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Speaker 2: Dani Peterson at the conference board. Daniel, welcome back to

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Speaker 2: the program. Got lots to talk to you about that

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Speaker 2: consumer confidence number from earlier than this week. I just

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Speaker 2: want to pick up on the data that came out

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Speaker 2: just months ago this morning. How are you thinking about it?

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Speaker 2: How does it inform your view of where the Fed

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Speaker 2: goes next?

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Speaker 3: Well, I think the jury still out.

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Speaker 1: We still have a lot more data where you could see,

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Speaker 1: especially next week's ecloyment data.

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Speaker 3: But I mean the good news is.

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Speaker 1: Then please and is continuing to slow and so the

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Speaker 1: Fed can be less concerned about that if inflation flows

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Speaker 1: faster than the past that they outlined in the September SDPs.

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Speaker 1: Then certainly they can go fifty, but again they need

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Speaker 1: to I think they need to see the labor market,

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Speaker 1: and I think the labor market's doing fine. When we

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Speaker 1: look at the number of payrolls, you don't need to

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Speaker 1: have two three hundred thousand payroll editions a month when

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Speaker 1: you're pretty much at full employment and the unemployment grade

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Speaker 1: is very low. Wage inflation is still elevated, so there's

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Speaker 1: still a lot of good news about the labor market.

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Speaker 1: And also when we look at growth, you know, if

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Speaker 1: consumers continue to spend, then that's.

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Speaker 3: Going to mean very strong GDP growth. So I think

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Speaker 3: the Fed is still going.

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Speaker 1: To be data dependent, and you know, all the data

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Speaker 1: from now until November are going to decide whether the

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Speaker 3: Fifty or twenty five.

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Speaker 2: Well, Dena, how low is the bar to go fifty?

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Speaker 2: We've got payrolls next Friday. They estimate in our surveys

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Speaker 2: Something between one hundred and one fifty is still okay

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Speaker 2: for the economy. And where we're at right now, how

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Speaker 2: low is the bar to go fifty.

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Speaker 1: Well, I think if you start seeing negative payroll reads

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Speaker 3: To lean on.

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Speaker 1: Okay, now from the downside, risks that we feared or

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Speaker 1: starting to materialize, So we need to cut rates faster

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Speaker 4: Were surprised by Dana and by how weak some of

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Speaker 3: That you ended up surveying.

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Speaker 4: Were you surprised that people felt like jobs really were

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Speaker 1: Well, not really, because if you think about it, the

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Speaker 3: So it's still a story of hiring and hoarding.

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Speaker 1: And so if that's the case, then you're not going

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Speaker 4: We also saw a decline and consumer sentiment just more broadly,

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Speaker 3: The rate of change and inflation.

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Speaker 1: I think consumers are not really going to get too

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Speaker 5: But to Lisa's point, I understand you have a surgical

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Speaker 5: campaign trail. Right now, if you're a CEO and you

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Speaker 5: that companies are just waiting for more clarity after November fifth.

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Speaker 1: Yes, companies are waiting for more clarity. But the thing

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Speaker 3: But we're noticing that as goods.

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Speaker 1: Price fall, consumers are running out there and they're buying cars.

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Speaker 1: So we're not getting that sense that companies are either

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Speaker 2: Then, Unpleased that you joined the program today, because I'm

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Speaker 2: sure you've got a lot of phone calls this week.

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Speaker 2: Danny Peterson at the conference book John Guess Now is

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Speaker 2: Christina Hoope of Investgo. Christina is going to see you.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the program.

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Speaker 6: It's great to see you too.

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Speaker 2: Is this the real deal a game changer in China

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Speaker 3: I think it could very well be.

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Speaker 6: I mean, certainly the initial reaction suggests that it could be.

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Speaker 6: That it's certainly more than was expected, and seems like

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Speaker 6: there's a real commitment to follow up with more as

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Speaker 6: a needed.

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Speaker 2: Talk to me about what changes for you, because a

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Speaker 2: lot of people are waking up thinking I've been over

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Speaker 2: a whit US runners sis to the rest of the

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Speaker 2: world for a long long time. Does that need to change?

