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Speaker 1: This is a Bloomberg Business Flash from Bloomberg World Headquarters.

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Speaker 1: I'm Charlie Pelletta. Down day for Wall Street stock slipping

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Speaker 1: in a volatile session as remarks from Federal Reserve officials

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Speaker 1: lifted optimism on the economy while also bolstering speculation interest

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Speaker 1: rates could rise as soon as next month. The SMP

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Speaker 1: Gold Laurel little change down twenty cents, thirteen twenty one

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Speaker 1: the ounce. I'm Charlie Pallett, and that's a Bloomberg Business flash.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to Taking a stock with Kathleen pim Fox

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Speaker 1: line from the Jackson Hole Economic symposium. Von Bloomberg Radio

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Speaker 1: channel is the FED chair and as she as a

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Speaker 1: FED chirt, traditionally does here at the Kansas City Federal

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Speaker 1: Reserve Banks Annual Symposium. She opened the symposium to Dave

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Speaker 1: remarks about the economy, in particular how it's continuing to improve.

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Speaker 1: She's a little bit concerned about some factors, likely productivity,

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Speaker 1: but in the end she seemed to echo others saying, yes,

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Speaker 1: the conditions are ripening for an interest rate move this year,

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Speaker 1: much much more. This is the context of a very

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Speaker 1: deep and broad discussion of how to most effectively operate

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Speaker 1: monetary policy in a world of zero interest rates or

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Speaker 1: even lower. Randy Krasner joins this now. He is a

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Speaker 1: perennial attendee here. In fact, he's going to be a

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Speaker 1: discussing and moderator one of the panels as the supposium

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Speaker 1: continues on Saturday. Former Federal Reserve Governor, professor of economics

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Speaker 1: with a Cargo Booth School. Randy, welcome, great to be

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Speaker 1: with you. Jenny Allen stan Fisher, what what's the message? Well,

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Speaker 1: I think they've been saying a fairly consistent message that

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Speaker 1: they have been seeing the conditions getting more and more

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Speaker 1: likely for the next hike. They they waited over the

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Speaker 1: summer because they're concerned about what might happen if Brexit occurred.

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Speaker 1: And then Brexit occurred, and so they wanted to see

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Speaker 1: what the consequences were. The consequences seemed to have been

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Speaker 1: quite small for the international markets, and so I think

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Speaker 1: another rate rise sometime before the end of the year

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Speaker 1: is is quite likely. Mr Krosner. If it's taking this

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Speaker 1: long to raise interest rates basis points and this much

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Speaker 1: discussion and hand ringing, what does that tell you about

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Speaker 1: the actual process of crafting monetary policy. I think they're

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Speaker 1: people have very different views sitting around that table, and

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Speaker 1: I think given that we're in somewhat uncharted territory, reason

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Speaker 1: why people can can disagree and uh and obviously there

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Speaker 1: have been a lot of disagreements. Some people wanted to

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Speaker 1: move much more rapidly than than others. And I think UM,

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Speaker 1: as Yellen has said many times, their movements are going

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Speaker 1: to be gradual, gentle. They're not going to move very

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Speaker 1: rapidly up to UM let's say roughly three percent or so.

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Speaker 1: That's going to take a long long time. Sure is

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Speaker 1: because you know it dawned on me finally, Randy, that

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Speaker 1: talk about gradual. The Fed raised the key rate last December.

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Speaker 1: If it raises it this December, one basis point increase

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Speaker 1: a year way at that rate to get to three percent,

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Speaker 1: it's going to be a while. It certainly would be

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Speaker 1: a while. I don't think it will necessarily be that slow.

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Speaker 1: If the economy really does start to to come back,

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Speaker 1: if we start to see some inflation pressures, uh, they'll

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Speaker 1: they'll move a little bit more rapidly, but we still

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Speaker 1: haven't seen those. The discussion here last year was exactly

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Speaker 1: on this sort of inflation dynamic. As the labor market recovers,

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Speaker 1: we have always seen a lot of wage pressure. We're

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Speaker 1: discussions last year. Are we in a different regime? We've

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Speaker 1: a lot of controversy about whether the traditional dynamics will

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Speaker 1: eventually kick in or we're in a new regime. Do

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Speaker 1: you believe that they've cried wolf? What do you mean

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Speaker 1: by that? Well, I mean that they've been talking about

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Speaker 1: the what the people in charge of saying. So certainly

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Speaker 1: I think that they have focused on the data and

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Speaker 1: they have said they've given sort of a broad outline

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Speaker 1: have certainly never given a concrete timetable when events like Brexit,

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Speaker 1: war or other changes in data came in. But James

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Speaker 1: just at breaking in, but I mean James Bullard today

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Speaker 1: saying that's not necessarily going to be relevant for policy

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Speaker 1: I don't hear, you don't see her here is often

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Speaker 1: on the Federal Open Market Committee that things like Brexit, China,

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Speaker 1: those concerns are going to be a factor that would

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Speaker 1: influence the FEDS policy making decision. H Randy. When you

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Speaker 1: look at what is top of the list for the

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Speaker 1: FED right now, what would you say, is there there

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Speaker 1: more They're they're talking a lot about global concerns, but

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Speaker 1: is that really such a big deal or what is

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Speaker 1: What is the number one? So I think god number

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Speaker 1: one is certainly the potential for inflation UM and UH

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Speaker 1: the tight tight labor markets. Certainly, if they're looking at

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Speaker 1: at risks, they'll be looking at global risks. UM doesn't

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Speaker 1: seem like the risks in Europe are as high as

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Speaker 1: they had been, but they still concerned about some of

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Speaker 1: the issues in banking there. Obviously there are risks associated

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Speaker 1: with China that those seem to be much less than

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Speaker 1: where there was an incredible volatively in the in the markets.

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Speaker 1: And so with most of these global risks, UM washing

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Speaker 1: out a bit. With UM continuing strength and the labor market,

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Speaker 1: I think they feel that the time for the next

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Speaker 1: next rise is coming soon, but they're not going to

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Speaker 1: give a definitive timetable because they want to see how

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Speaker 1: the data are evolving. Alright, Randy Krosner, thank you so

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