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

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Speaker 1: my co host Matt Miller. Every business day we bring

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Speaker 1: really been focusing on during this whole pandemic, the global

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Speaker 1: supply chain issue, because that affects so many companies in

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Speaker 1: so many industries on a global scale, and weekend we

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Speaker 1: still don't. We heard about it again today from Targets,

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Speaker 1: so huge issue. The New York Federal Reserve Bank is

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Speaker 1: weighing in now and they've got what I'm what they're

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Speaker 1: calling today the New York Federal New York Fed Global

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Speaker 1: Supply Chain Pressure Index. That's what we need. I need

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Speaker 1: a picture, I need some numbers, and Dr John grown

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Speaker 1: Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Dr Groan, thanks so

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Speaker 1: much for joining us here. Supply cham I'm looking at

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Speaker 1: your graph. Tell me what your index is. What it

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Speaker 1: tries to measure and what it's telling you, sure, good morning,

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Speaker 1: and thank you for having me on. So what we're

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Speaker 1: launching you to this this morning is what we've denoted

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Speaker 1: as the Global Supply Chain Pressure Index or g s

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Speaker 1: c p I, and it's a it's a single measure

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Speaker 1: be used to gauge the importance of the disruptions to

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Speaker 1: global supply chains and how they infect economic conditions and

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Speaker 1: how they these constrains uh evolve over time. Basically, all right,

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Speaker 1: so I'm looking for the folks on radio. I'm looking

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Speaker 1: the standard deviations from the average supply chain time goes

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Speaker 1: like plus three, four or five. I mean, give us

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Speaker 1: a sense of kind of the the magnitude of the

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Speaker 1: supply chain shock we're experiencing right now. Yeah, So basically

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Speaker 1: what we've seen since to e twenties, essentially precious has

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Speaker 1: the global economy. So what is it taking into account? Exactly?

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Speaker 1: Is these transportation cost is this raw input coast um?

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Speaker 1: What are we looking at in terms of the contributors

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Speaker 1: to this index? Right, So basically the index summarizes developments

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Speaker 1: So in terms of the transportation cost you know, they're

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Speaker 1: very interesting that to young grown economic research advisor for

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Speaker 1: Fed releasing today a brand new index that tries to

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Speaker 1: Global Supply Chain Pressure Index. Fascinating stuff because again it

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Speaker 1: this isn't a a right now story. But I think

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Speaker 1: Let's check in on the consumer here. We've had a

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Speaker 1: in with Jennifer Leasing, your economist and managing director for

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Speaker 1: And it's like you just said that they're almost very

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Speaker 1: much laser focused now it was. It's kind of funny.

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Speaker 1: It's like last year it was almost like they were

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Speaker 1: take a break. Jennifer, there's a difference between an outright recession,

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Speaker 1: a contraction of the economy and to slow down. And

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Speaker 1: it feels like, if you are listening to the market commentary,

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Speaker 1: an outright recession. Is that justify? So this is where

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Speaker 1: certainly does feel like a recession. But again I'm just

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Speaker 1: sales spread of a lot of these major retailers. It's

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Speaker 1: essentially spiking to a twenty year high, which I believe

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Speaker 1: they come and buy the dollar. Brent Donnelly, I was like,

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Speaker 1: I have his book on my bookshelf, really the Art

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Speaker 1: of Currency Trading. Well, he's been all currencies, yeah, HSBC,

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Speaker 1: But anyways, it's very cool to speak to an author

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Speaker 1: I know for my bookshelf. But Brent, I have to

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Speaker 1: ask you about stagflation. That seems to be a ward

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Speaker 1: that comes up over and over and over agun Is

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't say it's inevitable. Um, you know, forecasting is

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Speaker 1: I will say that so stagflation, stagflation obviously is stagnation

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Speaker 1: first of all, you have Europe and China are both problematic.

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Speaker 1: Like I said, new orders, especially which tends to be

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Speaker 1: But the thing is now in the US people focus

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Speaker 1: the more recent anecdotal stuff, those anecdotes add up to

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Speaker 1: So I wouldn't say that it's recessionary type of concern.

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Speaker 1: But if you look at Amazon, Netflix, Facebook, Twitter, cameo Carvon,

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Speaker 1: There's been a lot of either hiring restraint announcements or

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Speaker 1: misguided because that the unemployment rate specifically is a very

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Speaker 1: remember that era, stocks dropped about before you saw anything

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Speaker 1: in in the unemployment or initial claims data. UM. So

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Speaker 1: out where hiring slows because these tech companies know that

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Speaker 1: the financing is drying up right. It's Powell Is is

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Speaker 1: So anyone that overbuilt, like Carbona being an extreme example,

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Speaker 1: but even Amazon being another example, really have to pull

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Speaker 1: that's leading to a drop in confidence, and you see

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Speaker 1: that in the consumer confidence data. Now much of that's

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Speaker 1: little bit of concern about employment too. So I think

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Speaker 1: and we really have to monitor the data and actually,

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Speaker 1: more importantly, I think monitor the conference calls of of

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Speaker 1: UM also kind of concerning right, you're moving out of

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Speaker 1: should be worrying about stagflation, all right, Brent, good stuff.

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Speaker 1: Really appreciate you taking the time talking to us about

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Speaker 1: this economy, talking to us about the currency markets here,

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Speaker 1: focusing on again not just the government information, but UH

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Speaker 1: info and forward forecast, forward looks from a lot of

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Speaker 1: these companies. Brent Downley, president of Spectr Markets. He spent

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Speaker 1: uh many many years trading currencies across Wall streeted number

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Speaker 1: of firms, so he's got a good feel for here,

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Speaker 1: what moves this U S Dollar relative to other currencies,

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Speaker 1: UM and economic winds that push these currencies, uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: from up and down on a global scale. So I

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Speaker 1: always love talking to f X people just kind of

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Speaker 1: market rolling over here, uh cretty. So a lot of

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Speaker 1: folks not liking what they're seeing, not feeling like we've

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Speaker 1: seen a bottom in this market. Got some more room

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Speaker 1: to go. We have this fedtle reserve of course raising rates. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And again a little bit of concern coming out of

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Speaker 1: these retailers over the last three or four days as

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Speaker 1: it relates to kind of the inflation impact on not

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Speaker 1: only their business but on the consumers. Thanks for listening

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