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Speaker 2: Twenty five at North Cachet Street, Jackson, Wyoming is home

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Speaker 2: to the million Dollar Cowboy Bar. And I'm here and

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Speaker 2: it's quite the hop and spot. Like that's where the

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Speaker 2: economists go to say, you know, marginal revenue equals marginal

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Speaker 2: cost and all that kind of stuff and have those debates.

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Speaker 3: I actually met Lil Wayne at the million Dollar Cowboy Bar.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, about ten years ago.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he was in Jackson Hole doing a concert for

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Speaker 3: the snowboarders.

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Speaker 4: Very cool. See Lisa, you hang with Matt Miller and

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Speaker 4: the stuff. You'll look. Did you get a picture? I did.

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Speaker 4: I did a new.

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Speaker 3: Picture of me, Lil Wayne and my dad doing the

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Speaker 3: ski shot exactly.

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Speaker 4: All right, Let's go to from Lil Wayne to Tom Keene.

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Speaker 2: Host of Bloomberg Survellance on radio and YouTube. Tom talk

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Speaker 2: to us about Jackson Hole. Here, give us the vibe

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Speaker 2: of Jackson Hole this week.

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Speaker 5: The Vibe is really different. When I walked in yesterday,

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Speaker 5: Paul Sweeney and doing this for some eighteen years, I

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Speaker 5: was really thunderstruck, how quiet, how subdued everything is. I

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Speaker 5: think there's a huge number of distractions into the speech

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Speaker 5: this morning at ten am Wall Street time, and all

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Speaker 5: devolved down to a line by line read of this

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Speaker 5: final speech of your own, Powell. I would assume it'll

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Speaker 5: be a little more active today, a lot more international

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Speaker 5: media coming in as well as the Bloomberg world turning

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Speaker 5: to the attention of Powell's speech. All in all, what

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Speaker 5: I would say is it's an international community here. But yes,

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Speaker 5: it is about what the FED will do up to

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Speaker 5: the September meeting.

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Speaker 3: You know, Tom the Wall Street Journal says the Fed's

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Speaker 3: going to make change to its framework. They had decided

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Speaker 3: in twenty nineteen, twenty twenty to let inflation run hot,

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Speaker 3: and they sure as hell did that. But I guess

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Speaker 3: to me, it seems like the important change is no

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Speaker 3: more averaging, right, because if they really want to average

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Speaker 3: lord knows they want to keep it high so we

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Speaker 5: Well, I'm not going to go with that, Matt, But

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Speaker 5: I am going to say that Nick's article in the

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Speaker 5: Wall Street Journal was really prescient. At the back end

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Speaker 5: of the article Nick featured Jonathan Farrow's interview was Secretary Bessant.

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Speaker 5: And the backstory here is when the Treasury Secretary makes

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Speaker 5: what most people would consider outrageous calls for a dramatically

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Speaker 5: lower interest rate, how does that upset the American equilibrium

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Speaker 5: and the global equilibrium. I think some of the nuances

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Speaker 5: here will be to stabilize the dialogue and try to

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Speaker 5: get this central bank back on track, to look at inflation,

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Speaker 5: to look jobs, and get to the next meeting.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to say, you know, I was listening to

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Speaker 3: that interview on Survey Vance with John Keene and Scott

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Speaker 3: Bessen and when he said rates should be one hundred

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Speaker 3: and fifty two hundred and seventy files would support that, Well,

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Speaker 3: he's at any model would support it, and I know

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Speaker 3: every economist is shot back with no model. But I

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Speaker 3: he was saying was exactly, literally to the basis point,

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Speaker 3: what the market was predicting anyway, So it wasn't that crazy.

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Speaker 3: Now we've come back from that a little bit. Are

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Speaker 3: the odds now is the risk I should say, Tom,

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Speaker 5: You make a really good point for people that are

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Speaker 5: not sophisticates of this. The story changes literally now. Data

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Speaker 5: point by data point. There's been an unbalanced set of

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Speaker 5: inflation data, but the fact is there are selective inflation

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Speaker 5: data that's shown new prices up. I love Paul Krugman's

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Speaker 2: So, Tom, is the expectation here that FED Chairman j

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Speaker 2: Pala Is he gonna try to frame his legacy in

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Speaker 2: the speech in any way?

