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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Markets Podcast. I'm Paul Sweeney, alongside

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Speaker 1: our next guest, Hans Dal, CEO of the Mitchell Madison Group.

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Speaker 1: I want to talk to him because he had some

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Speaker 1: weaker than expected, much weaker than expected economic data come

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Speaker 1: out of China overnight, and that's kind of spooky markets

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Speaker 1: a little bit. So so let's talk to somebody who

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Speaker 1: kind of doves this stuff. But here. So he's the

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Speaker 1: see of Mitchell Madison Group. But here's the scam. Jackson Wyoming.

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Speaker 1: You were doing the remote thing, Hans, before it was

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Speaker 1: the cool thing to do. How are you working this

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Speaker 1: scam to be working from Jackson Way. I mean, that's

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Speaker 1: the first question. You know that the truth of this

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Speaker 1: even worse. I split my time between Jackson Hole and Mala,

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Speaker 1: who I just got back. You're killing us. It is

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Speaker 1: even worse, all right, Well, the good stuff is Matt

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Speaker 1: he has got his undergraduate from the University of Michigan.

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Speaker 1: You'll be having but even more impressive for me NBA

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Speaker 1: from the Tux School. The Touch School is such an

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Speaker 1: awesome school, a Dartmouth dart meth for for the NBA program,

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Speaker 1: and that all the Tux that I know are really

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Speaker 1: smart and they're super duper loyal to their school for

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Speaker 1: this data, I mean, it just seems they've got some

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Speaker 1: challenges over there. What do you make of it? Well,

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Speaker 1: I think what's going on in China is just the

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Speaker 1: result of COVID lockdowns. That's insane. Zero COVID policy has

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Speaker 1: taken a text obviously we've all seen that. But it's

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Speaker 1: also a significant wealth effect from the property crash, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean, if the population has been it's highly leveraged,

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Speaker 1: it's invested in property, it's not going well. That is

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Speaker 1: of course going to put a crimp on spending. And

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Speaker 1: I think in the medium to longer term you will

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Speaker 1: see an impact of the writing interest rates in the

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Speaker 1: West that would just simply have the normal micro economy

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Speaker 1: in macro economic impact that always pass slowing demand, and

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Speaker 1: it's going to slow down. The problem with China is

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Speaker 1: that their populations at its Factson depends highly on growth, right,

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Speaker 1: So they're in a bit of the trouble. So what

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Speaker 1: does that mean though for us? What does it mean

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Speaker 1: for you Jackson Wyoming? I mean I saw I saw

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Speaker 1: a headline that said no one is immune, um JP

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Speaker 1: everybody was it's all in the Asia focus, and of

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Speaker 1: course it was our top headline. But we're only off,

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Speaker 1: you know, thirteen points on the SMP five. Is it

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Speaker 1: really that important to markets in the US? Hard to say.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's you mentioned Dartmouth, right, NBA. It

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Speaker 1: was really interesting. This whole thing reminds me a little

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Speaker 1: bit of Japan in the late eighties and nineties and

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Speaker 1: even the nineties. I remember going to class and listening

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Speaker 1: to professors, you know, telling us how the Japanese SYS

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Speaker 1: more government direction might be superior. And then the next

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Speaker 1: class you would learn about the pre market micro economics

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Speaker 1: the normal way. If you pointed out that the trichotomy,

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Speaker 1: that they just be like well maybe that's a different class, right.

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Speaker 1: So I think what's going on is is economic reality,

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Speaker 1: the Western system, free calcitualism is right. China is not

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Speaker 1: playing the game correctly. They have tremendous problems with demography.

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Speaker 1: I think they are going to be a long term

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Speaker 1: I think would be very very dangerous. Declining powers are unstable,

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Speaker 1: they do crazy things. Yeah, you see it in While,

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Speaker 1: you see it in Ukraine, you see it. You could

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Speaker 1: see in Taiwan, which would be much more of a problem.

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Speaker 1: China obviously much bigger, much more interdependent, and I don't

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Speaker 1: know if we can as business people count on you know,

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Speaker 1: government solved this problem. So I think what I see

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Speaker 1: and what I what I would do, And this is

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Speaker 1: what they have done the last twenty thirty years getting

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Speaker 1: it to China has to be done in some way

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Speaker 1: going backwards, because really bad stuff could happen, right, and

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Speaker 1: And when you look at the biggest US manufacturers, Um,

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Speaker 1: just for growth. And they're going to think about this

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Speaker 1: H Hans. I mean President gy and President Biden are

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Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure about that. I mean, it's it's in

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Speaker 1: everybody's best interest, right. It will certainly have a short

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Speaker 1: term positive impact on US inflation, which is critical, and

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Speaker 1: I also wonder what kind of impact we'll have on China.

