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Speaker 2: pleased to say pin and Navarro, the Director of the
Speaker 2: Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy at the White House
Speaker 2: Dot Navarro, it's been too long, sir.
Speaker 3: It's good to see you. Thanks for being here.
Speaker 1: Been a long time. Joan, it is good to see
Speaker 1: you too, sir.
Speaker 3: Thank you, sir.
Speaker 1: First class digs here, my friend.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm pleased we're looking after you. Let's kick it
Speaker 2: off with these talks this weekend. We just heard from
Speaker 2: the President just moments ago, and he mentioned an eighty
Speaker 2: percent tariff might be about right. Some to the Treasury secretary.
Speaker 2: We understand you won't want to get ahead of those negotiations.
Speaker 2: But I just wonder could you offer some clarity on
Speaker 2: what about right means when the President says eighty percent
Speaker 2: TAF on China seems right, seems right for the talks
Speaker 2: this weekend, or seems right for the foreseeable future.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was one of three people that was with
Speaker 1: the White House the first term, for all four years.
Speaker 1: One of the big reasons is I never got ahead
Speaker 1: of the president. Let me tell you about Geneva, which
Speaker 1: is kind of I've got a very warm memories. It
Speaker 1: was my finest hour as a negotiator. I went there
Speaker 1: to lead the negotiations for the United Postal Union reforms
Speaker 1: that essentially got China rates fear to We save billions
Speaker 1: on that. But I mentioned this because Geneva has symbolic
Speaker 1: value in this negotiation. It is the headquarters of the
Speaker 1: World Trade Organization. And the scariest thing I ever saw
Speaker 1: in Geneva was the size of the China delegation at
Speaker 1: the World Trade Organization. And they've played the WTO like
Speaker 1: a fiddle. So let's see what happens tomorrow. I'd be
Speaker 1: happy to come back on Monday do the debrief, but
Speaker 1: I don't want to get ahead of the boss or
Speaker 1: Scott Besting. And don't forget Scott's going with Jamison Greer,
Speaker 1: the United States Trade representative. He's the guy who learned
Speaker 1: that the knee of bob bliteheis for the first time around,
Speaker 1: was there for all the China stuff. And he's the
Speaker 1: guy who was the architect, along with Howard Lutnik of
Speaker 1: the UK deal. So let's see what happens.
Speaker 3: It's in the very best.
Speaker 2: We'll sell the pensylin the weekend for the markets. Well,
Speaker 2: pencil in appearance with you for Monday. No worries about that.
Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to that conversation. Just got into the
Speaker 2: weekend and reflected on your experience dealing with the Chinese
Speaker 2: then on the UK. This is not the same relationship.
Speaker 2: The trade relationship is tremendously unbalanced and has been for
Speaker 2: a long long time. Can you frame for us how
Speaker 2: difficult it has been previously for you to negotiate with
Speaker 2: the Chinese and how much long it could take with
Speaker 2: a Chinese relative to set the UK and other tripatas well.
Speaker 1: I could tell you. I think I sat face to
Speaker 1: face with the China team maybe seven times during the
Speaker 1: first term and twice Shi Jinping was there. It was
Speaker 1: G seven. Just give me the G twenty both. I
Speaker 1: think it was Tokyo and h and our Buenos Aires.
Speaker 1: What's interesting, So what's so interesting to me, Jonathan about
Speaker 1: China is that they have continuity. The same people are
Speaker 1: going to be in Geneva or the same people back then.
Speaker 1: And you know, our our regimes change, we we have
Speaker 1: different governments and things like that. But they have the
Speaker 1: advantage of that kind of continuity. But look, it'll be
Speaker 1: interesting again. I don't I don't want to get ahead
Speaker 1: of Scott and Jamison or the president. I think let's
Speaker 1: see what happens. You know, my role, and we've got
Speaker 1: fifteen countries we run enormous trade deficits. With that, we've
Speaker 1: got to renegotiate the whole structure of those deals. And
Speaker 1: there's another one hundred countries that cheat us in some
Speaker 1: ways but smaller ways. My role in the administration on
Speaker 1: all of this is to do the background analytics to
Speaker 1: see how each country's cheating us, which basically sets up
Speaker 1: the terms of the negotiation. And every country like fingerprints,
Speaker 1: like India's the Maharajia tariffs, they have the highest tariffs.
