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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Markets Podcast. I'm Paul Sweeney alongside

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Speaker 1: my co host Matt Miller. Every business day we bring

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Speaker 1: at Bloomberg dot com Slash Podcast. You've gone on this

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Speaker 1: roller coaster wide with Elon Musk, with the Twitter CEO

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Speaker 1: as well, and really just shareholders trying to figure out

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Speaker 1: what exactly is Twitter going to look like? And then

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Speaker 1: we get the earnings well, I mean massive emphasis on

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Speaker 1: the monetization this time around. H Yeah, and you've gotta

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Speaker 1: wonder whether it really matters if it's just going to

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Speaker 1: be a private company tomorrow. But there's other companies pretty

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Speaker 1: that we'd like to talk to. We're gonna get into

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Speaker 1: it now with Lauren Gilbert. She is the CEO of

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Speaker 1: wealth Wise Discussing. She's going to discuss how markets are

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Speaker 1: going to react to all of these massive, massive earnings.

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Speaker 1: You know, as our analysts like to remind us, Twitter

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Speaker 1: is just a small company compared to Apple, All and

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Speaker 1: Amazon and some of the big numbers we have had, Lorien,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining us. When you look

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Speaker 1: at the risks that these big big companies Apple, Amazon, Facebook,

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Speaker 1: compared to the rest of the market. So when you're

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Speaker 1: looking at the next set of earnings, what are the

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Speaker 1: biggest risks to you to not just these companies, but

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Speaker 1: the broader markets at large. Right, Well, this is a

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Speaker 1: big week for earnings with technology and focus and understanding

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Speaker 1: where are these companies heading and get some guidance from

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Speaker 1: We want to hear from Apple, what are what do

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Speaker 1: they see with the consumer. Apple has been very good

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Speaker 1: at predicting consumer behavior um predicting how the consumer will

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Speaker 1: new products are going to be focused on more affordable

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Speaker 1: so glad you mentioned that consumer behavior beacon, because I

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Speaker 1: remember when the markets were trading, the entire market would

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Speaker 1: rally or tank on these Apple store closures, which was

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Speaker 1: essentially this idea of uh kind of Apple companies and

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Speaker 1: we're getting uh, not so great mobility data from China

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Speaker 1: and this idea that COVID lockdowns in China will have

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Speaker 1: are the lockdowns impacting them as far as um product

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Speaker 1: these companies going forward? So when we do look at

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Speaker 1: Um however, if so far in earning season, companies continue

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Speaker 1: I'm really curious here about what the limit is. One

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Speaker 1: downside pressure. However, when we look at a lot of

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Speaker 1: start seeing some more rallies. Well, Laureen Gilbert found to

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Speaker 1: see a Wealthwise Financial Services joining us right here in

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Speaker 1: our interactive broker studio, making the track all the way

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Speaker 1: from Dallas, Texas. Let's stick with the market perspective. Because

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Speaker 1: we talked about G ten currencies with John Authors, we've

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Speaker 1: There are so many countries out there who who have

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Speaker 1: all down with then Damien sass Our, chief EM fixed

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Speaker 1: income strategist at Bloomberg Intelligence. We just like to call

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Speaker 1: him the master of e M over here. But we're

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Speaker 1: come into the office today, which we extra appreciate. Damian.

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Speaker 1: Let's start with these Chinese lockdowns, how seriously should we

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Speaker 1: So this is why they put me in Cretty together.

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Speaker 1: It's the one to punch. She gives you the Macara,

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Speaker 1: the trading strategy, so you know, the carry trade. Can

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Speaker 1: And really what Critty has kept on outlining here truly

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Speaker 1: are really three primary factors when you're looking at investing

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Speaker 1: open again. Very intriguingly, despite everything kind of really hasn't

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Speaker 1: What does this all mean in the context of reserves.

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Speaker 1: it still pose questions about the meaning of the dollar

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Speaker 1: really interesting suggestions Creaty could tell you. I'm also very

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Speaker 1: So we understand the meaning of gold. Well, you do

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Speaker 1: have the monetary global politics behind Russia saying they're going

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Speaker 1: Because this was actually a move made way back when

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Speaker 1: they extracting an agreement that from OPEC that oil transactions

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Speaker 1: would be denominated in dollars, which meant that you did

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Speaker 1: have some kind of an oil standard to replace the

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Speaker 1: gold standard. Um, if you try to bring that under challenge,

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Speaker 1: that's a big deal. So yes, you you the risk here,

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Speaker 1: and China is the pivot on this. Russia's obviously committed

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Speaker 1: Eastern Asian block and rather than continue to steadily tensively

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Speaker 1: become more a part of the Western bloc. John, this

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Speaker 1: for example, Essential Bank of Sweden, the Reichs Bank hiking

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Speaker 1: their rates today a really big u turn when it

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Speaker 1: comes to montery global policy. I think no one said

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Speaker 1: it better than one of our guests on Bloomberg Surveillance

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Speaker 1: this morning, when then he was a currency strategist on

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Speaker 1: Brown Brothers Harriman. He said, yeah, he said, the ricks

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Speaker 1: Bank delivered a rate hike, and when they're more hawkish

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Speaker 1: than you, that's saying something. So I think when it

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Speaker 1: really do currency intervention aside to kind of stop this

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Speaker 1: it's that they can they can, they can tighten. In

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Speaker 1: the case of Japan, where you still have much lower inflation,

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Speaker 1: I guess it is plausible for them to continue on

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Speaker 1: really do have an inflation problem. But in the you know,

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Speaker 1: the inheritance from the crisis. You know, it's almost a

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Speaker 1: decade since drug he said, whatever it takes, so it's

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Speaker 1: it's it's a long way back, but you can still

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Speaker 1: see its effect. The peripheral European countries still have very

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Speaker 1: high unemployment by by the standards of of the West. Um,

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Speaker 1: it's what they what they can do is tighten uh

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Speaker 1: and that's by strengthening the Euro. Would reduce inflation that

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Speaker 1: their economy is in a more palless state than than

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Speaker 1: the States. I suspect that the CP has no choice

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Speaker 1: but to to tighten, but I wouldn't more aggressively than

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Speaker 1: they're currently suggesting. I think that's the way. Christine Legard

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Speaker 1: seems to be going last week and everything that's happened

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Speaker 1: since would intensify the pressure for her to do so.

