1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:06,720 Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, Podcasts, radio news. 2 00:00:11,640 --> 00:00:15,440 Speaker 2: This is the Bloomberg Surveillance Podcast. I'm Jonathan Ferrow, along 3 00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:18,680 Speaker 2: with Lisa Bromwitz and Amrie Hordern. Join us each day 4 00:00:18,720 --> 00:00:22,280 Speaker 2: for insight from the best in markets, economics, and geopolitics 5 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:24,880 Speaker 2: from our global headquarters in New York City. We are 6 00:00:24,920 --> 00:00:27,680 Speaker 2: live on Bloomberg Television weekday mornings from six to nine 7 00:00:27,720 --> 00:00:31,280 Speaker 2: am Eastern. Subscribe to the podcast on Apple, Spotify or 8 00:00:31,320 --> 00:00:33,919 Speaker 2: anywhere else you listen, and as always on the Bloomberg 9 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:37,080 Speaker 2: Terminal and the Bloomberg Business app. So here's the LASiS 10 00:00:37,159 --> 00:00:39,879 Speaker 2: this morning, the President urging Garan to stand down as 11 00:00:39,920 --> 00:00:42,880 Speaker 2: the Middle East conflict rages into a sixth day to round, 12 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:45,800 Speaker 2: claiming it's confident it could counter a ground invasion, and 13 00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:49,000 Speaker 2: the US President Tellinggangxios he must be involved in selecting 14 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:51,199 Speaker 2: Garrant's next leader. Bank with us a good friend of 15 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:53,680 Speaker 2: this program over the years, the Republican Congressman French Hill 16 00:00:53,760 --> 00:00:56,400 Speaker 2: joins us now for more. Congressman Hill, welcome back to 17 00:00:56,440 --> 00:00:59,480 Speaker 2: the program. Are you satisfied with the rationale for this operation? 18 00:00:59,720 --> 00:01:04,080 Speaker 3: In a well? Jonathan's good to be with you. Yes, 19 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:07,120 Speaker 3: I am. I mean this has been fifty years of 20 00:01:07,280 --> 00:01:13,280 Speaker 3: counting American bodies the caused at the hands of the IRGC, 21 00:01:13,840 --> 00:01:19,679 Speaker 3: the Kuds Force Iranian IEDs. This has been an on standing, 22 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:25,200 Speaker 3: long standing gray zone war between Iran and the West 23 00:01:25,680 --> 00:01:29,360 Speaker 3: for all these years. And the President set out the 24 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:32,080 Speaker 3: goal of they will not obtain a nuclear weapon, and 25 00:01:32,120 --> 00:01:36,600 Speaker 3: we have not been successful in four different presidential administrations 26 00:01:36,640 --> 00:01:41,199 Speaker 3: of achieving that through negotiation. And the Israelis are concerned 27 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:47,080 Speaker 3: with the advancing ballistic missile development, technology, technology sharing by Iran, 28 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:52,080 Speaker 3: plus the continued dedication to producing a nuclear weapon, that 29 00:01:52,080 --> 00:01:55,520 Speaker 3: that risk in the region had reached a breaking point. 30 00:01:55,920 --> 00:01:58,200 Speaker 2: There is, as you know, Congressman, a domestic price to 31 00:01:58,240 --> 00:02:01,840 Speaker 2: pay in more ways than one. Unfortunately, for this conversation 32 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:03,840 Speaker 2: we're going to focus on the market aspect. There are 33 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:06,880 Speaker 2: much more important issues that play as well, gas prices, 34 00:02:07,320 --> 00:02:10,760 Speaker 2: a climate. What's your assessment of the disruptions to energy 35 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:13,360 Speaker 2: flows one and two. The kind of remedies that the 36 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:14,840 Speaker 2: US government can offer right now? 37 00:02:16,440 --> 00:02:18,160 Speaker 3: Well, I think some of the remedies are You've heard 38 00:02:18,200 --> 00:02:22,760 Speaker 3: Treasure's secutary investment talk about supporting the insurance markets. Of course, 39 00:02:22,760 --> 00:02:26,160 Speaker 3: the United States Navy is going to do their part 40 00:02:26,240 --> 00:02:29,240 Speaker 3: to support a transit of the strait of our moves, 41 00:02:29,280 --> 00:02:33,440 Speaker 3: which benefits everyone in the markets. But as you pointed 42 00:02:33,480 --> 00:02:36,960 Speaker 3: out in your reporting, you've just got a risk at 43 00:02:36,960 --> 00:02:40,320 Speaker 3: the margin of Iran striking a production facility or a 44 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:44,400 Speaker 3: transit ship, and so that has really chilled the oil 45 00:02:44,440 --> 00:02:46,000 Speaker 3: transit market in the Gulf. 46 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:47,880 Speaker 4: I think this is temporary. 47 00:02:48,040 --> 00:02:50,080 Speaker 3: I think it's going to be handled over the next 48 00:02:50,320 --> 00:02:51,960 Speaker 3: few weeks. I don't think it's going to have a 49 00:02:51,960 --> 00:02:56,160 Speaker 3: permanent impact on the oil markets. If you think about 50 00:02:56,880 --> 00:03:01,400 Speaker 3: Iran's contribution to oil production, eighty percent of it's been 51 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:05,080 Speaker 3: sold to China, and during the first Trump administration it 52 00:03:05,200 --> 00:03:08,680 Speaker 3: was completely shut down in terms of production due to 53 00:03:08,960 --> 00:03:13,400 Speaker 3: then maximum pressure sanction campaign that was undone by the 54 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:16,800 Speaker 3: Biden administration with biding letting them back into the oil 55 00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:20,000 Speaker 3: markets and back into the financial markets and freeing up 56 00:03:20,040 --> 00:03:22,160 Speaker 3: a bunch of frozen assets. 