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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio news joining us right now.

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Speaker 2: Turston slock a polyglobal management, hugely read on Wall Street.

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Speaker 2: Of course, off of is a kind of work at

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Speaker 2: Deutsche Bank is well, Turston. Twelve months forward, where's real GDP?

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Speaker 1: I still think it's strong.

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Speaker 3: But I do think that the weather report you just

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Speaker 3: had with still mildly hot economy, mildly hot weather, but

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Speaker 3: with a risk that we may have some slow down

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Speaker 3: coming maybe twelve months, but more eighteen months into the future.

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Speaker 1: The fear you can have is that.

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Speaker 3: Higher for longer ultimately begins to bite harder on LeVert

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Speaker 3: balance sheets for consumers, on LeVert balance sheets for firms,

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Speaker 3: and LeVert balance sheets in the banking sector, and that

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Speaker 3: could potentially create that dreaded recession that we've.

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Speaker 1: Been worrying about for so long.

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Speaker 3: But so far, for the next several quarters, we still

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Speaker 3: think that the tailwinds to growth are very strong from

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Speaker 3: fiscal policy and from easy financial conditions.

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Speaker 4: I'm pretty consistent here in your call that this Federal

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Speaker 4: Reserve doesn't really have to cut rates in twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 4: Do you still believe that, and if so, why?

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Speaker 3: I still believe that because of what I think. I mean,

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Speaker 3: the first test is, well, if we literally just a

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Speaker 3: quote unquote look out of the window and see how

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Speaker 3: are things going in the incoming data. Non farm payrolls

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Speaker 3: at two hundred and seventy two thousand, that's a really

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Speaker 3: strong number. There's some debate about whether some of that

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Speaker 3: maybe is driven higher because of immigration, when the Edelburgh

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Speaker 3: and Tara Watson at the Brookings Institute wrote a very

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Speaker 3: important paper suggesting that maybe the equilibrium growth in non

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Speaker 3: farm payrolls is about one hundred thousand higher than normal

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Speaker 3: because of immigration. But I still think that strength in

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Speaker 3: the numbers across the board, with a little bit of

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Speaker 3: weakness may be in retail sales earlier this week, but

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Speaker 3: at the same day we also had industrial production was

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Speaker 3: very strong, so jobless claims also looking good. It's just

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Speaker 3: hard to see where that slowdown is that so many

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Speaker 3: people are worried about. So because of that, we just

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Speaker 3: don't see the urgency for the FED having some cut rates.

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Speaker 4: Are you surprised is that the higher rates haven't impacted

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Speaker 4: the consumer more. I mean, it's it's tough to get

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Speaker 4: a plane seat, it's tough to get a seat on

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Speaker 4: a cruise ship. It's tough to get a seat at

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Speaker 4: a restaurant. Talk to just about how the consumers reacting.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this is very important Pole, So I think it's

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Speaker 3: very critical in that discussion is that the transmission mechanism

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Speaker 3: of mortary policy was actually working last year, exactly as

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Speaker 3: the textbook would have predicted. The FED raise rates in

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Speaker 3: March of twenty twenty two, and the most highly leveled

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Speaker 3: consumers started responding because you saw the languagey rates go

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Speaker 3: up on credit cards, the languagey rate go about auto loans,

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Speaker 3: especially for consumers that have more debt, which generally are

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Speaker 3: consumers that are younger also and consumers that have lower

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Speaker 3: five coats goes same thing for corporates. You began to

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Speaker 3: see the full rates go up for high yield, the

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Speaker 3: full rates go up for loans. So, in other words,

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Speaker 3: balance sheets that had a lot of debt were first

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Speaker 3: hit by the FED racing rates. But what really is

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Speaker 3: unique at the moment, that is the answer to your question, Paul,

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Speaker 3: is that for consumers, they have locked in during the pandemic,

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Speaker 3: mortgage rate, as we all know, ninety five percent are

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Speaker 3: thirty five fixed at.

