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Speaker 1: YouTube by searching Bloomberg Global News. Investors. They are perhaps

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Speaker 1: rightly worried about this spike that we're seeing across the

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Speaker 1: country in coronavirus cases, especially in the sun Belts. This

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Speaker 1: is not a disease. We know that summer is going

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Speaker 1: numbers are scary. John Tazzi is healthcare reporter for Bloomberg.

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Speaker 1: He joins us on the phone from Queens And you know, John,

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Speaker 1: I grew up in Houston, and so I look at

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Speaker 1: us understand where we are because two months after, almost

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Speaker 1: three months after we were facing this in New York City,

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Speaker 1: we're back to counting beds again. Yeah, I mean, I

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Speaker 1: so much so that as you you know, put in

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Speaker 1: Have those states that are now dealing with surges and

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Speaker 1: the phone in Queens, New York. And Jason, listen, you

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Speaker 1: a little flex for Jason and me, but we have

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Speaker 1: talked to both the head of Hilton, Christmas Set and

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Speaker 1: Alan joke of Uni Leaver. So we have talked with them, Yeah, exactly, exactly, So, UM,

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Speaker 1: tell us a bit more about what those traits are. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So well, the first one they found was being a

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Speaker 1: multi level systems thinker and being able to incorporate systems

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Speaker 1: thinking into your your leadership style. Right. And then there

436
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Speaker 1: were also people who wanted to actively include stakeholders in

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Speaker 1: their talks and really you know, understand the issues of

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Speaker 1: stakeholders and UM bring them in, not in terms not

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Speaker 1: managing them, not telling them what to do, but to

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Speaker 1: bring them in and bring them along. UM. The other

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Speaker 1: one was disruptive innovation UM and being able to challenge

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Speaker 1: traditional approaches and cut the bureaucracy and sort of figure

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Speaker 1: out where those tradeoffs are between profitability and sustainability. And

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Speaker 1: the last one was having sort of a long term mindset.

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Speaker 1: So they found these four ideas and it wasn't necessarily

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Speaker 1: that leaders were born with them a lot of times

447
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Speaker 1: maybe they were, but sometimes they wake up to them

448
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Speaker 1: across the course of their career, like they go through

449
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Speaker 1: a UM transformative business opportunity and say, oh my gosh, wait,

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Speaker 1: I can think differently about this. Yeah, I mean, and

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Speaker 1: man as you said, we are seeing this so across

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Speaker 1: the board right now in this moment, right I mean,

453
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Speaker 1: in this moment where a CEO isn't allowed to I

454
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Speaker 1: shouldn't say it is allowed, isn't able to just like

455
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Speaker 1: jet around the world and sort of hop from place

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Speaker 1: to place. They're usually in one spot. They're having to

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Speaker 1: deal with everything that's in front of them. Uh. And

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Speaker 1: one of those things, obviously, are these big issues of equality,

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Speaker 1: which demand a level of accountability and transparency that we

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Speaker 1: just have not seen leaders subjected to in a long time,

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Speaker 1: if ever, Carol, Yeah, I think it's a really good point.

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Speaker 1: And there's another story in the terminal and and we

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you saw this too, but it

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Speaker 1: talked about E s G investors, those who run E

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Speaker 1: s G funds, you know, and they're constantly saying to

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Speaker 1: other companies and leaders like, hey, where's your diversity, we're

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Speaker 1: your sustainability, And now they're looking at their own firms

468
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Speaker 1: and finding out, oh wait, we're not doing so well

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Speaker 1: on that Market's just kind of, you know, kind of

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Speaker 1: blows your mind. And it's great that I think people

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Speaker 1: are finally really understanding what it means to be either

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Speaker 1: diverse or sustainable. You know, it has to be all

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Speaker 1: the way around. Yeah, it's definitely important to be authentic

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Speaker 1: and all of these things sort of walk the walk

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Speaker 1: um to talk to talk um. So we also talked

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Speaker 1: to the Carlisle Group, which is that what the Impact

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Speaker 1: report this week on what they've been doing, and we

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Speaker 1: asked them about, you know, how are you seeing this

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Speaker 1: in the real world, and they said that the management

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Speaker 1: teams that really focus on where the world is going

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Speaker 1: versus where it has been are the ones that are

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Speaker 1: generating great financial performance. Interesting. Yeah, I mean, and I

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Speaker 1: will say private equity in in many ways, and Emily,

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Speaker 1: you and I have talked about this before. We've been

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Speaker 1: at some of the same conferences around investing, and you know,

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Speaker 1: the private equity fronts for all of the slings and

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Speaker 1: arrows that they take it in many ways, they seem

488
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Speaker 1: to have kind of gotten religion around impact over the

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Speaker 1: past few years. You know, you think about what KKR

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Speaker 1: is doing, Carlisle you mentioned, and others, you know, and

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Speaker 1: not to mention the ones who are very focused, uh

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Speaker 1: specifically on this, like Generation which I know, our Gore Shop,

