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Speaker 1: Yeah, Welcome to the Bloomberg Surveillance Podcast. I'm term Keene

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Speaker 1: jay Leye. We bring you insight from the best in economics, finance, investment,

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Speaker 1: I'm really pleased to say on this pay Rolls Friday,

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Speaker 1: we are joined by Marty foul Stein. Here is Harvard

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Speaker 1: University economics professor and the former chairman of the Council

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Speaker 1: of Economic Advisors under President Reagan. Marty, always great to

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Speaker 1: have you with us on the program. Good morning to

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Speaker 1: use sir, Good morning, happy to be here, Looking forward

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Speaker 1: to talking to you about payrolls in just a moment.

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Speaker 1: Want to begin with China and the prospect of a deal.

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Speaker 1: We now have some decent transparency of what the United

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Speaker 1: States would like from the Chinese. Let's talk about how

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Speaker 1: realistic it is that this administration will get those things. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: it's the wrong thing to be focusing on. Uh, It's

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Speaker 1: something that the public can understand. It's something that President

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Speaker 1: Trump can sell as our goal two hundred billion dollars.

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Speaker 1: It's a big number. It would cut our bilateral trade

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Speaker 1: deficit in half, and it really doesn't matter. What really

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Speaker 1: is important is that the Chinese have been taken technology

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Speaker 1: from American firms by requiring them to have joint ventures

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Speaker 1: That's against w t O rules and that is what

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Speaker 1: we should be focusing on when we negotiate with the Chinese.

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Speaker 1: So the administration is also focusing on that, as you know, professor,

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Speaker 1: they aren't demanding that the Chinese changed this removal of

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Speaker 1: restrictions on foreign ownership of companies. Also the technology transfer

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Speaker 1: They should be focusing on just that and not the

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Speaker 1: overall trade balance would be much better if they've focused

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Speaker 1: late in the game. Um, the original thing was about

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Speaker 1: cutting the bilateral trade imbalance. And if the Chinese managed

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Speaker 1: to do that and we say, great, you've given us

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Speaker 1: what we wanted, will have missed the opportunity to deal

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Speaker 1: with the serious problem, which is the technology transfer. Let's

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Speaker 1: talk about the time horizon for all of this. They

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Speaker 1: usually needs to be a credible threat at the other

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Speaker 1: end of any negotiation. If we don't negotiate a better deal,

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Speaker 1: this is what happens. And on the table at the

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Speaker 1: moment is a proposal for a set of tariffs and

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Speaker 1: the Chinese. The Chinese themselves, Professor, have their own proposals

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Speaker 1: other end of it, Well, I think tariffs are important.

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Speaker 1: I think restrictions on what the Chinese can do in

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Speaker 1: US companies, all of those things that the Chinese would

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Speaker 1: that means allowing American companies to invest to sell in

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Speaker 1: China without having to have a a Chinese partner. Professor,

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Speaker 1: I have been stunned by the US centric coverage of

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Speaker 1: there where we do a different dialogue just because they're Chinese. Well,

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Speaker 1: the Chinese have said about this technology transfer that they're

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Speaker 1: not doing anything illegal. They're violating w t O rules.

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Speaker 1: They're not requiring American firms to transfer technology. If American firms,

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Speaker 1: to that behavior in the time that we have with you,

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Speaker 1: Professor Feldsteine, We need to go back to another time

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Speaker 1: and place. I guess ever Dirkson would be a good

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Speaker 1: the facts. But still, this is the most liquid bond

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Speaker 1: Is your spouse willing to move for your job? What

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Speaker 1: about your spouse's job? So I think there's these complications

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Speaker 1: in workers lives that might make it a little bit

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Speaker 1: difficult for them to do what our models predict, which

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Speaker 1: is to threaten to vote with their feet by walking

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Speaker 1: out the door if they don't get a raise. And

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Speaker 1: employers seem to be taking advantage of that. And now, folks,

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Speaker 1: we go nowhere where we would like to go, but

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Speaker 1: we're gonna do it with Betsy Stevenson, who is in

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Speaker 1: America the definitive student of economics in our family. You

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Speaker 1: wrote a paper in two thousand and eight with a

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Speaker 1: guy from Australia called how should we think about the

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Speaker 1: taxpayer consequences of divorce? What did Betsy Stevenson think about

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Speaker 1: the alimony treatment in the new tax bill? A select

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Speaker 1: group of our Bloomberg surveillance listeners would like to know. Um, so,

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Speaker 1: I'm embarrassed to say that that was something I didn't

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Speaker 1: pay attention to. Okay, well, they're going to change the

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Speaker 1: rules on alimony in the tax treatment on alimony, and

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Speaker 1: this goes back to the concept in Washington of divorce,

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Speaker 1: which is always across American history, always been a fraud.

