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Speaker 1: Tim joins us Now. Tim, wonderful to see you.

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Speaker 3: Good war and good to see you.

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Speaker 1: You know, it was really interesting when I was reading

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Speaker 1: your notes. You talk about how usually it's something of

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Speaker 1: a sleepy affair, people kind of get together. Yeah, some

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Speaker 1: dude bureaucratic kinds of you know, hubbub. This is different

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Speaker 1: why geo political risks.

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Speaker 4: People are concerned at war in Europe, war in the

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Speaker 4: Middle East, which could grow tensions in the Asia Pacific.

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Speaker 4: So it feels like a very dangerous world. We'll keep

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Speaker 4: making illusions to the nineteen thirties. I think that's probably overdone,

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Speaker 4: but so certainly something we should consider.

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Speaker 3: Part of the.

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Speaker 1: Problem with some of these discussions is it's very hard

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Speaker 1: to know how to prepare for something where it's a

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Speaker 1: very bipolar kind of outcome. Are people actually hedging that

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Speaker 1: kind of risk, particularly with the respect of the areas

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Speaker 1: that might get hit hardest in the economy as a results.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, everyone's preparing because you just don't know. The uncertainty

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Speaker 4: just overwhelms all calculations. You know, the economy is good,

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Speaker 4: as you noted, growth.

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Speaker 3: Is exceeding what was expected this year.

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Speaker 4: The US economy's humming right along. So from just a

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Speaker 4: growth perspective, we're exceeding expectations.

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Speaker 3: But people are still nervous.

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Speaker 5: Is the US economy too good in terms of it's

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Speaker 5: so good here that it's dealing with some pretty frock

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Speaker 4: Well, I don't think it ever be too good.

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Speaker 3: I think there is other.

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Speaker 4: Countries looking at saying how can we replicate that?

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Speaker 3: Why aren't we doing what the US is doing?

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Speaker 4: The US consumer continues to power aheads, so I think

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Speaker 4: there's something to be.

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Speaker 4: Maybe lessons be drawn from the US.

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Speaker 5: The US is doing more of industrial policy, especially fiscal policy,

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Speaker 5: lose fiscal policy. The IMF report has talked about this.

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Speaker 5: Do you hear other countries saying, well, if we're not

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Speaker 5: going to have as robust global free trade, that's the

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Speaker 4: Well, I would hope we go back to a robust

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Speaker 4: global free trade.

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Speaker 3: I think that's the right answer.

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Speaker 4: The fiscal deficit six percent GDP is not sustainable. There

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Speaker 4: is a lot of fiscal support. Debt and deficits are

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Speaker 4: part of the conversation this week. I think there's a

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Speaker 4: lot of concern about where we're going to be and

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Speaker 4: the sustainability. I don't think it's sustainable, but right now

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Speaker 1: So let's take a step back and talk about what

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Speaker 1: the main issues are the financial firms are looking at

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Speaker 1: and actually trying to hedge against as they prepare for

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Speaker 1: this more dangerous world in a whole host of different ways.

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Speaker 1: You point to oil in particular and saying that it

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Speaker 1: could surge forty percent globally next year or even this year.

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Speaker 1: If you start to see a protracted and escalating conflict

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Speaker 4: Now our business, our firms are in the risk management business.

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Speaker 4: They're all looking at different scenarios and have for some time.

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Speaker 4: It's not a surprise that oil prices could surge, but

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Speaker 4: it's energy prices generally, And that goes back to industrial policy.

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Speaker 4: If you want to support manufacturing, energy price is one

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Speaker 1: They're the risk mitigation business. We hear that in a

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Speaker 4: an entire week scenarioing out different risks. So we are

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Speaker 1: One risk that you mentioned when you talk about geopol

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Speaker 1: What are people expecting from a Trump presidency two point

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Speaker 1: zero in terms of either deregulation? Is that really the case?

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Speaker 3: Can you game that out?

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Speaker 2: Sure?

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Speaker 4: I just did a nine city, seventeen day tour across

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Speaker 4: Europe's the first question out of everyone's mouth what's going

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Speaker 4: I think actually it'll be business friendly. I do think

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Speaker 4: there's protectionism. I do think we'll see tariffs and non

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Speaker 3: I think that's coming gone.

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Speaker 4: So I think there's a lot of potential chaotic outcomes

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Speaker 4: just the uncertainty of what a Trump two point zero

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Speaker 5: What kind of tariffs do you actually see potentially happening?

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Speaker 5: They talk about a ten percent wall, and all tariffs

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Speaker 5: sixty percent on Chinese imports.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I do it.

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Speaker 4: I think I think it's a part of a negotiation, right.

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Speaker 3: I think that's the opening bid.

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Speaker 4: But I do think there's a proclivity to believe that

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Speaker 4: somehow The biggest challenge we have in the United States

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Speaker 4: to solve that particular equation. I don't think that's the problem,

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Speaker 4: and I think you'd end up doing some really bad

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Speaker 5: But whether or not it's Trump or Biden, you see

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Speaker 3: Certainly on China.

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Speaker 4: China is on the ballot your respective of who's elected,

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Speaker 1: Question for banks, and this is something that we've heard

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Speaker 1: do you really curtail it? A more significant way. So

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I think it depends on the institution.