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Speaker 1: But it's there are no good solutions for the CP

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Speaker 1: at this point. I mean, I have to ask when

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Speaker 1: it comes to I mean, let's tie all of these

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Speaker 1: things together, right. We have currency weakness on the one hand,

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Speaker 1: you have recession odds really hitting I think Europe the

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Speaker 1: hardest of all three regions. I mean, just recently when

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Speaker 1: you look at the market narrative questions about a growth

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Speaker 1: not slow down, but like a complete stop to growth

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Speaker 1: has really taken over these markets. This idea that if

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Speaker 1: you have COVID lockdowns can hinue in China, Americans for example,

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Speaker 1: will not get the physical goods. At the same time

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Speaker 1: that American purchasing power is actually increasing. So I mean

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Speaker 1: there's a lot going on here, John, And I mean

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Speaker 1: I wish we could have an hour or so with you,

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Speaker 1: because I mean a podcast even would be handy. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I mean it, this, this really is fascinating.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we're gonna stick with you or we're actually

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Speaker 1: going to bring you back for Nope, We're gonna stick

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Speaker 1: with you. A lot going on here, A lot of

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Speaker 1: balls to be juggling for our listeners. We are waiting

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Speaker 1: a press conference from President Biden to discuss his latest

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Speaker 1: American assistance for Ukraine to stick with us as we

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Speaker 1: kind of balance everything going on in the market with

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Speaker 1: everything going on with the geopolitics as well. But John, quickly,

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Speaker 1: if I can post to you, how do you square this?

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Speaker 1: Are these growth fears in the market really worth considering?

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Speaker 1: I I would have said no with greater confidence before

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Speaker 1: the GDP number came out this morning, which did genuinely

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Speaker 1: surprised me. Um, A lot of this is about timing.

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Speaker 1: There's going to be another recession at some point. All

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Speaker 1: of economic history tells you that periodically economy is slowed down.

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Speaker 1: The question is how quickly it comes and whether the

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Speaker 1: market has got ahead of itself in thinking that the

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Speaker 1: economic logic is going to play out so that we

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Speaker 1: actually have a recession this year, which I don't think

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Speaker 1: is is very likely. The amount of the amount of

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Speaker 1: consumer strength, particularly here in there in the US, makes

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Speaker 1: it hard to to make that assertion. That said, it

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Speaker 1: does look as though, um, the economy is already feeling

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Speaker 1: some of the effects. Who are just talking about that

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Speaker 1: that inflation is beginning to destroy demand, that that there

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Speaker 1: have been the issues caused that that the renewed supply

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Speaker 1: chain problems have had an effect. Um. The one big

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Speaker 1: possibility that, trying to be positive, I'd like to this

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Speaker 1: is this is something Dari Perkins at TS Lombard but

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Speaker 1: which which was that if the economy flows a little

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Speaker 1: quicker and a little earlier, it becomes more possible to

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Speaker 1: You could become more like a mid cycle slowdown or

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Speaker 1: a very shallow recession. Allab I'm wondering about the recessionary

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Speaker 1: impacts that we might see here. I mean the fact

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Speaker 1: that this might have really serious ramifications for inequality moving forward.

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Speaker 1: Have you thought about what this could mean in terms of,

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Speaker 1: you know, coming out of pandemic where already the rich

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Speaker 1: got richer, the poor got poorer, and they're facing inflation

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Speaker 1: where you can't pay for food. So what would a

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Speaker 1: recession then due to that backdrop, it's we're now getting

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Speaker 1: into areas it's really painful even to even the councidence.

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Speaker 1: One thing that has been positive about the last twelve

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Speaker 1: been greater earning power and greater negotiating power for people

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Speaker 1: of reducing inequality. That is, ultimately what is really poisoning

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Speaker 1: society at the moment. I think it's why we're why. Ultimately,

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Speaker 1: it's why the debate is polarized and as unpleasant as

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Speaker 1: it is. Um, if you look at where the recession

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Speaker 1: is moving at this point, or sorry, where the economy

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Speaker 1: is moving at this point, Um, it's possible that you

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Speaker 1: get a move in an egalitarian direction because asset prices

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Speaker 1: take the hit, um, rather than therefore therefore that the

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Speaker 1: rich feel it more than the poor. But but, but,

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Speaker 1: but there's no denying your opening opening point. We've just

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Speaker 1: been through COVID. If we're going to if people's patients

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Speaker 1: is going to be tried by another recession this quickly

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Speaker 1: with inflation this time, that's that's a very concerning. Look.

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Speaker 1: That's that's not easy for any society to deal with.

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Speaker 1: John Arthur's of Bloomberg Opinion, everybody, I mean, a real

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Speaker 1: treat to have. He can talk about anything, We can

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Speaker 1: throw anything at him. Thanks for listening to the Bloomberg

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Speaker 1: Markets podcast. You can subscribe and listen to interviews of

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