57 00:03:22,960 --> 00:03:24,840 Speaker 4: So I think this I. 58 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:28,760 Speaker 3: Don't believe will have a lasting effect on markets, but 59 00:03:28,840 --> 00:03:31,440 Speaker 3: certainly has an important short term effect as we're seeing 60 00:03:31,440 --> 00:03:34,360 Speaker 3: in oil markets and in the insurance markets. 61 00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:38,080 Speaker 5: Congressman, would you support measures like using and tapping the 62 00:03:38,200 --> 00:03:41,040 Speaker 5: spr the strategic patroil and reserve to try to mitigate 63 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:43,080 Speaker 5: some of the price increases even in the short term 64 00:03:43,240 --> 00:03:45,360 Speaker 5: that people are already feeling when they go fill up 65 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:45,880 Speaker 5: their cars. 66 00:03:47,560 --> 00:03:50,160 Speaker 3: Well, I think that's a decision the Treasury Secretary and 67 00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:52,800 Speaker 3: the Cabinet needs to make. If they think that's in 68 00:03:52,920 --> 00:03:57,520 Speaker 3: the right reason, then I certainly would chourage them to 69 00:03:57,560 --> 00:04:01,400 Speaker 3: consider it. We experienced that with Joe Biden during the 70 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:05,800 Speaker 3: Russian invasion of Ukraine, and it was microscopic. The actual 71 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:11,160 Speaker 3: hit I mean the sense per barrel from a strategic 72 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:15,840 Speaker 3: patroyum reserve release or not that measurable. So if the 73 00:04:15,920 --> 00:04:21,039 Speaker 3: whole production and distribution of oil were disrupted, then that 74 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:23,919 Speaker 3: might make a bigger contribution. But we saw even in 75 00:04:23,960 --> 00:04:28,680 Speaker 3: the Russian case that that was not worth, in my judgment, 76 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:32,520 Speaker 3: draining the strategic patroying reserve, which Joe Biden did. As 77 00:04:32,560 --> 00:04:36,800 Speaker 3: you know, Europe pivoted and the Gulf pivoted, and the 78 00:04:36,839 --> 00:04:41,600 Speaker 3: sources of both oil and gas quickly replumbed their distribution 79 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:44,479 Speaker 3: to benefit Europe after that invasion. So I think that 80 00:04:44,640 --> 00:04:46,800 Speaker 3: was a premature decision by Joe Biden. 81 00:04:47,040 --> 00:04:51,120 Speaker 5: Congressman, there also are some strategic questions the Congress has 82 00:04:51,160 --> 00:04:54,360 Speaker 5: to face, including how to prepare the United States better 83 00:04:54,760 --> 00:04:58,039 Speaker 5: and frankly restock some of the munitions that are being depleted. 84 00:04:58,120 --> 00:05:01,680 Speaker 5: There's a fifty billion dollars bill current in your hands, 85 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:04,799 Speaker 5: in your house, and I'm just wondering, would you support 86 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:08,919 Speaker 5: an additional funding measure to try to help stockpile some 87 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:12,440 Speaker 5: additional supplies. Should this be a prolonged conflict, and if 88 00:05:12,440 --> 00:05:14,120 Speaker 5: there are any additional conflicts in the future. 89 00:05:15,400 --> 00:05:18,280 Speaker 3: Well, there was a significant work on that in the 90 00:05:18,320 --> 00:05:21,400 Speaker 3: Big Beautiful Bill last summer. There was nine billion dollars 91 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:26,719 Speaker 3: allocated to the Pentagon to specifically work on the munitions 92 00:05:26,760 --> 00:05:31,240 Speaker 3: supply chain. We've certainly seen that taken to action in 93 00:05:31,360 --> 00:05:34,920 Speaker 3: Arkansas and Camden, Arkansas, where we've seen a significant increase 94 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:40,159 Speaker 3: in munitions in rocket engine production the cause of the 95 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:44,240 Speaker 3: Pentagon's focus on supply chain. Plus, yesterday we just marked 96 00:05:44,320 --> 00:05:48,240 Speaker 3: up in the House Financial Services Committee the Reauthorization and 97 00:05:48,320 --> 00:05:53,760 Speaker 3: Modernization of the Defense Production Act, which specifically focused on 98 00:05:53,839 --> 00:05:57,719 Speaker 3: obviously DoD production, but also the medical supply chain and 99 00:05:57,720 --> 00:05:59,360 Speaker 3: the critical mineral supply chain. 100 00:05:59,480 --> 00:06:00,440 Speaker 4: We think that's good bill. 101 00:06:00,480 --> 00:06:02,960 Speaker 3: It came out of Committee forty one to zero, so 102 00:06:02,960 --> 00:06:06,560 Speaker 3: it's a strong bipartisan bill, and we're working with the 103 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:10,840 Speaker 3: administration on that, but both the Armed Services Committees and 104 00:06:10,960 --> 00:06:14,000 Speaker 3: the Defense Production Act the Treasury are all working on 105 00:06:14,120 --> 00:06:17,920 Speaker 3: that munition supply chain. But with all that said, and 106 00:06:17,960 --> 00:06:20,160 Speaker 3: the money that we've already set aside in the Big 107 00:06:20,200 --> 00:06:25,040 Speaker 3: Beautiful Bill, I think if military operations continue in the Gulf, 108 00:06:25,400 --> 00:06:28,000 Speaker 3: I think the Congress will be confronted with a supplemental 109 00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:29,840 Speaker 3: appropriation to support that effort. 