WEBVTT - Bloomberg Surveillance TV: February 2nd, 2026 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:06.720 Bloomberg Audio Studios, Podcasts, radio News. 0:00:11.640 --> 0:00:15.440 This is the Bloomberg Surveillance Podcast. I'm Jonathan Ferrow, along 0:00:15.480 --> 0:00:18.680 with Lisa Bromwitz and Amrie Hordern. Join us each day 0:00:18.720 --> 0:00:22.280 for insight from the best in markets, economics, and geopolitics 0:00:22.400 --> 0:00:24.840 from our global headquarters in New York City. We are 0:00:24.920 --> 0:00:27.680 live on Bloomberg Television weekday mornings from six to nine 0:00:27.720 --> 0:00:31.280 am Eastern. 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Geta Gopinath, Mohammad Dalerian, the prim 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:02.600 Mistry of Canada, Mark Carney, and the list goes on 0:01:02.880 --> 0:01:05.440 and on and on. Is Kevin Walsh a pretty conventional 0:01:05.520 --> 0:01:07.679 Republican pick to lead the Federal Reserve. 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:11.760 Look, I think he is He's somebody who's been on 0:01:11.800 --> 0:01:14.440 the Reserve before, and I think that of the options, 0:01:14.440 --> 0:01:17.280 it's a pretty strong pick for the president. I know 0:01:17.319 --> 0:01:19.679 there's some people who question, you know, what these hearings 0:01:19.680 --> 0:01:21.800 are going to be like when he gets there because 0:01:21.880 --> 0:01:25.360 of positions he took against quantitative easying after the financial 0:01:25.400 --> 0:01:29.400 crisis and reconciling that with a very dubbish approach. Now. 0:01:29.600 --> 0:01:34.400 But look, if the Senate can confirm Tulsa Gavard and 0:01:34.480 --> 0:01:36.720 he and I and Christy Noman at DHS, I don't 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:38.280 think it's going to be much of a challenge for 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:40.600 them to confirm Kevin Warsh here to the Fed. 0:01:41.200 --> 0:01:43.880 Mark, you were in the room in Trump won when 0:01:44.080 --> 0:01:46.280 the debate was going on who Trump was going to pick, 0:01:46.319 --> 0:01:50.680 and he ultimately landed on Minuchin's pick of j Powell, 0:01:50.720 --> 0:01:54.600 which I know was not VP Mike Pence's choice. What 0:01:54.680 --> 0:01:57.920 do you think went behind this process why Kevin Walsh 0:01:58.080 --> 0:01:59.880 was picked and not the other Kevin. 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:04.360 Well, Look, I think there were basically three finalists in 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:07.480 the last go round. There's Jay Powell, there was Kevin 0:02:07.520 --> 0:02:11.000 Warrish and there's John Taylor, and I think that there 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:14.000 were different camps aligned with each But the reality is 0:02:14.000 --> 0:02:18.760 that Steve Manuchin made the appeal to the president. Then 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:21.120 when the President asked, he said who's going to keep 0:02:21.240 --> 0:02:24.200 rates lower? And Mnuchin was clear and saying it would 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:26.600 be Jay Powell. And I think that's what the President 0:02:26.639 --> 0:02:28.639 was looking for. It was less of a question about 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:31.320 sound monetary policy. It was a question of who's going 0:02:31.360 --> 0:02:34.639 to push for lower rates. And I mean there's an irony, 0:02:34.680 --> 0:02:36.519 of course now that the President is upset with j 0:02:36.639 --> 0:02:39.080 Powell for not having rates lower, But I have to 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:42.040 believe that there's been you know, that same conversation is 0:02:42.080 --> 0:02:45.120 repeated itself this go round, and I think there's probably 0:02:45.120 --> 0:02:48.320 been assurances that wars is going to adopt the doublest 0:02:48.320 --> 0:02:48.880 approach here. 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:51.240 But that's why it's so precarious, given the fact that 0:02:51.240 --> 0:02:54.280 when he was at the FED, he actually was calling 0:02:54.400 --> 0:02:56.720 for a hawkish, tighter monetary policy. 0:02:57.280 --> 0:02:59.119 Do you think his views have truly. 0:02:58.919 --> 0:03:01.960 Evolved or is he trying to be politically correct in 0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:02.720 the moment. 0:03:02.480 --> 0:03:03.120 To get a job. 0:03:04.639 --> 0:03:07.600 And I don't know that I can put myself in 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:10.360 the issues and know that I think that I do 0:03:10.400 --> 0:03:12.760 you think he has certainly the credentials here? Again, as 0:03:12.760 --> 0:03:15.079 I said, of the options, I think there's probably a 0:03:15.120 --> 0:03:17.320 lot of comfort on the street and comfort in the 0:03:17.360 --> 0:03:20.520 Senate that this is where the president landed and he's gone. 0:03:20.600 --> 0:03:23.919 He is going to have to address the apparent change 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:26.760 in position from where he was after the financial crisis 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:31.040 to where he is today. But nonetheless, I think that 0:03:31.360 --> 0:03:33.880 he's going to have a term that's going to extend 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:37.000 far beyond President Trump's term, and so he perhaps is 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:38.080 playing a long game here too. 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:40.480 Mark, I'd love your take on what we heard from 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:43.080 Tom Tillis, the North Carolina Senator who seems to not 0:03:43.160 --> 0:03:45.360 care at all since he's not running for reelection and 0:03:45.360 --> 0:03:49.240 it is going to block the process until the DOJ 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:53.320 lawsuit or complaint against the FED is lifted. Do you 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:57.280 think that he has more popular support among sitting Republicans 0:03:57.720 --> 0:03:59.800 than he did maybe a couple of weeks ago, not 0:03:59.840 --> 0:04:01.280 just with this, but in general. 