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Speaker 2: It's called Harley Davidson. Now, John, you know I bought

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Speaker 2: a ride recently. You did not buy a Hardy. Let's

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Speaker 2: just make that clear. I bought a Vespa Piaggio scooter

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Speaker 2: fifty ccs of raw power. So you know, when you're

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Speaker 2: driving down the road and the guy and Holly Davison

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Speaker 2: comes the other way, you know, I wave, They don't

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Speaker 2: wave back. You know, I don't get the cool sign

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Speaker 2: like he're a bark but you're not anyway. Joe Levington,

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Speaker 2: he follows the all the credit stuff for a lot

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Speaker 2: of these industrial and transportation companies. He's a director of

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Speaker 2: credit research for Bloomberg Intelligence. Harley Davidson doc is up

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Speaker 2: twenty percent. Here what happened? Paul?

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Speaker 3: You're on the Vestila. I would think you'd be coming out.

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Speaker 3: Are you coming out of your Ventley while you do that?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm vestment on a jersey Shore. You can find

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Speaker 2: me any day.

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Speaker 4: Got I believe that. I believe Yeah, you know.

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Speaker 3: The key for Harley isn't really their earnings, which were

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Speaker 3: really like not great, but the potential or not the potential,

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Speaker 3: but a steak sale of their captive finance company which

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Speaker 3: came in at a much higher price than people were expecting.

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Speaker 3: That's going to be used or the proceeds are one

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Speaker 3: point twenty five billion dollars, with the proceed used for

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Speaker 3: a mix of share purchases, paying down debt, and also

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Speaker 3: for capital investment.

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Speaker 5: Okay, so when I go in to buy a Harley

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Speaker 5: Davidson motorcycle at the dealership, I finance it through this

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Speaker 5: part of Harley. That's exactly that's what they sold, or

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Speaker 5: that's part of what they're selling.

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Speaker 4: Who's buying it and why sure KKR.

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Speaker 3: And Pimpco are the buyers, each taking a four point

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Speaker 3: nine percent steak, and really they're buying it because that

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Speaker 3: business has been a very profitable business for many, many years.

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Speaker 3: It actually should be more than fifty percent of Harley's

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Speaker 3: overall profits. They actually make more money from the financing

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Speaker 3: side than they do from manufacturing vehicles right now, which

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Speaker 3: goes to the you know, the trouble that they're having

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Speaker 3: on the manufacturing side, or let's.

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Speaker 2: Talk about the manufacturing side. What's the motorcycle market like

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Speaker 4: The motorcycle business isn't bad.

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Speaker 3: I think the challenge with Harley is that it's kind

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Speaker 3: of if you go back ten years ago. The manufacturing side,

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Speaker 3: its sales are down thirteen percent over ten years. But

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Speaker 3: the real issue is that the margins have gone from

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Speaker 3: twenty percent, so they're making twenty cents on the dollar,

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Speaker 3: you know, ten years ago now they make.

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Speaker 4: About five cents.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 3: And so it's really the profitability and the erosion and

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Speaker 3: not really playing to their strengths.

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Speaker 2: Not because they can't raise prices or they're costing on them.

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Speaker 4: Well, I think it's really they've kind of lost their

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Speaker 3: They were talking today about their six thousand dollars motorcycle

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Speaker 3: But they've tried to move out into different segments of

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Speaker 2: I can't think of a more American made product anywhere

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Speaker 3: They're not immune from them, but they do have twenty

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Speaker 3: But really, like the US is where they is, where

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Speaker 7: Or well they have a variety of issues, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: How about you also cover the auto sector. How's the

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Speaker 8: Because this whole tariff situation, the uncertainty associated with transition

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Speaker 3: You know, can I get my money back in three

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Speaker 5: Will they tell us more about the future. Can it

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Speaker 3: A bondholder just wants to.

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Speaker 2: Get paid back, that's right.

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Speaker 4: See, this is where I learned different outlook.

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Speaker 2: Equity is soft, debt is hard. You can always tell

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Speaker 5: We call this smart money.

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Speaker 2: It is so smart money. The actually and they're tending

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Speaker 2: So anyway, Joe Levington one of the best global director

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Speaker 2: research Bloomberg in Intelligence, covering all that autos, industrial transportation,

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Speaker 2: all that kind of stuff from the credit perspective.

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Speaker 2: John Tucker Pauls when you live here in our Bloomberg

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Speaker 2: Interactive Broker Studio streaming live on YouTube. John, you know,

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Speaker 2: with all this inflation over the last several years, I

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Speaker 2: sticking with Heines, no matter what I mean that case

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Speaker 2: I don't know. Jen Bartash, she does this stuff for

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Speaker 9: They do, Paul, and it was all by By all

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Speaker 9: things considered, it was a pretty decent quarter for craft Tigns.

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Speaker 9: Yeah. As funny as it sounds, one of the really

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Speaker 9: And so although it's a little bit tongue in cheek

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Speaker 2: All Right, you go to any restaurant diner, USA, it's

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Speaker 9: that's why you see other companies like McCormick really doubling

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Speaker 5: And in terms of moderating rate of inflation, well, I

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Speaker 5: haven't seen it. At the food town. I'm paying more

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Speaker 5: for everything, including seems Heinz products. Am I right?

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Speaker 9: You are right in with regards to certain categories. I

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Speaker 9: be loyal to their retail operations. But inflation has been persistent,

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Speaker 2: where you'll find is here. Tesla in the news yet again,

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Speaker 2: Nice Steve. The number one issue continues to be just

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Speaker 6: But and then we can we can see the man

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Speaker 6: the first half of twenty twenty six. Now the only

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Speaker 6: the question is the can can Tesla you know, roll

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Speaker 6: out their cheaper vehicle and and hopefully create some demand

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Speaker 6: falloff and in the band from from the elimination of

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Speaker 6: the text credit.

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Speaker 5: Is Elon back focusing on his companies.

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Speaker 6: Yes, it seems like it. I mean, he hasn't been

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Speaker 6: really tweeting a lot on the politics, and I think

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Speaker 6: indicated that he is uh focused, and I think he

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Speaker 6: himself had said on social media that he is full

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Speaker 6: on in managing Tesla and as was as other businesses.

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Speaker 2: All Right, Steve, thanks so much for that quick update.

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