Speaker 1: Of any of our major trading partners, Japan is the
Speaker 1: most clever at protecting its own markets with a combination
Speaker 1: of domestic protectionism non tariff barriers. You know Germany they
Speaker 1: have auto tariffs at ten percent, We have them at
Speaker 1: two and a half percent, but they also have the
Speaker 1: VAT tax which acts as another twenty nine to what
Speaker 1: is it nineteen percent tariff and in exports subject. So
Speaker 1: what I do is do the background and look at
Speaker 1: kind of how these countries are doing what to us,
Speaker 1: and we get great deals from there. People. I think
Speaker 1: the UK deal is very interesting. I think the significance
Speaker 1: is not just that it's a deal, but that's a
Speaker 1: template for the future deals. What we do done is
Speaker 1: there's like four or five verticals we look at. It's
Speaker 1: the tariffs, the non tariff barriers, the digital taxes, and
Speaker 1: then the various kinds of cheating, the dumping, the currency
Speaker 1: manipulation and things like that. And then from there we
Speaker 1: assess what the asks are, what we need and go
Speaker 1: forward from there to see you get to see a
Speaker 1: steady wave of deals. The USTR building is right across
Speaker 1: the street from the White House. It's got the most
Speaker 1: staff negotiating these deals, and it's like you go to
Speaker 1: the Delhi and you have to take a number and
Speaker 1: get in line. Every day there's delegations from around the
Speaker 1: world lining up to meet with Jamison Greer and Howard
Speaker 1: Ludnick and I've seen I looked yesterday at the schedule.
Speaker 1: Was kind of fun out the July and it's just
Speaker 1: you know, one after the others.
Speaker 4: Well, Peter looking at the countries lining up. One key
Speaker 4: aspect of the UK deal was of course bringing down
Speaker 4: the auto tariff to ten percent. So right now you
Speaker 4: have a tariff rate that's lower for Bentley's, which is
Speaker 4: a car that most American families can't afford made in
Speaker 4: the UK, where Chevys have a higher rate if they're
Speaker 4: made in Canada or Mexico. Is there an expectation that
Speaker 4: the next trade deals auto tariffs will be coming down
Speaker 4: those rates.
Speaker 1: It's going to be country by country. I mean, the
Speaker 1: beauty about the UK is that very small amount of
Speaker 1: exports they send us and we have a hard cap
Speaker 1: I think it's one hundred thousand units where it goes
Speaker 1: right back up to twenty five percent. And again we're
Speaker 1: trying to do something that's mutually beneficial to both countries
Speaker 1: to get to a better place. Well at the same
Speaker 1: time changing the level of the playing field so that
Speaker 1: it is more level. I think for me, the beauty
Speaker 1: of the UK deal. Besides that was all of the
Speaker 1: good stuff we had for AG. I mean, one of
Speaker 1: the problems we have is this non tariff barriers like FIDO,
Speaker 1: sanitary standards, what's that that's like these things they do
Speaker 1: to keep our pork out, our chicken out, our beef.
Speaker 1: Right now we're going to be able to sell a
Speaker 1: lot more beef, poultry, dairy, and ethanol. I mean, they
Speaker 1: had a really high tariff, almost a lockout tariff on
Speaker 1: ethanol and that's made from corn. So folks in Iowa
Speaker 1: are very happy about that. So this is the way
Speaker 1: we're going to go forward on net The United States
Speaker 1: is going to be far better off, and all we're
Speaker 1: doing is trying to level the playing fielding. I saw
Speaker 1: the EU kind of rattling sabers I think it was
Speaker 1: yesterday about some kind of retaliation, and I would just
Speaker 1: say to anybody who's who's in the European Union, I mean,
Speaker 1: how can you look a US in the face and
Speaker 1: threaten us when your tariffs are higher. You have lost
Speaker 1: cases repeatedly at the wt O on US selling you
Speaker 1: things like beef and poultry, and you won't even honor that.
Speaker 4: So yesterday the President called Ursula Vonderline fantastic, and he
Speaker 4: said he hopes to meet her. But are you saying
Speaker 4: that the European Union is not as high on the
Speaker 4: priority list and say other trading partners like Oria Japan
Speaker 4: not at all?
Speaker 1: I mean the EU to be clear here, we have
Speaker 1: the second highest trade deficit with the EU, behind China,
Speaker 1: so they're very high on the list. All I'm saying
Speaker 1: here is that I I thought I found it unfortunate
Speaker 1: that the EU kind of fired I think some term
Speaker 1: was fired shots across our bow. It's like retaliation will
Speaker 1: not work against the United States. We shouldn't have that.
Speaker 1: Let's talk, Let's figure this out, and it would be
Speaker 1: nice here. Let's give peace a chance here. All we're
Speaker 1: asking for here in the United States of America is fairness.
Speaker 1: I mean, hold on, would you agree? Is there any
Speaker 1: disagreement on this set or on your set that the
Speaker 1: tariffs of the EU are higher, and that the non
Speaker 1: tariff bearers are higher, and that the wt O in
Speaker 1: Geneva is basically sanctioning that through tuesdays one is the
Speaker 1: But would you agree with that?
