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Speaker 1: so much for joining us. Markets correspondent for Bloomberg televisis

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Speaker 1: joining us here and our Bloomberg Interactor Broker studio. All right,

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Speaker 1: let's stop currencies here. I'm looking at my Bloomberg Dollar Index.

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Speaker 1: It's up slightly today. Um, you know, the yen has

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Speaker 1: been the story. It's off a little bit today, but

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Speaker 1: the yen has been the story over the last couple

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Speaker 1: Audrey Child Freeman, she's a chief FX strategist. She focuses

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Speaker 1: on the G ten country. She does that with Bloomberg Intelligence.

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Speaker 1: She's based in London. She's actually in our London studios.

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Speaker 1: So you get a virtual gold star for me, Audrey

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Speaker 1: us your sense of what you know. Your takeaway is

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Speaker 1: I think it is the game changer, even though we

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Speaker 1: changer for the currency. I mean, um, the YenS cubtainly

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Speaker 1: I think when it comes to intervention, the message on

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Speaker 1: next year. We speaking about Audrey Child Freeman effect strategist

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Speaker 1: with that, you know where to find me. Audrey. You've

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Speaker 1: Chief G ten strategist currencies for Bloomberg Intelligence and again,

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Speaker 1: the terminal. Historic day in Washington, DC today is Ukrainian

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Speaker 1: President Vladimir Zelenski arrives in Washington, d C. To meet

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Speaker 1: absolutely critical to that discussion. Tamila to Shiva. She is

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Speaker 1: in Kiev. We've got some good earnings today. We had

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Speaker 1: FedEx put up some good numbers. Um, we had who

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Speaker 1: Let's start with FedEx and Lee Glasgow. He's the analyst

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Speaker 1: quality of their investment portfolios, but also as opportunists advise.

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Speaker 1: Hey r J. Just following up on Katarina's point there.

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Speaker 1: I'm an equity analyst by trade, so you know, when

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Speaker 1: I see or when I hear experts like you say, hey,

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Speaker 1: we haven't seen this kind of underperformance and fixed income

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Speaker 1: like ever, my simple responses, all right, I'm jumping in

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Speaker 1: the deep end of the pool. Um, if I want

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Speaker 1: to go along some fixed income in three where should

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Speaker 1: I start? Well, it's a good question, and I think

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Speaker 1: Katerina hit the nail on the head. I mean, typically

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Speaker 1: in this business, you do better off and you buy

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Speaker 1: low right. Uh. And the largest losses since the Washington

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Speaker 1: administration and Treasury suggests it's pretty low. Uh. The the

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Speaker 1: yield on the egg, just to go back to it again,

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Speaker 1: UH is now around four and a half percent. UH.

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Speaker 1: It was well below one percent in July. There's been

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Speaker 1: a big, big move, and I think opportunities are being created.

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Speaker 1: Gave a presentation recently here in Pittsburgh that the bond

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Speaker 1: storm clouds are starting to clear, which suggests that we've

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Speaker 1: gone back to UH to slightly short and sometimes neutral

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Speaker 1: over the last three or four months. We were much

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Speaker 1: more aggressively short and our actively managed fixing and come

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Speaker 1: portfolios for most of the last eighteen months. So we're

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Speaker 1: of the view now that we're getting to a position

452
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Speaker 1: where the FED is nearly done, the FED terminal rates

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Speaker 1: probably going to be give or take around five. The

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Speaker 1: bond markets probably still touch rich for that. That's partly

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Speaker 1: because I think the expectations of her session are so widespread.

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Speaker 1: UM bottom line, we think you should be legging into

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Speaker 1: fixed income UM getting out of UH you know, short

458
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Speaker 1: term or even cash. Cash has been great. Cash gave

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Speaker 1: you a positive nominal return in two and beat everything else.

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Speaker 1: Cash was king. We think it's gonna lose its crown

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Speaker 1: moving forward, and fixed incomes getting more attractive. We have

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Speaker 1: at our firm intermediate and total return bond funds at

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Speaker 1: various sectors that are taking more duration risk, and people

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Speaker 1: thought they were comfortable with in two for sure, but

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Speaker 1: we think that they're getting much more appealing as we

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Speaker 1: look forward as into twenty three. Well. R J talked

467
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Speaker 1: to us a little bit more about the bond market here.