110 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:33,360 Speaker 2: Congressman, you want the chair of the Highest Financial Services Committee. 111 00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:35,480 Speaker 2: Of course, now would be a good time to hear 112 00:06:35,520 --> 00:06:37,880 Speaker 2: from Chairman Powell. Are there any plans to have that 113 00:06:37,880 --> 00:06:39,520 Speaker 2: semianual testimony anytime soon? 114 00:06:40,520 --> 00:06:43,080 Speaker 3: You bet. We have invited him. We're trying to find 115 00:06:43,080 --> 00:06:45,159 Speaker 3: a date and coordinate that date with the Senate Banking 116 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:48,880 Speaker 3: Committee because we typically do those hearings back to back. 117 00:06:48,880 --> 00:06:50,440 Speaker 4: So I hope that that can happen soon. 118 00:06:51,240 --> 00:06:54,680 Speaker 2: Stay with us. Mult Bloomberg surveyan's coming up after this 119 00:07:04,120 --> 00:07:07,400 Speaker 2: rising crude adding to inflation feares potentially for the Federal Reserve, 120 00:07:07,520 --> 00:07:10,360 Speaker 2: Retail gasoline prices in the United States reaching their highest 121 00:07:10,440 --> 00:07:13,400 Speaker 2: levels in eighteen months, the search and energy costs coming 122 00:07:13,400 --> 00:07:15,720 Speaker 2: ahead of fresh routs on the economy with payroll states 123 00:07:15,720 --> 00:07:18,600 Speaker 2: that you are eight thirty Eastern time joining us around 124 00:07:18,600 --> 00:07:20,480 Speaker 2: the table. I'm pleased to say here in New York 125 00:07:20,480 --> 00:07:22,680 Speaker 2: the Fed Governor Chris Wallach, Governor Wan look good to 126 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:23,080 Speaker 2: see us, sir. 127 00:07:23,240 --> 00:07:24,440 Speaker 4: It's good to see you all again. 128 00:07:24,760 --> 00:07:26,360 Speaker 2: When we planned this, I thought you'd come in and 129 00:07:26,360 --> 00:07:29,080 Speaker 2: talk about the labor market, but something else has taken over. 130 00:07:29,440 --> 00:07:31,560 Speaker 2: What's your assessment of developments in the Middle East and 131 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:33,960 Speaker 2: ultimately what it means for you and the committee. 132 00:07:34,040 --> 00:07:36,120 Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, I guess that's exactly The thing is, 133 00:07:36,160 --> 00:07:37,600 Speaker 6: what you're going to see is you're going to see 134 00:07:37,600 --> 00:07:40,640 Speaker 6: a spike and gasoline prices after the American citizens are 135 00:07:40,640 --> 00:07:42,040 Speaker 6: going to see when they go to the pump, and 136 00:07:42,080 --> 00:07:43,960 Speaker 6: they're going to stare at it and be a little 137 00:07:43,960 --> 00:07:47,640 Speaker 6: shocked in terms of how things go. But for us 138 00:07:47,720 --> 00:07:50,960 Speaker 6: thinking about policy going forward, this is unlikely to cause 139 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:53,920 Speaker 6: sustained inflation. This one reason we don't look at energy 140 00:07:53,960 --> 00:07:57,280 Speaker 6: prices where we look at core. Core is a better 141 00:07:57,320 --> 00:08:00,080 Speaker 6: predictor of future inflation. You're going to see this, but 142 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:03,800 Speaker 6: once these kind of supply chain issues that you laid out, Lisa, 143 00:08:04,280 --> 00:08:06,640 Speaker 6: once they unravel, this will start coming back down. So 144 00:08:07,080 --> 00:08:09,080 Speaker 6: it's kind of a very odd to think about the 145 00:08:09,120 --> 00:08:13,120 Speaker 6: FEDS maybe changing rates six months from now based on this, 146 00:08:13,840 --> 00:08:16,400 Speaker 6: If it's unwound in a like as you said, Jonson, 147 00:08:16,400 --> 00:08:18,560 Speaker 6: in a couple of weeks or even two months. 148 00:08:18,320 --> 00:08:20,160 Speaker 4: It's not going to be a big factor down the road. 149 00:08:20,240 --> 00:08:22,880 Speaker 6: So this is why we never look at energy prices. 150 00:08:22,880 --> 00:08:24,440 Speaker 4: They bounce up, they come back down. 151 00:08:25,240 --> 00:08:28,240 Speaker 6: It's not that it's something that we don't feel sympathy 152 00:08:28,280 --> 00:08:29,920 Speaker 6: for people that that's what they have to pay when 153 00:08:29,920 --> 00:08:32,360 Speaker 6: they put the gas in their cars. But for us 154 00:08:32,400 --> 00:08:34,640 Speaker 6: thinking about the longer term in terms of policy, this 155 00:08:34,720 --> 00:08:36,120 Speaker 6: is something we're just gonna have to kind. 156 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:36,960 Speaker 4: Of put off for now. 157 00:08:37,080 --> 00:08:39,000 Speaker 2: When does it become something bigger if it's so. 158 00:08:39,080 --> 00:08:41,760 Speaker 6: It becomes bigger, if it becomes more permanent, because then 159 00:08:41,800 --> 00:08:43,679 Speaker 6: what's going to happen. You're going to see this jump 160 00:08:43,679 --> 00:08:46,920 Speaker 6: in prices. Then it'll start bleeding through to other parts 161 00:08:46,960 --> 00:08:48,160 Speaker 6: of the economy. 