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Speaker 1: Very low levels.

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Speaker 3: Likewise, for corporates, the vast majority of credit markets is

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Speaker 3: I G and IT companies locked in and turned out

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Speaker 3: also very low interest rates. And as a result of that,

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Speaker 3: the transmission making has just been weaker than what it

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Speaker 3: normally is. And that changed with a FED pivoting to

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Speaker 3: dubbish because then on top of that, not only was

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Speaker 3: from easy financial conditions with S and p up as

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Speaker 3: much as we have seen.

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Speaker 2: Tursan, You've led on this and it's your best chart

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Speaker 2: of the many charts you put out ten years ago. Folks,

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Speaker 2: the share of mortgages below four percent, Paul was thirty percent.

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Speaker 2: Is it for the conversations doubled? I mean, I mean

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Speaker 2: the number of mortgages below four percent is doubled in

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Speaker 2: ten eleven years. And touristen, that goes directly into the

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Speaker 2: transmission mechanism. You know, I'm very negative on the dots.

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Speaker 2: Do the dots of the FED have they adjusted to

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Speaker 2: the slock slower transmission mechanism?

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Speaker 3: Well, I do think what is very important in the

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Speaker 3: last if I'm seeing meeting, and you have also talked

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Speaker 3: about that on a surveillance radio, because what we saw

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Speaker 3: was of course, that the FED went from instead saying

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Speaker 3: three cuts in twenty twenty four to now saying one cut.

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Speaker 3: That on its own is an admission that we were.

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Speaker 1: Wrong at the FED. We thought that we would have

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Speaker 1: three cuts. Now we think we'll to have one cut.

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Speaker 3: So in some sense the FED is coming quote unquote

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Speaker 3: back to the view that maybe there is no strong

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Speaker 3: arguments for being in this urgent rag pace having two

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Speaker 3: cut rates as quickly as they thought just six months ago.

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Speaker 2: Were thrilled you with us for the entire half our

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Speaker 2: tourist and slock. You know, we're gonna go to go

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Speaker 2: to Michael barn News, but I'm gonna really come up

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Speaker 2: on beating this folks. I haven't mentioned this on area yet,

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Speaker 2: but it's a symptotic twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 1: What is he talking about?

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Speaker 2: Come on, tourston all the assim Tote discussion. Ethan Harris

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Speaker 2: retired from Bank of America leading the charge on as

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Speaker 2: a few others as well. They're lost and they're extending

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Speaker 2: out the axis as far as they can. It's that simple, right.

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Speaker 1: I agree.

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Speaker 3: I think that what is very important here is that

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Speaker 3: we have unleashed some fairly significant powers with inflation going up.

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Speaker 3: And one point that's also very critical in this discussion

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Speaker 3: inflation long term inspectations.

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Speaker 1: The median is still very well behaved. So the median

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Speaker 1: household still.

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Speaker 3: Thinks inflation will be three point one, which is where

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Speaker 3: it's been for the last several years. But if you

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Speaker 3: look at the mean, you will see a significant increase

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Speaker 3: in one half of the population expecting that inflation is

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Speaker 3: going to be dramatically higher than the other half. And

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Speaker 3: if you look at the sub questions in the Unversity

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Speaker 3: of Michigan, who is it that's expecting inflation to be higher,

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Speaker 3: It is, generally speaking, the bottom thirty three percent of

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Speaker 3: household incomes, meaning low income households expect much higher inflation

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Speaker 3: in inflation expectations. And this is opening up a very

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Speaker 3: important debate in the Phillips curve that you and I,

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Speaker 3: Tom and I talked about for years, where if inflation

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Speaker 3: that inflation expectations are under control.

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Speaker 1: Yes, the media may be under control, but.