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Speaker 1: In interesting consequence, you wrote the definitive paper with Justin Wolfers,

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Speaker 1: how should we think about taxpayer consequences of divorce? Granted

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Speaker 1: it was a decade ago, but everybody remembers the paper. Betsy,

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Speaker 1: what what? What are the tax consequences of divorce in

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Speaker 1: this nation? Um? Well, I think what we were trying

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Speaker 1: to point out is that it isn't as easy for

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Speaker 1: it isn't easy for taxpayers to think about what are

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Speaker 1: the consequences for divorce. So one of the things that's

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Speaker 1: happened is making it easier for people to get divorced

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Speaker 1: is one of the things that encouraged women to stay

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Speaker 1: attached to the labor force. If you're less about whether

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Speaker 1: you're gonna stay in your marriage, then you want to

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Speaker 1: know that you're gonna be able to support yourself outside

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Speaker 1: of your marriage, and that we saw that movement um

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Speaker 1: in the seventies and the eighties. As we change divorce laws,

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Speaker 1: put you women into the labor force. So as the

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Speaker 1: threat of divorce grows, labor force participation of women grows,

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Speaker 1: which actually means that there's more women pay more taxes.

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Speaker 1: Because you don't pay taxes when you're doing home production,

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Speaker 1: when you're at home raising your kids and uh cleaning

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Speaker 1: your house and cooking your meals, we don't tax you

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Speaker 1: on the value you're providing your family. If you get

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Speaker 1: a job and you go to work and you pay

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Speaker 1: somebody else to do all of those taxks, not only

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Speaker 1: do you get have to pay taxes on what you earn,

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Speaker 1: but then the person you're paying to do the things

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Speaker 1: you used to do. They're also now earning dollars that

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Speaker 1: they're paying taxes on. So that, UM, that's one way

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Speaker 1: in which we sort of intuitively think you might not

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Speaker 1: intuitively realize that, um, that divorce can generate more tax dollars.

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Speaker 1: But of course there's other consequences of it as well, UM,

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Speaker 1: related to how kids do and what kind of certain

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Speaker 1: that might put on taxpayers to provide services. I then there,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think there's this natural issue, which is,

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Speaker 1: as families split apart, how should we think about you know,

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Speaker 1: what people's true UM means are right, what's their ability

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Speaker 1: to provide? And then there's and then how should we

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Speaker 1: think about them sharing income as you will through say

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Speaker 1: alimony payments or child support payments. UM, how should we

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Speaker 1: think about that from a tax consequence? And as they said,

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Speaker 1: I was not aware that the regent taxil, the regent

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Speaker 1: taxil has so many things to imitnuck little things in

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Speaker 1: um that. But it doesn't surprise me that, you know,

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Speaker 1: politicians might want to rethink how we UM assessed that

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Speaker 1: kind of income sharing based on when I've got in

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Speaker 1: my mail, people are rethinking good And it's a sport

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Speaker 1: to say the least, this has been wonderful. Betsy Stevenson,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much with the gerald Ford Policy of

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Speaker 1: Public Policy School at the University of Michigan on this

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Speaker 1: job's day of three unemployment and extraordinary statistic and also

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Speaker 1: with her expertise on public policy and particularly path breaking

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Speaker 1: research and the family as well. Now for the Trump

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Speaker 1: administration's views on the jobs report, we joined now on

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Speaker 1: flimback television and on radio by Kevin Hassett, the head

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Speaker 1: the Council of Economic Advisors. Chairman Kevin, always great to

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Speaker 1: get your insight on hand with the labor market. Let's

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Speaker 1: just begin with that stunning unemployment figure, a three handle, Kevin.

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Speaker 1: I think a lot of people trying to wonder whether

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Speaker 1: we're at full employment or not. What's the administration's view, Well,

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Speaker 1: I think they're getting down to three point nine is

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Speaker 1: really astonishing because what it means is that we now

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Speaker 1: have the longest labor expansion, continuous labor expansion on record.

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Speaker 1: And I think that a lot of the reason why

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Speaker 1: that's happened is that we came in and we deregulated

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Speaker 1: at the beginning of last year, and then we had

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Speaker 1: this big tax cut, and so a lot of times

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Speaker 1: recoveries start to run out of a steam at the end,

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Speaker 1: but we just you know, put more steam in right

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Speaker 1: at the end. And and one metric of that, by

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Speaker 1: the way, that I think is most interesting is that

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Speaker 1: since the president was elected, nine thousand people have re

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Speaker 1: entered the labor force and gotten a job. And so

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Speaker 1: we've been able to continue to grow the economy at

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Speaker 1: a very healthy pace because people are coming back. People

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Speaker 1: who were discouraged because they couldn't find a job because

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Speaker 1: of Obama's economy have been reconnected to society and that's

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Speaker 1: really good news. So that you know, that's really the

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Speaker 1: smoothing through the ups and downs. The headline of the

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Speaker 1: jobs report, I think is the really surprising increase in

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Speaker 1: labor force participation over the last year year and a half. Tavin.