Speaker 5: I think there's a bigger question FactCheck there. There's a
Speaker 5: bigger question here. There's a bigger question here. And this
Speaker 5: is something that the German Finance Minister has come out
Speaker 5: and talked about, which is they'd be willing to drop
Speaker 5: all tariffs to zero if the US were willing to
Speaker 5: drop all tariffs to zero, there is a willingness to
Speaker 5: negotiate aground the board to a lower tariff regime. Would
Speaker 5: that be acceptable to you?
Speaker 3: Or is ten percent?
Speaker 1: So stay with that. See that's such a misdirection. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's the non tariff barrier. Stupid to kind of paraphrase
Speaker 1: Bill Clinton. It's like, it's the non tariff barriers. So
Speaker 1: when countries like Vietnam or entities like the EU say
Speaker 1: to US, oh, let's all go to zero tariffs and
Speaker 1: everything will be okay, that's not the problem. It's part
Speaker 1: of the problem. But the bigger problem is the non
Speaker 1: tariff barriers in Europe. It's the vat tax. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you know this, but the United
Speaker 1: States has tried going back to the nineteen seventies to
Speaker 1: get equity treatment for the that tax which most countries
Speaker 1: of the world use versus the income tax which we use.
Speaker 1: We haven't been able to get it because the WTO
Speaker 1: has a majority of people who benefit from sticking it
Speaker 1: to the United States, so they do so. The zero
Speaker 1: road tariff thing, that's that's misdirection and on your set,
Speaker 1: you should call it on that. Let's lower the bad
Speaker 1: terror barriers and let's let's let's give you relief on
Speaker 1: the VAT tax. Now we're talking the VAT.
Speaker 5: Tax is a slightly different mechanism. This is all going
Speaker 5: to take a long time, and there are a lot
Speaker 5: of competing factors here in terms of who can possibly
Speaker 5: pull these levers. And I'm just wondering, we've got two
Speaker 5: months left in this ninety day negotiating period that is
Speaker 5: paused for the retaliatory tariffs. Does that just get extended
Speaker 5: out another ninety days as you have to deal with
Speaker 5: different legislative bodies to possibly remedy what you.
Speaker 1: See, Well, we don't have to deal with legislative body. Well, okay,
Speaker 1: in the EU perhaps, but you know, like coin a
Speaker 1: term in Trump time, which is to say do it
Speaker 1: as fast as possible without screwing it up. And that's
Speaker 1: all we're trying to do. I go back to the
Speaker 1: observation that the United States trade representative and that building,
Speaker 1: which is historic building, by the way, beautiful to see
Speaker 1: if you ever get there. The lines, you know, they're
Speaker 1: they're coming in and out. We're talking, and we're talking,
Speaker 1: and you know, let's as the Boss says, let's see
Speaker 1: what happens. I mean, it's in everybody's interests around the
Speaker 1: world to level the playing field with the United States
Speaker 1: in a way which allows us to restructure this international
Speaker 1: trade environment which is fundamentally skewed against the United States.
Speaker 1: I mean, we're losing because of this system. The United
Speaker 1: States is losing our manufacturing base, We're losing our defense
Speaker 1: industrial base. And when push comes to shev and folks
Speaker 1: around the world are looking for the United States to
Speaker 1: help defend them. I mean, we get to a point
Speaker 1: where we can't do that, what good is that? So trade?
Speaker 1: Trade economic security is national security is one of the
Speaker 1: guiding principles of President Trump in this administration. So we're
Speaker 1: we're just trying to get fairness here, give give fairness
Speaker 1: a chance here, and work with.
Speaker 3: Us looking forward to an update on Mondays.
Speaker 2: It's going to see it once again, sir, Thank you,
Speaker 2: Director of the Office of Trade a Manufacturing Policy at
Speaker 2: the White House. Heading into the weekend, we can extend
Speaker 2: the conversation with Sarah Pianke of eviCore. Sarah, we've had
Speaker 2: positioning now for weeks ahead of these talks. Here they are,
Speaker 2: who's got the leverage?
Speaker 6: Well, look at this point, look, I think China has
Speaker 6: a bit more leverage. But the reality is both sides
Speaker 6: would like these tariffs to come down from these levels that,
Speaker 6: as they all say, are basically an embargo. So I
Speaker 6: think both sides will be delighted to you know, just
Speaker 6: use even good mood music out of these talks to
Speaker 6: take things down to the escalator. So I do expect
Speaker 6: at some point next week we'll see these tariffs come
Speaker 6: down to the sixty percent ranging on the US side,
Speaker 6: and I think I do think China will we'll matchine
Speaker 6: in some way.
Speaker 4: Sarah, how are you thinking about this weekend? Is it
Speaker 4: talks about talks or do you really think that they
Speaker 4: are going to hash out some trade issues.
Speaker 6: I think they are going to hash out minimal trade issues.
