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

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg dot Com, and of course, on the Bloomberg James

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Speaker 1: Sweeney was with Credit Sweete his wonderful call a number

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Speaker 1: of years ago, fear not of deflation, He joins us

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Speaker 1: now the chief economists for Credit Sweete, James Sweeney, Should

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Speaker 1: we fear inflation? I don't think so. I think we

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Speaker 1: may get it. I think the risks of of inflation,

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Speaker 1: of higher inflation down the road are certainly going up

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Speaker 1: with all this policy. But I'm not sure there's anything

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Speaker 1: really to fear there. Well, there's not the fear there,

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Speaker 1: but then there's a rate of change. In Antonian analysis

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Speaker 1: of all this, I mean, I don't really see. I

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Speaker 1: do see the vector of five year five years. I

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Speaker 1: get it. It's an impulse higher inflation. But do you

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Speaker 1: see your rate of change that causes concern? I don't.

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Speaker 1: I think where the global fixed income market is leaves

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Speaker 1: supply and demand supported for lower long term yealds. So

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Speaker 1: I think they can go up, but I don't think

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Speaker 1: they're gonna go up a hundred basis points. I don't

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Speaker 1: think they're gonna go up enough to imparallel housing recovery

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Speaker 1: or anything like that. James, I assume you read the

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Speaker 1: pace from Larry Summers on Friday and to the weekend,

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Speaker 1: and it's huge debate everybody's having right now. Can you

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Speaker 1: weigh in on that just a little bit more for us, James,

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Speaker 1: you'll take and why you sit on this discussion right now? Well,

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Speaker 1: I mean I've been looking for the package to come

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Speaker 1: down from one point nine trillion. At one point nine

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Speaker 1: is is very large. Um So you know this is uh,

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Speaker 1: this is this is stimulative relief. It's it's stimulus, and

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Speaker 1: it's true. And I think we look ahead to next year.

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Speaker 1: I think it is realistic to get back to full

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Speaker 1: employment in two thousand twenty two. We're gonna have a

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Speaker 1: little overshoot and inflation in the coming months. It is

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Speaker 1: possible that we have inflation running above two percent, maybe

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Speaker 1: a decent amount above two for the next twelve months. Um,

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Speaker 1: we'll take it. I mean, these are these are good things.

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Speaker 1: Um So I I think, yes, we may get overheated.

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Speaker 1: We may get very volatile markets, we may get a

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Speaker 1: cyclical whip Shaw in the economy. Um, so you're you're

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Speaker 1: putting more cyclicality into growth. So there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: volatility in a bill of this size, But volatility is

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Speaker 1: not you know, a significant cost given the objectives involved here,

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Speaker 1: which is really to get the economy back to full employment.

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Speaker 1: Uh and and maybe to soothe some of its distributional consequences.

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Speaker 1: Do you take issue with size alone, though, James, Or

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Speaker 1: is it the composition of it as well? Oh? Composition

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Speaker 1: think about this as part one because it's clear than

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Speaker 1: when that because this gets past, the administration is going

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Speaker 1: to start focusing on a long term stimulus bill with

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Speaker 1: green energy and infrastructure and and all that. So there's

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Speaker 1: a balance between immediate stimulus, how much cash drop is

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Speaker 1: term implication including the later package. Because I don't think

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Speaker 1: you can think about the results of this bill, uh

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Speaker 1: and the politics of this bill without realizing what's up next.

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Speaker 1: So these are these are all big things, and and

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Speaker 1: this is a major increase in the projected growth of

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Speaker 1: the economy in the in the next few years, if

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Speaker 1: both of these bills get through, and even if this

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Speaker 1: one just gets through at a one point non trillion

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Speaker 1: size or something close to it, James, let's talk a

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Speaker 1: little bit more about composition, and I want to follow

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Speaker 1: up on something John was talking about. You rightly identified

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Speaker 1: the way that Democrats are painting at the checks is

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Speaker 1: something perhaps a bit more than just relief, but also

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Speaker 1: evening out that K shaped recovery. It is a very

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Speaker 1: important point. Is the Democratic Party framing this wrong? Is

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Speaker 1: there a cleaner economic argument for the money to be

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Speaker 1: going to lower income families in it they will be

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Speaker 1: spending it more and more quickly. Whereas if you have

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Speaker 1: a certain threshold, a certain cut off that's even known,

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Speaker 1: that will go directly into savings. Well, it's clear that

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Speaker 1: a proper services recovery. I think the distribution of this,

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Speaker 1: How they emphasize that, I think that's a political question.