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Speaker 1: You know, we spoke with the Chinese econost this morning,

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Speaker 1: as much, and that's a big problem for them. I

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Speaker 1: can't imagine that people will always always go for price,

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Speaker 1: and most people don't even know what's meet in China,

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Speaker 1: the idea was that if we go into a recession,

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Speaker 1: great stuff. Really appreciate getting your perspective there, Hans dal

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Speaker 1: it wants to do here. We've obviously had that big

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Speaker 1: check in with Jay Hatfield, CEO, founder and portfolio manager

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Speaker 1: of the Infrastructure Capital Advisors. Jay, Now, what, good morning,

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Speaker 1: Thanks for having me back on Well, it's a little

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Speaker 1: bit complicated. We had been constructive on stocks editing into earnings,

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Speaker 1: strong because of pandemic tail winds, but the negatives are

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Speaker 1: indicators like employment and CPI, whereas they should be looking

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Speaker 1: year and then finally the other negatives were headed into September,

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Speaker 1: the buy back window. So we're we're relatively neutral to

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Speaker 1: those cyclical sectors or zero. And then you have strong

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Speaker 1: normal sectors that crack all time lows for inventories, we

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Speaker 1: do see talked about the economy. We do see what

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Speaker 1: looks like some real weakness in the tech sector, and

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Speaker 1: I don't know if that's because they you know, overhired

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Speaker 1: enough to derail the US economy. Jay, You've had a

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Speaker 1: You know, what we're really starting to understand here is

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Speaker 1: You know, as we make this transition to green energy,

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Speaker 1: there's still a big demand for traditional energy fossil fuels

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Speaker 1: and are good friends in Europe. Boy, they're gonna have

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Speaker 1: a tough winter. How do you think about this economy

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Speaker 1: free market did that. That's why we're the leader in

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Speaker 1: the world for reducing carbon not because of any policy

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Speaker 1: but the key factor to watch is European natural gas prices.

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Speaker 1: of oil and a btu basis, So that's a huge

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Speaker 1: that's not that big. We all know that, right. I

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Speaker 1: mean I ran a three billion dollar P and L

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Speaker 1: at BP globally and it was small fish. So UM,

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Speaker 1: so that E sports category, most of that value is

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Speaker 1: really talking about those the establishment of those professional teams

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Speaker 1: in leagues. You saw the recent I p O of

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Speaker 1: Phase Clan UM and so that is an exciting but

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Speaker 1: a very small subset. What we started to do the

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Speaker 1: company really around the pandemic. And I think our response

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Speaker 1: is something else that I think that over time investors

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Speaker 1: will will give us credit for. UM is we really

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Speaker 1: cast a much wider net. We said, look, we already

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Speaker 1: have an interesting foothold with young gamers, but let's speak

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Speaker 1: to all the segments of gamers, not just the highly

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Speaker 1: competitive ones. So we now reach with that strategy that

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Speaker 1: we put into place during COVID about seventy million unique

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Speaker 1: under eighteen gamers a month, namely in games like Minecraft

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Speaker 1: in Roadblocks. UM that's sizeable reach, really second only to

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Speaker 1: the people who make those platforms themselves, Microsoft and and Roadblocks,

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Speaker 1: and so we have sizeable reach in haft and we

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Speaker 1: speak to a very diverse audience of gamers. So now

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Speaker 1: we're talking about there's three billion gamers on the planet

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Speaker 1: and in game advertising is projected to be a fifty

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Speaker 1: six billion dollar um um category by four We think

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Speaker 1: that's far more interesting than just those the more narrow

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Speaker 1: segment of just e sports. And you expect to make

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Speaker 1: a profit in your your time at the company. Oh absolutely,

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Speaker 1: I mean what we've talked to two. We just had

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Speaker 1: our earnings call. In fact, we took UM investors into

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Speaker 1: the metaverse. We did a video um um earnings announcement,

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Speaker 1: and and what we talked about is the fact that

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Speaker 1: not only are we delivering UM faster on the top line,

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Speaker 1: but we're also seeing our operating losses shrinking faster than

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Speaker 1: expected this year. And so we're very mindful in the

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Speaker 1: current state of the market that while investors last year

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Speaker 1: we're pushing us hard on top line top line, now

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Speaker 1: they wanted both. They want top line delivery and they

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Speaker 1: want us to get cash flow positive fast. All right,

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Speaker 1: and thank you so much for joining us, and hand

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Speaker 1: CEO and chairwoman of Super League Gaming, thanks for listening

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