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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Surveillance Podcast. I'm Tom Keane. Along

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Speaker 1: Governors for years with Michael gap and he's Bank of

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Speaker 1: America Chief US Economy is truly holistic on our monetary

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Speaker 1: and fiscal linkol. Just Michael, thank you for briefing us

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Speaker 1: UH this morning. I want to go Michael within a

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Speaker 1: swirl of the data right now to what matters for you.

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Speaker 1: We go to jobs and we go on, we stagger

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Speaker 1: into November. What matters from Michael Gabon honestly only one number,

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Speaker 1: and that's the payroll number. I think that there's a

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Speaker 1: lot of just doortion in the data, as you know,

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Speaker 1: and we've talked about it many times and and it's

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Speaker 1: really hard to know, you know, which one do we

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Speaker 1: take the right signal from? And so what matters to

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Speaker 1: me in terms of the underlying momentum in the economy,

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Speaker 1: how far the FED may go, and the near term

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Speaker 1: course of the economy. It's it's almost exclusively just payrolls.

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Speaker 1: Let's droll into that to payrolls versus the two studies

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Speaker 1: that will see on Friday. If I take a three

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Speaker 1: month moving average of non farm payrolls, the number of

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Speaker 1: folks that comes out at a thirty that everybody reads first,

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Speaker 1: what is the appropriate three months moving average for the

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Speaker 1: Fed to say all clear, let's change and to slow

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Speaker 1: to to move to a slower pace of hikes. You

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Speaker 1: probably need that number to drop below two hundred thousand

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Speaker 1: to get a soft landing. That number probably needs to

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Speaker 1: be about fifty two, maybe seventy. So I think that

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Speaker 1: it's to two hundred and seventy five thousand a month.

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Speaker 1: Those are still robust numbers. That tells the Fed to

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Speaker 1: keep going, so pivot to a slower pace, probably below

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Speaker 1: two hundred. But to get the unemployment rate to rise

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Speaker 1: gently over a two year period like their forecasting, certainly

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Speaker 1: someone and that's something that is going to be hard

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Speaker 1: to see. What that's at least based on a lot

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Speaker 1: of the projections that we've been seeing. Liz Ane Saunders

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Speaker 1: about how the data is showing peripheral weakness. You're seeing

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Speaker 1: more part time jobs appear in some of the anecdotal data.

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Speaker 1: Is the headline non farm payrolls number really the one

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Speaker 1: that we should be watching for real time changes in

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Speaker 1: just how quickly this labor market is softening. No, certainly

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Speaker 1: there are there are other data points that are complementary

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Speaker 1: to the overall picture. And I would never say we

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Speaker 1: shouldn't look at those of the jolts data that we

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Speaker 1: received with fewer job openings, the quits rate, um, the

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Speaker 1: ratio of openings to the unemployed. I think all those

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Speaker 1: are important to provide context. And yes, they do show

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Speaker 1: that on the margin, labor demand is softening and the

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Speaker 1: labor market is cooling, and that's of course where the

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Speaker 1: FED wants to to go. But I just think ultimately

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Speaker 1: the Fed's not going to conclude that policy the policy

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Speaker 1: setting is right, the outlook for inflation is correct if

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Speaker 1: we're still adding two to three thousand jobs a month.

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Speaker 1: So at the end, yes, it comes down to where

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Speaker 1: payroll growth is, where employment growth is over time, But

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Speaker 1: there are certainly other data points that we should be

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Speaker 1: looking at to see whether or not are they right

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Speaker 1: that we can reduce labor demand without pushing the unemployment

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Speaker 1: There are a lot of people pushing back and saying

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Speaker 1: that inflation is actually decelerating pretty dramatically. They point to

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Speaker 1: a number of different metrics, and they say that looking

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Speaker 1: It is a misleading way to create future policy based

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Speaker 1: on a lagging indicator. John has talked a lot about this.

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Speaker 1: Would you agree in part yes, I think you do

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Speaker 1: have to be forward looking in your in your policy settings,

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Speaker 1: So only looking at the data under your feet at

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Speaker 1: that moment in time may mean that you overcorrect in

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Speaker 1: uh And, and certainly setting policy on where the labor

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Speaker 1: them where is services inflation going to end up? Michael.

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Speaker 1: And this is your wheelhouse from from the day's i've

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Speaker 1: we're a large, relatively closed economy. Strong appreciations in the

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Speaker 1: the trade balance. But that's a relatively narrow channel for us.

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Speaker 1: that actually tends to help the US because it brings

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Speaker 1: even though a strong dollar and weak global growth is

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Speaker 1: when it comes to the US. So I might let's

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Speaker 1: net this out. You've got a recession call on America,

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Speaker 1: on the American economy, can you just tell me on balance?

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Speaker 1: Are you moving that forward? You're pushing that out our

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Speaker 1: financial conditions that that's developed. That's that's left me comfortable

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Speaker 1: beyond the start point. I you know, we I spread

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Speaker 1: the The reason I'm not I'm not sitting sitting here

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Speaker 1: asked you those questions. It's interesting to me that you've

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Speaker 1: show through. But yes, but it's consistent with the idea

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Speaker 1: it's it's an odd situation, but it's a FED right

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Speaker 1: setting for them. Fascinating, Mike, just wonderful. It's been brilliant

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Speaker 1: mikeeping their Bank America right now we do better. I

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Speaker 1: have no idea why he's not in the OPEC plus meeting.

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Speaker 1: who's really been definitive on the how we get to

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Speaker 1: They're trying to defend the front end, but the backing,

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Speaker 1: oil plunging. Here's my quick mathematics. How close is the

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Speaker 1: about supply. It's a supply driven crisis, which is ultimately

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Speaker 1: where our super cycle thesis projects for the next five

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Speaker 1: actually seeing production cuts at OPEC plus, where does the

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Speaker 1: marginal stop gap come in? Right We talked about the

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