162 00:08:48,240 --> 00:08:49,000 Speaker 4: Energy is a big part. 163 00:08:49,040 --> 00:08:52,120 Speaker 6: It feeds into everything else, and then somehow those energy 164 00:08:52,160 --> 00:08:54,120 Speaker 6: costs get passed along like everything else. 165 00:08:54,160 --> 00:08:55,600 Speaker 4: Well, that's what you're more worried about. 166 00:08:55,679 --> 00:08:58,480 Speaker 2: Economists on any given day, Lisa might myself and they'll 167 00:08:58,520 --> 00:09:00,320 Speaker 2: talk about the experience of the seven so and coming 168 00:09:00,360 --> 00:09:03,000 Speaker 2: out of the pandemic, and they'll say things like the 169 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:05,880 Speaker 2: officials of the fenders of a someone conditions good by 170 00:09:05,920 --> 00:09:07,880 Speaker 2: some of that. It's not your experience of things. 171 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:09,960 Speaker 6: Well, in the seventies, remember we didn't just have one. 172 00:09:10,080 --> 00:09:13,040 Speaker 6: We had massive oil shocks. If you take seventy three, 173 00:09:13,240 --> 00:09:16,680 Speaker 6: the price of oil quadrupled overnight. It went from four 174 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:19,400 Speaker 6: dollars a barrel was at twelve dollars a barrow or three, 175 00:09:19,480 --> 00:09:21,760 Speaker 6: or went from three or whatever the numbers were. But 176 00:09:21,920 --> 00:09:23,680 Speaker 6: that was a shock, and it never came back down, 177 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:26,120 Speaker 6: and then there was another one. Every time you turned around, 178 00:09:26,160 --> 00:09:28,199 Speaker 6: there was another oil shock. Then I ran oil and 179 00:09:28,280 --> 00:09:31,040 Speaker 6: bargo in seventy nine. So that was kind of the 180 00:09:31,080 --> 00:09:33,000 Speaker 6: problem with the oil shocks. They just kept coming and 181 00:09:33,040 --> 00:09:35,480 Speaker 6: coming and coming. So it's not clear this will be 182 00:09:35,840 --> 00:09:37,880 Speaker 6: one shock after another after another. 183 00:09:38,400 --> 00:09:39,680 Speaker 4: So that's why I'm more willing to. 184 00:09:39,679 --> 00:09:41,959 Speaker 6: Say this is, I hate to say, but more like 185 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:44,000 Speaker 6: a one off event than what we saw in the 186 00:09:44,040 --> 00:09:44,920 Speaker 6: nineteen seventies. 187 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:49,079 Speaker 1: As roseenn Rosennadena used to say, it's always something because 188 00:09:49,080 --> 00:09:51,319 Speaker 1: if it's not just it's not just the oil shocks, 189 00:09:51,360 --> 00:09:52,920 Speaker 1: it's the whole idea. Now we're going to have a 190 00:09:52,920 --> 00:09:56,560 Speaker 1: whole new round of tariffs coming through the economy, and 191 00:09:56,600 --> 00:10:00,360 Speaker 1: we've got this low fire, low higher economy. How long 192 00:10:00,400 --> 00:10:03,840 Speaker 1: do you think that continues? Does this just push out 193 00:10:04,160 --> 00:10:06,400 Speaker 1: the time period for companies to sit on their hands 194 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:09,080 Speaker 1: not invest because they don't know what's going to happen. 195 00:10:09,840 --> 00:10:11,439 Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, this is one of the things I've 196 00:10:11,480 --> 00:10:13,599 Speaker 6: been concerned about since last June, is how week the 197 00:10:13,679 --> 00:10:16,520 Speaker 6: labor market has been. There were a lot of factors 198 00:10:16,600 --> 00:10:19,200 Speaker 6: last summer that we're driving this kind of low higher, 199 00:10:19,240 --> 00:10:23,360 Speaker 6: low fire. It looked like maybe in January we might 200 00:10:23,400 --> 00:10:26,040 Speaker 6: be turning a corner. We'll find out today whether that was, 201 00:10:26,080 --> 00:10:29,960 Speaker 6: as I said last week, signal or noise. But you know, 202 00:10:29,960 --> 00:10:32,160 Speaker 6: when you're in this world in which the labor market, 203 00:10:32,200 --> 00:10:34,040 Speaker 6: even with one hundred and thirty thousand jobs, it was 204 00:10:34,080 --> 00:10:37,040 Speaker 6: really concentrating a couple of sectors eighty percent of the economy, 205 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:39,000 Speaker 6: the labor market wasn't doing anything. 206 00:10:39,440 --> 00:10:40,680 Speaker 4: It was zero negative. 207 00:10:41,280 --> 00:10:44,520 Speaker 6: So that kind of fragility wouldn't take much for some 208 00:10:44,520 --> 00:10:47,319 Speaker 6: sort of a serious shock to sort of start pushing 209 00:10:47,400 --> 00:10:50,880 Speaker 6: people in another direction. Whether this is that kind of 210 00:10:50,920 --> 00:10:52,960 Speaker 6: shock or not, we'll start finding out. 211 00:10:53,360 --> 00:10:55,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's early, because of course these are going to 212 00:10:55,440 --> 00:10:58,360 Speaker 1: be January numbers. But you've been on record as saying 213 00:10:58,400 --> 00:11:00,840 Speaker 1: you'd like to cut more because you still worried about 214 00:11:00,840 --> 00:11:03,920 Speaker 1: where the labor market is. What would it take to 215 00:11:03,960 --> 00:11:08,679 Speaker 1: get you to back off on that feeling, because if 216 00:11:08,720 --> 00:11:11,599 Speaker 1: we get the same sort of numbers we had in December, 217 00:11:12,040 --> 00:11:16,200 Speaker 1: it still shows very narrow breadth of hiring, and it 218 00:11:16,679 --> 00:11:19,760 Speaker 1: still shows some reasonably good numbers for hiring. 219 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:25,440 Speaker 6: Yeah, the even with the January report, like I said, 220 00:11:25,440 --> 00:11:27,360 Speaker 6: it was all concentrated in a couple of sectors, So. 221 00:11:27,480 --> 00:11:28,840 Speaker 4: That was good. They were robust. 