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Speaker 1: They're just trying to get it past. I think the

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Speaker 1: uh and get onto normal life again later this year. James,

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Speaker 1: if they pass this bill, we could get to full

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Speaker 1: employment by perhaps next year. I think we can easily

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Speaker 1: that next fiscal bill is going to be right around

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Speaker 1: the corner. I think in three months we're gonna be

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Speaker 1: talking about green energy and infrastructure. So this is this

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Speaker 1: is really just the starts. The question then, is how

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Speaker 1: to financial markets start to move in response to all that?

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Speaker 1: Do we see meaningfully higher interest rates, inflation, etcetera. So

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Speaker 1: this this really is changing the macro outlook very substantially. James,

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Speaker 1: what is the inflation partition services and goods? What's that

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Speaker 1: had we've had a larger jump in goods inflation than

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Speaker 1: to the pandemic. We've all heard about this base effect

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Speaker 1: inflation measures are really around the world. They're gonna be

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Speaker 1: going up into June. But actually it's gonna be more

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Speaker 1: pronounced at this goods versus services level. Goods inflation, non

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Speaker 1: be shortages of restaurant tables and flights, and then you

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Speaker 1: can actually get some services inflation. But we need a

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Speaker 1: switch around. James Wilson's to catch up as always. Good

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Speaker 1: to see you, buddy, James Sweeney, The chronis Sway chief economist,

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Speaker 1: David Rosenberg and Rosenberg Research, and we're thrilled a good

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Speaker 1: joint us today. David. When you partition our present inflation

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Speaker 1: in you know, not just a significant econmount of recovery,

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Speaker 1: but alongside that the closing of the output gap earlier

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Speaker 1: But you know, the big question isn't so much the

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Speaker 1: the economy. And I would have thought actually that the

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Speaker 1: be inflationary. You're taking a different tech. Can you buy

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Speaker 1: price up, yield lower? Well, I think we're heading into

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Speaker 1: a very attractive buying opportunity at the long end of

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Speaker 1: The big debate is really is about inflation. Um. But

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Speaker 1: How useful have they ever been? Given where we are

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Speaker 1: two point four percent. To me, the big picture is

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Speaker 1: back into the long end of the curve. David, to

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Speaker 1: build on what John was talking about, there's a difference

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Speaker 1: between inflation expectations and actual belief in inflation that's being

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Speaker 1: borne out throughout markets. How consistent is the reflation trade

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Speaker 1: that's at the expense of that's a tackling wealth inequality.

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Speaker 1: Wealth inequality now is a target of the Treasury. How

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Speaker 1: are you thinking about that issue at the moment? Ethan Well,

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Speaker 1: I think that I think tackling inequalities an extremely important

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Speaker 1: very important policy objective. The question is how do you

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Speaker 1: the economy. I don't think you address any quality by

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Speaker 1: that that's not a lasting solution. The solution has to

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Speaker 1: agree or disagree on that from a political point of view,

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Speaker 1: but those are the tools for the task, not not

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Speaker 1: whether you've really done enough or not. UM. It doesn't

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Speaker 1: mean we don't need any fiscal stimulus. We need to

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Speaker 1: address the most hurt parts of the economy. But giving

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Speaker 1: months forward? I've really lost sight of it, Ethan. It's

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Speaker 1: because right, so we've got growth this year six percent UM.

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Speaker 1: The Bloomberg consensus is four point one right now, so

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Speaker 1: we think consensus has got a lot of catching up

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Speaker 1: on our assumption that only half of the one point

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Speaker 1: nine trillion would actually be enacted. UM. If the whole

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Speaker 1: thing gets enacted, we're gonna have to revisit those numbers UM.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, that's the fastest growth um since

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Speaker 1: Eighthan wonderful to catch you sn cluse Ethan has that

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