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

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Speaker 1: with Jonathan Ferrell and Lisa A. Brawnowitz Jailely, we bring

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Speaker 1: Benjamin bernanke would say, with his history, as with Milton

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Speaker 1: Friedman and Anna Schwartz, it's always in every case about

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Speaker 1: the banking and financial system which is under stress. That

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Speaker 1: is a good introduction to Anastasia m Arosso for years

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Speaker 1: covering Eastern Europe and all and now with I Capital

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Speaker 1: Network with a much broader remit Anastasia. Let's go back

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Speaker 1: a couple of years and speak of the Turmoil link

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Speaker 1: in a higher oil price, real inflation worries that Mr

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Speaker 1: a the Want has some would say self inflicted in

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Speaker 1: the destabilization of Turkey. How idiosyncratic is it or can

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Speaker 1: it be a contagion? Well, Tom, I do think at

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Speaker 1: this moment it is idiosyncratic to Turkey and there's just

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Speaker 1: too many issues in Turkey that have been building up

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Speaker 1: for too long, you know, the current account deficit issues,

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Speaker 1: you know, the rundown of the reserves, and when inflation

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Speaker 1: is running, the last thing you do is cut interest rates.

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Speaker 1: So this is a bit of a self inflicted damage here,

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Speaker 1: and I don't think it's representative of other things that

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Speaker 1: are happening in emerging markets, but perhaps identifying pockets of

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Speaker 1: vulnerability is once against something that we need to do.

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Speaker 1: Who has the twin deficits, who has low reserves and

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Speaker 1: you know, who may not be able to withstand hips

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Speaker 1: from the Federal Reserve and and higher dollar That might

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Speaker 1: be one of the questions that we have for emerging

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Speaker 1: markets in two but bradly speaking, a lot of them

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Speaker 1: are much improved since point. Though. There's also a larger

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Speaker 1: question here of air Duan fighting free markets and this

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Speaker 1: idea of how much on a broader level of level

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Speaker 1: policymakers are trying to fight free markets and trying to

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Speaker 1: jaw bone down prices or job bone up valuations. How

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Speaker 1: do you operate as an investor at a time when policymakers,

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Speaker 1: and I'm thinking of the Federal Reserve in particular, is

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Speaker 1: trying to keep a status quo. And we heard from

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Speaker 1: your in timor earlier, the markets will win because they

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Speaker 1: do not want to disrupt them. Well, I think the

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Speaker 1: markets do ultimately prevail, and the supply demand balances prevail.

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Speaker 1: And just to go back to the oil reserves and

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Speaker 1: the release of the strategic patrolling reserve for a moment,

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Speaker 1: it is a temporary move. I think it's kind of

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Speaker 1: the only thing that's within a policy control at the moment.

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Speaker 1: But it is going to be a small move. I

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Speaker 1: will say, there was the release reserve that we're seeing

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Speaker 1: is more than consensus was expecting. But even if we're

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Speaker 1: released thirty million barrels, that was likely to translate into

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Speaker 1: a downturn in price of two dollars a barrel or so,

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Speaker 1: and so we probably going to see something more than that.

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Speaker 1: Of course, a lot of it was fundloaded. But I

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Speaker 1: do agree that this is just a temporary sense of

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Speaker 1: control that I think policymakers are trying to exercise. But

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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, it is what is

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Speaker 1: supplied demand going to be? And for the broader economy,

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Speaker 1: what is demand going to be? And was inflation going

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Speaker 1: to do? So that's what the policymakers really need to

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Speaker 1: respond to. Well, what strikes me about this reserve release.