222 00:11:28,840 --> 00:11:31,160 Speaker 6: We got a big number, well above everybody's estimate to 223 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:35,000 Speaker 6: break even, But the concentration didn't give me a lot 224 00:11:35,040 --> 00:11:37,600 Speaker 6: of comfort that the economy as a whole was doing 225 00:11:37,920 --> 00:11:42,200 Speaker 6: really well. So that's where my brain is telling me. 226 00:11:42,880 --> 00:11:45,080 Speaker 6: The number was good and the economy looks okay. It 227 00:11:45,120 --> 00:11:47,200 Speaker 6: was above break even, but my guts are telling me 228 00:11:47,640 --> 00:11:49,640 Speaker 6: it may not be that good. And that's where I'm 229 00:11:50,160 --> 00:11:52,520 Speaker 6: waiting to see what today's numbers. I'm almost certain it's 230 00:11:52,520 --> 00:11:55,160 Speaker 6: going to get revised down because they have. This has 231 00:11:55,200 --> 00:11:57,200 Speaker 6: been a pattern in January the last few years. 232 00:11:57,480 --> 00:11:59,560 Speaker 5: A pair of these two ideas, the idea of the 233 00:11:59,559 --> 00:12:02,920 Speaker 5: oil that's creating some concerns about inflation and then a 234 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:04,920 Speaker 5: labor market that kind of is in question, right, is 235 00:12:04,920 --> 00:12:08,480 Speaker 5: it decelerating or is it reaccelerating. How much has your 236 00:12:08,520 --> 00:12:14,680 Speaker 5: reaction changed potentially to Friday's today's report, given the fact 237 00:12:14,720 --> 00:12:16,839 Speaker 5: that we do see energy prices pushing on inflation. In 238 00:12:16,880 --> 00:12:19,880 Speaker 5: other words, would you be less inclined to cut rates 239 00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:23,440 Speaker 5: if there is strength that's demonstrated in the labor market today. 240 00:12:23,720 --> 00:12:26,160 Speaker 6: Yeah, that's kind of what I was hinting at last week, 241 00:12:26,200 --> 00:12:28,960 Speaker 6: that if we get another solid job report then last month, 242 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:32,839 Speaker 6: this month looks like the labor market's turning around. A 243 00:12:32,880 --> 00:12:34,880 Speaker 6: lot of the downside risk I've been worried about for 244 00:12:34,920 --> 00:12:37,720 Speaker 6: six months is kind of going away. We got a 245 00:12:37,720 --> 00:12:40,120 Speaker 6: hot We're going to get a hot PCE number given 246 00:12:40,160 --> 00:12:42,520 Speaker 6: what we already have seen coming in, that's going to 247 00:12:42,520 --> 00:12:47,400 Speaker 6: probably print from everything I've seen about a point four. Okay, 248 00:12:47,640 --> 00:12:50,360 Speaker 6: usually that comes down again. We've had this January effect, 249 00:12:50,400 --> 00:12:54,440 Speaker 6: we have some more passories of tariffs, but because that 250 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:57,080 Speaker 6: inflation's hot, it's going to look even worse now with 251 00:12:57,160 --> 00:13:00,200 Speaker 6: the oil prices, at least on headline. And then if 252 00:13:00,240 --> 00:13:03,000 Speaker 6: you get a sellid job, it does say you can 253 00:13:03,080 --> 00:13:04,119 Speaker 6: sit there and wait. 254 00:13:04,520 --> 00:13:06,719 Speaker 5: Let's say the counterfactual. Let's say we don't get a 255 00:13:06,720 --> 00:13:08,600 Speaker 5: good print. Let's go we see the weakness that you 256 00:13:08,640 --> 00:13:10,280 Speaker 5: see right now when you talk to people in your 257 00:13:10,280 --> 00:13:13,280 Speaker 5: district and that you speak to in the different districts 258 00:13:13,320 --> 00:13:15,680 Speaker 5: as well as beyond. How much do you think the 259 00:13:15,720 --> 00:13:18,520 Speaker 5: FED should react to this because it's sort of the 260 00:13:18,559 --> 00:13:21,440 Speaker 5: dual mandate is in conflict and absolutely the wrong way. 261 00:13:21,960 --> 00:13:23,720 Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, that's the tension we've had for the 262 00:13:23,760 --> 00:13:26,880 Speaker 6: last years. I've been more worried about the labor market 263 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:29,440 Speaker 6: risk the inflation risk. I've always believed inflation was going 264 00:13:29,480 --> 00:13:31,760 Speaker 6: to come back down once tear if effects passed through. 265 00:13:32,600 --> 00:13:34,960 Speaker 6: My other colleagues on the committee are much more concerned 266 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:35,720 Speaker 6: about the inflation. 267 00:13:35,800 --> 00:13:37,280 Speaker 4: It's been high for five years. 268 00:13:37,400 --> 00:13:40,079 Speaker 6: They're not seeing it coming down, and they think the 269 00:13:40,160 --> 00:13:40,920 Speaker 6: labor market is. 270 00:13:40,920 --> 00:13:42,720 Speaker 4: All stabilized, it's all supply side. 271 00:13:42,800 --> 00:13:45,400 Speaker 6: So these are the two different views that people have 272 00:13:45,480 --> 00:13:48,080 Speaker 6: about thinking about policy. And I was more willing to 273 00:13:48,080 --> 00:13:50,240 Speaker 6: cut rates because I was more worried about the labor market, 274 00:13:50,640 --> 00:13:54,320 Speaker 6: not as worried about inflation coming down. But like I said, 275 00:13:54,400 --> 00:13:57,000 Speaker 6: if the labor market continues to go weak, if this 276 00:13:57,040 --> 00:13:59,840 Speaker 6: thing comes in, I mean ADP was promising the other day. 277 00:14:00,440 --> 00:14:04,520 Speaker 6: So if the labor market is good, inflation's hotter, and 278 00:14:04,640 --> 00:14:06,920 Speaker 6: we think it's fine to kind of wait another meeting 279 00:14:06,920 --> 00:14:09,000 Speaker 6: and kind of see. But if we get a bad number, 280 