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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio news. Let's talk about this

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Speaker 1: all with Hayman Capital Management founder and CIO Kyle Bass

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Speaker 1: joining us. Now, Kyle, it's great to have you with us.

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Speaker 1: I know that last week on a competing network, you

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Speaker 1: said that I think the tariffs are thoughtful. I think

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Speaker 1: they will work. With that in mind, I would love

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Speaker 1: to hear your thoughts on what you make of the

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Speaker 1: tariff rollout and that now this ninety day pause. Which

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Speaker 1: adjectives would you use?

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Speaker 2: Now I've used the same adjectives.

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Speaker 3: I mean, look, you've got seventy five countries to reach

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Speaker 3: out to us in two days, and they're all countries

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Speaker 3: that matter minus China on a trade perspective. So you

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Speaker 3: know it takes it takes ninety days to sit down

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Speaker 3: with someone and iron out something that isn't simply a

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Speaker 3: tariff number.

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Speaker 2: There's tariffs, non tariff barriers, there's currency.

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Speaker 3: There's all kinds of inputs to this equation, and so

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Speaker 3: giving a ninety day reprieve while they hammer out trade

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Speaker 3: deals is a good idea.

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Speaker 4: Kyle.

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Speaker 5: We have had a lot of big multinationals pulling their

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Speaker 5: outlooks due to this uncertainty, and then small main street

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Speaker 5: businesses writing in on mass and saying it's just impossible

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Speaker 5: to do business in this economy.

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Speaker 4: Who are these tariffs good for?

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Speaker 3: I mean, it's more important to reset the trade relationships

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Speaker 3: between the United States and the rest of the world.

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Speaker 3: And I believe President Trump thinks that bilateral trade negotiations

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Speaker 3: end up being better for the world's largest consumer, which

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Speaker 3: is the United States.

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Speaker 2: And so if we can.

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Speaker 3: Get to a place where trade is more fair, then

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Speaker 3: I think we can get to a foundation where we

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Speaker 3: can build, grow, where we can grow once again and

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Speaker 3: grow from a much stronger foundation. These tariffs, these non

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Speaker 3: tariff barriers, the manipulation that's gone on against the United

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Speaker 3: States for so long is no longer going to happen.

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Speaker 3: And I think our trade relationship with China is the

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Speaker 3: one that doesn't look to have any off ramps at

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Speaker 3: this moment in time. But I can tell you that

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Speaker 3: once all of these agreements get hammered out, the US

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Speaker 3: is going to be in a much better place.

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Speaker 1: Well, Kyle, to that point, I know that you're focused

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Speaker 1: on China. Do you see any chance of a de escalation?

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Speaker 1: I know that you said that there isn't a clear

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Speaker 1: off ramp right now. But do you see any chance

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Speaker 1: that things could cool down or do you think that

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Speaker 1: this trade war specifically between the US and China is

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Speaker 1: just getting started here?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it actually got started back when China's

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Speaker 3: sent of the WTO and China's been at this trade

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Speaker 3: war with the United States for its entire ascension, call

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Speaker 3: it twenty three years. And so the US has just

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Speaker 3: figured out what China's malign intentions are. And we all know.

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Speaker 3: We've seen their militaristic belligerents in the Second Thomas Show

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Speaker 3: and the Philippines, We've seen it surrounding Taiwan. We've listened

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Speaker 3: to the rhetoric of shijiping, and we are now in

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Speaker 3: a place where we're going tit for tat on tariffs.

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Speaker 3: Where I think China's made a grave error here is,

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Speaker 3: as you know, we only export about one hundred and

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Speaker 3: forty billion a year to China and we import call it,

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Speaker 3: four hundred and fifty billion from them, And so I

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Speaker 3: think that if we're doing tit for tat on tariffs,

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Speaker 3: than China loses because there is no functional equivalency in

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Speaker 3: the amount of goods and services moving back and forth.

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Speaker 3: So we'll see what happens here. But I think it

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Speaker 3: looks like we're in a game of we can call

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Speaker 3: it a Chinese standoff, or we can call it a

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Speaker 3: Mexican standoff.

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Speaker 2: I don't see an off ramp here.

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Speaker 6: Kyle, to the extent that you see escalation of this

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Speaker 6: trade war with China in particular, you're looking at two

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Speaker 6: whales in the ocean going at it, and you do

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Speaker 6: have investors getting increasingly concerned about a weakening here of

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Speaker 6: Chinese currency in order to boost their exports. How many

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Speaker 6: tools does China have really in order to fight the

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Speaker 6: US on this battle?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean you heard Treasury Secretary Besson said they're

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Speaker 3: playing poker Han with a pair of twos. They've got

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Speaker 3: a banking system that's three and a half times more

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Speaker 3: system that's levered to real estate, and real estate in

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Speaker 3: China's down thirty to fifty percent, depending upon.