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Speaker 1: If you start to see FED cuts priced later than

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Speaker 1: the back half of which is where they stand right now,

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Speaker 1: how high could yields go? Now? It's a great question.

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Speaker 1: You know a lot of people are very focused on

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Speaker 1: the terminal rate, and oftentimes that even the ten year

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Speaker 1: treasury didn't seem to flash value until it hit the

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Speaker 1: terminal rate. And if the turn rate is going to

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Speaker 1: be five, the ten years due low it's a three

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Speaker 1: sixties seven. But the reason for that is, UH, the

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Speaker 1: shocking pace of monetary tightening UH is apt to take

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Speaker 1: some prisoners in terms of creating recession in the U.

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Speaker 1: S economy and elsewhere we're seeing the same type of risk.

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Speaker 1: That's why the Vaughan market is pricing right now with

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Speaker 1: the trajectory of FED yields out say ten years that

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Speaker 1: doesn't have a five handle, doesn't even have a four handle,

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Speaker 1: because the expectation is that the shocking monetary tightening that

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Speaker 1: we've gone through and is nearly complete, is not going

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Speaker 1: to characterize the next ten years. Um. The two years

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Speaker 1: and the three year are particularly interesting. They're around four

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Speaker 1: round four. They're probably a little too low to be

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Speaker 1: frank Um, I would think the two years should be

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Speaker 1: closer to four forty or four fifty, which would suggest

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Speaker 1: the Fed gets to five, it holds it there and

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Speaker 1: by their own dots, by their own dots, which people

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Speaker 1: think the dots go back. The dots wily got back

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Speaker 1: ten years. So you know, we got to use them.

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Speaker 1: There are a new tool. They allow you to shape

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Speaker 1: some expectations. And in the marketplace, of course, they move

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Speaker 1: as facts change. But by the Fed's own plan in

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Speaker 1: the dots, they're easing to around four percent in so

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Speaker 1: so the two years shouldn't be at five, It should

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Speaker 1: be four fifty or four forty. We're almost there. Most

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Speaker 1: of the bond losses are behind you. You should. Bonds

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Speaker 1: are going to start behaving in the manner that we

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Speaker 1: as investment professionals county to believe they should behave, which

503
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Speaker 1: is an anchor to your portfolio, a bit of a

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Speaker 1: hedge to your equities that didn't work this year, We

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Speaker 1: think it will start working going forward. All right, Catarina,

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Speaker 1: just real quick thirty seconds. When you when you hear

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Speaker 1: from your clients today these days here at the end

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Speaker 1: of the year, what are they asking you about, Well,

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Speaker 1: they're asking for the outlook for twenty three and here's

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Speaker 1: what we tell them. We tell them that they need

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Speaker 1: to be more strategic with their views of economy, policy,

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Speaker 1: earnings and valuations and use tactical rollies, free balancing and

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Speaker 1: negative you know, downturns for tact loss harvesting. You know,

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Speaker 1: So we just will have to be more selective. But

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Speaker 1: this is definitely a stock picker's market that offers a

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Speaker 1: lot of opportunity. Like Katerina, thanks so much for joining

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Speaker 1: us as always, Katerina Semenetti, Senior vice president and Morgan

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Speaker 1: Stanley Private Wealth Management and R. J. Gallo, Senior portfolio Manager,

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Speaker 1: it UH Federated Hermes joining us here. A little roundtable,

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Speaker 1: little fixed income, a little broader markets here. Um, you know,

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Speaker 1: I think kind of the message we're hearing from some

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Speaker 1: of the smart people that we talked to is there's

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Speaker 1: some light at the end of the tunnel. But um,

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Speaker 1: you know, don't get too aggressive too quickly here. But

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Speaker 1: I don't know when I see fixed income returns like

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Speaker 1: that I'm thinking, Wow, I might want to jump in

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Speaker 1: there stock Evies, you know, because I'm not a car

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Speaker 1: geek like Matt Miller. But I did drive the Ford

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Speaker 1: f one fifty thanks to Matt Miller hooking me up

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Speaker 1: with his Ford buddies, like three or four days. It

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Speaker 1: was awesome strength for you. And he told me he

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Speaker 1: would take me to like test drive cars and that

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Speaker 1: never happened. He needs to make good on some of

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Speaker 1: the Lamborghini stuff that he talks about, but let's talk Evies.

