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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg p m L Podcast. I'm pim Fox.

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Speaker 1: Podcast on Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud, and Bloomberg dot com. President

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Speaker 1: Trump tweeting Google search results for Trump News shows only

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Speaker 1: the viewing slash reporting of fake news media. In other words,

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Speaker 1: they have it rigged for me and others so that

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Speaker 1: almost all stories and news is bad. Fake CNN is

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Speaker 1: prominent Republican conservative, and fair media is shut out. Illegal

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Speaker 1: results on Trump News are from that give me a

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Speaker 1: look him. I'm gonna keep reading it because it's all

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Speaker 1: just seconds ago. And this address is our next discus Sushian,

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Speaker 1: which is Google and Searches. Basically, it concludes with this

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Speaker 1: is a very serious situation. Will be addressed. Shara Overday,

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Opinion technology columnists joining us now. Google Shares didn't

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Speaker 1: initially respond much to President Trump's earlier comments on this,

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Speaker 1: but then did after his economic advisor Larry Cutlos, the

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Speaker 1: White House was examining this, what do you make of this? Well,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot to unpack their I mean, look, the

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Speaker 1: core of the president's tweet there is that he believes

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Speaker 1: legitimate news sources, including CNN, are biased against him. Right,

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Speaker 1: so his beef is really with CNN and with other

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Speaker 1: legitimate news sources, not necessarily with Google. Although what he's

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Speaker 1: pointing out right is that Google is surfacing legitimate news

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Speaker 1: about him. Uh, and he doesn't like that. So look,

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Speaker 1: I get it. But also the problem is that this

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Speaker 1: is now Google problem. Well, Google actually released a statement

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Speaker 1: talking about the algorithms that it has to generate these

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Speaker 1: search results. How do they determine that? I mean it

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Speaker 1: could there be even political motivation here. So the problem

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Speaker 1: is that there is a germ of truth in what

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Speaker 1: the president says, which is that the ways that Google

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Speaker 1: and Facebook to surface news and information is by design

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Speaker 1: a black box that we don't know, We on the

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Speaker 1: outside don't exactly know how Google determines these ten blue

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Speaker 1: links will appear higher than those ten blue links. And

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Speaker 1: you know that again, the black box algorithms of those

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Speaker 1: companies makes it more likely for people to believe, rightly

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Speaker 1: or wrongly, that the information surface by Google or Facebook

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Speaker 1: has some bias inherent in it, and it's algorithms are biased.

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Speaker 1: The question is is it biased against conservative voices like

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Speaker 1: the resident And I don't think that's the case. Sure,

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Speaker 1: can search results be manipulated by third parties? I mean manipulated?

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Speaker 1: Is um boy that it's a little bit of a

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Speaker 1: skewed word. Look, they're legitimate ways, including search engine optimization

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Speaker 1: higher in Google search results, right, And we I mean

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Speaker 1: that would not have anything to do with Google. That

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Speaker 1: would have to do with third parties that, for whatever reason,

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Speaker 1: they want a certain product or service that's listed higher,

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Speaker 1: so that when you type in the name of let's

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Speaker 1: say you want an air fair, then it will take

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Speaker 1: you there. Right. So if you google, you know, running

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Speaker 1: shoes Brooklyn. Right. There are companies that make sure that

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Speaker 1: that's more about paid ads on Google rather than surfacing

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Speaker 1: content on their own. So yeah, there is some um

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Speaker 1: ways to game the system, legitimate and illegitimate ways to

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Speaker 1: game the system. But again, what the President is talking about,

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Speaker 1: again I just don't think that's happening. But it's part

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Speaker 1: conservative voices or censorship or suppressing conservative points of view. Again,

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Speaker 1: I think most of those are bogus UM and are

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Speaker 1: himself do. I don't know what Larry Cutlow is talking

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Speaker 1: the odds are of that law changing. Well done, Thank

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Speaker 1: you very much for enlightening us. As always, Shara over

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Speaker 1: there are Bloomberg technology opinion writer knows everything about technology.

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Speaker 1: Have you got a new iPhone yet? Still still the

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Speaker 1: for you. Thanks very much for being with us. The

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Speaker 1: SMP five hundred is of about eight and a half

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Speaker 1: investment strategist wore the youthhol Group. They're based in Minneapolis.

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Speaker 1: They help to manage more than one and a half

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Speaker 1: you've got to say about investing. And I'm wondering, what

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Speaker 1: is this term called capacity challenge? You talk about the

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Speaker 1: one of the things PIM that I always think about is,

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Speaker 1: you know, just the question we get lost and is

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Speaker 1: there a lot of downside risk in this market or not?

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Speaker 1: But I think an equal important question is just how

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Speaker 1: And I think it comes down to how much capacity

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Speaker 1: look at some of the central things, if you think

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Speaker 1: about p monibles, or valuation. You know they're right now.

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Speaker 1: The trailing p motibles the eighties, second percentile of post

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Speaker 1: Bond yields they don't have much room or interest rates

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Speaker 1: interest rate pressures. Profit margins are record highs for the

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Speaker 1: almost to post war highs. To think about what to

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Speaker 1: I don't think i'd exit the stock market per se.

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Speaker 1: The sector exposures, I'd barbell my exposure. From here, I'd

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Speaker 1: So if that's the case, there's other assets now that

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Speaker 1: potentially valuable to hold to own. I there's a lot

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Speaker 1: the other hand, I think there's other things to Pim's point, commodities, cash,

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Speaker 1: at the end of it. Jim Paulson, thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for being with us. Jim Paulson is chief investments

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Speaker 1: I'm interested in this idea. It's a very strong labor market.

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Speaker 1: And if we continue in this confident mode, with this

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Speaker 1: shape up to be a good season for retailers. Alright, then, well,

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Speaker 1: it has been a good season for retailers throughout the years,

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Speaker 1: so that wouldn't be new. I still have to wonder

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Speaker 1: at what point our wage is going to increase more

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Speaker 1: than inflation, Lynna, just in thirty seconds, do you have

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Speaker 1: thought on that. I think we're going to continue to

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Speaker 1: coming months. Do you agree with that? Elena, Absolutely, it's

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Speaker 1: just more gradual. Uh. And there's a lot of non

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Speaker 1: of course, Elena seta senior US economist for Bloomberg Economics

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Speaker 1: and Lynn Franco, Director of Economic Indicators for the Conference Board.

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Speaker 1: And that consumer confidence certainly indicated by the performance today

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Speaker 1: of the shares of Tiffany. Yeah. Although you nailed it

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Speaker 1: with when you have kids, that's when your money flies

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Speaker 1: if people start to have babies, that money gets fun,

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