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Speaker 1: and on Bloomberg dot com. It is time for Bloomberg Opinion.

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Speaker 1: John o' sarah, one of our favorites to chat with

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Opinion column, is covering business and has a column

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Speaker 1: out today on Oracle TikTok and how that deal is pouring,

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Speaker 1: what he's holding the Trump talks and into capitalism. Definitely

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Speaker 1: want to ask him about that. But first, Joe, what

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Speaker 1: do you make of the fact, I know it's off topic,

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Speaker 1: but Jersey is raising taxes on people making more than

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Speaker 1: one million dollars. We saw back in eighteen that that

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Speaker 1: happened to people exceeding five million dollars a year. I'm

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Speaker 1: just curious as to your thoughts on whether states should

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Speaker 1: be doing this across the board in order to make

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Speaker 1: up for budget short holls. In know, it's a really

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Speaker 1: really tough situation because if they don't raise those taxes.

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Speaker 1: The budget start falls are going to be horrible. And

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Speaker 1: if they do raise the taxes, they're encouraging wealthy people

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Speaker 1: to move out of the state. So uh, you know, uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, New Jersey's got its issues, but in New

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Speaker 1: York City, this is this is potentially um uh ruinous

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Speaker 1: oppose it. All right, Joe, let's uh take a look

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Speaker 1: at your calm here. We'll talk about this TikTok deal.

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Speaker 1: It's the most fascinating deal. It seems like, you know,

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Speaker 1: this is a government engineered transfer of assets that I

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Speaker 1: just didn't think i'd ever see. What's your take on it?

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Speaker 1: Everything about it is wrong, everything it shouldn't be happening.

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Speaker 1: It's the kind of thing that happens in Russia. Honestly. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, first of all, uh the idea that you

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Speaker 1: first of all, the president actually originally wanted to band

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Speaker 1: TikTok to punish China for the coronavirus, which is ridiculous.

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Speaker 1: So then he comes back and says, well, we have

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Speaker 1: blackmailing federal employees with the data they're going to collect

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Speaker 1: equally ridiculous. Um, you know, are there national security issues

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Speaker 1: surrounding TikTok? I don't know. But the way you handle

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Speaker 1: That's just not how the work. That's not that's not

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Speaker 1: the way America is supposed to work. At least American

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Speaker 1: capitalism is not supposed to work there. And then it

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Speaker 1: turns out that the guy and the woman who are

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Speaker 1: to the president's buddies, which is the worst kind of

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Speaker 1: krony capitalism the Republicans used to scream about when Obama

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Speaker 1: was president. It's so strange, right Jo, because it just

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Speaker 1: came out of the blue. That's not happening with any

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Speaker 1: of a country. Do you think it's reciprocity for the

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Speaker 1: fact that China insists on US companies having a local partner.

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Speaker 1: that would imply that there's actually a method to the

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Speaker 1: president's madness. And I don't I don't really think that's

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Speaker 1: to take it. So what does it mean for a

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Speaker 1: company like Oracle Joe. I mean, this is a huge

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Speaker 1: This is what they do in Russia. This is what

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Speaker 1: most troubling aspect of this deal. Yeah, I mean it

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Speaker 1: companies have actually signed a collective pledge not to rush

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Speaker 1: hard Joe, where's Congress in all of this? That's a joke.

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Speaker 1: As always Jonah Sarah Bloomberg Opinion calumnist giving us his

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Speaker 1: thoughts on his recent comment titled Oracle TikTok deal pours

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Speaker 1: of how this deal came about Vanni. Uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: the limp side. So, Frank, what are you in fact

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Speaker 1: And I think that that is one of the worst

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Speaker 1: it takes a while before we actually know who the

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Speaker 1: around that I think makes sense. Marvin. You know, we're

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Speaker 1: talking about interest rates lower for longer, lower forever, however

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Speaker 1: you want to phrase it, And you mentioned emerging markets earlier.

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Speaker 1: How do you, guys, how are you thinking about emerging

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Speaker 1: to UM rates in the developed world are going to

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Speaker 1: period of time. And from a growth profile perspective, you

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Speaker 1: know em still has those advantages and from a real

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Speaker 1: I do think, UM, you need to start thinking about

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Speaker 1: which parts of UM emerging economies you're most comfortable with.

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Speaker 1: Does it depend on COVID and how it's being handled

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Speaker 1: by the government. Yeah, absolutely absolutely, And and and that's and

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Speaker 1: and that's why, um, you know at this point, um,

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Speaker 1: you know a little bit more cautious around it. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, taking the time again to let's let the

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Speaker 1: dust settle. Um. But but you know, being ready for

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Speaker 1: that moment when um, when there's a little bit more clarity.

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Speaker 1: But guess absolutely the virus is still you know, the

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Speaker 1: major determined into economic growth. All right, Marvin, So if

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Speaker 1: if people are really starting to digest well what we've

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Speaker 1: been hearing from Chairman Palin the FED over the last

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Speaker 1: several weeks about lower interest rates maybe even allowing inflation

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Speaker 1: to move higher, they're looking for yield. You mentioned emerging markets.

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Speaker 1: Where else are you guys looking for returns? And how

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Speaker 1: much risk are you willing to take to to get

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Speaker 1: those returns? Yeah, I mean, you know, we're we're forced

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Speaker 1: to take more risk, there's no doubt. Um, you know

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Speaker 1: again kind of short term trading versus more of an

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Speaker 1: intermediate term outlook. Um. You know, I do think, I

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Speaker 1: do think that growth stocks still makes sense because of

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Speaker 1: from this kind of uh dislocated economic recovery that we're seeing,

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Speaker 1: so one has to think about it from that perspective

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Speaker 1: as well as you know, dividends associated with that. I

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Speaker 1: think credit has to be part of that discussion, and

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Speaker 1: we're pushed further down um the credit stack and further

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Speaker 1: out in duration just because there is a need for

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Speaker 1: in that UM that emerging discussion is as part of

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Speaker 1: your portfolio is you know, it certainly makes sense to me.

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Speaker 1: There's going to be a huge change next week, I

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Speaker 1: believe in one of the biggest credit industries. Will that

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Speaker 1: I mean I think I think it's pretty I think

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Speaker 1: it's pretty um broadly um known in the market at

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Speaker 1: this point. And you know those changes are UM. You know,

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Speaker 1: they they generally occur on on an ongoing basis, so

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Speaker 1: you know, we you evaluated, you look at the changes,

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Speaker 1: and then you make your adjustments. Very interesting, Marvin Lowe,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much. We appreciate that. Very interesting. Senior

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Speaker 1: global macro strategists at say three Global Markets, Silovanni, it's

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Speaker 1: really a question here of how much risk are you

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Speaker 1: willing to take here? In a basically a very low

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Speaker 1: yielding market. Yeah, and how sophisticated are you? Obviously, the

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Speaker 1: more sophisticated you are, the sort of more hedgee type

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Speaker 1: trades you can put on around whatever you know, your

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Speaker 1: your main trade is. Yeah, it's really interesting here. So

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Speaker 1: it seems like, again as Chairman Pal has suggested, really

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Speaker 1: since the uh Jack and Whole speech of a couple

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Speaker 1: of weeks ago, this is a FED that is willing

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Speaker 1: to let rates stay lower for longer. I think we're

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Speaker 1: hearing similar things out of other central banks of the

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Speaker 1: a very low yielding world market that calls into question

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Speaker 1: that's sixty allocation of a typical portfolio. People need to

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