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Speaker 6: I do think it needs to change somewhat. But I

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Speaker 6: would say where the bigger overweight is is still cash,

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Speaker 6: and so there's an opportunity to deploy and get one's

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Speaker 6: US equities, but just build up exposures to other areas

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Speaker 6: like European equities, like Chinese equities instead. And I think

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Speaker 6: there's a real argument to move more into China because

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Speaker 6: valuations are very attractive. We've just been waiting for that catalyst.

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Speaker 6: It seems to have rived.

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Speaker 4: I love this people, person after person who comes in

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Speaker 4: There's so many other things.

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Speaker 4: Lock in these yields. Go to China, go to equities

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Speaker 6: I think there's certainly a lot of nervousness out there.

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Speaker 6: There is an excitement about rake cuts and the opportunities

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Speaker 6: think there's certainly a bit of a split personality for

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Speaker 6: a pretty brief soft landing with an economic reacceleration to follow.

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Speaker 4: There's a real question here about whether that soft landing

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Speaker 6: I think of it as almost the opposite of twenty

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Speaker 6: have a year where you have an everything rally. You

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Speaker 5: I love that everything bagel on and everything rally well potentially,

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Speaker 5: and your notes put it, the markets are still swimming

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Speaker 5: in a sea of uncertainty. Out of all those uncertainties,

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Speaker 5: what ranks number one for you whether or.

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Speaker 6: Not the US has a soft landing. Let's face it,

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Speaker 6: we're certainly getting data that tells us that the economy

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Speaker 6: is in fairly good shape. But there is that fear that,

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Speaker 6: because of the long and variable legs of monetary policy,

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Speaker 6: that aggressive tightening cycle, that restrictive monetary policy environment catches.

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Speaker 6: And so that's why I think we follow consumer sentiments

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Speaker 6: the Conference Board consumer numbers the other day. But I

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Speaker 6: you saw where's consumers got much more negative on economy,

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Speaker 6: but they still want to spend, they still want to

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Speaker 5: They still have credit cards. So even if you're worried

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Speaker 2: And Donald Trump's going to camp the interest rate on

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Speaker 2: what would hapen? And if we did that, we'd basically

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Speaker 5: Two things, One again, is Donald Trump or Bernie Sanders

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Speaker 5: so we heard from mister Moultpass was a serious immediate

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Speaker 4: All I can say is, think about all the money

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Speaker 4: they'd be locked out, it's just, you.

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Speaker 3: Know, you really want to borrow.

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Speaker 4: Come on over here, I've.

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Speaker 3: Got a price for you.

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Speaker 2: Don't underestimate innovation in financial markets in America. Christina is

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Speaker 2: going to see it. Thanks for being here, Christina Hoop

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Speaker 2: there of Investco. Marvin Low of State Street stain bullish

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Speaker 2: ris in this. The FED is alive and well. The

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Speaker 2: Marv and I've said this a few times out of

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Speaker 8: You know what, it's a pretty good time right now

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Speaker 7: That it might accelerate is just good for risk assets.

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Speaker 7: And you know, let's not look that gift towards in

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Speaker 7: the Mount Marvin.

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Speaker 2: The mans are up, luxuries up, Chinese tech is up

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Speaker 2: by almost twenty percent so far this week. We've seen

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Speaker 2: this movie before you get Hitts the stimulus out of China,

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Speaker 2: We rip for a little bit and then we roll over.

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Speaker 2: Is it different this time?

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Speaker 7: You know, it's pretty significant.

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Speaker 8: Certainly, it does seem as if the central government is

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Speaker 8: It's a real question to us whether or not, you know,

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Speaker 4: There's a broader theme here, and this, I think is

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Speaker 8: You know what, I've always been of the thought that

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Speaker 7: Through the rest of the world. So, yeah, there is

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Speaker 8: Even though everything has been you know, fairly well priced,

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Speaker 8: a looser monetary policy coming out of the US just

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Speaker 4: Is it now just a potential policy error waiting for

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Speaker 4: the ECB not to hike, not to cut rates in

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Speaker 4: They've got a whole host of potential challenges. There is

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Speaker 4: Am I missing something?