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Speaker 1: which you've spent some time with. Yeah, definitely. A lot

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Speaker 1: of them are focused on this right now. KKR actually

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Speaker 1: had a deal this week on water Um. There's a

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Speaker 1: lot of thinking about the thing. You know, it would

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Speaker 1: look at those long term trends. We want to happen

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Speaker 1: to them right now, especially in private equity, and especially

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Speaker 1: in finding those leaders who can make the pivots necessary

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Speaker 1: to build the infrastructure of the future. Well, and not

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Speaker 1: for nothing, but what the private The reasons the private

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Speaker 1: equity guys have gotten religion around this, as you well know, Emily,

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Speaker 1: is because they can make a lot of money, and

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Speaker 1: and these executives that they can attract can make a

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Speaker 1: lot of money, and so you know, not surprisingly Hilton,

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Speaker 1: you know, not necessarily a sustainability player and impact play,

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Speaker 1: but private equity back. So really interesting, all right, Emily Chason,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much. Good to catch up with you.

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Speaker 1: Our sustainability editor for Bloomberg joining us on the phone

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Speaker 1: from New York City. Sustainable leaders have these traits in common.

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Speaker 1: Check that out on the Bloomberg or Bloomberg dot com.

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Speaker 1: Pretty interesting, right, yeah, totally interesting. But I think you

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Speaker 1: know you and I've talked about too about everybody. Okay,

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Speaker 1: let's do another focus group, let's talk about the problem.

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Speaker 1: Blah blah blah. You know this is getting down to okay,

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Speaker 1: what makes a leader a really great leader in creating

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Speaker 1: a diverse workforce, a diverse supply chain. Like, let's get

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Speaker 1: down to the stace. How do you do That's that,

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Speaker 1: that's what That's what creates it. Doing stuff. There's our

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Speaker 1: next T shirt. Yeah, doing stuff, Just do it. Just

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Speaker 1: do good stuff. At a boss a long time ago,

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Speaker 1: he said, just do good stuff. He didn't give any

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Speaker 1: direction other than that, but that's the way went did.

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Speaker 1: But it was pretty clear message. Yeah, just can you

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Speaker 1: say it's like it makes sense. You're listening to Bloomberg

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Speaker 1: Business Week on this Wednesday, Carol Master along with Jason Kelly.

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Speaker 1: It is time to cut you down to the closing bill.

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Speaker 1: Aaron Kennon is back with us. He's co founder and

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Speaker 1: chief executive officer at Clear Harbor Asset Management. Back with

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Speaker 1: us once again on the phone from Greenwich, Connecticut. Aaron,

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Speaker 1: good to have you here with us. You know we've

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Speaker 1: been talking with you certainly throughout the year and throughout

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Speaker 1: this crisis. Um, I don't know how has your outlook

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Speaker 1: on the markets, on the economic rebound maybe changed over

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Speaker 1: the last few months. Well, great to be back, Carol,

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Speaker 1: thank you. Um, well, let's see. I mean, certainly we

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Speaker 1: are going through a period where there's this huge divergence

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Speaker 1: right between the the equity markets and the real economy.

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Speaker 1: Now that that's not necessarily a new thing, but the

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Speaker 1: degree to which we're seeing a divergence is quite uh significant,

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Speaker 1: meaning that you know, the equity market tends to be

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Speaker 1: a discounting mechanism. It tends to recover or start to

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Speaker 1: recover ahead of a recovery in the real economy. But

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Speaker 1: you know, to come thirty nine, not including today, off

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Speaker 1: of that March twenty three low is quite a significant.

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Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of optimism built in the

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Speaker 1: equity markets and when we you know, sort of look

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Speaker 1: at the divergence even within the equity market. Um, I

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Speaker 1: think it really details a tale of two stories. Um

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Speaker 1: the technology piece is in a bowl market and the

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Speaker 1: financial piece is very much in a bear market. And

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Speaker 1: I think that's really sort of proven itself out maybe

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Speaker 1: perhaps since we last spoke. And so where does it

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Speaker 1: go from here? Do you think, Karen? Well, I think

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Speaker 1: as as we wade through this crisis, it's going to

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Speaker 1: be long. They're going to be a lot of speed bumps, Jason,

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Speaker 1: and UM. I believe that, you know, the technology sector

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Speaker 1: is an asset light sector that's focused on providing productivity

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Speaker 1: to their clients, to their corporations. UM. In this period

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Speaker 1: of future deglobalization, where you're going to have supply chains

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Speaker 1: moving all around the world, technology is going to play

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Speaker 1: a key role in that effort. I think companies with

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Speaker 1: strong balance sheets, with strong management, and strong capital allocators

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Speaker 1: more generally are going to capture some market share during

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Speaker 1: this crisis. They have been capturing markets or during this crisis,

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Speaker 1: and will be even stronger as we come out the

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Speaker 1: other side. So I think that trend continues. In The

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Speaker 1: real question in our minds at Clear Harbor is well,

