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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: Podcast on Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud, and Bloomberg dot com. General

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Speaker 1: Electric shocking up markets today, ousting John Flannery after just

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Speaker 1: a year of his tenure there as chief executive and

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Speaker 1: replacing him with the renowned turnaround experts, shares surging the

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Speaker 1: most in nine years, up more than twelve The question

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Speaker 1: is what is this new CEO going to do and

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Speaker 1: will it be enough to fix a situation that seems

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Speaker 1: to be growing increasingly urgent. Karen, youveil Heart joining us

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Speaker 1: now senior industrials analysts for Bloomberg Intelligence. Karen, thank you

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Speaker 1: so much for being here. It seems like this move

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Speaker 1: is almost one of desperation, saying we need to fix something,

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Speaker 1: and we need to fix something fast. I think it is.

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Speaker 1: I don't think this was a plan. You know, a plan.

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Speaker 1: They put Larry on the board, Larry cop on the board.

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Speaker 1: I think you know as a part partially credibility, partially

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Speaker 1: because he's a great operating guy, and they and they's

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Speaker 1: a new CEO. The new CEO. Yeah, um and uh,

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Speaker 1: I think this was as they just had to get

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Speaker 1: something done quickly. And he's a very good operator. He's

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Speaker 1: a lot of credibility on the street because of his history.

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Speaker 1: And I just felt I just think they gave up

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Speaker 1: on what if you got to if let's say, Larry

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Speaker 1: Cop called Karen you will heart and said, tell me,

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Speaker 1: based on your experience covering GE, what do you think

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Speaker 1: is the most important thing I should focus on right now? Well,

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Speaker 1: clearly it's it's Power. But um, I was a little disturbed.

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Speaker 1: Um that he that Flannery was going to make Power

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Speaker 1: the largest business in GE with an operating margin goal

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Speaker 1: of ten percent. You know that is not a solid plan. Um,

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Speaker 1: and I think, uh, you know, a ten percent operating

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Speaker 1: margin company, you need a much higher you know, that's

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Speaker 1: not going to please shareholders. Um. Larry Culp came in,

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Speaker 1: dannaher was at ten percent, it was but don margin

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Speaker 1: money left. I mean, uh, you know, so I said

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Speaker 1: that is not going to be enough. He's got to

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Speaker 1: shrink Power quickly. Um, I think he's got to sell

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Speaker 1: off pieces of powers and and that's what his iterative process.

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Speaker 1: Dana her business systems does get down to the granular level.

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Speaker 1: And I think he's gonna look at that not as

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Speaker 1: one business, but as many businesses. Try to stop the

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Speaker 1: bleeding as much as he can there. I think he

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Speaker 1: may rethink some of those assets sales like healthcare. Uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, and because that is a good business that

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Speaker 1: the different businesses. There's a lot of fategy and and uh,

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Speaker 1: Danna her Business Systems help solve some of those problems.

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Speaker 1: So one thing that we were talking about earlier, so

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Speaker 1: that even though you're seeing that rally in GES shares,

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Speaker 1: you're not seeing a commensurate rally in the company's bonds.

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Speaker 1: And they have a lot of them. They have more

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Speaker 1: than a hundred and twelve billion dollars of debt. Uh,

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Speaker 1: you're not seeing the same pop. I'm just wondering a

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Speaker 1: much smaller General Electric, how will they right size their

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Speaker 1: debt portfolio right now? That's massive, h That's that's uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, that's a good question. He's got to generate uh,

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Speaker 1: you know cash to be able to you know, retire it,

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Speaker 1: and that's going to be his number one priority. I think, uh,

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Speaker 1: be dealing with the massive amount of debt while also

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Speaker 1: shrinking the company and making sure that it revives it. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I'm not the credit guy, of course, but but the

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Speaker 1: down the asset value of the company quite substantially. So

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Speaker 1: that should have some implications too. Although that's a good thing,

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Speaker 1: I think. Is is it a job that Larry Couple

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Speaker 1: far with the trade tension. So I don't wouldn't put

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Speaker 1: having to do with pensions and so on. What can

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Speaker 1: you tell us there the long the pension? You know, hey,

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Speaker 1: they're gonna lucky a little bit on the pension because

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Speaker 1: interest rates are going up and and and they already

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Speaker 1: have lowered the pension somewhat as a result of that.

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Speaker 1: In some cash they put in. They're putting six billion

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Speaker 1: I think the concern is what else is in that

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Speaker 1: black hole, like the long term liability that no one expected,

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Speaker 1: for him to well. Inteed, looking at the shares of

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Speaker 1: General Electric, they are higher right now by more than

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Speaker 1: twelve percent. Our thanks to Karen uble Hart, Senior Analyst

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Speaker 1: for Machinery and All Things ge at Bloomberg Intelligence. Last

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Speaker 1: week was dominated by the Brett Kavanaught hearings, where he

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Speaker 1: National View, also a Bloomberg opinion columnist. I am so

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Speaker 1: glad that you're with us for MESH, because you've been

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Speaker 1: What was your impression, not of the allegations of sexual misconduct,

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