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Speaker 4: Or do you think it's going to be focusing on

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Speaker 5: The answer is nobody knows. I've heard so many It's

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Speaker 5: of pundits. Okay, everybody's got an angle of what this

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Speaker 5: speech is. Nobody has a clue. I do think he

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Speaker 5: will touch on the legacy. But rather than guess what

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Speaker 5: in at ten am, Bram and I'll be giving you

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Speaker 4: I've gone line through line through your bio, Tom Keane.

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Speaker 3: We got your bio for this interview in our notes,

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Speaker 3: and I note that you survived an interview at Davos,

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Speaker 3: a joint interview of Ken Rogoff and Joseph Stieglitz.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, if those.

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Speaker 3: Guys were at Jackson Hole, and honestly they probably they

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Speaker 3: probably are, which view would you take?

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Speaker 5: This is absolutely a brilliant question. That was really quite

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Speaker 5: an historic interview. They had a massive, massive argument in

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Speaker 5: economics twenty years ago. They're on different sides of the fence.

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Speaker 5: Joe Stiglitz is going to say half of America's flat

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Speaker 5: on their back and they need some easing of pain

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Speaker 5: by redkuts Ken Rogoff in my book of the summer,

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Speaker 5: our dollar year problem. Whether you disagree or agree with

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Speaker 5: Professor Rogoff, he is looking at rates nudging up. There's

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Speaker 5: a backstory here, and Paul, I know you've been watching

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Speaker 5: this carefully. Twenty year and thirty year Japanese bonds are

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Speaker 5: breaking out to new higher yields. Literally as we speak.

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Speaker 5: The international community here is focused on this.

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Speaker 4: Tom nine E. M.

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Speaker 2: a program from jacksonvill tell us about kind of where

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Speaker 2: you're gonna be covering.

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Speaker 5: Well, we're going to be covering with some wonderful guests

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Speaker 5: with our question. The interview of the day for me

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Speaker 5: here at Jackson Hall is James Buller, the former president

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Speaker 5: of the Saint Louis fed now at Purdue at University.

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Speaker 5: He is on the trump list to become a chairman.

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Speaker 5: Jim Buller likes low rates, always has. His dot was

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Speaker 5: got a number of other good because Kate Moore will

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Speaker 5: be with City Group as well. But Matt, the really

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Speaker 5: important thing quickly is after the show, I'm getting on

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Speaker 5: my Harley Road Glide and I'm going right up Wyoming

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Speaker 5: one ninety one to Jellystone.

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Speaker 4: That is a dream. That would be a dream come

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Speaker 4: true for me. What a place to be.

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Speaker 3: I love the Teton Village to ski, but in the

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Speaker 3: summer I think I'd have even more fun in Wyoming.

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Speaker 2: So the question is Tom, are we going to get

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Speaker 2: a sighting of Lisa A. Bramwit's on a horse?

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Speaker 4: Is that possible?

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Speaker 5: I don't know. We may do a horse shoot here

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Speaker 5: later with Joe and Tracycy. I don't know if Bramo's

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Speaker 5: involve There is a rumor Tracy Alloway survived the Wyoming

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Speaker 5: horseback ride across the Teetons are all They're not getting

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Speaker 5: me on a horse.

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Speaker 3: Hey, Tom, Well, what are you hearing about this? This

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Speaker 3: pressure on Lisa Cook and this administration has used mortgage

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Speaker 3: fraud well in its business, in Donald Trump's business, but

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Speaker 3: also to try and attack political opponents.

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Speaker 5: Oh, I think it's out there. It's percolating. Every news

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Speaker 5: organization has picked it up. Our John Elmarte really advanced

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Speaker 5: the story yesterday. What I would emphasize, as there's not

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Speaker 5: been enough discussion about doctor Cook's credentials. She's out of

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Speaker 5: Michigan State. She studied directly under Berry Keen Green at Berkeley.