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Speaker 1: It is really an interesting business, totally upending the auto

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Speaker 1: industry around the world. Xeno Mercer joins us here in

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Speaker 1: our Bloomberg Interactive Broker studios, so he gets a gold star.

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Speaker 1: He's a research channels for Robot Global Zino. Thanks so

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Speaker 1: much for joining us here. I mean, give us a

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Speaker 1: sense of where we are, like in a nine inning

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Speaker 1: ball game. Where are we in the transformation from you know,

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Speaker 1: internal combustion engines to e VS Do you think? Good question?

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Speaker 1: And thanks for having me on today. Um, I mean

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Speaker 1: right now the US, you know, if we're looking at

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Speaker 1: markets and penetration rates of e VS two ice internal

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Speaker 1: combustion engines globally we're at five percent, California is at

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Speaker 1: FI EU is way ahead. You've got you know, Norway

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Speaker 1: I think has a majority of sales as e V s,

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Speaker 1: and then China's you know, even higher still, so we're

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Speaker 1: kind of lagging behind. So if you kind of look

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Speaker 1: at from a global perspective, I mean, we're in the

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Speaker 1: second ending and you know, you have people who've never

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Speaker 1: even been in e V today, So that's a lot

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Speaker 1: of them until just just recently, well in the EV space,

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Speaker 1: and I think electrification, I immediately think China the leader

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Speaker 1: of it. And it's interesting when we talk about China,

557
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Speaker 1: talk about Deero, COVID, we talk about your political tensions,

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Speaker 1: we don't necessarily talk about competition for the e V space.

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Speaker 1: What's your take, Yeah, so I mean competition in the

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Speaker 1: e V space. I mean, think about the timeline here.

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Speaker 1: Ten years ago the Model S was released by Tesla,

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Speaker 1: so we're just ten years into this. Yeah, so happy

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Speaker 1: anniversary to the Models. But I mean, right now, you've

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Speaker 1: got Ford, You've got GM, You've got incumbents that are

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Speaker 1: retooling and rebuilding, manufacturing plants, pouring billions in the new plants.

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Speaker 1: Fords putting their biggest Campex investment into building plants such

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Speaker 1: as their Blue Oval city outside of Memphis, Tennessee. Right now, Um,

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Speaker 1: and that that's happening. So I think you're seeing, Um,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna be seeing lots of competition. Tesla's market SHARE's

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Speaker 1: job from around sev down to six and um, you

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Speaker 1: know it's I think. And then you look at global

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Speaker 1: numbers and other manufacturers worldwide, Um, you're gonna see a

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Speaker 1: more I guess even ball field and playing field when

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Speaker 1: all these other UH car manufacturers get up the speed

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Speaker 1: from that production lines. But that's gonna take some time

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Speaker 1: and investment into these robotics, manufacturing automation lines. UH to

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Speaker 1: build that out. Took us about some of the raw

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Speaker 1: materials and the rare materials that are required for e

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Speaker 1: v s. Where are the choke points. Somebody was telling

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Speaker 1: me recently that you've gotta go to Africa to get

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Speaker 1: some of these rare metals. And in China is really

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Speaker 1: investing in Africa, the US is not. That might be

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Speaker 1: a risk for the whole electrification of the global auto fleet.

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Speaker 1: What's the risk here for some of those UH raw

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Speaker 1: materials needed? Sure? Yes, So I mean right now a

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Speaker 1: majority of batteries used in cars are you know, based

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Speaker 1: on lithium, cobalt other materials like that. And yes, there

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Speaker 1: are specific kind of choke points there, which is why

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Speaker 1: there's lots of interest and intriguing and kind of just

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Speaker 1: from a sourcing and sustainability, cost and environmental perspective, they're

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Speaker 1: looking for ways to use other battering materials and reduced

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Speaker 1: it dependence on those materials. So I think when you're

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Speaker 1: looking at looking forward how the industry is going to evolve,

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Speaker 1: They're going to use different materials. You've got companies coming up,

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Speaker 1: you know, IBM, You've got top AI companies around the

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Speaker 1: world that are trying to figure out how to kind

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Speaker 1: of eliminate that that sourcing risk. But most of the

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Speaker 1: companies that are building pipelines of evs have already sourced

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Speaker 1: and secured direct pipeline from providers of those So I mean,

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Speaker 1: at least for the medium term length that they're they're

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Speaker 1: all pretty much squared away. Paul, I have a fun

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Speaker 1: fact for you. When Tesla was first uh rising in

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Speaker 1: whatever you saw the stock just kind of go up

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Speaker 1: and up and up, um cobalt prices and Tesla prices.

