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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: you interviews from CEOs, market pros, and Bloomberg experts, along

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Speaker 1: at Bloomberg dot com slash podcast. Shnani bask joins is

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Speaker 1: she's usually in the Bloomberg Interactive Broker Studio. I think

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Speaker 1: she's somewhere out in like Sun Valley, Ido, hiding in

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Speaker 1: a bush waiting to, you know, just pounce on interviewing.

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Speaker 1: Summer Camp for Billionaires, Summer Camp for billionaires, Media moguls,

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Speaker 1: tech moguls, they're all out in Sun Valley. They get

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Speaker 1: together every year. Um, and that's where a lot of

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Speaker 1: M and A deals in that TMT space actually originate.

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Speaker 1: Many of the big, big deals that we come to

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Speaker 1: know and love. Shanali, thanks so much for joining us.

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Speaker 1: How Sun Valley, Yeah, it's pretty interesting so far. It

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Speaker 1: is like summer calm. Do you see a lot of

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Speaker 1: people in T shirts and vans and Adida speakers the

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Speaker 1: occasional Valencia Ada and and Valentinos, but it is a

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Speaker 1: pretty chill vibe. You see a lot of people. Remember

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Speaker 1: it's a very small area, but a very restricted area,

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Speaker 1: so you don't have a lot of access here of course,

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Speaker 1: just a few reporters. But really it's a very secretive conference.

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Speaker 1: A lot of people sitting at the coffee shop and

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Speaker 1: you wonder what they're talking about. You you expect a

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Speaker 1: lot of deals to come out of this, a lot

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Speaker 1: of partnership. It's a lot of media moguls, you know.

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Speaker 1: David daslov Um of Warner Brothers had come out talked

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Speaker 1: to reporters a couple of times. Yesterday. Bob Iger has

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Speaker 1: been walking around as well. We asked what he's up to.

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Speaker 1: Um he reiterated that he's retired. However, he has certainly

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Speaker 1: been holding a lot of meetings here as well. There's

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Speaker 1: a lot. You know, if you're retired, shouldn't you be

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Speaker 1: like golfing or fishing something. That's what they do. They

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Speaker 1: to some they go to some meetings during the day

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Speaker 1: and they just see and be seen. And Um channally,

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Speaker 1: as a reporter who has bidden there before, I recommend highly.

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Speaker 1: You have to go out to the bars at night.

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Speaker 1: That's where you find them, and that's where you can

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Speaker 1: get some good stuff. So, um, you're gonna have to

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Speaker 1: in earlier here late. We were here at four thirty

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Speaker 1: But there's definitely a lot of uh, there's definitely a

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Speaker 1: copecutives they recognize that, Yeah, the economics times are hard,

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Speaker 1: they have to resume business. When he was asked about

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Speaker 1: a very different feel. You're talking about David zaslav and

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Speaker 1: out in this summer. It's good stuff the discussion of

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Speaker 1: the morning for me at least UH Roger Roger Rottenham,

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Speaker 1: but rog back in the day was the absolute pinnacle

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Speaker 1: That's how big is. Roger. Thanks so much for joining

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Speaker 1: key takeaway if you have one. Well, the key takeaway

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Speaker 1: It has a lot leaves a lot to be desired.

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Speaker 1: It's not a fair system. The prosecutorial power is unchecked,

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Speaker 1: and there's a nine seven percent convich rate. Um wow,

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Speaker 1: that bears repeating. There's a nineties seven percent conviction rate

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Speaker 1: But Roger and Real for you specifically, you had the

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Speaker 1: not get a fair shake? No? The The uphill battle

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Speaker 1: is the government uses cooperating witnesses who they train and

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Speaker 1: And in my case, the chief witness retracted his testimony.

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Speaker 1: rocher Love, I would love to get the benefit of

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Speaker 1: Matt Winkler, Editor in Chief Emeritus, Bloomberg News. Joining us here.

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Speaker 1: Phil Taps, CEO of TAPS Asset Management film more importantly

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Speaker 1: of your assets in cash talk to us about that. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So our strategies, we have funds and ETFs and s

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Speaker 1: m a s and we have been managing this way since.

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Speaker 1: So it's not something that we came up with last week.

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Speaker 1: But we use trend following algorithms, and our trend following

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Speaker 1: algorithms attempt to get us out of the way of

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Speaker 1: market train wrecks in the very early phase of decline.

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Speaker 1: So we moved for the first time out of US

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Speaker 1: equities in and international equities on January thirteenth of this year. Um,

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Speaker 1: we've been in. We've been in a couple of times

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Speaker 1: and out very briefly, but we've been defensive now for

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Speaker 1: at least the last month and a half. So the

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Speaker 1: idea is that when market chaos happens, sometimes it's just

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Speaker 1: best to be on the sidelines and wait for better

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Speaker 1: value to come along. We just heard this from Raj Rajaratnam.