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Speaker 1: For a lot of economists on the straight they look

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Speaker 1: at the headline numbers and they say, an economy a

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Speaker 1: labor market that is a full employment, a labor market

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Speaker 1: is really tight, and they're full. Surely inflation pressia must

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Speaker 1: be coming at the other end. And Kevin, the administration,

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Speaker 1: led by yourself, really really looking for a supply side response.

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Speaker 1: Why are you so convinced will get that supply side response,

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Speaker 1: What do you see in the dates and key water

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Speaker 1: that gives you the optimism, Sure, we see it in

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Speaker 1: the data already. So so both in Q four there

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Speaker 1: was a big spike in capital spending U and that

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Speaker 1: was in part because people wanted to get some stuff

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Speaker 1: in before year end because of the tax cuts, because

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Speaker 1: they could expense it back to September at a higher

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Speaker 1: rate if they spent it last year. And so we're

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Speaker 1: a little worried that capital spending might level off in

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Speaker 1: the first quarters, but it went up from there, and

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Speaker 1: so the capital spending boom that we said would happen

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Speaker 1: is happening. We're also seeing it in wages. You know,

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Speaker 1: we now have more than six million people that have

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Speaker 1: gotten raises that their employers said were because of the

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Speaker 1: tax cuts. And if you look at the employment cost Index,

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Speaker 1: then over the last three months it increased one percent.

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Speaker 1: You know, if we had you know, another three quarters

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Speaker 1: like that, that'd be four percent for the year. And

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Speaker 1: that's the highest rate we've seen at least since two

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Speaker 1: thousand six. Going before two thousand six, it's hard to

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Speaker 1: make comparisons because they changed the data a little bit,

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Speaker 1: it's a lot of good is in the labor market

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Speaker 1: right now, there is, and some people pointing out to

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Speaker 1: make they'll over the last month or so, in the

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Speaker 1: last several months, that there are some signs of some

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Speaker 1: bottlenecks appearing, labor supply shortages as well as let's say

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Speaker 1: backlogs at factories in terms of orders and whether they

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Speaker 1: can really get things out supply side constraints. Do you

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Speaker 1: don't see that, Kevin, Yeah, that's that's a normal thing

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Speaker 1: in the cycle that with the unemployment gets unemployment rate

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Speaker 1: gets low, then what will happen will be it'll be

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Speaker 1: hard to find workers. And at that point, what firms

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Speaker 1: tend to do is invest heavily in capital in order

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Speaker 1: to increase the productivity of the workers they have. And so,

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Speaker 1: if you think about it, the tax cut was timed

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Speaker 1: perfectly because right at the moment when firms need to

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Speaker 1: invest in capital to make their own workers more productive

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Speaker 1: because it's getting a little bit harder to find people, Uh,

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Speaker 1: then we gave them a tax cut the stimulated capital spending.

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Speaker 1: And so I think that that's why you know, you've

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Speaker 1: seen everybody, the I m F, even the the CBO,

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Speaker 1: they've jacked their forecasts up for this year to around

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Speaker 1: three which is what we said last fall would happen

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Speaker 1: after the tax cut, right, And it's happening because the

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Speaker 1: capital spending boom, it's in the data. The wage growth,

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Speaker 1: you know, that's in the data too. And the reason

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Speaker 1: we've been able to continue to grow is there are

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Speaker 1: those nud people that it sort of you know, everybody

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Speaker 1: gave up on before President Trump was elected, who have

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Speaker 1: been reconnected to society and found a jar. So, Kevin,

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Speaker 1: where the private forecasters aren't with you, it's not. They're

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Speaker 1: pretty much in line with you. You guys looking for

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Speaker 1: something with a free handle. The median estimate in our

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Speaker 1: Blomberg survey the high twos. It's most of the street,

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Speaker 1: the consensus see the economy rolling gover not drastically, not dramatically,

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Speaker 1: but certainly the trend's gonna go the other way. Why

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Speaker 1: do you think that's not the case? And and my

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Speaker 1: second point really on the issue if there's been late

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Speaker 1: cycle or not, a lot of people say this isn't

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Speaker 1: the right time to do a fiscal stimulus because if

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Speaker 1: exactly what's about to happen, the economy is set to

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Speaker 1: go into a bit of a downturn, You're you're really

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Speaker 1: good questions so that they actually tied together neatly. So

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Speaker 1: the point is that late in the cycle, if you

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Speaker 1: were to pass a big demand stimulus like the cash

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Speaker 1: for Clunkers program by the President Obama, then that big

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Speaker 1: demand stimulus could heat up the economy and cars inflation

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Speaker 1: to get out of control. But if you have a

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Speaker 1: supply side stimulan US, then you increase supply, and an

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Speaker 1: increase in supply can even put downward pressure on prices.

