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Speaker 1: And we start strong here after this historic press conference

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Speaker 1: with William Dudley, he's a former New York FED President,

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Speaker 1: a student at California Berkeley years ago of our monetary history,

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Speaker 1: and of course Bloomberg Economic senior advisor. As I said, Bill,

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Speaker 1: I got goosebumps. It just seems to be a massive

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Speaker 1: statement that even if we have nominal GDP of four percent,

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Speaker 1: we have immaculate productivity and will somehow get through this.

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Speaker 1: Do we sustain this market reaction, this belief in America

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Speaker 1: or do we are we inset for some titanic disappointment.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think that Pells Prescott has made clear that

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Speaker 2: he's really pleased by how the accounties performed, the fact

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Speaker 2: that you could get inflation down, about the unemployer rate

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Speaker 3: He thinks everything is going really, really well, And I

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Speaker 3: think that's true. The question is whether it's going to

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Speaker 3: continue or not. And there are definitely things that can

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Speaker 2: One thing that can could go along if the Fed

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Speaker 3: Another thing that they can go wrong is the Fed

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Speaker 3: can ease policy.

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Speaker 2: Prematurely, or the market itself can ease financial conditions prematurely,

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Speaker 2: which will stimulate the economy and make it so that

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Speaker 2: the FED can't cut rates that's.

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Speaker 3: At all quickly as the market expects.

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Speaker 2: I think the market's getting a little hab itself here

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Speaker 2: in the sense of taking the Fed's optimism and translating

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Speaker 2: that into very large reductions in short term rates in

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Speaker 4: But what do you think happened to the Chaman pound

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Speaker 3: I just think that they're very happy with how the

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Speaker 2: I mean, basically, they've had decent growth, unemployer rates stable,

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Speaker 2: and inslation's come down a lot, and.

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Speaker 3: That's basically, you know, as good as it can get.

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Speaker 2: And that's really what's just summarizing the summary of economic

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Speaker 2: productions now summary of economic projection shows the very modest

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Speaker 2: increases in the upplant rate from here and essentially a

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Speaker 2: soft landing kind of forecasts. Now, soft landings are really

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Speaker 2: difficult to pull off, and they're particularly difficult off and

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Speaker 2: we've been very late to take Marjory policy. And what's

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Speaker 2: allow of this to happen is that there were supply

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Speaker 2: just ruptions, those reduction and labor supply also things every verse,

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Speaker 2: and that made the fifth job a lot easier.

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Speaker 4: Build the prospect of getting sticky in flag shit into

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Speaker 4: next year getting stuck at three. So it makes it

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Speaker 4: because six months ago, Bill, we were told that the

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Speaker 4: last mile it was difficult. It was hard. Then Secretary

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Speaker 4: and starts sounding like the FED chair again, saying it's

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Speaker 4: Do you think that is the prudent approach to what

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Speaker 3: I think he's telling you what he really thinks.

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Speaker 2: I think he's very happy with how things to perform,

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Speaker 2: and he didn't say it would necessarily continue, but he

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Speaker 3: Twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 2: My own view is that the FED is going to

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Speaker 3: We're clearly done in terms of rate hikes.

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Speaker 2: You know, the possibility of another rate hike is really

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Speaker 5: Bill, do you think that J. Powell did a good job.

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Speaker 5: Do you think that it was right for him to

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Speaker 2: I always think it's good to say what you really think,

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Speaker 2: but I think the problem with doing so is it's

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Speaker 2: long legs of maitary policy, but financial conditions are much

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Speaker 2: much more common than they were just a few months ago.

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Speaker 3: If you look at the Fed's own.

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Speaker 2: Assessment of financial conditions back at the end of October,

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Speaker 1: I look Bill at where we are, and it's clearly

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Speaker 1: we've got some deflation and service sector inflations coming down.

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Speaker 1: Is this economy beyond the pandemic? If you were to

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Speaker 2: Think? I think mostly in this sense that the conditioners

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Speaker 2: today are very similar to where we were in February

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Speaker 2: The difference is wages are a bit higher, inflation's a

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Speaker 3: Is considerably tighter.

