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Speaker 1: Tom and Mike Karen, thank you very much. We're talking

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Speaker 1: with Bob since you've Amherst Pierpont. Before the break, Bob,

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Speaker 1: you mentioned negative interest rates. We got five countries in

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Speaker 1: basically because they want a weaker karuna. Are we now,

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Speaker 1: after after many years of talking about it, are we

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Speaker 1: now getting into currency wars in which, like the nineteen thirties,

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Speaker 1: a well. I think, uh, I don't know if i'd

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Speaker 1: I think that that many have have realized, and we've

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Speaker 1: through the exchange rates. So I think we are unfortunately

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Speaker 1: Why can you go along the dollar here or is

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Speaker 1: it just dollar malaise? No, I think we can go

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Speaker 1: McKee if you always go to yeah, there's let's continue

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Speaker 1: And I think that's what we're seeing in the oil markets.

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Speaker 1: And I think some of the uncertainty in the other

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Speaker 1: to stay with us? At the same time, is that

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Speaker 1: and may take a while to find it. A while

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Speaker 1: is how long in your view for Bob, Since the

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Speaker 1: not about gloom but about malaise where it's not mourning

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