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Speaker 1: Good morning. It's Tuesday, the third of October in London.

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Speaker 1: This is the Bloomberg Daybreak EUROP podcast. I'm Stephen Carroll.

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Speaker 1: Coming up today reports a key part of HS two

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Speaker 1: is about to be scrapped, throw Rishi Sunak's pre election

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Speaker 1: narrative off track.

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Speaker 2: And I'm Caroline Hipkett at the Conservative Party conference here

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Speaker 2: in Manchester with the latest on that decision and the

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Speaker 2: divisions that it's creating in the party.

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Speaker 1: Plus is there anything AI can't do? Jp Morgan's CEO

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Speaker 1: tells Bloomberg artificial intelligence could lead to a three and

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Speaker 1: a half day working week. Let's start with a roundup

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Speaker 1: of our top stories. The Prime Minister is facing backlash

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Speaker 1: from his Conservative Party, businesses and Northern leaders over a

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Speaker 1: possible announcement to scrap part of the flagship infrastructure project

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Speaker 1: HS two. Their speculation announcement could come as soon as

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Speaker 1: today to ditch the northern leg of the one hundred

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Speaker 1: billion pound high speed rail project. The decision now threatens

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Speaker 1: to overshadow the whole Conservative Party conference. Toy West Midlands

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Speaker 1: Mayor Andy Street made his view clear, but Joyce very stark.

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Speaker 3: Either of the rumors say go on, cancel Newston cancel

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Speaker 3: to Manchester, but you will be turning your back on

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Speaker 3: an opportunity to level up a once in a generation opportunity.

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Speaker 3: You will indeed be damaging our international reputation as a place.

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Speaker 4: To invest or.

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Speaker 3: The alternative is to work with us, engage with us, fully,

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Speaker 3: embrace the private sector. Hear out what they could do

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Speaker 3: to find a way that we can still build this

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Speaker 3: national piece of infrastructure in a way in which we

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Speaker 1: Despite those pleas from Andy Streets, reports suggests that if

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Speaker 1: a decision is made to ditch the project, it could

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Speaker 1: feature in the Prime Minister's speech to the conference tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Back of England policymaker Catherine Mann says interest rates have

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Speaker 1: only just reached restrictive territory. Speaking at an event hosted

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Speaker 1: by red Burn Atlantic and Rothschild, Man disparage the Central

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Speaker 1: Bank's forecasts, saying quote they've been telling a story fundamentally

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Speaker 1: different from the ones I consider likely. Catherine Mann is

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Speaker 1: widely viewed as the boees most hookish rate setter, but

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Speaker 1: was outvoted last month when she backed continuing increasing rates

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Speaker 1: to stamp out sticky inflation. Louretta Master says the Federal

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Speaker 1: Reserve will probably need to raise rates once more this year.

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Speaker 1: Speaking to business leaders, the Bank of Cleveland president said

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Speaker 1: the final decision will depend on how the US economy

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Speaker 5: At this point, I suspect we may well need to

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Speaker 5: raise the Fed Fund rate once more this year, and

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Speaker 5: then hold it there for some time as we accumulate

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Speaker 5: more information on economic developments and assess the effects of

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Speaker 5: the tightening at financial conditions that has already occurred.

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Speaker 1: Mester's comments come as several of the central Bank's policymakers

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Speaker 1: have weighed in with their views on the future rate path.

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Speaker 1: Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision Michael Barr says the

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Speaker 1: US Central Bank is likely at or very near a

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Speaker 1: level that's sufficiently restrictive that echoes charge their own palace,

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Speaker 1: message that officials can proceed carefully on whether to hike again.

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Speaker 1: This weekend's temporary US government funding bill may have averted

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Speaker 1: a shutdown, but it also left out something many wanted,

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Speaker 1: six billion dollars for Ukraine. Bloomberg understands President Biden is

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Speaker 1: now planning to call allies to discuss the ongoing war.

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Speaker 1: At Baxter Reports.

