. A

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Speaker 1: lot of people want the GOP to be the party

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Speaker 1: of fiscal responsibility. That were the military to have a

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Speaker 1: bounce in its step, we all do. And then we

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Speaker 1: see headlines and comments about sending fifteen thousand troops towards

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Speaker 1: that is, some estimates, is up to two months away.

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Speaker 1: Does that make sense? Is that fiscally responsible? Well, you know,

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Speaker 1: I I'm not a border security expert, but I can

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Speaker 1: say nor would anyone ever ask me for military advice,

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Speaker 1: I can tell you. But the fact is that we've

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Speaker 1: spent wisely in the military to repair the things that

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Speaker 1: were broken and to up the spending to make sure

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Speaker 1: that the folks that we go in harm's way have

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Speaker 1: the materials they need so that they can win and

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Speaker 1: not be harmed. And I think that that that wasn't

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Speaker 1: the state the President Trump thought that we had when

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Speaker 1: we got here, and and so we've prioritized that fixing

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Speaker 1: that first. But now now that it looks like we've

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Speaker 1: made great progress there and with the tax cuts to

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Speaker 1: livering high growth and the revenues that come with it,

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Speaker 1: now it's time to sit back and look at spending

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Speaker 1: in other places and exactly all of this and this

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Speaker 1: comes from a genuine place, honestly, Kevin Okay, I understand

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Speaker 1: that you want to have this image of being fiscally

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Speaker 1: responsible and you can't comment on national security. But last

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Speaker 1: time I checked, John Bolton is not an expert on

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Speaker 1: the fiscal deficit either. And it just seems that a

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Speaker 1: lot of people are commenting on a lot of things

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Speaker 1: outside of their lane ahead of the midterms because politically

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Speaker 1: it might make sense to say these things. And just

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Speaker 1: before we go, I want a final word from you

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Speaker 1: as the weather focus actually is and whether you can

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Speaker 1: actually get things back together and just focus on this

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Speaker 1: is my job. I'm going to do my thing instead

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Speaker 1: of having all these other people comment on things outside

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Speaker 1: of their lane. It's kind of an odd question. I

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Speaker 1: guess what's your lane? Right? I mean, your land is

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Speaker 1: everything that I don't know. It's question you know what

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Speaker 1: my lane is? You know, you know what my lane is,

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Speaker 1: and and I stay in my lane. You know. I

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Speaker 1: talked about the things I know about and try to,

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Speaker 1: you know, to say, hey, I don't have extra information

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Speaker 1: for you and that thing, and that's that's what we do,

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Speaker 1: you know. And uh So, anyway, this whole lane thing

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Speaker 1: is not a conversation that I'm an expert in either.

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Speaker 1: There you go. It's like talking about lanes is not

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Speaker 1: in my lane? How about that? And then we got

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Speaker 1: Kevin Hasset from that side of White House, right to

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Speaker 1: have you with us. Kevin always a sport, and yet

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Speaker 1: she's doing to be back. Always stand your line. I'm

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