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Speaker 1: If you overlaid. The charts were identical. For this exact reason,

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Speaker 1: the idea that EV batteries required cobalt and I think

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Speaker 1: for the time lithium as well. It was like a

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Speaker 1: way to play Tesla through the commodities angle. Just a

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Speaker 1: little fun fact for you, but then talk to us

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Speaker 1: again about the sourcing there because one of the things

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Speaker 1: another fun fact that Ed Ludlow or Bloombrick technology anchor

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Speaker 1: and correspondence spoke to me about was that Tesla one

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Speaker 1: of the things that they do really well is build

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Speaker 1: their factory right where the commodities are kind of located.

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Speaker 1: So the supply chain issues you saw on the rest

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Speaker 1: of the car industry, Tesla didn't necessarily have to deal

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Speaker 1: with them on the same scale. Is that a type

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Speaker 1: of model that you think might be adopted more broadly. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think it's not just you know, source materials for batteries,

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Speaker 1: it's kind of the whole component. I mean right now, Uh,

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Speaker 1: these car manufacturers are building their their their plants with

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Speaker 1: you know, additive manufacturing, three D printing, I mean for

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Speaker 1: different parts. So yes, the whole world saw semiconductor shortages

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Speaker 1: and then nie products that that that really impacted their

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Speaker 1: ability to UM the liver products at a at a

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Speaker 1: and make margin. And I think I think it was

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Speaker 1: Toyota decided to slow down and their ramp up because

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Speaker 1: they just the component costs got too high. So ultimately, uh,

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Speaker 1: you will see more streamline production and manufacturing and you know,

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Speaker 1: custom builds for their for all the parts and components

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Speaker 1: to go into these plants. Robotics people tell me that's

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Speaker 1: a big part of this new wave of auto manufacturing. Right,

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Speaker 1: So I think, you know, there are a couple of

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Speaker 1: reasons why we're seeing re shoring in the US. And

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Speaker 1: and you know, I think yesterday Tesla announced a new

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Speaker 1: Giga factory in Mexico, but UM increased automation. So this

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Speaker 1: is just designing the system to be more automated, safer.

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Speaker 1: You've got robot arms that are able to manipulate and

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Speaker 1: move large pieces of the vehicles. Now, automation and robots

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Speaker 1: in the warehouse and manufacturing plants isn't new. That's been

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Speaker 1: around for fifty years. But they're getting better. They're getting faster.

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Speaker 1: They're able to do things that UM at a lower

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Speaker 1: better economies of scale. So while you know, for example,

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Speaker 1: The ability and a lot of that was just human

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Speaker 1: labor cost they were they had better, you know, lower

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Speaker 1: But in the US, we're looking at cobots which can

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Speaker 1: do kind of some more some more of the fine tuning,

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Speaker 1: the more manipulation and placements things like that, not just

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Speaker 1: these car manufacturers that not just cars. You've got UM

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Speaker 1: put a lot of money. There's benefits. There's UH loans

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Speaker 1: available for building these manufacturing plants, so we have less

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Speaker 1: risk from depending on other countries. Thirty seconds, just your

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Speaker 1: overview of charging stations. Where are we It seems like

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Speaker 1: we need a lot more of those over the next

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Speaker 1: coming years. Yeah. So, I mean you've got the government

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Speaker 1: electric vehicles by um. Yes, there's gonna be lots of

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Speaker 1: level three level four charging, which you know, level four

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Speaker 1: charging really isn't out yet. That's one mega watt. But

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Speaker 1: fifteen minutes, thirty minutes, etcetera, then we're gonna have, um,

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Speaker 1: you know, major major adoption, major adoption. That's kind of

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Speaker 1: what a lot of folks are looking for. Zeno Mercer,

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