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:03.680 He probably does. 0:04:03.720 --> 0:04:06.960 I think there are others who were applauding some of 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:09.400 the positions he's taking, but feel they can't take the 0:04:09.440 --> 0:04:12.320 same because they'd be concerned about their own reelection options. 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:15.800 But you know, I think that as it comes to 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:18.800 you know, he's going to block this until the investigation 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:19.600 is concluded. 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:20.440 On Trump Powell. 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:24.160 I think most people assume the investigation Droom Powell is 0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:26.720 less on the merits and more in effort to pressure 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:29.040 the Fed to lower rates. And so at the end 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:31.520 of the day, is the White House going to say 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:35.039 we're going to continue investigation 're going to say, hey, 0:04:35.040 --> 0:04:36.760 we've got our own guy now to run the Fed, 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:40.200 so let's pull back on the investigation. It seems like 0:04:40.480 --> 0:04:42.359 at the end of the day, it seems to me 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:44.159 that this is not something that's going to continue in 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:47.240 the next year, as potentially the President suggested, you know, 0:04:47.520 --> 0:04:49.160 on Air Force One the other night. 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:49.760 It seems to me. 0:04:49.800 --> 0:04:52.360 They'll they'll definitely be in a desire to pull back 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:54.560 on the investigation to allow this to move forward. 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:57.360 I guess I was getting at something bigger, especially because 0:04:57.360 --> 0:04:59.640 we are in midterm year where we're going to be 0:04:59.640 --> 0:05:01.840 getting a government shutdown evidently every two weeks. And I'm 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:04.560 just wondering, Mark, going forward, at what point you start 0:05:04.600 --> 0:05:09.560 to see Republicans look at either distancing themselves from President 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:12.360 Trump's policies. Are you seeing any groundsful of the especially 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:16.400 after the special election in Texas after the midterm outcomes. 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:18.599 Are you seeing anything like that or. 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:20.880 Is it sort of a case by case situation. 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:24.040 I think it's more case by case, but I think 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:26.800 it's going to continue to ramp up, I would say, 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:27.640 over the course of the year. 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:29.919 And it's not just taxes. 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:33.159 I mean, there's been a series of special elections in 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:37.360 deep red states of Mississippi and Georgia in which Republicans 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:40.719 have been defeated, and so there's clearly a trend building 0:05:40.760 --> 0:05:43.039 at this point, and there's no doubt that other Senate 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:46.120 Republicans are recognizing that. However, they also know that the 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:50.560 president has enormous way over the base and particularly in primaries, 0:05:50.600 --> 0:05:54.200 and so I would look to see more Republican centers 0:05:54.240 --> 0:05:57.800 distance themselves after you get through primary season, but being 0:05:57.839 --> 0:06:00.599 reluctant to do so until they've secured their notation and 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:03.560 then that's that's behind them. So yeah, till Us is 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:06.920 a different position, don't I don't anticipate you can see 0:06:06.920 --> 0:06:08.839 too much more of that in the short term, but 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:10.920 perhaps you know, toward the summer months, I think his 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:13.839 members look toward the general election in November, and they're 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:16.599 behind their primaries. That's when you begin to see more 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:19.240 members begin did perhaps take positions similar. 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:19.719 To Tillis Mark. 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:21.800 On a final note on Kevin Warsh, the President spoke 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:24.080 at a dinner over the weekend. I'm reading a quote 0:06:24.120 --> 0:06:26.760 Washington Post. Had someone in the room actually said to me, 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:27.800 all of this is accurate. 0:06:27.880 --> 0:06:28.120 Quote. 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:31.080 If he doesn't lower interest rates, I'm suing his ass off. 0:06:31.080 --> 0:06:32.920 And then the President says, I'm kidding. 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:33.479 Mark. 