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Speaker 2: Where you are.

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Speaker 3: So they've got an insolvent banking system. They've got runaway

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Speaker 3: a banking system that's insolvent, you've got.

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Speaker 2: A real estate collapse.

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Speaker 3: And so when you're asking me what tools China has,

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Speaker 3: they've got a couple of places where they could really

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Speaker 3: press us. Right one, believe it or not, we still

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Speaker 3: have the majority of our active pharmaceutical ingredients for all

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Speaker 3: antibiotics in the US made in the city of Wuhan.

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Speaker 2: That's just a it's a sad truth.

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Speaker 3: And then on the finishing side of synthetic graphite on

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Speaker 3: rareth minerals, if you remember back in our trades bat

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Speaker 3: in twenty nineteen, Xijingping mad made a visit to where

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Speaker 3: they do the rareth metals finishings and we have seen

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Speaker 3: we haven't seen g since April seventh, So you know,

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Speaker 3: we'll we'll we'll see.

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Speaker 2: Well, we'll see what he does.

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Speaker 3: But he can he can start with holding things like

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Speaker 3: antibiotics and rareth minerals.

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Speaker 2: But this is something that our administration has thought through.

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Speaker 1: Well, Kyle, I wanted to talk to you as an

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Speaker 1: investor now too, because as Janelle mentioned, of course, China

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Speaker 1: has been signaling that it will gradually let the yuan weekend,

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Speaker 1: And I'm curious how you're approaching that, whether you're seeing

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Speaker 1: that as a trade and betting against the offshore.

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Speaker 3: You want No, I think I'm not at the moment,

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Speaker 3: but I would say that it is not under China's control.

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Speaker 3: When you think about go back to the to the

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Speaker 3: Asian financial crisis of nineteen ninety seven and ninety eight,

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Speaker 3: it wasn't it wasn't Thailand's decision to let go.

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Speaker 2: It was Thailand running out of reserves. And so when

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Speaker 3: China and the offshore you Wan, in the end, China's

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Speaker 3: got to spend dollars to support that relationship.

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Speaker 2: And China needs a strong you Wan.

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Speaker 3: They buy thirteen million barrels of cruit every day, eight

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Speaker 3: So if for some reason they have to let that

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Speaker 3: we'll see if that if that relationship holds.

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Speaker 2: And my view is when you look at the.

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Speaker 3: Differentials and interest rates and you look at China's bond market,

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Speaker 3: the one thing that can't be lying coming out of

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Speaker 3: the Chinese tenure, it's collapsed. So their economy is in

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Speaker 3: a very different place than now. And that relationship between

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Speaker 5: Hey, Kyle, just quickly, what do you think the most

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Speaker 5: they can allow the on to weaken is? I mean,

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Speaker 5: where's the point where they have to step in and

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Speaker 5: can't allow any more slippage?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I mean it's just begune. All you've

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Speaker 3: again when countries run out of reserves, as you know,

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Speaker 3: the currency flaps in the wind. So there's this concept

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Speaker 3: the uncontrollable moves. And what we saw in the Asian

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Speaker 3: South Korea, we saw some pretty notable currency moves. And

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Speaker 3: I think that's coming, and you know, I just I

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Speaker 3: don't know if it's coming in the next month or so,

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Speaker 3: but I'll tell you the interest rate differentials, the business

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Speaker 3: So we do expect the Chinese currency to weaken pretty

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Speaker 1: Kyle, I want to talk about the tariffs that are

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Speaker 1: still in place. Of course, we got the news about

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Speaker 1: the ninety day pause on certain countries yesterday, but you

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Speaker 1: take a look at what still stands. You have twenty

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Speaker 1: five percent on steel aluminum autos, twenty five percent on

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Speaker 1: auto parts starting from May third. And I want to

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Speaker 1: bring this to your home state of Texas. I know

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Speaker 1: that you're a Texas guy and you think about Texas's economy.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of car dealerships, there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: I'm curious, you know what you think the impact on

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean in the near term, the impact is

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Speaker 3: going to be slightly negative, right, But when you when

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Speaker 3: you think about the carve outs. First of all, you

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Speaker 3: know we import about four point two trillion a year

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Speaker 2: Roughly forty percent.

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Speaker 3: Of those imports were already exempt from this new round

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Speaker 3: of tariffs. You mentioned the two thirty two tariffs, right, steel, aluminum, autos,

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Speaker 3: to understand that those two thirty two tariffs, second two

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Speaker 3: in his last administration, and if you remember, Biden ran

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Speaker 3: on we're going to cancel those the tariffs. In the end,

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Speaker 3: what happens is when someone like China, a state actor,

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Speaker 3: can act uneconomically or non economically and they can flood

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Speaker 3: utilization down enough to where they can literally turn our

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Speaker 3: tariffs are necessary, and those will live and they will

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Speaker 3: live into the future, and they may not be high enough.