00:14:09,080 --> 00:14:12,120 Speaker 6: or January's revised down to some really low number like 281 00:14:12,160 --> 00:14:15,920 Speaker 6: ADP got revised in half, laf Mark's just not that good. 282 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:18,560 Speaker 6: And so the question is why are you just sitting 283 00:14:18,559 --> 00:14:21,240 Speaker 6: on your hands? So I could certainly see this meeting 284 00:14:21,240 --> 00:14:23,000 Speaker 6: going on the way depending on the data this week 285 00:14:23,040 --> 00:14:24,960 Speaker 6: and the CPI next week comes in. 286 00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:26,640 Speaker 2: I hate to be the ones who asked this question, 287 00:14:26,680 --> 00:14:28,960 Speaker 2: but what's a good report? Because at eight thirty East 288 00:14:28,960 --> 00:14:30,760 Speaker 2: in time, but we'll be asking that question ab outselves. 289 00:14:30,880 --> 00:14:32,480 Speaker 2: What's good to you? What does good look like? 290 00:14:33,240 --> 00:14:33,440 Speaker 4: Well? 291 00:14:33,480 --> 00:14:35,440 Speaker 6: I think good would be if you saw another number 292 00:14:35,520 --> 00:14:37,680 Speaker 6: like January, that would be really good because you're well 293 00:14:37,720 --> 00:14:40,600 Speaker 6: above everybody's break even estimates at that point, and that'd 294 00:14:40,640 --> 00:14:41,560 Speaker 6: be two in a row. 295 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:43,080 Speaker 4: Looks like it's going through. 296 00:14:43,160 --> 00:14:46,080 Speaker 6: We got very good numbers off the ISM, manufacturing and 297 00:14:46,240 --> 00:14:49,560 Speaker 6: services this week. That's another indication that maybe things are 298 00:14:49,560 --> 00:14:52,360 Speaker 6: turning around. So if that's the case, I'm starting to 299 00:14:52,360 --> 00:14:55,480 Speaker 6: see less downside risk now on the tariff stuff. I 300 00:14:55,520 --> 00:14:58,840 Speaker 6: still have a view that all the tariff risk is 301 00:14:58,880 --> 00:15:03,040 Speaker 6: to the downside. I just don't see big increases in 302 00:15:03,120 --> 00:15:05,080 Speaker 6: tariffs spread all over the place. 303 00:15:05,120 --> 00:15:06,480 Speaker 4: If anything, they're going to come down. 304 00:15:06,600 --> 00:15:09,480 Speaker 6: Estimates of this are coming down, deals are going to 305 00:15:09,520 --> 00:15:11,680 Speaker 6: potentially get made. So I don't see a lot of 306 00:15:11,760 --> 00:15:13,880 Speaker 6: tear for risk going even though there's more uncertain there's 307 00:15:13,880 --> 00:15:15,720 Speaker 6: always the uncertain I don't see a lot of price 308 00:15:15,840 --> 00:15:18,680 Speaker 6: pressures from what we think could happen going forward. So 309 00:15:18,760 --> 00:15:20,760 Speaker 6: that's going to bring I think that's going to bring 310 00:15:20,760 --> 00:15:23,600 Speaker 6: inflation down or take pressure off, and it'll take something, 311 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:24,320 Speaker 6: the uncertainty off. 312 00:15:24,360 --> 00:15:27,000 Speaker 1: At some point, well, it becomes a question of what 313 00:15:27,160 --> 00:15:29,280 Speaker 1: problem are you trying to solve and what tool are 314 00:15:29,280 --> 00:15:32,800 Speaker 1: you using to do it. How would cutting rates by 315 00:15:32,880 --> 00:15:36,400 Speaker 1: twenty five or fifty basis points help the labor market 316 00:15:36,560 --> 00:15:39,920 Speaker 1: If companies are sitting on their hands because they're still 317 00:15:39,960 --> 00:15:42,800 Speaker 1: waiting for tariff news and we've got a war going on. 318 00:15:43,120 --> 00:15:44,840 Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean we can always say, ah, we can't 319 00:15:44,880 --> 00:15:46,080 Speaker 6: do anything, just sit there. 320 00:15:46,800 --> 00:15:47,520 Speaker 4: That's not my job. 321 00:15:47,600 --> 00:15:49,880 Speaker 6: My job is trying to help the economy and achieve 322 00:15:49,920 --> 00:15:52,280 Speaker 6: our dual mandate. And if the labor market's not looking good, 323 00:15:52,360 --> 00:15:53,720 Speaker 6: then I have to make this trade off. 324 00:15:54,240 --> 00:15:57,320 Speaker 1: But does it make a difference to the CEOs? 325 00:15:58,120 --> 00:15:58,880 Speaker 4: Well, maybe not. 326 00:15:59,400 --> 00:16:01,400 Speaker 6: I mean that's from saying we could argue about whether 327 00:16:01,440 --> 00:16:04,400 Speaker 6: monetary policy has any effect in general on the labor market. 328 00:16:04,920 --> 00:16:08,280 Speaker 6: There's you know, you go back in economics, back to 329 00:16:08,280 --> 00:16:10,440 Speaker 6: the eighties and nineties, there's a whole camp of people 330 00:16:10,440 --> 00:16:14,080 Speaker 6: that said Manitari policy is completely irrelevant for the economy. 331 00:16:14,280 --> 00:16:15,480 Speaker 4: So quit wasting your time. 332 00:16:15,960 --> 00:16:18,200 Speaker 2: You're opening up a very different conversation. Yeah, that's a 333 00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:20,120 Speaker 2: whole bitt we can spend a long time on. I 334 00:16:20,120 --> 00:16:21,880 Speaker 2: wanted to squeeze this in. I actually think it's one 335 00:16:21,880 --> 00:16:24,160 Speaker 2: of the more important topics at the moment. We're not 336 00:16:24,200 --> 00:16:26,880 Speaker 2: seeing a tightning of financial conditions a material one in 337 00:16:26,960 --> 00:16:29,520 Speaker 2: public markets. I don't see that in stocks, I don't 338 00:16:29,520 --> 00:16:31,600 Speaker 2: see that in bumb yields. I'm wondering what on earth 339 00:16:31,640 --> 00:16:34,720 Speaker 2: you see in private markets, because every day there's another 340 00:16:34,760 --> 00:16:38,880 Speaker 2: headline about another fund, another company struggling to meet redemptions. 