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Speaker 7: Yeah? I agree with you completely.

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Speaker 8: What is going to be interesting, I think as we

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Speaker 7: Where in the us.

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Speaker 8: We're still debating whether or not kind of this two

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Speaker 7: The pandemic started, makes sense, you know, does it need

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Speaker 8: And that's kind of the Monte policy diversion, a dispersion

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Speaker 5: Marvin leaving the ECB to one side. How promising is

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Speaker 8: I mean, I mean, for sure we have to look

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Speaker 8: It's Germany's really real inability to kind of get out

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Speaker 7: It'll help, for sure, but there's still a lot of

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Speaker 5: How difficult does understand the German economy when you see

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, I mean, for sure, again it's the

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Speaker 8: You know, Germany has really benefited from a pre pandemic

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Speaker 8: think through that as a potential headwind as we go

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Speaker 8: into an environment where geopolitics potentially becomes a much higher

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Speaker 4: Okay, putting aside potential geologic political shocks, you are potentially

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Speaker 4: Is that an accurate characterization?

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Speaker 8: No, no, no, I mean I really did feel that

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Speaker 8: I do think that the tailwind globally is pretty significant.

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Speaker 8: So you know, I've been I've liked stocks for the

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Speaker 4: Okay, so you've been bullish for a while, and that's

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Speaker 4: what a lot of people have been saying. They're getting

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Speaker 4: always been this bullish. People are saying, get out of cash.

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Speaker 4: It is the time to start going into other assets,

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Speaker 4: into stocks, into longer term bonds. Yesterday we got data

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Speaker 4: Jerome Schinder yesterday of PIMCO is telling us this is

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Speaker 4: not really going to be the best place to be.

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Speaker 4: It is actually accelerating the flows into these asset classes.

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Speaker 4: Six point four trillion dollars now in money market funds.

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Speaker 4: How do you explain the fact that people are still

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Speaker 7: Yeah, you know what. We were having that exact same

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Speaker 8: There are a lot of things that don't necessarily package

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Speaker 8: well in terms of the flows and liquidity. I do

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Speaker 8: to worry about liquidity, if you will. At the same

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Speaker 7: But QT will continue to operate in the background given.

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Speaker 8: That there's so much liquidity out there, and we do

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Speaker 2: Down twenty twenty five, I think we've got to talk

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Speaker 2: think we can avoid that kind of gambler in the

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Speaker 7: I mean, you know what, there's so.

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Speaker 8: Much that's going to happen in early November, you know,

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Speaker 7: The FED is that week.

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Speaker 8: Also, you know, the risks that I would look at

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Speaker 8: we can call it, you know, who the president is comfortably.

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Speaker 8: If we can't, that is an absolute risk premium that

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Speaker 8: the market needs to absorb. In terms of policy itself,

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Speaker 8: there's going to be an intric reaction where Democrats are

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Speaker 8: if you will, But policy itself that gets.

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Speaker 7: Put in place, you know.

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Speaker 8: I think we need to figure out who Congress is

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Speaker 8: and what they can actually get done, if anything. Really

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Speaker 8: the deficit discussion remains top and center.

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Speaker 7: However, as we go through this, which really.

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Speaker 8: Formulates how you want to look at longer treasure yields

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Speaker 2: Year, be on the bond market though month and I

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Speaker 2: think this raises really important questions about the character of

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Speaker 2: the current rally. We've seen China absolutely rip this week.

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Speaker 2: How vulnerable would it be this rally to a Trump

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Speaker 7: Oh, you know, for for sure.

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Speaker 8: Again, I do think that a lot of what we're

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Speaker 7: We've had head fakes before.

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Speaker 8: It takes the real economy in China getting firm footing

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Speaker 2: Marvin enjoyed this. Thank you, Sarah. As always, Marvin lode

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