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Speaker 5: She's a world class economist, and you know, we'll have

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Speaker 5: to see how the back and forth goes within this.

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Speaker 5: There's a lot of allegations in very few charges.

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Speaker 2: Tom, thanks so much, appreciate it, getting a few mentions

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Speaker 2: of your time out there.

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Speaker 4: Ian Jackson Hall Tom Keen.

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Speaker 2: He's the host of Bloomberg Sevan, so we all know him,

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Speaker 2: love him, Bloomberg Radio and on TV and YouTube and

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Speaker 2: all that kind of stuff.

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Speaker 4: Stay with us.

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Speaker 2: Christina Hooper, chief market strategist at Man Group, Christina at

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Speaker 2: the thanks so much for joining us here today. You've

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Speaker 2: been doing this a long time, Christina. You've seen lots

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Speaker 2: of discussions around the FED for through many cycles. What

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Speaker 2: do you expect to hear What do you think you

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Speaker 6: So, Paul, I think we may very well hear that

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Speaker 6: there's at least some kind of change in focus on

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Speaker 6: I think Chair Powell does not want to reveal his cards,

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Speaker 6: Another point I would make is that Chair Powell has

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Speaker 4: I think right now.

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Speaker 3: So a couple of the different I think subjects there

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Speaker 3: to talk about FED independence. Let's put aside for a

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Speaker 3: second and talk about what the FED is going to

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Speaker 3: do in September. Why in a rising inflation environment, we

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Speaker 4: Why in that situation, especially with.

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Speaker 3: Unemployment at four point two percent and earning's growth at

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Speaker 6: Because I think the FED will make the determination that

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Speaker 6: because it's not going to create continued sustained inflation. Now,

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Speaker 2: All right, let's talk about the bond market. All I

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Speaker 4: Karen Mann?

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Speaker 2: But some people make a career out of this fix

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Speaker 2: What do you think you're going to hear? What should

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Speaker 7: Well, good morning, and thank you for having me, despite

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Speaker 4: But I don't expect that this year.

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Speaker 7: And I think that the Wall Street Journal article that

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Speaker 3: At what point, Karen, does labor start to become a problem.

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Speaker 3: I mean, four point two percent unemployment, at least in

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Speaker 2: Hey, Karen, So in the fixed income space here, I mean,

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Speaker 2: I need to take credit risk above and beyond that.

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Speaker 7: We're not advocates for taking credit risk right now. Spreads

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Speaker 7: us that have lived through that zero interest rate REALM

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Speaker 4: Karen, thanks so much for joining us. Really appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: Karen Mena investment director fixing gum for Federator at herme's.

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Speaker 4: Ran. What are the.

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Speaker 2: Conversations with your ultra high net worth clients these days.

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Speaker 2: There's been a lot of volatility in the market this year,

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Speaker 2: but boy, everybody's in the green so far this year.

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Speaker 4: Good morning.

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Speaker 8: It has been a lot of volatility, a bit of

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Speaker 8: a roller coaster, but we've ended up so far in

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Speaker 6: Maybe in the middle of April.

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Speaker 8: And so, I mean, our clients are feeling pretty good

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Speaker 4: And you know, a lot of that.

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Speaker 8: We're pretty constructive on the markets going forward. We do

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Speaker 3: We do seem to be pricing in a rate cut.

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Speaker 3: I know we've had down days this week. Every day

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Speaker 3: higher here, but I've watched the interest rate probability function

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Speaker 3: on the Bloomberg terminal WRP GO for the last week.

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Speaker 3: It just has come down, down, down. We were over

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Speaker 3: one hundred percent until that PPI number came out. Then

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Speaker 3: we were down to ninety five eighty five, seventy, and

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Speaker 3: now we're below that. Does this market need to have

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Speaker 3: a rate cut in September?