341 00:16:39,120 --> 00:16:41,280 Speaker 2: What is the Federal Reserve assessment of what is happening? 342 00:16:41,480 --> 00:16:44,160 Speaker 2: Because that has powered this economy, some people might say, 343 00:16:44,400 --> 00:16:46,560 Speaker 2: in a bigger way than the Federal Reserve, or for 344 00:16:46,600 --> 00:16:48,840 Speaker 2: that matter, public markets have what is coming. 345 00:16:48,680 --> 00:16:50,000 Speaker 4: On, Well, there's a couple things. 346 00:16:50,080 --> 00:16:52,480 Speaker 6: I mean, in general, I'm not I don't see big, 347 00:16:52,880 --> 00:16:55,600 Speaker 6: really big, widespread problems in the private credit market. What 348 00:16:55,680 --> 00:16:59,400 Speaker 6: you're seeing is a couple of cases of certainly frauds 349 00:16:59,440 --> 00:17:03,640 Speaker 6: that fraud widespread, I don't. You know, it's hard to 350 00:17:03,640 --> 00:17:06,040 Speaker 6: believe that the entire correct private credit market is being 351 00:17:06,080 --> 00:17:09,760 Speaker 6: driven by fraud or bubble posting of collateral. So these 352 00:17:09,760 --> 00:17:11,240 Speaker 6: are kind of these one off things that get a 353 00:17:11,280 --> 00:17:14,000 Speaker 6: lot of headlines, but it's not clear it's systemic. You 354 00:17:14,080 --> 00:17:15,679 Speaker 6: have to kind of look at whether there are a 355 00:17:15,720 --> 00:17:19,639 Speaker 6: lot of you know, there's different types of private credit. 356 00:17:19,640 --> 00:17:22,600 Speaker 6: There's stuff that's in high yield, you know, risky junk 357 00:17:22,680 --> 00:17:24,960 Speaker 6: bond stuff, and there's other stuff that's better quality in 358 00:17:25,040 --> 00:17:26,320 Speaker 6: terms of what they're funding. 359 00:17:26,880 --> 00:17:28,400 Speaker 4: So I don't think as a whole. 360 00:17:28,200 --> 00:17:32,080 Speaker 6: The private credit market is in any serious trouble. But 361 00:17:32,119 --> 00:17:34,280 Speaker 6: you're going to have these things popping up here and there, 362 00:17:34,440 --> 00:17:36,040 Speaker 6: But I don't think there's enough of it that's going 363 00:17:36,080 --> 00:17:39,880 Speaker 6: to somehow drive down the financial markets and create any 364 00:17:39,960 --> 00:17:42,040 Speaker 6: kind of financial stability problems. 365 00:17:43,240 --> 00:17:46,679 Speaker 2: Stay with us. Multiple impax Savanance coming up off to this. 366 00:17:56,000 --> 00:17:58,000 Speaker 2: So here's the lisis this morning. The War in the 367 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:00,639 Speaker 2: Middle ag sending energy cast surging across the globe, the 368 00:18:00,640 --> 00:18:03,400 Speaker 2: price of crude sitting at a multi year high, while 369 00:18:03,440 --> 00:18:05,600 Speaker 2: European natural gas is set for its biggest weekly gain 370 00:18:05,680 --> 00:18:08,560 Speaker 2: since the energy crisis of twenty twenty two. John guess 371 00:18:08,640 --> 00:18:12,040 Speaker 2: Now is the European Energy Commissioner. Dani Jorkinson, Commissioner, Welcome 372 00:18:12,080 --> 00:18:14,880 Speaker 2: to the program. So what's your assessment of the disruption 373 00:18:14,960 --> 00:18:17,840 Speaker 2: to supply to Europe over the past few days. 374 00:18:18,520 --> 00:18:22,680 Speaker 7: Well, first of all, it's important to say that it's 375 00:18:22,720 --> 00:18:25,960 Speaker 7: not actually so much that it's disruption of supply that 376 00:18:26,200 --> 00:18:29,040 Speaker 7: creates problems, because first of all, we don't get any 377 00:18:29,040 --> 00:18:31,600 Speaker 7: oil or gas from our RNT directly, and we get 378 00:18:31,600 --> 00:18:36,119 Speaker 7: some limited amounts of gas from the Gulf region overall. 379 00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:39,439 Speaker 7: But that's not it's not nothing, but it's not the 380 00:18:39,480 --> 00:18:42,760 Speaker 7: big problem. The big problem is the effects on the 381 00:18:42,800 --> 00:18:46,119 Speaker 7: global markets, and of course those effects on the global 382 00:18:46,119 --> 00:18:52,080 Speaker 7: markets also hits consumers in Europe, especially on oil and 383 00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:52,920 Speaker 7: on LERG. 384 00:18:53,760 --> 00:18:56,440 Speaker 5: So, Commissioner, do you see a reason to try to 385 00:18:56,480 --> 00:18:58,560 Speaker 5: step in and stave off some of the increases in 386 00:18:58,600 --> 00:19:00,480 Speaker 5: price or do you think that this will well right 387 00:19:00,520 --> 00:19:03,800 Speaker 5: size itself because ultimately the EU isn't as dependent on 388 00:19:04,359 --> 00:19:07,240 Speaker 5: around and sort of some of the regional supplies. 389 00:19:08,960 --> 00:19:12,720 Speaker 7: So I saw earlier that you compared this crisis through 390 00:19:13,560 --> 00:19:17,240 Speaker 7: the crisis in twenty two when Russia started as full 391 00:19:17,280 --> 00:19:21,159 Speaker 7: scale invasion in Ukraine. And I understand why, because this 392 00:19:21,200 --> 00:19:23,200 Speaker 7: is the worst crisis we've had since. But it's also 393 00:19:23,240 --> 00:19:27,520 Speaker 7: important to say that we are we are not close 394 00:19:27,600 --> 00:19:30,360 Speaker 7: to the level of crisis that we have in twenty two. 395 00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:32,880 Speaker 7: The prices are higher, yes, but not close to as 396 00:19:32,920 --> 00:19:35,880 Speaker 7: high as they were there, So that's number one. Number two. 397 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:39,160 Speaker 7: We are also much better situated to dealing with these 398 00:19:39,200 --> 00:19:43,439 Speaker 7: price increases. We have a more diversified energy system, meaning that, 399 00:19:43,480 --> 00:19:46,240 Speaker 7: for instance, on gas, we get the gas from more 400 00:19:46,240 --> 00:19:49,840 Speaker 7: different sources. So our number one source is Norway. Number 401 00:19:49,880 --> 00:19:52,920 Speaker 7: two is the US. A few years back, that used 402 00:19:52,960 --> 00:19:55,000 Speaker 7: to be Russia. Now we've said we want to stop 403 00:19:55,040 --> 00:19:59,840 Speaker 7: the import from Russia for obvious reasons. So this diversification 404 00:20:00,040 --> 00:20:03,000 Speaker 7: puts US in a better place. Also, we've reduced our 405 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:06,040 Speaker 7: consumption of gas and we're deploying more renewables every year. 406 00:20:06,640 --> 00:20:08,840 Speaker 7: This means that we get cheaper energy, it means that 407 00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:12,639 Speaker 7: we get home grown energy. And it of course also 408 00:20:13,320 --> 00:20:17,520 Speaker 7: means that we are in better control of our own 409 00:20:17,760 --> 00:20:21,000 Speaker 7: destiny in these areas than we were before, but we 410 00:20:21,040 --> 00:20:23,480 Speaker 7: are still exposed to the global markets, so we don't 411 00:20:23,520 --> 00:20:24,200 Speaker 7: take it lightly. 412 00:20:24,320 --> 00:20:27,760 Speaker 5: Commissioner, have you had any conversations with Chris right over 413 00:20:27,800 --> 00:20:31,280 Speaker 5: in the United States about potentially increasing local fied natural 414 00:20:31,280 --> 00:20:34,440 Speaker 5: gas exports to Europe in order to stave off any 415 00:20:34,440 --> 00:20:36,679 Speaker 5: output from Cutter that is interrupted. 416 00:20:38,119 --> 00:20:41,639 Speaker 7: Yes, we have a continuous dialogue across the Atlantic, both 417 00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:44,720 Speaker 7: with the American administration but also of course with the 418 00:20:45,760 --> 00:20:49,880 Speaker 7: companies and with the sector. And we have to be 419 00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:54,240 Speaker 7: thankful that the American companies have been able to supply 420 00:20:54,359 --> 00:20:58,760 Speaker 7: us with len G that we've needed because we have 421 00:20:59,080 --> 00:21:02,040 Speaker 7: decided to to ban the import of Russian gas. 422 00:21:02,119 --> 00:21:03,400 Speaker 4: We needed, of course to. 423 00:21:03,320 --> 00:21:05,320 Speaker 7: Ban this import because we didn't want to continue to 424 00:21:05,359 --> 00:21:08,919 Speaker 7: indirectly help finance pootince war, and of course also pushing 425 00:21:08,960 --> 00:21:13,120 Speaker 7: has weaponized energy against us, and we could not accept that. 426 00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:16,200 Speaker 7: So we needed other sources, and here the American gas 427 00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:20,879 Speaker 7: has been very welcome. And the projections, also because of 428 00:21:20,920 --> 00:21:24,040 Speaker 7: the political talks that we've had and what we've done 429 00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:27,800 Speaker 7: to facilitated the projections are that that will also increase 430 00:21:27,960 --> 00:21:28,560 Speaker 7: in the future. 431 00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:31,639 Speaker 2: Commissioner on Russian crude. These Treasury Department, as you know, 432 00:21:31,640 --> 00:21:33,720 Speaker 2: I'm sure you saw the news issued a temporary waiver 433 00:21:34,119 --> 00:21:37,359 Speaker 2: to the Indian refiners to purchase Russian crud. What's your 434 00:21:37,359 --> 00:21:39,080 Speaker 2: reaction to that given what you just said. 435 00:21:39,920 --> 00:21:44,399 Speaker 7: For us, it's very clear we do not wish to 436 00:21:44,520 --> 00:21:50,760 Speaker 7: buy Russian energy. We have got a combination of sanctions 437 00:21:50,840 --> 00:21:52,040 Speaker 7: and also are. 438 00:21:51,920 --> 00:21:54,600 Speaker 2: You disappointed that the Americans are allowing the Indians to 439 00:21:54,600 --> 00:21:55,320 Speaker 2: buy that crude. 440 00:21:56,320 --> 00:21:58,640 Speaker 7: That's not up for me to comment on. I can 441 00:21:58,680 --> 00:22:01,639 Speaker 7: definitely say what we want in the European Union is 442 00:22:01,680 --> 00:22:06,680 Speaker 7: to hit Russia as hard as possible on their incomes 443 00:22:06,680 --> 00:22:13,000 Speaker 7: from energy. Russia they're conducting a terrible brutal war in 444 00:22:13,160 --> 00:22:16,000 Speaker 7: Ukraine right now. We're talking about energy. What they do, 445 00:22:16,040 --> 00:22:20,920 Speaker 7: for instance, is that they target the energy infrastructure of Ukraine, 446 00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:26,960 Speaker 7: leaving the Ukrainians to freeze without electricity and a very 447 00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:29,760 Speaker 7: very cold winter, and then when the Ukrainians send people 448 00:22:29,800 --> 00:22:32,760 Speaker 7: to repair what's been destroyed, they bomb and kill those 449 00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:36,600 Speaker 7: people also. So for us, this is a very serious 450 00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:40,399 Speaker 7: matter and we want to stop our imports completely and 451 00:22:40,440 --> 00:22:43,280 Speaker 7: we hope that others will do the same. 452 00:22:43,320 --> 00:22:44,760 Speaker 4: And follow this example. 453 00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:49,160 Speaker 2: This is the Bloomberg Sevendics podcast, bringing you the best 454 00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:52,480 Speaker 2: in market economics, angiot politics. 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