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:35.640 Do you think he's actually kidding or is Kevin Warsh 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:38.360 potentially going to face the same fate as Jay Powe 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:39.640 if he doesn't lower interest rates. 0:06:40.960 --> 0:06:42.840 Well, I think he would face the same fate if 0:06:42.839 --> 0:06:45.560 he didn't lower interest rates. But again, I think this 0:06:45.640 --> 0:06:47.680 process has played off for a while. It's pretty hard 0:06:47.680 --> 0:06:50.080 for me to see that the President would not have 0:06:50.160 --> 0:06:52.960 moved forward this nomination as he had pretty strong assurances 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:55.400 that the Warsh was looking to lower rates when he 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:58.240 got there, and so so yeah, I think he would. 0:06:58.320 --> 0:06:59.960 If he didn't, I think he would face. 0:06:59.760 --> 0:07:01.120 This pressure from the president. 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:03.599 I think for president somebody who likes lower rates for 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:06.200 lots of reasons. He made his resources in real estate. 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:09.560 The president believes that it's better for exporting and for 0:07:09.600 --> 0:07:12.680 a manufacturing base if the dollar is depreciated, and I 0:07:12.720 --> 0:07:15.240 think he knows the impact on equity markets when rates 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:17.400 are lower, and so I think he wants to continue 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:19.920 to push for that agenda regardless of who the personnel 0:07:19.960 --> 0:07:20.960 are inside the FED. 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:25.080 Stay with us more Bloomberg Surveillance coming up after this. 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:37.600 Andrew Honjost of City says this the employment data is 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:40.200 unlikely to maturely change the outlet for the labor market. 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:43.560 We expect a solid one thirty five added in January 0:07:43.600 --> 0:07:47.160 and the unemployment rate remaining unchanged at four point four percent. Andrew, 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:49.320 that puts you at the top end of the estimates 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:50.440 for this coming Friday. 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:51.360 Walk us through why. 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:53.920 You're looking for that, but also looking for seventy five 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:55.440 basis points have counts through the year. 0:07:55.720 --> 0:07:57.760 Yeah, top end of the estimates in terms of where 0:07:57.760 --> 0:07:58.920 that payrolls numbers. 0:07:58.640 --> 0:07:59.080 Are going to be. 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:00.800 But it goes back to what so as talking about, 0:08:00.840 --> 0:08:03.240 what you're all talking about, which is what does this 0:08:03.400 --> 0:08:05.160 data really tell us about what's going on in the 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:05.920 labor market. 0:08:06.000 --> 0:08:07.960 So we know we have these issues with the birth 0:08:08.000 --> 0:08:09.640 death model. I would actually. 0:08:09.440 --> 0:08:11.520 Agree with Steve Englander that if we get a big 0:08:11.600 --> 0:08:13.640 update to that birth death model, you could get a 0:08:13.720 --> 0:08:15.960 zero or negative number, and I think that's where the 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:20.119 underlying pace of job growth is running somewhere right around zero. 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:22.080 And that's what we had Governor Waller talking about in 0:08:22.160 --> 0:08:25.160 his descent from the Fed staying on hold last week. 0:08:25.760 --> 0:08:27.760 So it's a complex. 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:32.240 Job market is a complicated situation and complicated data. But 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:35.360 I would go back to that survey that the Conference 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:37.560 Board puts out and they just ask people do you 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:39.520 think jobs are plentiful or do you think jobs are 0:08:39.520 --> 0:08:41.800 hard to get? And month after month people are telling 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:44.200 us jobs are becoming harder and harder to get. So 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:46.520 I think it is a loosening labor market. Lots of 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:49.880 statistical issues. Residual seasonality used to be something people would 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:51.839 look at me very funny when I said, Now people 0:08:51.840 --> 0:08:52.360 are all. 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:52.880 Familiar with it. 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:55.600 Every year we get stronger jobs data at this time 0:08:55.600 --> 0:08:57.920 of year, building that into our forecast. 0:08:57.960 --> 0:08:59.199 That's why we have one hundred thirty five. 0:08:59.240 --> 0:09:01.680 What do you think, Braakie, what's the break even? Right? 