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Speaker 1: Alex Steele, I'm.

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Speaker 2: Joining us now from Washington, DC. Is Julie Sue, Acting

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Speaker 2: US Secretary of Labor Secretary. Pleasure to speak with you.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for joining you too. The market sees this

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Speaker 2: is a good report. Good news is good news for

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Speaker 2: the market. How long can this good news continue? From

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Speaker 2: where you sit?

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Speaker 3: Right, that's right, that's the right characterization of this.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 3: This is exactly what you'd want to see if you're

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Speaker 3: looking for a soft landing. This is the if you

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Speaker 3: average the last three months, it's about one hundred and

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Speaker 3: fifty thousand jobs each month being created. This is the

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Speaker 3: transition from the breakneck speed of the fast recovery we

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Speaker 3: saw initially when President Biden first came into office, to

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Speaker 3: the consistent steady, stable growth that you want to see

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Speaker 3: in a strong economy.

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Speaker 2: The one really big acts here, Secretary, is what's happening

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Speaker 2: with the unions. You have the Hollywood strike still ongoing,

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Speaker 2: the actors strike still ongoing. You have a potential autoworker

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Speaker 2: strike that could hit the Big Three. You have trains,

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Speaker 2: you have doc workers. There's a lot of union action

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Speaker 2: right now is the White House and active conversations with

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Speaker 3: Right So, we're continuing to see the effects of a

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Speaker 3: tight labor market. Right We continue to have now unemployment

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Speaker 3: at less than four percent. This is the longest stretch

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Speaker 3: since the nineteen sixties. And in a tight labor market,

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Speaker 3: workers have more power. We've seen workers come back to

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Speaker 3: the labor market and make choices about what it means

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Speaker 3: to have a good job, good family sustaining job, a

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Speaker 3: good job where they can, you know, make demands to

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Speaker 3: improve their lives and their working conditions. And the unions

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Speaker 4: Now. You mentioned some.

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Speaker 3: Unions where you know, through those demands they've resolved issues

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Speaker 3: that were long standing, that have raised wages and address

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Speaker 3: certain conditions. You mentioned the ports. That's one area you know,

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Speaker 3: we saw that with the Teamsters in ups last month.

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Speaker 3: We continue to see workers making these demands, and these

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Speaker 3: in an administration that supports working people. This is really

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Speaker 3: part and parcel of workers being able to demand their

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Speaker 3: fair share.

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Speaker 2: Sure, but when you take a look at the auto workers,

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Speaker 2: for example, how does the administration avoid Sean Faine, as

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Speaker 2: the head of the United Auto Workers, overplaying his hand.

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Speaker 2: The increases in demands that union is asking are tremendous

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Speaker 2: things that many say are very unrealistic, and if those

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Speaker 2: what some are saying. How does the President Biden handle that?

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Speaker 3: I mean we have definitely seen wage increases in contracts

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Speaker 3: that have been signed. We've seen them wage increases you know,

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Speaker 3: over six year periods, right, multiple year periods. I think

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Speaker 3: We allow the parties to stay at the table. They

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Speaker 2: If they stay at the table and then eventually they

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that's right, and so that's why we're

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Speaker 3: we remain hopeful that the parties will resolve their issues.

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Speaker 3: We trust their process to do that. Obviously, you know,

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Speaker 2: I totally get it, and there is a process. But

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Speaker 2: if President Biden is facing something like three big auto

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Speaker 2: both of those are difficult. On the one hand, you

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Speaker 2: to lead to higher inflation with wages. Which side are

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Speaker 3: Well, I think overall right, as we talked about with

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Speaker 3: It's important to allow the parties to do what they

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Speaker 3: one of the pillars of Bidenomics is to believe it

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Speaker 3: and that is something that he's been unwavering about.

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Speaker 2: So that really does feel like support the wage gains,

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Speaker 2: even if it might come at the expense short term

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Speaker 3: Well, it's really about supporting the parties, negotiating in good

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Speaker 3: place where, you know, the President often says, when workers

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Speaker 2: But before I let you go, and I'm saying this

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Speaker 2: and Jess, but I actually mean it, Taylor Swift has

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Speaker 2: and I'm wondering, do you talk to Taylor Swift like

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Speaker 3: Right, So I'll respond with, you know, women are powering

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Speaker 3: the fifth month straight, record breaking. And remember during the pandemic,

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Speaker 3: come back in really high numbers and get jobs, and

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Speaker 3: we need to continue with that trend, make sure that

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Speaker 2: Yeah, don't think Taylor Swift had a problem with that.

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Speaker 4: Are women.

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Speaker 2: But okay, thank you very much, Secretary, appreciate. Julie Shoe,

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Speaker 2: acting us the Secretary of Labor.

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Speaker 1: Alex Steele with the acting director Julie Sue of Labor

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Speaker 1: Randall Kraser with with perspective here and we've better forget

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Speaker 1: about the economic mambo jumbo and go to the FED.