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Speaker 3: We must maintain domestic production of certain things from a

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Speaker 3: national security perspective, and that's why those stand where they stand.

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Speaker 3: For autos, it just you know, you see China building

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Speaker 3: plants in Mexico and Canada. So basically to avoid the

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Speaker 3: tariffs on on their cars, and so we're our negotiations

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Speaker 3: with Mexico and Canada are primarily on fentanyl, secondarily on

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Speaker 6: Getting this right, Kyle, Even if you believe that the

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Speaker 6: tariffs are ultimately necessary for the American economy, how much

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Speaker 6: more pain do investors have to bear? Because you do

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Speaker 6: still see the S and P five hundred after yesterday's rally,

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Speaker 6: still down more than seven percent this year, You saw

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Speaker 6: the bond market whips on wildly just this week. How

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Speaker 6: much more pain is there as this transition and this

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Speaker 6: negotiation proceeds.

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Speaker 3: I think, so we need to separate a few things

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Speaker 3: that you said. The bond market had a had to

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Speaker 3: fit you know this in the selloff, and it was

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Speaker 3: largely due to it wasn't a basis trade. You know,

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Speaker 3: it's the it's the fixed floating swaps, and I know

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Speaker 3: that gets in a world that.

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Speaker 2: A lot of people don't want to talk about.

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Speaker 3: But it was very simply a regulatory trade that bond

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Speaker 3: traders had on expecting expecting banks' abilities to buy treasuries

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Speaker 3: that had to unwind. I think that had a lot

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Speaker 3: I think things are settling down. But you know, as

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Speaker 3: far as stocks are concerned, you've heard the President, you've

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Speaker 3: the rest of the world. We also must narrow our

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Speaker 3: things might be slightly recessionary. And if that's true, we

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Speaker 3: might have to go through a brief recession in order

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Speaker 3: to rebuild our foundation. And you say, how much longer

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Speaker 3: can investors hold? You know, Look, the market's not up

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Speaker 3: into the right, you know, every year of every decade.

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Speaker 2: And I think that.

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Speaker 3: This is a necessary reset so that we can grow

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Speaker 5: Kyle as an avowed free market capitalist, I care mostly

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Speaker 5: about myself.

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Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 5: So the twenty seventeen Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, President

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Speaker 5: Trump punched me in the gut with a massive tax raise,

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Speaker 5: right because he takes out all of a sudden, this

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Speaker 4: For one hundred and four years.

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Speaker 5: If I can get a discount now in my taxes

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Speaker 5: I'll be happy. And you have said you think that

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Speaker 5: DOGE is going to cut six hundred billion out of

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Speaker 5: that Trump handed me in twenty seventeen somehow?

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 3: And look, let me let me begin by saying, Matt,

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Speaker 3: I know you're out in things for yourself, and that's

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Speaker 3: I guess what you care about. Uh That the good

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Speaker 3: are not setting trade policy for the world. Because if

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Speaker 3: if if all we did was open ourselves the unrestricted

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Speaker 3: On the tax side, you know, there there are going

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Speaker 3: I mean, it's interesting to see the migration in the

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Speaker 4: That pay property taxes, right, don't you in Texas?

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Speaker 3: But when you think about high tax, high cost jurisdictions

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Speaker 2: And I think you're seeing people vote with their feet.

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Speaker 1: And I do want to defend Matt a little bit.

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Speaker 1: I know you care about more than just yourself, but

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Speaker 5: About in terms of the wealth of nations, right, Adam Smith.

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Speaker 4: That's how capitalism works.

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Speaker 5: Every man for himself, that's how it's supposed to work.

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Speaker 1: Well, Kyle, with that in mind, I want to talk

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Speaker 1: to you about you and your future because Bloomberg reported

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Speaker 1: And I'm really curious here we sit in April, are

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Speaker 2: I mean, I'm going to go no comment there.

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Speaker 3: It's it's not worth talking about unless unless there's actually

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Speaker 2: I've got open ears.

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Speaker 6: I'll definitely come back if and when you do have

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Speaker 6: a deal. But I also have another question, Kyle, for

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Speaker 3: You know, I think that I think when the market's

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Speaker 3: I think it's an overreaction. But when I think about

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Speaker 3: You're going to see a slight inflationary uptick on a

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Speaker 3: So I think six months from now, the market's going

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Speaker 3: to be in a much better place.

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Speaker 2: And that's with the caveat of If.

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Speaker 3: China doesn't that Taiwan, if things in Iran don't get

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Speaker 3: much worse, I think things are gonna look better.

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Speaker 2: In the next six months.

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Speaker 3: If China invades Taiwan, I think I think all bets are.

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Speaker 1: Off all right, Kyle, we got to leave it there.

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Speaker 1: You've been very generous with your time this morning.

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Speaker 4: Really appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: That is Hayman Capital's Kyle Bass