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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Markets Podcast. I'm Paul Sweeney alongside

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Speaker 1: my co host Matt Miller. Every business day we bring

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Speaker 1: at Bloomberg dot com slash podcast. All right, I think

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Speaker 1: the topic of the day, slash week, slash month is inflation.

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Speaker 1: I think the transitory arguments kind of halfway out the window,

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Speaker 1: all the way out of the window, but the investors

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Speaker 1: are still trying to get a handle on that. Let's

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Speaker 1: check in with the professional, get his thoughts on Esta

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Speaker 1: Ramo's Chief investment Officer b MO Global Asset Management in

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Speaker 1: the US or now. So, thanks so much for joining

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Speaker 1: us here. Let's start with inflation because it's everywhere and

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Speaker 1: we we just got through a big earning season where

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Speaker 1: it was certainly one of the most talked about topics

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Speaker 1: on the conference calls. How do you think about the

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Speaker 1: inflationary environment we're in today and how does that color

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Speaker 1: your investment look? Thank you for having me um inflation

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Speaker 1: we believe might actually not be as persistent as some

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Speaker 1: people expect. There's a couple of reasons for that. Number One,

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Speaker 1: you have strong base effects. In other words, once you

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Speaker 1: have inflation ramping up as much as it has by now,

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Speaker 1: but compares get easier, you can't have I mean you could,

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Speaker 1: we saw it in the seventies. You can't at ten

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Speaker 1: temper cent temper cent stacking up year over year unless

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Speaker 1: something dramatic has changed the economy. We think a lot

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Speaker 1: of the inflationary pressures we see right now are derived

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Speaker 1: from COVID and COVID after effects, supply chain disruptions that

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Speaker 1: and all of those will be in the process or

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Speaker 1: are already in the process of resolving themselves. So I

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Speaker 1: wouldn't be surprised if we start to see inflation come

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Speaker 1: a lot lower than received right now. So it actually

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Speaker 1: might turn out to be maybe the word is not transitory,

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Speaker 1: couple of years to speak, well, it was, I mean

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Speaker 1: the seventies inflation was transitory. Was just that one decade

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Speaker 1: what you think about transitory. I mean, you did UM

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Speaker 1: your undergrad and something, Matthew, I think at M I T.

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Speaker 1: And then you studied UM statistics for your PhD at Harvard.

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Speaker 1: You get PhD in statistics. Well, I think that's pretty cool.

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Speaker 1: You do well. I had one semester that in business.

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Speaker 1: One was enough. I loved I loved it. But you don't.

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Speaker 1: I'm assuming you don't really use words as vague as

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Speaker 1: transitory or do they mean something different to you than

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Speaker 1: they mean to the rest of us. What do you

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Speaker 1: what do you think about? Well, the idea, I think

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Speaker 1: positial people thought transitory was one or two months or

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Speaker 1: maybe three months of high print. Uh. I think inflation

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Speaker 1: as a as a compounding mechanism is not gonna last

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Speaker 1: more than a few months. Uh. And that's that's basically

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Speaker 1: our base case. And look, the important thing here is

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Speaker 1: not so much that inflation is going to be here

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Speaker 1: There's so many things right now that nobody really knows

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Speaker 1: what it's going to look like, inflation being one of them.

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Speaker 1: Do you have a huge, a very big distribution around

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Speaker 1: the potential inflation outcomes, supply chain disruptions, fiscal policy and

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Speaker 1: some sense of accuracy. Right now, the outcomes are all

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Speaker 1: the markets. The one thing you know is that stocks

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Speaker 1: don't know how all of these forces will resolve themselves. Na,

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Speaker 1: You can't leave it in cash because of the because

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Speaker 1: in fact, I wouldn't be surprised to see some kind

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Speaker 1: So but that is part of investing in the stock market.

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Speaker 1: You have to put your money there, and and and

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Speaker 1: put up with occasional correction. But over the next couple

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Speaker 1: this point, what about Westchester? Real estate? Is that safe place? Well?

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Speaker 1: Real estate, food and anything you talk about has been

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Speaker 1: so inflated by by your very loose monetary conditions, which,

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Speaker 1: But real estate is up through the roof. Alright, thank

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Speaker 1: BEMO Global Asset Management. Let's bring she's gonna talk rates

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Speaker 1: So it's not even clear that FED hikes help. And

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Speaker 1: PREA thank you so much for joining us. We always

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Speaker 1: appreciate getting your thoughts here. Pre A Misra, Managing Director

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Speaker 1: R J. Gallows, senior portfolio manager for Federator Hermes. R J.

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Speaker 1: Give us a sense of kind of how you think

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Speaker 1: the it's the sixty four dollar question for all of us,

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Speaker 1: I think, so good time to buy a car, all

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Speaker 1: time lows, good time to buy a house, all time low.

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Speaker 1: It's all price driven. And look, I think you can

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Speaker 1: not necessarily good from an economic growth standpoint. Look, we're

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Speaker 1: think the labor market holds a huge key to how

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Speaker 1: this unfolds. The ability to get labor back into the

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Speaker 1: some of the goods that are trapped in transit to

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Speaker 1: be distributed. But in a in an almost counterintuitive way

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Speaker 1: that's going to help cap if you will, the amount

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Speaker 1: of inflationary pressure that we're seeing from kind of what

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Speaker 1: you were talking about in your comments, and that is

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Speaker 1: demand that cannot be met. So prices just keep going higher, UH,

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Speaker 1: and look like they're gonna go higher. It looks like

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Speaker 1: But if the labor market will untangle a little bit,

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Speaker 1: force right now, there is no fear of missing out.

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Speaker 1: You look at the number of quits and the jolts data.

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Speaker 1: It's almost unbelievable, isn't it so? But when you've got

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Speaker 1: the job, Durana, I don't like this. I don't like

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Speaker 1: this job. Today you quit knowing that you can get

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Speaker 1: another job somewhere else. But we hope the labor market

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Speaker 1: unfolds from here in a way that it helps us

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Speaker 1: UH improve capacity for output and also help cap inflationary

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Speaker 1: pressure a little bit. All right, Steve, thanks so much

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Speaker 1: for joining us. We appreciate getting your thoughts here on

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Speaker 1: this economy rates UH in this market. Steve Why a

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Speaker 1: chief investment strategist for b o K Financial, and I

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Speaker 1: guess again, uh as Steve was mentioning, the job market

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Speaker 1: is certainly fascinating. We look at the jobs claims every Thursday.

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Speaker 1: We look at the jobs number on a monthly basis,

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Speaker 1: very very closely here, and the question is will we

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Speaker 1: get some of those five or six million people back

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Speaker 1: into the workforce. Thanks for listening to the Bloomberg Markets podcast.

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