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:04.280 I think the break even rate with the way that 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:06.040 the data are adjusted now, it seems like we can 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:09.360 run about fifty thousand jobs per month and fifty thousand 0:09:09.440 --> 0:09:12.120 jobs per month as reported by payrolls is leading the 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:15.600 unemployment rate to stay stable where it is, But there 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:18.160 is a question about that fifty thousand should be subtracting 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:21.280 something like sixty thousand from it because those payrolls numbers 0:09:21.520 --> 0:09:25.400 keeping overstated. We'll get more information about that today or 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:29.040 on Friday when we get the new report. So that 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:32.440 break even has slowed down. But again, I think the 0:09:32.520 --> 0:09:35.120 key thing here is do we call a job market 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:39.480 strong if we have essentially zero increase in labor supply 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:42.640 and zero hiring. I don't think that's a strong job 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:43.480 labor market. 0:09:43.800 --> 0:09:46.160 Can you have a strong economy though, if you don't 0:09:46.160 --> 0:09:47.720 have a strong labor market. I mean this has been 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:49.960 sort of a feature of the entire market for a while. 0:09:50.280 --> 0:09:52.640 The labor market has been sluggish at best, and yet 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:55.040 the economy has continued to grow pretty dramatically. So at 0:09:55.040 --> 0:09:59.000 what point does that become a hamper potentially to any 0:09:59.080 --> 0:10:00.720 kind of their acceleration. 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:01.960 Yeah, I think eventually it does. 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:05.000 Mean there's growth, and then there's whether it's broad based 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:08.080 growth or fairly focused growth. And to the extent that 0:10:08.080 --> 0:10:11.280 we're getting growth from things that are AI related software 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:14.319 and data centers. A lot of those kinds of areas 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:18.000 of investment spending don't actually generate a lot of new jobs, 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:21.280 and so that eventually becomes an issue for the economy. 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:22.960 In the short term, you run strong growth and you 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:25.199 can have weaker labor market. I think that's what we're 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:28.840 seeing right now. But eventually people don't have the wage 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:32.480 income to purchase. And if you look at consumer spending, 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:34.400 it's holding up, but it's holding up because the savings 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:37.400 rate keeps going down. People are saving less and less 0:10:37.679 --> 0:10:39.720 because their incomes aren't tracking with that consumption. 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:41.280 So eventually it's an issue for the economy. 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:42.000 You still think that. 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:44.040 The FED is on track to cut by seventy five 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:47.040 basis points this year, even with Kevin worsh potentially being 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:50.280 the FED share Why not more given some of the 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:54.079 proclamations that we've heard from certainly President Trump as well 0:10:54.120 --> 0:10:57.400 as Kevin Walsh, and considering the weakness that you see 0:10:57.400 --> 0:10:59.120 in the labor market, I think. 0:10:58.960 --> 0:11:01.680 The risks are that we do end up with more 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:04.160 cuts than seventy five basis points rather than less cuts 0:11:04.160 --> 0:11:06.840 than seventy five basis points. The reason I think seventy 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:09.040 five makes sense as a base case is although the 0:11:09.080 --> 0:11:13.160 labor market is softening and loosening, it's happening very gradually. 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:16.400 So if we just project out that gradual loosening of 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:18.960 the labor market, the unemployment rate will move up just 0:11:19.120 --> 0:11:21.760 a bit this year, Inflation will come down a bit 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:24.040 this year, and that would mean that the Fed should 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:26.520 just ease policy rates by a bit this year back 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:29.480 to something closer to neutral, which fifty seventy five basis 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:30.520 points lower be neutral. 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:32.160 I think that should be the base case. 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:34.960 The market has about fifty I have about seventy five. 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:36.240 But what's the risk. 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:38.559 The risk is that when you're in an environment where 0:11:38.640 --> 0:11:41.560 hiring is so weak, if there's any pickup in layoffs, 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:43.600 that unemployment rate is going to shoot up and then 0:11:43.600 --> 0:11:44.440 we'll get more cuts. 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:47.280 Well, you haven't changed your expectation even though we have 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:49.400 a new nomination for the FED. So do you think 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:51.320 Kevin Walsh is going to be data dependent? 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:52.360 Given what you're. 0:11:52.240 --> 0:11:52.959 Basing this off? 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:54.600 Is the data that you expect to come out? 