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Speaker 6: The President says he wants to assure the Allies that

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Speaker 6: the US support will continue. You cannot, under any circumstances

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Speaker 4: Too many lives of stake, too many children, too many people.

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Speaker 6: A call with Allies could happen as early as today,

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Speaker 6: and the White House says it will announce an additional

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Speaker 6: aid package for Ukraine soon. I'm at Baxter Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: The Republican Matt Gates has officially moved to out the

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Speaker 1: Speaker of the US House, Kevin McCarry. The Florida congressman

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Speaker 1: cited McCarthy's weekend embrace of a bipartisan deal to avert

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Speaker 1: a government shutdown as provocation for the mutiny. The move

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Speaker 1: tees up a high stakes vote which could dramatically shift

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Speaker 1: the balance of power in Washington. McCarthy must call a

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Speaker 1: vote within two legislative days, and Gates would only need

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Speaker 1: the support of a handful of ultra conservative colleagues to

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Speaker 1: overthrow McCarthy if Democrats support them. The JP Morgan CEO

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Speaker 1: Jamie Diamond says artificial intelligence is already being used by

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Speaker 1: thousands of employees at his bank. In an exclusive interview

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Speaker 1: with Bloomberg, Diamond thinks that AI is likely to make

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Speaker 1: dramatic improvements in workers' quality of life, even if it

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Speaker 7: Technologies always replace jobs. Your children will live to one

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Speaker 7: hundred and not have cancer because of technology, and literally

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Speaker 7: So technology has done unbelievable things from mankind. But you know,

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Speaker 7: planes crash, pharmacies getting misused. There are negatives. This one

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Speaker 7: being used by bad people to do bad things. You

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Speaker 1: Diamond has previously said the technology can be used to

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Speaker 1: help the bank develop new products and improve productivity. And

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Speaker 1: if you want to hear that interview with the JP

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Speaker 1: Morgan CEO, you can find it on the Bloomberg Talks podcast,

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Speaker 1: all our most important conversations in one place. Jamie Diamond's

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Speaker 1: comments around a three and a half day work week

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Speaker 1: getting a lot of attention, but we're thinking about a

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Speaker 1: Conservative Party conference. We heard yesterday from the Chancellor there's

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Speaker 1: no money for tax cuts despite clamoring for the likes

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Speaker 1: of former Prime Minister Liz Truss. But the future of

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Speaker 1: the HS two rail project taking up a lot of

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Speaker 1: scrap the leg from Birmingham to Manchester as soon as today.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about what's in store at the conference today.

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Speaker 1: Carolyn Hepger is in Manchester and she joins us now

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Speaker 1: from the conference. Good morning to you, Caroline. So still

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Speaker 1: no formal announcement over HS two. But are those the

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Speaker 1: everyone's talking about in Manchester.

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Speaker 2: It certainly is one of them. Look is worse than

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Speaker 2: scrapping the line to Manchester for high speed rail? It's indecision.

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Speaker 2: Michie Sunac has refused to say whether to build the

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Speaker 2: Perhaps he's waiting for his big speech, but that's not

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Speaker 2: worries Conservatives about sunak's ability to make tough decisions toys

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Speaker 2: hugely angered Northern mayors, including the Conservative leader Andy Street

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Speaker 2: that you heard just earlier you'll be turning your back

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Speaker 2: on an opportunity to level up once in a generation.

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Speaker 2: It'll damage the UK's international reputation his view. The Chancellor

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Speaker 2: reasoning behind this. You know, why does it cost ten

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Speaker 2: it does in France, the Labor mayor of Manchester telling

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Speaker 2: definitely threaten to derail the message for long term decision

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Speaker 2: making for a brighter future. That's the slogan here at

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Speaker 2: the Conservative Party conference.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that moved to insert long term into that slogan.

