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Speaker 1: Yeah, Welcome to the Bloomberg Surveillance Podcast. I'm Tom Keane

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Speaker 1: Center joins me now in studio. Ellen, always a pleasure,

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Speaker 1: Thanks for being here. Um, trade wars and the US economy.

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Speaker 1: Have you produced some kind of model that looks at

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Speaker 1: what the U. S economy would do if this trade

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Speaker 1: war really sticks and gets worse? So? I think, first, UM,

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Speaker 1: we do expect these trade tensions. Let's say, I think

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Speaker 1: war is a little inflammatory, but but it's certainly catches

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Speaker 1: the attention more when you is the word war. But

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Speaker 1: we are in an escalatory phase. Okay, there's no denying that. Um.

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Speaker 1: And we've now seen the first round of thirty six

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Speaker 1: billion dollars in teariffs go into place. Um. The questions

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Speaker 1: that I get are I thought this was supposed to

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Speaker 1: hurt the economy. We've got four g d P in

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Speaker 1: the second quarter that economists are tracking, Uh, what gives?

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Speaker 1: It must not matter for the economy, And that's absolutely

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Speaker 1: the wrong way to look at this. These first thirty

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Speaker 1: six billion dollars that have gone into place are hitting

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Speaker 1: intermediate goods, capital goods. Guess what matters for the US

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Speaker 1: consumer goods? And it's the next round, the ten on

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Speaker 1: two billion in Chinese goods that are really going to

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Speaker 1: hit consumer goods. And do you think that when we

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Speaker 1: raise prices on consumer goods in the US because of tariffs,

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Speaker 1: the consumers are just going to spend as much as

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Speaker 1: they did before that we really don't care that prices

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Speaker 1: are going up. That's just not the case. So when

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Speaker 1: we look at it, tear us, uh, you know, in

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Speaker 1: you know, just one at a time. Right now, if

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Speaker 1: I just look at the economic impact of the tariffs

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Speaker 1: it doesn't look like that much that you shave off

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Speaker 1: the US economy. But you start to build in the

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Speaker 1: second round, impacts to supply chains, the unknown impacts to

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Speaker 1: financial conditions, and you start to pile on the next

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Speaker 1: round and the next round and the next round. At

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Speaker 1: some point investors are going to say this is too much,

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Speaker 1: this is changing the global growth story. And then the

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Speaker 1: financial conditions piece of this escalates. At the time when

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Speaker 1: you have unemployment at the levels I guess, okay, it

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Speaker 1: increased to four, but that was because so many people

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Speaker 1: Where's the benefit from these trade uh? Okay confrontations? I

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Speaker 1: won't say war. Where where does the benefit come in?

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Speaker 1: Because if the if the economy is already working and

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Speaker 1: you're looking at that four GDP number that you mentioned,

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Speaker 1: where's the benefit to this trade confrontation? Well, I think

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Speaker 1: that that UM. Trade talks in general should be something

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Speaker 1: that are constantly ongoing between countries. The condensed timeline that

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Speaker 1: we're on, and it has been very disruptive UM in

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Speaker 1: the way it's almost like someone just turned the light

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Speaker 1: on and said, oh, these this trade situation in the

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Speaker 1: global economy is is unfair. Let's change it tomorrow. And

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Speaker 1: it's self right, but it's it's I won't argue with

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Speaker 1: the need for looking closely at trade agreements and trade

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Speaker 1: among countries, and that should be an open ended conversation

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Speaker 1: that we're having. UM. What's what can be very disruptive

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Speaker 1: is trying to change it overnight, when, as you point out,

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Speaker 1: we've already got a tight labor market, We've already got

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Speaker 1: takes time to open idle factories, it takes time to

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Speaker 1: that mean? That means that that these trade negotiations UH

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Speaker 1: Then we've already got from tight labor markets in late

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Speaker 1: the risk that it begs a more aggressive monetary policy

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Speaker 1: world and other global leaders move on without us, and

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Speaker 1: just where we sit on the global stage. Of course,

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Speaker 1: a time uh and uh, I'm forty seven years old.

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Speaker 1: I cannot remember a time that politics mattered so much

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Speaker 1: just for the US. Everywhere politics are a wild card

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Speaker 1: for just about every economy. And politics are playing out globally.

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Speaker 1: Um and create another lay of uncertainty of exactly where

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Speaker 1: these tips for tats. Now, I'm sure you've read the

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Speaker 1: what happens to our agricultural exports that may be displaced

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Speaker 1: been exploring alternative sourcing. UM. And it's not just the US.

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Speaker 1: rebalancing that will go on. And I'm not saying that

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Speaker 1: this rebalancing occurs, but it's something that's a reality of

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Speaker 1: Are you advising people, based on your analysis, to change

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Speaker 1: in the cycle. Um, Mike Wilson, our chief US equity

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Speaker 1: strategist on the institutional security side, where I sit UM

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Speaker 1: is looking at you know, no more upside driven by

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Speaker 1: a difficult time as we view as we start to

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Speaker 1: view the second half of the year. Many thanks Ellen Center,

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Speaker 1: Morgan Stanley, chief US Economists giving us her views on

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Speaker 1: the US economy based on trade confrontations of war not

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Speaker 1: yet with us now in our London studios, Brian Class

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Speaker 1: of the London School of Economics, Fellow in Comparative Politics

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Speaker 1: in their Department of Government. And some of you will

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Speaker 1: know Professor Class for his outstanding work out on Twitter

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Speaker 1: a time of authoritarianism, and that gets to his wonderful

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Speaker 1: book The Despots Accomplices is well. Um, there was a

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Speaker 1: lot Class in this weekend in the literature, I thought

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Speaker 1: of you this weekend. A lot of people have come

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Speaker 1: around to your study of democracy in liberalism versus authority

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Speaker 1: don't think it is. I think we've got this global moment.

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Speaker 1: People tell talk about black Swan risk, the sort of unpredictable,

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Speaker 1: be a major, major geopolitical seismic shock if American foreign

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Speaker 1: policy ended the trans Atlantic relationship. How do you respond

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Speaker 1: to the morning's urgency Eli like in Bloomberg Opinion writing

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Speaker 1: and stuff beautifully that the real fear is Mr Trump

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Speaker 1: They're a huge risk. So last year, you know, Putin

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Speaker 1: the Court as well. Thank you very much, Greg Store

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Speaker 1: our bloom focas Supreme Court reporter, and of course we'll

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Speaker 1: daylight time when President Trump is scheduled to announce his selection.

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