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Speaker 1: Anastasia is that we've seen it three times emergency releases

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Speaker 1: in US history. It was during Desert Storm Katrina, and

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Speaker 1: All of those were because you couldn't get the capacity,

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Speaker 1: you didn't have access to that production. That's not the

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Speaker 1: do we need a strategic bitcoin reserve? Let's go here

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Speaker 1: present wheelhouse. Well, I do think more and more companies

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Speaker 1: a good role in the cryptocurrency reserve. Your sport, Annastasia

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Speaker 1: and Rosso, thank you so much there with terrific perspective

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Speaker 1: on the Lavan and over to Eastern Europe. This is

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Speaker 1: a joy and an immense honor of Mark McCormick. By

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Speaker 1: chance with us now as we see an emerging market

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Speaker 1: currency unravel if you're just joining us, Turkish Lira is

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Speaker 1: in full collapse. Mark McCormick with TD Securities has been

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Speaker 1: resilient dollar all year. Marks thrilled to have you on

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Speaker 1: at this historic moment for the people of Turkey. I

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Speaker 1: was at at three point two standard deviations half an

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Speaker 1: standard deviations, getting very close to what the textbooks would

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Speaker 1: How close is turn key to unraveling their financial system? Well,

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Speaker 1: two factors. There's the local factor, the global factor, and

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Speaker 1: there's a negative feedback loop. And the local factor is

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Speaker 1: there's zero credibility and how the government is going to

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Speaker 1: central bank will operate within that framework. So the market

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Speaker 1: is completely lost confidence. And again, when we get to

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Speaker 1: these kind of inflection points, it becomes a nonlinear rather

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Speaker 1: in an environment now. If you think about what's driving

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Speaker 1: markets on the global site, it's liquidity. The dollar is

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Speaker 1: that's the primary channel is there's a tremendous amount of uncertainty,

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Speaker 1: And you know, my kind of reading of the tea leaves,

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Speaker 1: what you're doing is you're looking at funding pressures. You're

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Speaker 1: is again way below market expectations. So for me, Um,

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Speaker 1: annual outlook period. Uh. The outlook period now, I think

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Speaker 1: for the first time is actually bullish the dollar. So

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Speaker 1: And does not have any real bearing on liftoff, certainly

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Speaker 1: can't rule it out given the pace of improvement in

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Speaker 1: don't expect to see that in December. I do think

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Speaker 1: I mean, right now, I think it's a little too quick,

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Speaker 1: But I do think there's a case to be made

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Speaker 1: for that. And I guess, following on your last point

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Speaker 1: So the sooner you get the taper done, as sooner

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Speaker 1: you have the optionality to hike. Uh. If developments next

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Speaker 1: Michael two percent inflation is secrecent. I want to go

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Speaker 1: to your acclaimed booth school seminar that you hold every year,

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Speaker 1: and part of that debate will be around adam posing

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Speaker 1: And are we doing that right now? And that the

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Speaker 1: new two percent is say two point two percent or

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Speaker 1: two point three percent? Are we jaw bowing our way

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Speaker 1: to that kind of level? So I don't think we

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Speaker 1: can go to three percent for political reasons, right So

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Speaker 1: congressional mandate. I think going to three would be really

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Speaker 1: quite um risky for the institution. Some might say that

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Speaker 1: I think there has something to that on average it

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Speaker 1: should be higher realized inflation. Uh now decimal points, given

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Speaker 1: I want to finish up where we began this show

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Speaker 1: with Tom asking a really good question. Are we just

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Speaker 1: befalling hysteria with respect to inflation in these nineties seventies

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Speaker 1: it we are going to see growth maturely slow and

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Speaker 1: first of all, I think seventies comparisons, I agree, are

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Speaker 1: late sixties into the seventies. I think the bigger risk

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Speaker 1: I do think they'll do the right thing, which is

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Speaker 1: tightened policy until grows slows enough to ring out that

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Speaker 1: inflationary pressure. I think the risk here is that, for

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Speaker 1: whatever reason, it seems like any time you slow the

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Speaker 1: the economy to you know, just the right level. In fact,

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Speaker 1: when you slow it, it it tends to go tip into recession.

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Speaker 1: So I think the worry more is that not that

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Speaker 1: we have a seventies inflation, but that when the Fed

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Speaker 1: realizes inflation is more persistent, have to catch up to

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Speaker 1: the curb that they're arguably behind, and in doing that

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Speaker 1: Michael Ferli, thank you so much for joining today with

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Speaker 1: JP Morgan as well. This is the Bloomberg Surveillance Podcast.

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