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Speaker 1: Strap on your parachute. It's time for What Goes Up

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Speaker 1: with Sarah Ponzik and Mike Reagan. Hello and welcome to

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Speaker 1: What goes Up, a Bloomberg Weekly markets podcast. I'm Mike Reagan,

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Speaker 1: a senior editor at Bloomberg, and I'm Katie Greifeld Across

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Speaker 1: as a reporter, filling in for Sarah Ponzak, who's on

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Speaker 1: a much deserved vacation. No pressure, Katie, but Sarah pretty

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Speaker 1: you better, you better be good. Yeah. No, I'm a

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Speaker 1: a little week, but we'll we'll, we'll work on it

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Speaker 1: anyway this week on the show. Obviously, government and central

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Speaker 1: bank policies have once again became the main drivers of

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Speaker 1: financial markets. Our guest this week will help us make

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Speaker 1: sense of all of it. He has served in important

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Speaker 1: economic position is under five different US presidents. He's an

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Speaker 1: expert on how policy and diplomacy and investments interact and Kenny,

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Speaker 1: he will hopefully help us sort out these crazy times

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Speaker 1: in markets, and as always, will close out this episode

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Speaker 1: with our tradition, which is the craziest thing I saw

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Speaker 1: in markets this week? And remember, if you see something

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Speaker 1: crazy and markets, give us a call on the Bloomberg

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Speaker 1: we'll play it on the next episode. Kay, Yes, we

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Speaker 1: were talking about this before. I think this week's guest

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Speaker 1: has one of the most fascinating resumes I've ever read.

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Speaker 1: Um I was reading. I was very impressed reading his

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Speaker 1: Rob welcome to the show. Thanks very much, Mike. Great

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Speaker 1: to be with you, and great to be with you,

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Speaker 1: Katie Bob. I was reading a recent piece you had, oh,

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Speaker 1: I will, I'll give you mine now. And Katy, you

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Speaker 1: Are you gonna be replaced by a tarot card reader?

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Speaker 1: Do you think is there a risk of that? I

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Speaker 1: That's problem guessing. That's probably a good thing. I think

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Speaker 1: that's it for the this week's episode, Bob. We can't

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Speaker 1: thank you enough, very illuminating an educational discussion, and I

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Speaker 1: I would love to. I want to thank you for

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Speaker 1: great questions. Um. I hope I do have a chance

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