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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg p m L Podcast. I'm pim Fox.

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Speaker 1: Along with my co host Lisa Bramowitz. Each day we

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Speaker 1: bring you the most important, noteworthy, and useful interviews for

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Speaker 1: you and your money, whether you're at the grocery store

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Speaker 1: Podcast on Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud, and Bloomberg dot Com. Right now,

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Speaker 1: I want to turn our attention back to markets, in

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Speaker 1: particular how to invest. James Paulston joins US now. He's

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Speaker 1: chief investment strategist at the looth Hold Group, which oversees

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Speaker 1: about one and a half billion dollars and is based

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Speaker 1: in Minneapolis, Minnesota. James, thank you so much for joining US.

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Speaker 1: I want to start with Risk your Credit because we've

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Speaker 1: been speaking with some money managers who've been saying they

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Speaker 1: have started reducing their allocations to US hiled bonds as

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Speaker 1: well as more so even in Europe. Europe UH. The

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Speaker 1: list includes Jpmorg and Asset Management, Double Line, uh Alean's

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Speaker 1: Global Investors, Deutscha Asset Management. Do you agree, well, I certainly,

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Speaker 1: UH bonds in general, I would still be underweight. Um. Well,

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Speaker 1: the bonds are I mean bonds could be government bonds,

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Speaker 1: which are haven investment and would be you know, it

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Speaker 1: would hinge on inflation and growth. But if you have

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Speaker 1: risk your credit, you're looking more at the credit worthiness

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Speaker 1: of companies and also the pretty high valuations that we're

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Speaker 1: seeing in the market right now. Yeah, I would, I

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Speaker 1: would stay overweighted, uh there at least. I think that

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Speaker 1: the risk for that is when do you think the

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Speaker 1: next recession is? And I don't think that's real near

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Speaker 1: and if it's not, I think in the balance of

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Speaker 1: need a yield buffer because I do think before the

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Speaker 1: next recession comes, we're going to reset interest rates higher. Um.

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Speaker 1: Probably this recovery is going to end the way most

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Speaker 1: post war recoveries have ended, that is in some sense

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Speaker 1: of overheat. At some point. I do think wages and

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Speaker 1: inflation probably rise above three and um, I think that's

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Speaker 1: going to cause a major reset and the tenure yield

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Speaker 1: probably above three percent as well. And unless you have

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Speaker 1: it be from structure, I think it's going to be

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Speaker 1: a very damaging position to be in and just nothing

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Speaker 1: but high quality paper. The other thing about spreads is typically,

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Speaker 1: although they're tight today, and I would agree with that, um,

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Speaker 1: recession risk gets pretty close. Um. And so even if

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Speaker 1: they don't tighten further from here, um, you could still

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Speaker 1: you just said something that was actually incredibly radical. You

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Speaker 1: a lot of people are saying. What gives you confidence

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Speaker 1: that that will happen? Well, Um, you know, the range

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Speaker 1: inflation volatility. Not only low inflation, but it's been very

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Speaker 1: low volatility over the last ten years. Now. One standard

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Speaker 1: and I think three percent inflation looks very likely. Wage

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Speaker 1: in this recovery, we're still hanging at two five Medium

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Speaker 1: wage inflation is already at three three UM. The the

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Speaker 1: So right now I'm looking at a tenure treasure yield

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Speaker 1: the City Group Economic Surprise Index has been rising against

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Speaker 1: getting better, but we're not aggravating inflation and interest rates.

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Speaker 1: half percent before this recovery is over. Jim Paulson, thank

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Speaker 1: you so much for joining us. Jim Paulson is chief

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Speaker 1: investment strategist with the luth Hold Group in Minneapolis. One

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Speaker 1: ECB European Central Bank officials said that they're worried that

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Speaker 1: And with us to discuss is Doug Barthwick. He's managing

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Speaker 1: Already with respect to the dollar, the dollar did strengthen

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Speaker 1: But I have to wonder what your view is. Do

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Speaker 1: And so based on that, I think that what folks

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Speaker 1: It's it's it's not just meaningful because he's he's the

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Speaker 1: take over the FED. So the market needs the price in,

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Speaker 1: you know, the impact on Trump's physical agenda. But then

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Speaker 1: it also has to kind of look at, well, what

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Speaker 1: could the monetary policy implications be if he were to

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Speaker 1: actually resign. So it's not just simply saying this is

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Speaker 1: his current job. You have to look at the fact

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Speaker 1: that he is a front runner to replace Yelling in February.

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Speaker 1: So what impact might that have? Right, He's a he's

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Speaker 1: probably like Yelling, a kind of low interest rate guy.

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Speaker 1: The market likes that. Who could the possible um, you know,

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Speaker 1: replacement B if he were to step down to be

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Speaker 1: the front runner, you know, would it increase the likelihood

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Speaker 1: that Yelling uh stays in the job. You know, these

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Speaker 1: are all questions that the market had to momentarily begin

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Speaker 1: answering this morning. But an ego boost, you know, it's

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Speaker 1: like if someone someone leaves the whole market tanks, you

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Speaker 1: know that it might be film pretty good fo um.

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Speaker 1: Mike mcdonna, thank you so much for joining me. As always,

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Speaker 1: Mike mcdonna is Global director of Economic Research and Chief

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Speaker 1: Economist at Bloomberg Intelligence in New York. Thanks for listening

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