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Speaker 1: And so if you want to sustain recovery late in

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Speaker 1: the cycle, what you need is a capital spending boom

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Speaker 1: to push up supply and keep the upward pressure on

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Speaker 1: prices low. And that's exactly what we're seeing in the data,

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Speaker 1: and as a real debate as to whether that's going

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Speaker 1: to continue. And Kevin, outside of that debate, there's a

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Speaker 1: debate about the contribution of trade to overall g d P.

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Speaker 1: I think for some economists, by definition, if we get

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Speaker 1: some fiscal stimulus, demands going to go up, and therefore

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Speaker 1: the trade deficit is naturally gonna widen, and you're gonna

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Speaker 1: get a negative contribution from trade. And that's something you

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Speaker 1: guys don't want. So can you reconcile the trade effort

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Speaker 1: to get the trade deficit down with the GDP effort

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Speaker 1: to get growth up to three and beyond? Oh sure,

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Speaker 1: you know. And and President Trump and the team are

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Speaker 1: all on the same page on this. And if you

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Speaker 1: look at the Economic Report of the President, which was

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Speaker 1: written by a guy who some have called the globalist right,

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Speaker 1: that that it very clearly enunciates the president's agenda, which

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Speaker 1: is to just get reciprocity, to make it so that

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Speaker 1: countries around the world lower their tariffs to the US level.

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Speaker 1: And so the you know, China, there's talks over there

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Speaker 1: right now. They have a terraf on Urados, We have

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Speaker 1: a two and a half percent terraf on their their artists.

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Speaker 1: If we can get reciprocity in our trade deals, if

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Speaker 1: we can improve them, then over time US exports should skyrocket.

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Speaker 1: And that's really the objective of our trade post, so Kevin,

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Speaker 1: and it's good for us, and it's good for them too,

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Speaker 1: because removing the trade barriers around the world will increase

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Speaker 1: global growth and welfare. I know, the team is on

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Speaker 1: the way back from Beijing. There's only so much you

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Speaker 1: can say about the results of the negotiations we've seen

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Speaker 1: here at Bloomberg in a in a copy of the

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Speaker 1: document that you guys are presented to Beijing of the

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Speaker 1: demands on the U. S. Sun And they've already been

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Speaker 1: talked about in quite a detailed way. What I'm trying

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Speaker 1: to gage from the administration. We've had great transparency on

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Speaker 1: what you want. I'm trying to understand still, the time frame,

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Speaker 1: the time horizon. There's a credible threat with proposed tariffs

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Speaker 1: at the other end, how much longer do we have

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Speaker 1: to see negotiations take place for before that credible threat

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Speaker 1: is actually imposed and becomes policy. You know, I have

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Speaker 1: nothing to say about timing right now. You know, the

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Speaker 1: that decisions about what happens next would be made in Washington,

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Speaker 1: not in Beijing. And I think that that's out of

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Speaker 1: of course respect for the Constitution. But I'm sure that

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Speaker 1: it through. And so I'm sure there'll be more news

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Speaker 1: for you guys soon, and Kevin and I'm sure you'll

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Speaker 1: Lonry Cardillo will come on the program and talk about

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Speaker 1: the update, and I'd really look forward to that. I

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Speaker 1: guess always at your disposal of my officers right over there,

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Speaker 1: and I'd love that Kevin as well. I guess my

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Speaker 1: final question to you is whether the trade issue is

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Speaker 1: generating some foreign policy results. So can we blend the

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Speaker 1: policy side for you? Right? Well, you know, I'm not

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Speaker 1: a foreign policy expert. I'm an economist, but there is

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Speaker 1: a foreign policy angle to to everything. And if you

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Speaker 1: the focused on China, you know, there are lots of

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Speaker 1: guess that's an economic issue at a foreign policy issue,

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Speaker 1: and that's the kind of thing that's on the table.

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Speaker 1: And then I'm sure that our team has talked about

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Speaker 1: with them Hi, Kevin. Really appreciate Tom. It's always great

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Speaker 1: to catch up with you. And for the White has

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Speaker 1: to give us there insight off the Pyrose Friday something

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Speaker 1: very valuable on this program, the Chairman of the Council

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