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Speaker 1: Very interesting as well as we think about the long

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Speaker 1: too at the conference Caroline yesterday about tax cuts. Did

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Speaker 1: the Chancellor manage to put speculation or hope that there

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Speaker 2: Stephen, the short answer is no. He talked about wanting

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Speaker 2: The main thing that he talked about is the IFS

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Speaker 2: He said that the IFS said last week we are

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Speaker 2: That was the line that got a big reaction to

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Speaker 2: We have to be honest about taxes is what the

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Speaker 2: really is a huge long term issue that takes investment

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Speaker 2: that doesn't seem available, and performing the welfare state to

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Speaker 2: say that ignores part of the problem, which is an

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Speaker 2: nearly a year after her disaster's mini budget. She gave

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Speaker 1: more of our interview at the JP Morgan CEO Jamie Diamond.

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Speaker 1: why he thinks rates could go to seven percent, but

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Speaker 1: his comments and artificial intelligence and its impact on the

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Speaker 1: workforce having an impact too. Been speaking to Emily Chang.

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Speaker 4: Technologies always replaced jobs.

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Speaker 7: Your children will live to one hundred and not have

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Speaker 4: And a half days a week.

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Speaker 7: So technology has done unbelievable things from mankind. But you know,

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Speaker 7: planes crash, pharmacies get misused. There are negatives. This is

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Speaker 7: being used by bad people to do bad things. Think

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Speaker 7: of cyber You know, Henry Kischenerho talks about warfare, but

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Speaker 4: And I do think you know, eventually have legal guard

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Speaker 7: It's kind of hard to do because it's new, but

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Speaker 7: it will add a huge value.

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Speaker 4: And you know, for JP Morgan, if it replaces.

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Speaker 7: Jobs, and we hope to redeploy people like at First Republic.

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Speaker 7: You know, we've offered jobs to like ninety percent of

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Speaker 7: the people they accepted.

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Speaker 4: But we also you know, we've told them as we

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Speaker 4: some of those.

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Speaker 7: Jobs are transitory, but we hire thirty thousand people a year,

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Speaker 7: so we expect to be able to get them a

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Speaker 7: job somewhere local and a different brandch or a different

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Speaker 7: function if we can do that. So and we'll be

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Speaker 7: doing that with any dislocation that takes place as a result.

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Speaker 8: AI, I want the Jamie Dimon forecast on the broader economy.

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Speaker 8: First it was hurricanes and then it was storm clouds

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Speaker 8: in your annual letter what's the weather now receipt?

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Speaker 7: You guys have consistently got this wrong. Okay, I'm not

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Speaker 7: giving a forecast. I'm trying to I blame myself, Okay.

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Speaker 7: We run the company to serve clients through thick and thin.

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Speaker 7: At a minimum, I expect volatile markets and then you've

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Speaker 7: So I don't think inflationary will be that, you know,

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Speaker 7: the humanitarian crisis. You know, it's a war not far

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Speaker 7: And then how it affects the economy is different. And

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Speaker 4: Tell you be prepared for higher rates and slower te percent.

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Speaker 8: Are we really going there?

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Speaker 7: When I said five percent, they said are we going there? Yes,

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Speaker 4: It go to seven percent?

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Speaker 7: The answers yes, are the factors that would drive it,

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Speaker 7: you know, higher than you know where it is today?

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Speaker 7: You know four A four six or four semnob aout

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Speaker 7: And then the worst case is stacklation, you know, high

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Speaker 4: It's not the same thing as dagflation.

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Speaker 8: What are what are the ripple effects of the stress

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Speaker 7: Well, I'm not worried about japing Morgan shaping world. You know,

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Speaker 7: we are prepared. We can handle seven percent. We can

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Speaker 4: Handle that too.

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Speaker 7: I mean that's I mean, that's risk management is not

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Speaker 4: Weever we expect it, and we can handle it in between.

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Speaker 7: You know, if you bet your company and you know

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Speaker 7: Some it's the price of mozzarella. So what's your business?

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Speaker 7: Your business is different. So, but I think we don't

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Speaker 7: have a mild recession, may have a harder recession. Obviously

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