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Speaker 1: We finished stronger. Jeffrey Rosenberg with his portfolio manager, Blackrock

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Speaker 1: Systematic Multi Strategy Fund, he will be systematically reviewing everything

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Speaker 1: after this historic meeting. Jeff, you know we're at gunpoint

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Speaker 1: at Carnegie. Mellen. You were required to read both volumes

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Speaker 1: of Alan Meltzer and get out the sixties and seventies

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Speaker 1: and FED meeting. And what doctor Meltzer would say is

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Speaker 1: it is at the end of the day about the

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Speaker 1: real economy. What did Jerome Powell today say about the

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Speaker 1: American economy with the stunning statement the dots in the

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Speaker 1: Q and A.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was overall a validation of the transitory view.

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Speaker 2: And you know what was a little bit feared going

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Speaker 2: into the press conference was whether he would push back.

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Speaker 2: He got the softball from Nick Timmeros on financial conditions

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Speaker 2: now being nice and clearly you know, chose not to

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Speaker 2: hit it out of the park in terms of pushing

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Speaker 2: back on financial conditions, and that was a green lie

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Speaker 2: to continue the initial reaction from what we got in

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Speaker 2: the statement of economic projections and the dots and the

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Speaker 2: seventy five basis points and the dots is clearly the surprise.

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Speaker 2: So you know, this is a green light for investors.

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Speaker 2: I think nixt question and this question of financial conditions,

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Speaker 2: and Bill Dudley mentioned in a minute ago this is

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Speaker 2: the problem is that this can go on for a

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Speaker 2: while and it can get overdone in terms of how

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Speaker 2: much easing the market does before the FED. But the

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Speaker 2: message today is the Fed is very happy with what

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Speaker 2: they've seen. What changed, you know, clearly it's the validation

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Speaker 2: on the inflation story, and they're very pleased that after

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Speaker 2: getting it wrong for so long, they're really getting the

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Speaker 2: validation in getting it right.

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Speaker 3: So, Jeff, what do you do? Stay on the bill,

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Speaker 3: hold on to it tightly, don't let go. What you do?

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Speaker 2: I mean the short term is you can't really fight

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Speaker 2: this until there's some kind of fundamental data from the

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Speaker 2: economy side that pushes back, and there hasn't been. It's

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Speaker 2: all been coming up soft landing, inflation declines. Yesterday. You

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Speaker 2: can squint at Core Corp. Nobody seems to look at

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Speaker 2: Corecorp anymore. He mentioned it very briefly. It actually popped up.

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Speaker 2: So there are some you know, vulnerabilities, but the message

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Speaker 2: and the concern no one's looking at the vulnerabilities. They're

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Speaker 2: looking at the validation and So with that validation, this

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Speaker 2: bullish sentiment can go on for a while until we

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Speaker 2: get a new round of economic data. And until then

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Speaker 2: I think I think the message is pretty clear that

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Speaker 2: and financial conditions won't step in the way of that.

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Speaker 4: Kathy Jones of Schwab Jash Schwab put this out on

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Speaker 4: x or Twitter with that, I have to revise my

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Speaker 4: twenty twenty four outlook. Happy to do it. Are you

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Speaker 4: revising your twenty twenty four outlook after this meeting?

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Speaker 2: You know, I've done this for so long that I

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Speaker 2: don't do the whole you know, Christmas in July outlooks

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Speaker 2: this problem. So no, I don't have to revise it

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Speaker 2: because I just I just haven't put it out yet.

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Speaker 2: So that's that's a good plant bulst.

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Speaker 1: Look, Jeff, at where we are, and I just looked

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Speaker 1: up one of the black Rock money market funds five

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Speaker 1: point two four nine percent. Where's all that money going?

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is right up your wheelhouse. Where's all

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Speaker 2: Yeah? You know you asked this question in the pre

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Speaker 2: and you know, this is the change. This is the

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Speaker 2: turning point, because last year it was all about you're

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Speaker 2: it is the signal to start moving out of cash

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Speaker 2: into into more term rates in fixed income, to lock

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Speaker 2: in rates at their highest yields if you're going into

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Speaker 2: You're penalized now in twenty twenty four for holding cash

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Speaker 3: Jeff, what would you advocate for You're sitting in cash,

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Speaker 3: You've missed the rally of the last month. You see

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Speaker 3: points you at the Kant full well.

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Speaker 2: I think there's lots of different ways to step out

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Speaker 2: The soft landing the lack of economic recession. It bolsters

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Speaker 2: credit risk. That credit risk it's priced in, but it's

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Speaker 2: not going to collapse. And so if you avoid the recession,

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Speaker 2: investors can can step out on the risk spectrum and

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Speaker 2: And that's not a guarantee, but that seems again with

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Speaker 2: what the data is showing to be the more likely scenario.

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Speaker 2: You know, you'll lock in in those yields and achieve

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Speaker 4: I want to just point out that we're down now

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a really good point when thinking about what

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Speaker 2: We just have to get more used to this higher

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Speaker 2: You can mitigate that by being shorter in terms of duration.

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Speaker 2: gotta expect this isn't the old fixed income market. It's

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Speaker 1: Jet One final question. Torston, Slack, and Apollo head out

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Speaker 1: a stunning chart today of a spike in bankruptcies within

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Speaker 1: all this, and I mean from a political economic standpoint,

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Speaker 1: Is this a meeting that just benefits the halves of America?

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Speaker 1: are living large. The dows up four hundred and sixty points.

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Speaker 1: Is this just about almost the financialization and advantage of

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Speaker 1: the elite in America?

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Speaker 2: So I love Torston, love his work. You know what

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Speaker 2: is there's a distributional aspect of our economy that gets

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Speaker 2: an impact of rising interest rates. There is an impact

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Speaker 2: still a distributional story. It's what you would expect to

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Speaker 2: of that. But that doesn't necessarily mean that story is

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Speaker 2: It's an important part. Credit cycles begin from the bottom,

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Speaker 2: and so you got to watch that. But the counterpoint

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Speaker 2: corporate side, that's some things seeing maturities and turning out

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Speaker 2: it appears it can be. And we have to watch it,

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Speaker 2: and you're certainly seeing it. It's Torsen's highlighting, you know,

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Speaker 3: Jeff, I've got a few seconds. Pick a month for

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Speaker 3: the first rate cut. I know you're not going to

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Speaker 3: give us an outlook, but just pick a month, Jeff.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna give. I'm gonna give you. I'm gonna give

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Speaker 2: you June. You know, sometime in the summer, I think

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Speaker 2: the March, and I know Neil maybe a little bit early.

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Speaker 2: What's the rush. They still want to make sure they've

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Speaker 2: nailed the inflation.

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Speaker 3: We've got to leave it that, Jeff got to catch out. Buddy,

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Speaker 3: always says Jeff Rosenberg there of Black Rock