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Speaker 1: what about valuations and UM? Technology valuations have become you know,

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Speaker 1: quite quite lofty across the board and UM. But you know,

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Speaker 1: you look at the banks and they're they're in a

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Speaker 1: bear market. UM. Net interest margins are are collapsing, loan

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Speaker 1: loan growth is certainly a problem UM, and and the

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Speaker 1: credit picture is being butchered by the Fed. So UM,

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Speaker 1: go ahead here, No, you know what I was thinking, Aaron,

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Speaker 1: They're listening to you what you said about technology, and

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Speaker 1: I certainly agree with you, but I got it to say,

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Speaker 1: I look at my world and increasingly, I mean, Jason

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Speaker 1: and I are doing our radio show because of technology,

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Speaker 1: and everybody is working at home because of technology. And

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Speaker 1: I feel like, despite what the outlook is, if there's

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Speaker 1: any one consistent theme that we can count on, and

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Speaker 1: I know it's been what's propelled the market's higher, you know,

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Speaker 1: coming off the crisis, but it is technology, absolutely, so

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Speaker 1: I would be in in plead agreement with that. And um,

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Speaker 1: and I think you know, we we do have points

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Speaker 1: of concern across the economy. I mean, certainly if you

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Speaker 1: look at the SP five as in its entirety trading

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Speaker 1: at you know, pick your number, but it probably best

590
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Speaker 1: case twenty four times two thousand and twenty one earnings,

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Speaker 1: so that that's a lofty multiple. UM. Corporate debtloads are

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Speaker 1: are high. We saw the record high yield issuance this month,

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Speaker 1: and um, you know that's that's all very much supported

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Speaker 1: by by FED policy. Around the fallen angels. Unemployment, I

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Speaker 1: think it's a huge question mark. And I've been hearing

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Speaker 1: a lot about the rise in the savings rate. Um,

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Speaker 1: it's at a record. I don't think we saw a

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Speaker 1: savings rate spike like this in our entire lifetime. And

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Speaker 1: some of you that as a positive that there's cash

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Speaker 1: on the sidelines. Well, you know, can I just can

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Speaker 1: I just jump? Because Jason and I talked about this yesterday,

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Speaker 1: you know, as our reporting Ben Steve Berman put out

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Speaker 1: a story that you know, yea that Americans have some

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Speaker 1: money on the sidelines, but there is still consistently, you know,

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Speaker 1: research showing that most Americans out there don't even have

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Speaker 1: enough money to deal with like a car bill of

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Speaker 1: four hundred dollars like that money on the sidelines. Some

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Speaker 1: people are gonna have to live on that. And I know,

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Speaker 1: well that's right, that's absolutely right. And and the money

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Speaker 1: on the sidelines is is it an indication of optimism

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Speaker 1: or is an indication of of anxiety? What will be

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Speaker 1: the catalyst for altering that anxiety level? And so, you know,

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Speaker 1: you mentioned the FED Arran and I feel like history

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Speaker 1: will be very kind. I've said this on this program

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Speaker 1: before to j Powell and his cohorts for what they

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Speaker 1: have done. Don't fight the FED obviously has been one

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Speaker 1: of the mantras that We've heard over and over again

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Speaker 1: from both institutional and individual investors, what do you think

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Speaker 1: the FED cannon should do next or what can we

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Speaker 1: expect them to do next? Well, I think they're going

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Speaker 1: to continue to provide um, you know, college stimulus, um

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Speaker 1: monetary growth for as long as far as the eye

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Speaker 1: can see. And I think the fiscal side, trickularly heading

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Speaker 1: into a president presidential election, will do the same. So

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Speaker 1: expect another fiscal stimulus package four point oh coming along

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Speaker 1: next month. But I also think the FED is stuck

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Speaker 1: because they're trying to weaken the dollar. They would never

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Speaker 1: say that they are, but the world is faced with

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Speaker 1: this COVID crisis. It's not just the US economic slowdown,

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Speaker 1: and so it's difficult, you know, for the U S

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Speaker 1: Dollar to, you know, which is a flight to quality

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Speaker 1: currency along with the en to depreciate here in the

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Speaker 1: midst of this global uncertainty. And I think that's one

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Speaker 1: point of a real frustration for the FED right now.

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Speaker 1: Do you think the Fed's creating another bubble? And it's

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Speaker 1: just piggybacks on a conversation that we have with Joe

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Speaker 1: Kalis earlier Na Davis's research, and you know, the Fed,

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Speaker 1: doesn't you know, they're doing what they can to how

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Speaker 1: about this economy, but as a result, maybe not so

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Speaker 1: concerned about bubbles. They haven't been in the past. We

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Speaker 1: need to be concerned about that. Aaron, Well, I mean,

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Speaker 1: is not warranted. I mean, I think the FED is

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Speaker 1: insolvency rage to decline. I think that's a big question

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Speaker 1: and only time we'll tell on that. All right, Aaron Kennan,

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