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

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Speaker 1: with Jonathan Ferrell and Lisa Abramowitz. Daily we bring you

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Speaker 1: historic I MF meeting as well any number of topics

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Speaker 1: to speak to Geita Gopeneth about the first deputy Managing

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Speaker 1: Director at the International Monetary Fund and as I am

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Speaker 1: aggested a GEO with a managing director on the United Kingdom,

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Speaker 1: a meeting with the former Chancellor and with the Prime

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Speaker 1: Minister just a few days ago, I must begin there

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Speaker 1: with you. Your research capability says what is the best

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Speaker 1: first practice for this fractured government in the United Kingdom,

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Speaker 1: what's the best first for them to get to some

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Speaker 1: form of new stability. So Tom first days the leisures

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Speaker 1: who join you here. We are following the developments in

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Speaker 1: the UK, and of course there are issues which we

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Speaker 1: don't comment on. We do hear that there is some

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Speaker 1: recalibration likely to happen on the policies, but we don't

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Speaker 1: have any details. We'll see what comes next and then

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Speaker 1: we will be able to comment more on those. Thank

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Speaker 1: you for those comments, and we'll get much more on that,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure from the managing director as well. Folks, I've

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Speaker 1: got to this up here. This is how quickly things

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Speaker 1: are moving at the International Monetary Fund. Released within the

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Speaker 1: hour is a definitive weekend read on how countries should

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Speaker 1: respond to the strong dollar. Gopen Haf pulling an all

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Speaker 1: night or on this. Uh, it's wonderful and with wonderful

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Speaker 1: charts as well. What I see within your note as

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Speaker 1: you speak of financial amplification leading to instabilities, can the

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Speaker 1: strong dollar amplify the world's risks of ability? So so

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Speaker 1: when you have sizeable movements in the dollar, it has

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Speaker 1: very sizeable implications for the global economy because it's so

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Speaker 1: dominant in trade and finance. But the important thing to

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Speaker 1: keep in mind is that there are fundamentals that are

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Speaker 1: driving these large movements. They seem very quick, they seem

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Speaker 1: very steep. The differences in the path of monetary policy

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Speaker 1: so they have to use their own monetary policy tools

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Speaker 1: Let me stay with the major countries with you, Dr

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Speaker 1: gopen Athide. Let's look at the yen experiment. All of

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Speaker 1: this meeting in the world, John Farrell, is transfixed by

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Speaker 1: your chief economists to the Japanese to extricate themselves from

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Speaker 1: their unique yield curve control experiment. I mean, there are

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Speaker 1: fundamental reasons for that particular divergence that were seeing in

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Speaker 1: terms of keeping interest rates low, while the Fed has

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Speaker 1: decided to stay the course in terms of raising interest

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Speaker 1: rates very decisively to bring down inflation, and that, of

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Speaker 1: happens in a disruptive manner. It happens in an orderly manner, right.

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Speaker 1: We always have exchange rate movements all the time. When

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Speaker 1: so those get affected. But if you've hedged yourself, I mean,

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Speaker 1: these are movements that you should be used. Because of

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Speaker 1: I did a careful read of this blog, folks. Again,

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Speaker 1: Nowhere in here do I see that you were at

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Speaker 1: The second piece is about making show monetary policy and

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Speaker 1: everybody is concerned with financial fragility in the sense of

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Speaker 1: and Thank you so much for Joanny Bloomberg today, Dr

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Speaker 1: Gopen Anthony, I am at first deputy Managing director right

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Speaker 1: now in these unusual times, in unusual interview with Robert

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Speaker 1: India and far more at the Boosts School of Chicago

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Speaker 1: has provided two magnificent books of the era. He defined

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Speaker 1: the crisis of OH eight and oh seven with fault

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Speaker 1: shockingly prescient about the technological and community changes of America,

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Speaker 1: none of which we can talk about this morning, for

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Speaker 1: and you, with the great financial sophistication you have, are

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Speaker 1: watching cash in international overnight lines, which are called swap lines,

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