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:56.959 It's I mean, it's not just Kevin Warsh And I 0:11:57.000 --> 0:11:59.120 think that's an important point that it's the committee as 0:11:59.160 --> 0:11:59.440 a whole. 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:01.000 That committee has been data dependent. 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:03.319 I do expect Kevin Warsh as an individual to be 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:06.680 data dependent as well, So depending on where that inflation 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:09.319 data comes in in the second half, and I think 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:13.400 that's really important and probably underemphasized. A lot of focus 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:16.280 on the labor market right now, and that's appropriate, But 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:18.760 those inflation numbers, I think by the second half are 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:21.360 going to look closer to two percent inflation. And that's 0:12:21.360 --> 0:12:23.600 not just going to give Kevin Warreh's ability to cut 0:12:23.640 --> 0:12:25.600 interest rates. I think that will give a lot of 0:12:25.640 --> 0:12:27.959 members of the committee the confidence that they can bring 0:12:28.040 --> 0:12:28.520 right slower. 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:30.960 What's the source of that? What's driving us back to two. 0:12:31.360 --> 0:12:34.560 Shelter cooling is where we have the most confidence. I 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:36.680 think a lot of economists have that in their forecast. 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:39.319 Now we just have so many indicators. It's a soft 0:12:39.320 --> 0:12:41.800 housing sector. The housing sector is soft right now. Prices 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:45.040 are soft, rents are soft. But this loosening labor market 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:48.640 should also give us confidence that inflation will come down further. 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:50.800 And then finally, that. 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:54.000 Tariff boost that we think is about fifty basis points 0:12:54.040 --> 0:12:57.280 in CPI and PCE right now, that should be dissipating 0:12:57.280 --> 0:12:57.480 by this. 0:12:57.520 --> 0:12:59.360 So let's just cover the shouts of story, because when 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:02.200 people like you you explain the shout story, it sounds 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:04.920 so intuitive, it sounds like common sense. 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:06.320 Okay, you've put it that way. 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:08.240 I can see where it's going to be several months 0:13:08.240 --> 0:13:11.360 out in the official data. Why do Federal Reserve officials 0:13:11.440 --> 0:13:14.040 not share the confidence you have about the disinflatory tail 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:15.960 winds that are already coming down the pipeline. 0:13:16.720 --> 0:13:19.760 I think there's a difference between different Fed officials, and 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:22.400 different officials will be different places on this where I 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:25.200 am and maybe some of the more dubbish officials are saying, yeah, 0:13:25.200 --> 0:13:27.640 we basically can forecast this thing six months to a 0:13:27.720 --> 0:13:28.480 year in advance. 0:13:28.640 --> 0:13:29.960 We know that it's going to cool down. 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:33.040 I think there are other Fed officials that maybe also 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:35.800 kind of know that we can forecast that, but think 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:37.719 that the way they should behave is if we can, 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:40.160 because they think it's important to take a strong stand 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:40.880 against inflation. 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:42.200 You see three percent right. 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:44.040 Now, and they think we're supposed to react to that 0:13:44.080 --> 0:13:46.440 three percent, not the forecast of where we're going. I 0:13:46.520 --> 0:13:48.400 react to the forecast, I think other Fed officials do. 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:50.200 I think that's a difference of opinion in terms of 0:13:50.280 --> 0:13:51.559 how you conduct monetary policy. 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:53.679 So in other words, this is about appearances. This is 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:56.560 about appearing hard on inflation, even if they'll come down 0:13:56.960 --> 0:13:58.679 on the same side as the doves. In other words, 0:13:58.679 --> 0:14:00.559 do you agree with Kevin Walsh that people should just 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:02.320 talk less and not really give forward guns. 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:06.000 I think well, I do think forward guidance is We're 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:09.480 probably overly used to forward guidance because we were in 0:14:09.520 --> 0:14:12.040 these strange scenarios where you had to give guidance about 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:14.520 keeping policy rates at the lower bound for a long 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:17.800 period of time. So we should be moving away from that. 0:14:18.679 --> 0:14:21.160 In terms of this, you know, is it kind of 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:25.600 you know, optics talking about inflation. It's hard to make 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:28.120 an argument that three percent inflation is a lot worse 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:31.160 for the economy than two percent inflation. The target is 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:33.480 two percent, so there is an optics reason that you 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:34.600 want to be at two percent. 