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Speaker 2: But it does feel more like February twenty twenty than

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Speaker 4: They'll sit time. I want to bring in Mia Kay

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Speaker 4: down in Washington day. Say, Michael McKay, you were in

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Speaker 6: Well, I was surprised by the approach once we'd heard

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Speaker 6: saw in the dot plot. But it is a rather

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Speaker 6: dramatic change from what he said just twelve days ago

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Speaker 6: Obviously they did today They're feeling much better about the

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Speaker 6: overall state of the economy. As one analyst put it, today,

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Speaker 6: if good inflation report is J Paul's idea of a

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Speaker 6: good time, then his party has turned into a rager

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Speaker 6: because inflation is coming down very quickly. And then the

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Speaker 6: next question becomes, as I asked you, when do you cut?

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Speaker 6: And that's the part they're not ready to get into

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Speaker 6: a few months of the markets watching the data and

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Speaker 1: Michael, within all the blur of the data and all

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Speaker 1: the guestimates forward, did they frame out a subpar GDP,

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Speaker 6: Well, basically that's what Paul said, we're going to get

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Speaker 6: because the direction of the economy is slower, the lagged

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Speaker 6: effects of their rate increases have not yet completely been felt,

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Speaker 4: Also very real.

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Speaker 6: So I think they're at this point working on the

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Speaker 6: interesting thing was, other than a sort of perfunctory caution,

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Speaker 4: Mi McKay, thank you so great job today. As always,

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Speaker 4: the reaction pouring in this afternoon. This line from Steve

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Speaker 4: to come. He always saw inflation as transitory. Bram of

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Speaker 4: your favorite. It's come down on the supply side. He

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Speaker 4: the landing. He had no interest in pushing back against

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Speaker 4: market expectations, right or wrong. It's bullish for now. Psych

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Speaker 5: That's exactly where I wanted to go, and I wanted

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Speaker 5: to get Bill Dudley's opinion about whether we did get

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Speaker 5: basically confirmation of transitory Do you think when we look back,

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Speaker 5: the fat won't have been wrong when it came to

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Speaker 2: I think that most of the inflation pressure had which

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Speaker 3: And that's something new from touch your home.

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Speaker 1: That's a very important point, the ex postedness of it,

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Speaker 1: if you will, doctor Dudley. They've got to wait weight

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Speaker 1: weight after the fact. So let's take something coarse like

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Speaker 1: is caught up with our immaculate disinflation.

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Speaker 2: I think they're gonna be looking at what happens to

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Speaker 2: high to be consistent with two percent inflation. But boy,

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Speaker 2: the Fed is pretty close to where they want to

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Speaker 2: be there. I would look at this point.

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Speaker 5: Bill.

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Speaker 4: You've been on the committee before. You can look at

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Speaker 4: It's a tricky game, this one to get into someone's head,

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Speaker 4: to work out what happened today, whether that was just

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Speaker 4: like we've indicated, he's been seduced by this idea of

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Speaker 4: What do you make of who Chairman Powe is and

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Speaker 4: what he ultimately thinks about things?

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Speaker 2: Well, the fact that he's worried about keeping Madrick Paul

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Speaker 2: not thinking like Paul Bulgery.

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Speaker 3: So there is a and there's a risk of cutting

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Speaker 2: But I think weight's coming across us is the fact

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Speaker 2: that he's just really, really happy with how things have evolved,

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Speaker 2: and that you know, optimism is showing through as it

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Speaker 2: has show shown through from time to time and past

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Speaker 1: Bill, It's maybe not your remit, but it's certainly the

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Speaker 1: New York Fed's remit. They're going to treat keep track

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Speaker 1: of flows off of declining interest rates. What is the

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Speaker 1: stability or instability that you observe in six trillion dollars

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Speaker 1: of cash, let's say most of it loaded and money

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Speaker 1: market funds. Is that yield comes down? Is our system

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Speaker 1: going to be able to handle it?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I don't think there's gonna be any problem.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you know, the Fed reserves says short term

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Speaker 2: interest rates and then money market rates trade off.

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Speaker 3: That if if money market rates, you know, firm up.

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Speaker 2: A little bit, then money will flow back into the

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Speaker 2: money market inter fund.

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Speaker 3: I'm not worried about that at all at this point.

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Speaker 5: you think that the chance of a hard landing has

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Speaker 5: gone down materially over the past month or do you

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Speaker 5: think that it's about the same or even has gone up.

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Speaker 3: Well, I think it's gone down materially over the last

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Speaker 2: I mean over the last month. I don't think things

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Speaker 2: soft landing are the best they've been in last year

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Speaker 2: or two.

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Speaker 4: Something changed in the last two weeks for Sham and Powell.

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Speaker 4: I'm just sure. Bill. Good to catch up. Bill Dunpley

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Speaker 4: there with Bloomberg Opinion. Former New York Fed President