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Speaker 1: Bloomberg business flash. The Brexit vote on Bloomberg Radio. The

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Speaker 1: Brexit debaate and even more heated it in the British Parliament,

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Speaker 1: as a Conservative lawmaker asked the head of the Bank

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Speaker 1: opportunity to refute any suggestion that Goldman Sacks may have

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Speaker 1: put pressure on your second Wow. Um, it's not an

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Speaker 1: allegations refuge. Well, yes, I refute it categorically and and stunned. Stunned,

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Speaker 1: this question. Danny, a brit himself and a former member

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Speaker 1: be great to chat you. I was completely stunned too.

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Speaker 1: I don't think in all the time I've listened to

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Speaker 1: say wow. I mean he didn't have to say much. Yes,

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Speaker 1: that was quite something. That and another another person asked

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Speaker 1: to say that the things that he'd said, and that

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Speaker 1: was not very happy, shall we say, and I think

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Speaker 1: it was out of line? Why was it out of line?

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Speaker 1: What's wrong with at least asking the head of the

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Speaker 1: Bank of England these questions? Well, I think, I mean

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Speaker 1: it's I guess it's you know, the way the way

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Speaker 1: it was said probably was a little bit too much,

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Speaker 1: but you're right, I mean the job of the governors

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Speaker 1: I'm supposed to do. It was asserted that this vote

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Speaker 1: for Brexit is like an election, but the governor I

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Speaker 1: think made it very clear that that's not true, partly

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Speaker 1: because we know what would happen to the Brexit. You

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Speaker 1: An election is not so clear, so that was the

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Speaker 1: big issue. But I think the evidence is that from

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Speaker 1: Why for our listeners, who maybe are not following it

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Speaker 1: think the first thing is we've already seen some slowing

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Speaker 1: is they have seen slowing already. Um, they've attributed half

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Speaker 1: seen contracts, apparently commercial property contracts that have had clauses

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Speaker 1: they could, then others could too. Remind us Danny of

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Speaker 1: what the pro brexit argument is Internet sell Well, the argument,

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Speaker 1: more than anything is that the UK needs its own sovereignty,

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Speaker 1: negotiate all kinds of deals separately and they would have

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Speaker 1: So that's so the theory is obviously that's a negative event.

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Speaker 1: a vote to leave is terrible. Well, I certainly think

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Speaker 1: where the biggest term was going to be. Thank you

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Speaker 1: very much. Danny blanche Flower, Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College,

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Speaker 1: on Twitter at d underscore a blanche Flower about the

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