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Speaker 3: There's a significant part of the population they're still worry

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Speaker 4: To us and talk to us about what concern do

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Speaker 4: you have about this? Maybe the commercial real estate market

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Speaker 4: in this country it feels like it's there's still a

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Speaker 4: big shoe or two or three to drop, but maybe not.

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Speaker 4: How do you think about that risk here as we

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Speaker 4: look around to some of these big cities and see

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Speaker 4: a lot of vacant office space.

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Speaker 3: I think the important data point first to keep in

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Speaker 3: mind is that the price per square foot for office

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Speaker 3: course means that there's a lot of office that has

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Speaker 3: been reset at a lower level. Now, there's some important

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Speaker 3: particularly in office that is really really steep. For other

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Speaker 3: types of commercial real estate things look a lot better.

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Speaker 3: But the main issue still that we should all be

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Speaker 3: of the downward drift is.

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Speaker 4: Towards another economic issue that's really been or I guess

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Speaker 4: this discussion point over the last eighteen months as we

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Speaker 4: look around the world as this concept of American exceptionalism

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Speaker 4: from an economic perspective, you know, the commercial rule state

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Speaker 4: issue notwithstanding, how real is that the US economy strength

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Speaker 4: do you explain that?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, this is really important.

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Speaker 3: So there is a structural discussion exactly about is the

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Speaker 3: US exceptional and the US it's closed. It is exceptional

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Speaker 3: because of large capital markets, much more spending and broadly

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Speaker 3: on the role of the US consumer. So simply because

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Speaker 3: this very sot it does, generally speaking, attract capital.

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Speaker 1: On top of that comes the most cygnical.

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Speaker 3: Arguments, namely that the US business cycle just happens to

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Speaker 1: And when the US is stronger, then that.

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Speaker 3: but now signaling clearly the rake cuts are coming. All

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Speaker 3: that argues for still more upward pressure on the dollar

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Speaker 3: because the US is exceptional not only from a structural perspective,

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Speaker 3: So with that background, when will that exceptionalism from the

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Speaker 3: cyclical perspective change?

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Speaker 1: When the FED begins to cut rates, then.

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Speaker 3: We could begin to see the dollar begin to turn

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Speaker 3: really south in a most more substantial way. But given

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Speaker 3: that's still now being pushed out repeatedly, then I still

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Speaker 3: think the dollar will be going up, and the exceptionalism

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Speaker 3: does play a very important role, both on the structural

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Speaker 2: Turst then one more question. We've got to go to

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Speaker 2: breaking news. But I think this is too too important.

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Speaker 2: Back to the idea of an xxis that goes out

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Speaker 2: forever in the new idea percolating of an assm tote,

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Speaker 2: I guess down to two percent. Is the assump tote

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Speaker 2: a smooth glide path down to two percent out there

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Speaker 2: somewhere or is it two point x percent?

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Speaker 3: So if you mean inflation, of course, then the issue

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Speaker 3: is that inflation at the moment, as you know, is

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Speaker 3: three point three. The FEDS target is that it should

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Speaker 3: be two. Three point three is not two. So that's

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Speaker 3: why if I'm seeing members repeatedly talk about, well, maybe

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Speaker 3: we do need to wait a little while longer before

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Speaker 3: we start cutting rates.

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Speaker 1: And to your question, will we.

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Speaker 3: is absolutely not. We still have significant tailwinds from fiscal policy,

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Speaker 3: the Chips Act, the Inflation Reduction Infrastructure and in all

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Speaker 3: we have a very strong tailwind from easy financial conditions.

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Speaker 3: As long as the AI story and the stock market

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Speaker 3: goes up, we still will have like we saw this

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Speaker 3: early season, strong demand for airlines, hotels, restaurants, concert sporting events.

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Speaker 3: So the short answer to your question is I worry

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Speaker 3: that inflation is not going to come down in a

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Speaker 3: straight line to two percent from the three point three

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Speaker 3: percent where we are today.

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Speaker 2: Tristin Sluk, thank you so much. It's with Apollo