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Speaker 4: what d're on. It really depends on your risk profile,

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Speaker 4: I think I'd be cautious being in China, but certainly

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Speaker 4: you can't walk away from the second largest economy in

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Speaker 1: So this raises this question because we keep talking about

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Speaker 1: how this is a whole new world and there is

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Speaker 1: an increasingly protectionist kind of feel at this IMF meeting,

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Speaker 1: and this feeling that free trade isn't as good as

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Speaker 1: it really was thought up to be. Is that the

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Speaker 1: same tone that you're hearing from the members of the

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Speaker 4: A concern that we're hearing, My industry tends to be

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Speaker 4: But we don't hear that coming out.

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Speaker 3: Of political capitals.

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Speaker 4: Do you hear politicians who think they can micro manage

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Speaker 3: I think that's a huge mistake.

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Speaker 5: So what's the biggest risk then right now? Is it

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Speaker 4: Well, it's the politician and misallocation of capital which won't

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Speaker 5: So we're here for the IMF's free meetings. How does

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Speaker 5: the global economy and companies that you work with, Well, they.

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Speaker 4: Can provide some intellectual framework, analytical framework, which is if

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Speaker 4: the political leaders. Ultimately, it's about political leaders taking political

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Speaker 1: And I can't let you go without asking this because

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Speaker 4: You know, the FED has done a really remarkable job

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Speaker 1: Well, that seems to be the tone that we're hearing

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Speaker 1: the A thank you so much, Dutch Central Bank President,

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Speaker 1: Governor President, all of the different ways that you weigh

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Speaker 1: in European central bank policy, what a moment. How much

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Speaker 6: Well, obviously monetary policy always takes place in a global context.

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Speaker 6: But at the same time, we're not the thirteenth Federal District.

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Speaker 3: We have our own monetary policy.

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Speaker 6: We have our own set of outlooks, economic outlook, inflation outlook,

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Speaker 6: and as Christine already alluded to, some of the fundamental

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Speaker 6: monetary policy to do that. Monetary policy, I think is

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Speaker 6: Well, bumps that would lead me to fundamentally change my

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Speaker 3: Of this year course of twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 6: But there are risks surrounding such projections, but increasingly these

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Speaker 6: Andate predominantly from the labor market, and then it's not

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Speaker 1: Right now, the market's pricing in twenty five basis point

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Speaker 3: You're basically on board with that.

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Speaker 6: We of course we have a picture of where we

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Speaker 5: Well, what would make you rethink what you have right

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Speaker 6: with twenty twenty two. In twenty twenty two, all inflation

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Speaker 6: the energy price shock as the consequence of Russia's unjustifiable.

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Speaker 6: Now, if we have an oil shock, it will be

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Speaker 3: It's clearly something to keep in mind.

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Speaker 5: So you're willing to potentially look through it.

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Speaker 6: If it continues to be confined to energy prices only. Yes,

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Speaker 1: Something that people have speculated is that the ECB might

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Speaker 6: Well, the exchange right in and of itself is not

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Speaker 1: A very difficult question. Some people are speculating that high

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Speaker 3: Do you believe that? No, I don't believe that at all.

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Speaker 6: I think it runs counter two decades of empirical evidence.

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Speaker 6: And if you want to run to see what the

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Speaker 3: Look at Turkey, right. I mean, that's where the experiment

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Speaker 6: Life, and I don't think that that's seen as a

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Speaker 1: Central Bank President ECV, Governing Council Member Class Cannod, thank

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Speaker 3: Really appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: With the pingle of UBS, he came out with a

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Speaker 7: To start there, you talk about how.

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Speaker 3: And a half percent next year.

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Speaker 1: Put those two stories together, please explain, well.

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Speaker 7: I mean the stories are I mean, I hate to

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Speaker 7: at some point they may need to push back on that.

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Speaker 7: And pushing back on that would imply something I think

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Speaker 3: Extraordinary number.

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Speaker 7: But even if it's still running at this two forty

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Speaker 1: Are you basically saying that if inflation doesn't come under control,

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Speaker 7: This isn't even about breaking something. I mean, this is

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Speaker 3: It's persistent for a.

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Speaker 7: While, and they might think that they need to break

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Speaker 3: But I think if growth is going to.

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Speaker 7: I mean, they're just I think they're going to end

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Speaker 5: We here from Michelle Bowman last night saying keep things

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Speaker 3: Do you think the FED is restrictive?

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Speaker 7: Well, I do think the FED is restrictive, But I

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Speaker 7: It's the effect of higher interest rates restraining that activity.

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Speaker 3: That, well, you know what is is the neutral rate?

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Speaker 7: So the FED and we are really feeling our way forward,

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Speaker 5: But back to your base case, you did push back

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Speaker 1: Right now, Well, why are you even having two cuts

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Speaker 7: We're having we have two cuts because we do think

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Speaker 3: Construction that was supported by the Chips.

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Speaker 1: So I think that Emory was going to September and

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Speaker 2: Politics, co oh yeah, because.

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Speaker 1: So here we are people are saying, you know, can

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Speaker 3: How do you push back and say.

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Speaker 1: Okay, the economic fundamentals determine that this is the way

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Speaker 3: Is that really realistic?

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Speaker 1: And the climate we're in.

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Speaker 3: I think it is.

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Speaker 7: I think it does put the onus on their communications

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Speaker 3: I just think their communications have been.

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Speaker 7: Such that they've laid out this plan. They've been telling

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Speaker 7: then doing that?

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Speaker 3: So I do think the.

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Speaker 7: Odds of November should be pretty low to start an

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Speaker 7: easing cycle, but I think September is probably okay.

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Speaker 3: Mm hmm