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Speaker 1: Professor Krasler, can you glean here a FED that will

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Speaker 1: change its attitude towards the November meeting?

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Speaker 6: So I think, as we're talking about before, this is

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Speaker 6: kind of, you know, roughly what the FED was expecting.

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Speaker 6: You've seen a little bit less wage pressure, which is

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Speaker 6: good from the Fed's perspective. We've seen greater labor force participation,

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Speaker 6: which the FED also also likes. That's likely what is

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Speaker 6: accounting for the increase in the in the unemployment rate.

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Speaker 6: So you're seeing the kind of goldilock scenario that the

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Speaker 6: so that'll take the pressure off the FED from raising rates.

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Speaker 6: I think it'd be really unlikely that they're going to

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Speaker 1: Randy, we've got to run. But one more quick question,

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Speaker 1: if I may. It's a dual mandate. Is it really

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Speaker 1: a dual mandate for this federal reserve system?

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Speaker 6: Well, this is the big pivot that came last year

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Speaker 6: that we're going to fight inflation. So he basically said, sure,

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Speaker 6: we have a dual mandate, but the inflation part is

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Speaker 6: where the fed's looking so carefully at data to make

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Speaker 6: bring the unemployment rate zooming up. It's hard to get

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Speaker 6: that perfect. A lot of people think, oh, the FIT

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Speaker 6: can engine perfectly engineer this soft landing, that they have

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Speaker 6: There are a lot of other factors that come in.

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Speaker 1: Governor Krausner, thank you so much for joining us today.

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Speaker 1: Professor Krausner at the Boot School in the Chicago Katie,

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Speaker 1: Why don't you bring in Jeffrey Rosenberg here? It's a

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Speaker 1: bond market shifting, Well, let's do it.

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Speaker 7: Jeff Rosenberg. He is portfolio manager of the Systematic Multi

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Speaker 7: Strategy Fund over at Blackrock. Jeff, it's great to talk

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Speaker 7: to you. You look at the first blush in the markets.

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Speaker 7: You have short end yields absolutely plunging, you of futures

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Speaker 7: getting a bit of a bid when you go through

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Speaker 7: these numbers. Is that the correct reaction?

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Speaker 5: I think it is, and I think this was the

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Speaker 5: report that the market was looking for. You might have

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Speaker 5: expected report. But this is the reaction of pricing out

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Speaker 5: to deliver, you know, And so I think that market

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Speaker 5: reaction makes a lot of sense. The front end of

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Speaker 5: seeing the biggest reaction, and that prices in the near term.

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Speaker 4: Expectations for Fed policy.

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Speaker 5: So the labor markets are normalizing, and that's the main

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Speaker 5: message from today's payroll report.

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Speaker 4: Wages are softening a little.

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Speaker 5: Bit on the margin, not really much movement in the

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Speaker 5: three month averages.

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Speaker 4: The point two. It just missed rounding up to point three.

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Speaker 4: It's a point two. So you're seeing still the slowness

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Speaker 4: the slowdown in the wages. And so the Fed's going

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Speaker 4: to still talk about that. But when you look at

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Speaker 4: labor force participation, that's a big change.

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Speaker 5: That's what the FED wants to see, as Randy said,

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Speaker 5: that's the reason for the increase in the unemployment rate.

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Speaker 4: So pretty much a very nice number for everyone to

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Speaker 7: Talk about the labor market normalizing here, extrapolate this into

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Speaker 1: Jeff, I find this absolutely extraordinary, which is we had

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Speaker 5: Well, I think one thing we have to be a

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Speaker 5: Powell one of the main takeaways. Two main takeaways where

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Speaker 1: And now pre labor day, pre labor day Carnegie Melon math.

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Speaker 5: You've brought up the equity market. That's positive for the

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Speaker 7: I want to bring this conversations more firmly to the markets.

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Speaker 7: Ian Lincoln was on surveillance a couple of days ago

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Speaker 7: I think that made multiple headlines. When you look at

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Speaker 5: Well, you know, when we talk about duration, it's not

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Speaker 5: questions about whether this post COVID, post normalization yield curve

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Speaker 1: Jeff, thank you. Jeff Rosenberger's with the black Rock. Sarah

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Speaker 1: It's real simple. I've got an eleven point eight percent

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Speaker 8: Well, good morning time and thank you for having me.

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Speaker 8: I think this is really an interesting report, especially since

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Speaker 8: Goldilocks moment. I was going to say, that's a Goldilocks

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Speaker 8: that's what that's what the FED was looking for. I

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Speaker 7: And Sarah, like you said, this is good news for

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Speaker 7: the FED. That seems to be the narrative in markets

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Speaker 7: payrolls fell by seventeen thousand, then you take a look

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Speaker 4: Well.

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Speaker 8: I think this also goes to one of your earlier

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