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Speaker 8: I think the market needs to know that the rate

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Speaker 8: cuts not entirely off the table. If it doesn't happen

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Speaker 8: in September, maybe we see it in October. But I

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Speaker 8: do think that the market would react negatively if we

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Speaker 8: don't get it in September. I mean to your point.

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Speaker 8: You know, when the jobs report came out a few

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Speaker 8: weeks ago, it was all essentially entirely priced in, and

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Speaker 8: now we've seen it come down. With some of the

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Speaker 8: inflation figures and some of the commentary by Fed officials,

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Speaker 8: I don't expect we'll get any clarity today from Chairman

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Speaker 8: Palas speech, But as long as he doesn't take it

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Speaker 8: entirely off the table, I think we'll just be very

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Speaker 8: data dependent on what we see between now in that

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Speaker 8: September meeting, we have another jobs report and more inflation data,

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Speaker 8: and I think that will largely drive what the actual

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Speaker 8: decision will be in September.

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Speaker 2: Ryan, We're pretty much done the second quarter earnings period,

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Speaker 2: and boy, it came in a lot better than expecting.

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Speaker 2: Maybe eleven to twelve percent growth in earnings for shares,

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Speaker 2: that enough to support a move higher in this market.

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Speaker 4: How do you think about earnings evaluation that kind of thing.

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Speaker 4: It's incredibly important. I mean what company?

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Speaker 8: I mean, earnings are really what on the day to

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Speaker 8: day earnings don't necessarily drive the market, but that is

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Speaker 8: what drives the market over the long term. And company's

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Speaker 8: balance sheets are very strong. Earnings expectations coming into the

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Speaker 8: quarter where sub five percent and to your point, have

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Speaker 8: come in between eleven and twelve percent, and we've seen

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Speaker 8: if you look at it over the last five quarters,

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Speaker 8: this has been the strongest beat rates that we've seen

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Speaker 8: for the SMP the Nasdaq, and then even looking at

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Speaker 8: MidCap and small cap in SMP those have been very

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Speaker 8: strong as well. So the earning strength has really been

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Speaker 8: broad based, and it's been broad based on a sector

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Speaker 8: basis too.

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Speaker 4: It's not been just technology.

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Speaker 8: We've seen it in industrials and financials and consumer staples

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Speaker 8: and utilities.

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Speaker 4: So all of that.

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Speaker 8: Like the fact that we're seeing it across the board,

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Speaker 8: that's that's a huge positive and should be supportive going forward.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it sounds like a fantastic economy actually, So I'm

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Speaker 3: just not seeing, aside from Paul's mortgage refinancing needs, I

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Speaker 3: don't understand how these rates are restrictive when we see,

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Speaker 3: you know, ten percent earning growth. Ninety five percent of

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Speaker 3: the companies that reported so far have beaten expectation. And

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Speaker 3: if you look at EEG on the terminal earnings revisions

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Speaker 3: keep going to the upside. So where's the weakness. Why

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Speaker 3: does the FED need to bring things down?

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Speaker 8: I think that's just concerns around how the tariff impact

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Speaker 8: will play out. I mean, we're there's still a question

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Speaker 8: on really who's absorbing the costs right now? A lot

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Speaker 8: of it seems to be getting absorbed by companies. Some

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Speaker 8: of it hasn't really been passed on I mean, so

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Speaker 8: there is maybe some concern about how all of this

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Speaker 8: will play out, or if there's still holdover inventory, so

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Speaker 8: the effects could pick up a little, But we're not

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Speaker 8: seeing that there's any expectation, any reason to expect that

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Speaker 8: there will be a significant negative impact going forward. So

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Speaker 8: I would agree with you. I think we're in a

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Speaker 8: pretty good spot. Both consumer and corporate balance sheets look

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Speaker 8: pretty healthy right now.

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Speaker 2: Ray, and thank you so much for joining us. Really

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Speaker 2: appreciate getting a few minutes of your time. Mittrium, she's

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Speaker 2: a partner at Callan Family Office.

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