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Speaker 1: Actually we spoke to the former hedge fund manager and

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Speaker 1: convicted insider trader. I guess I should say that legally,

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Speaker 1: um And he he said, he advises investors to wait

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Speaker 1: like three months until we see get a better picture

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Speaker 1: of what the Fed is doing, of what the economy

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Speaker 1: is doing versus inflation, and what's happening in the Russian

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Speaker 1: war against Ukraine. What do you think about that? Well,

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Speaker 1: so it's it's really hard to put a time frame

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Speaker 1: on it because you don't know whether it's going to uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, become escalated and bottom out in the next

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Speaker 1: week or two months or three months. So if you

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Speaker 1: just have a period of time like three months, it

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Speaker 1: could take six months or nine months. So instead of

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Speaker 1: doing that, I think someone needs to come to this

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Speaker 1: idea with a well thought out system. And what that

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Speaker 1: might look like is a trend following algorithm that then

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Speaker 1: detects when trends turn higher and attempts to come back in.

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Speaker 1: Just as we got out in the early phase of

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Speaker 1: this decline. What you want to try to do is

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Speaker 1: come back in in the early phase of a rise

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Speaker 1: in the markets, and so you know, for for this

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Speaker 1: to end, we'd expect for volatility to be way higher

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Speaker 1: than where it is, you know, vix it in the

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Speaker 1: range of isn't full capitulation. So once that finally happens

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Speaker 1: and trends move higher than there cans to be some

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Speaker 1: very big gains ahead. I mean three months would put

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Speaker 1: us about where an average recession would end, sometime in

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Speaker 1: October of this year, but I'd hate to put a

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Speaker 1: specific time period on it, like that. Is this the

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Speaker 1: kaboomer thing, because you're not a dooomer or a gloomer,

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Speaker 1: but a kaboomer. What a boomer? Yeah? Yeah, So some

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Speaker 1: people sometimes say that I'm a doom and gloomer, but

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Speaker 1: I came out this year out of the closet as

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Speaker 1: a boom boom kaboomer. Because if you're a duman gloomer,

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Speaker 1: it's like being at a cocktail party and tell it,

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Speaker 1: reminding everyone of the hangover that's going to happen eventually.

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Speaker 1: But so we have to do is embrace the boom

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Speaker 1: and realize that markets are advancing of the time. But

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Speaker 1: the thing that almost no one is prepared for in

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Speaker 1: the markets is when the market when they go completely

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Speaker 1: off the rails, and so you can look to the

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Speaker 1: financial crisis of client, but it could be worse and

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Speaker 1: the Great Depression stocks went down, So some combination of

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Speaker 1: both decreasing earnings and compressing valuations, it could be even

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Speaker 1: worse than what we saw in the financial crisis. So

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Speaker 1: acknowledge it and build contingencies around what would happen to

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Speaker 1: your portfolio if we see that kind of a huge

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Speaker 1: that's a great general perspective we've seen now specifically the

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Speaker 1: valuation compression. What kind of earnings drop or collapse do

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Speaker 1: you expect. So if you look at the last to

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Speaker 1: bear markets, the both the Internet double burst and the

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Speaker 1: financial crisis, what happened is the economy was fine going

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Speaker 1: into it and the stock markets fell. And after the

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Speaker 1: stock market fall, that's felt that's when you saw a

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Speaker 1: recession and a decrease in earnings. That appears to be

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Speaker 1: what's happening this time as well, because coming into the

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Speaker 1: end of last year, you know, still the unemployment number

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Speaker 1: looks looks quite good. There are more jobs available than

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Speaker 1: our people to fill them. But I think it depends

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Speaker 1: on how serious the stock market fall gets. I think

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Speaker 1: it depends on how bad inflation and how long it persists,

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Speaker 1: and that will help determine how bad earnings go. But

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Speaker 1: I don't think we've seen a lot of compression and

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Speaker 1: valuations yet. I mean, if you're still bumping up around

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Speaker 1: twenty times trailing on the SMP five hundred, that doesn't

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Speaker 1: even look like average, much less low multiples. So really,

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Speaker 1: you know, looking back at the history of the fact

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Speaker 1: that we've been at that five and a half times

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Speaker 1: earnings on the SMP five hundred, we're nowhere near that

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Speaker 1: kind of a low. I'm not saying we'll get there,

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Speaker 1: but that's the kind of risk that we're talking about.

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Speaker 1: Still thirty seconds here, Um, if you had to buy

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Speaker 1: something today, would you what would you buy? Well, frankly,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I know that the energy complex has come

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Speaker 1: out under come under pressure recently. But if I was

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Speaker 1: going to put a small allocation into something that I

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Speaker 1: thought might have a prayer of advancing in the next

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Speaker 1: two to three months, it would be in the energy sector,

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Speaker 1: and that that trade could go wrong if we see

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Speaker 1: us come into our recession. But I think there's a

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Speaker 1: possibility still we all know of Russia doing some things

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Speaker 1: with oil that could cause oil prices to spike, so

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Speaker 1: I would I'd look to that, and then for broader

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Speaker 1: portfolios if you're not going to be in hedge equity

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Speaker 1: funds like we manage, or things that can be fully

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Speaker 1: on the sidelines. I looked at things like low ball

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Speaker 1: stocks and and think they're going to be less volatible

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Speaker 1: and moved down less than the broad markets. So people

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Speaker 1: accuse him of doom and gloom. I just don't see it.

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Speaker 1: Phil Taves, thanks so much. We appreciate Phil Taves, ce

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Speaker 1: CEO of Taves Asset Management. And that's how you pronounce it, right, Yeah, Taves,

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Speaker 1: I'm going with that. Thanks for listening to the Bloomberg

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