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:37.320 If central banks were to do it over. 0:14:37.160 --> 0:14:39.760 Again, I think most economists would say, probably we should 0:14:39.800 --> 0:14:42.800 have had a range of inflation that would have been acceptable. 0:14:42.840 --> 0:14:44.880 So I do think it's a lot about optics right now. 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:47.840 This is fascinating, especially because the person who is likely 0:14:47.880 --> 0:14:49.960 to come into be the next FED chair is an 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:52.840 inflation hawk at least traditionally more than a decade ago, 0:14:52.920 --> 0:14:54.120 and people are saying people. 0:14:53.880 --> 0:14:54.960 Can change in that time. 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:57.560 Do you think that he is also potentially going to 0:14:57.600 --> 0:15:00.600 accept three percent is a new two percent, to be 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:04.200 more dubvish in the approach because it hasn't been a problem, 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:06.480 and frankly, if people were to come back, that might 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:07.720 be the more appropriate target. 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:08.200 Yeah. 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:12.240 I'm not suggesting, and I don't think that Kevin Warsh 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:14.480 is going to say that three percent should be the 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:16.720 new two percent, that we should be changing the target 0:15:16.800 --> 0:15:20.440 right now and we've just overshot for multiple years. But 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:23.920 I do think this idea that we can't be hyper 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:26.560 sensitive to his inflation off by a tenth of a 0:15:26.600 --> 0:15:30.080 percentage point here or there. I think the more you 0:15:30.160 --> 0:15:32.440 kind of immerse yourself in this data and understand what 0:15:32.480 --> 0:15:35.040 the data are and all the issues and producing it 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:37.040 and the different choices that we make, it's hard to 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:39.480 get really excited about being off by a few basis points. 0:15:39.480 --> 0:15:41.080 So I'd like to see the move in that direction. 0:15:41.560 --> 0:15:42.440 Then possibly they will. 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:45.160 To your point, though, Manjow, I think there's a realization 0:15:45.200 --> 0:15:47.400 on the committee that they can shank the events they influence, 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:50.720 and they can basically sit here and say, you know what, 0:15:50.760 --> 0:15:53.800 we can shank the events we anticipate by saying things 0:15:53.920 --> 0:15:56.920 like I'm not worried about inflation could actually contribute to inflation. 0:15:57.320 --> 0:15:58.760 Is that ultimately what you get and gain? 0:15:59.040 --> 0:15:59.240 Yeah? 0:15:59.480 --> 0:16:02.720 I think that that's exactly the concern. The reason I 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:04.720 would be less concerned about that now is because we 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:07.280 have all of these indications that we're not in an 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:10.400 environment where we have a bunch of upside around inflation. 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:13.320 And it is actually the opposite of where we were 0:16:13.520 --> 0:16:15.960 when FED officials were saying they weren't that concerned about 0:16:15.960 --> 0:16:18.120 inflation when everything was supposed to be transferred. 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:18.880 We had a tight. 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:21.920 Labor market, we had wages that were accelerating, prices that 0:16:21.960 --> 0:16:24.400 were accelerating all over the place. All of those things 0:16:24.440 --> 0:16:26.360 are decelerating now, So I think you can be a 0:16:26.360 --> 0:16:29.680 lot more confident that we're going to get inflation lower. 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:33.640 Stay with us, mulplinbeg Savanna's coming up off to this. 0:16:43.280 --> 0:16:46.480 Join us Natsky City. The conversation Henrita triced upon us. 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:48.920 Henriettes are welcome. Can we find an off rampay? 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:51.840 I think we can find an off ramp. 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:55.720 For now, we have until Tuesday, As the Speaker suggested, 0:16:55.800 --> 0:16:58.360 I'm not going to try to move things forward tonight 0:16:58.720 --> 0:17:02.000 around four or five six o'clock, I would say for investors, 0:17:02.000 --> 0:17:04.200 and you brought up the BLS data, that's huge. There's 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:07.240 also the IRS funding that lapses, and it's tax filing 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:10.800 season now. But when I travel around and talk to investors, 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:13.400 one of the questions I get a lot is what's 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:15.960 happening with the President's two thousand dollars rebate check? 0:17:16.000 --> 0:17:17.560 Are we going to get that for the tariffs? 0:17:18.000 --> 0:17:20.200 And I would encourage folks to think about the fact 0:17:20.200 --> 0:17:23.240 that we just ate all of January up on this conversation. 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:25.439 It fell apart of the last minute, and now we 0:17:25.480 --> 0:17:28.199