Speaker 6: As you know, the one thing we've been saying in
Speaker 6: all these countries is trade. Actual trade talks is hard
Speaker 6: and long, but this is not hard. This is trying
Speaker 6: to get down to something just manageable. While they begin talk,
Speaker 6: so I think they'll they will talk about rare earths,
Speaker 6: they will talk about some of these other issues, perhaps
Speaker 6: if you purchase agreements, but in general, everybody wants this
Speaker 6: to come down from these unsustainable levels and then which
Speaker 6: by the way, sixty to fifty percent still really really high,
Speaker 6: then that can at least, do you know, put us
Speaker 6: on a path for an actual discussion, an actual outline
Speaker 6: of what they're trying.
Speaker 1: To achieve to drop that rate.
Speaker 4: Does the US need to see a concession from Beijing.
Speaker 6: I don't think so. I think, look, they have to
Speaker 6: make sure it doesn't appear that it's just a purely
Speaker 6: unilateral a walk away. But I I think they can
Speaker 6: use the cover of a good conversation, a commitment on
Speaker 6: a small commitment on fetanol. I think it can be
Speaker 6: largely symbolic or policies that perhaps are already in place.
Speaker 6: Pretty much. I don't think there's a lot here, because
Speaker 6: again I think Beijing has a lot more patience and
Speaker 6: pain tolerance in the United States. But nobody's really happy
Speaker 6: with where we're at right now.
Speaker 1: Sarah.
Speaker 2: We're hearing from the President right now saying China should
Speaker 2: open up its market to the USA. It would be
Speaker 2: good for them. Closed markets don't work anymore.
Speaker 3: Sarah.
Speaker 2: You lift some of these negotiations with the Chinese before
Speaker 2: as the deputy US trained representative in a previous administration.
Speaker 2: How difficult is it to get China to move to
Speaker 2: where the US would like it to be. What is
Speaker 2: it that they're refusing to open up that we'd like
Speaker 2: to see them open up?
Speaker 6: Well, I'm not sure that opening up is really kind
Speaker 6: of what honestly, what where the tensions really are? To
Speaker 6: be honest, last time the President got trying to agree
Speaker 6: to a bunch of purchase agreements, a particularly around ag
Speaker 6: I had the honor of trying to see if those
Speaker 6: were enforceable. There was not a lot. There was pretty
Speaker 6: clear that China wasn't going to do that, And so
Speaker 6: one of the challenges is not just what the agreement is,
Speaker 6: but does anybody actually ever listen to it? The truth is,
Speaker 6: what China really wants from the US is more access
Speaker 6: to some of our technology and chips, and that's why
Speaker 6: we always think this quote grand bargain is very very difficult.
Speaker 6: We think the best you can do is sort of
Speaker 6: a package of trades and exchanges and maybe a little
Speaker 6: bit more market opening, but that's really not the core
Speaker 6: of the issue.
Speaker 2: Sarah, I appreciate your time, as always, so Yankee out
Speaker 2: of the call with this around of table relationship of
Speaker 2: being my wilth alisiha good moniic in warning you were
Speaker 2: following that conversation he said he didn't want to get
Speaker 2: ahead of negotiations this week, and what's the best case
Speaker 2: Monday morning?
Speaker 3: What do we waking up to?
Speaker 7: So you know, at six am the best case was
Speaker 7: a fifty or sixty percent tariff rate and ten percent universal,
Speaker 7: and then an hour later it was eighty percent tariffs
Speaker 7: on China. The news changes quickly. Interestingly, the markets have
Speaker 7: been hanging in there. I mean, the futures actually have
Speaker 7: not reacted to that, And I think the message that
Speaker 7: the markets have learned is that this is one grand
Speaker 7: negotiating strategy and there's good cop bad cop in the administration.
Speaker 7: And it's very clear with what the direction of travel is,
Speaker 7: and the direction of travel is lowering of the tariffs
Speaker 7: and getting to deals. I think it's also no accident
Speaker 7: that doctor Navarro was on today before the negotiations in
Speaker 7: Switzerland this weekend, since he has seen to be the
Speaker 7: most hawkish when it comes to tariffs and particularly on China.
Speaker 7: So if this is part of a negotiating strategy, I
Speaker 7: think the markets have learned it's a negotiating strategy.
Speaker 1: So what do you make.
Speaker 5: Of that idea that there's been sort of I don't
Speaker 5: want to say benumbing of markets, but the response to
Speaker 5: headlines has been coming in again and again. Does that
Speaker 5: give you actually a sense of comfort?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 7: Yes, I mean, look what really happened, you know somehow
Speaker 7: April ninth was the ninety day pause. Was the message
Speaker 7: to markets that were moving the whole probability curve over
Speaker 7: to the right and the worst tailed scenario, that highest
Speaker 7: risk tail scenario is actually off the table. That's why
Speaker 7: the markets were able to rally and bounced off the lows.
Speaker 7: That continues to be the case. And if you think
Speaker 7: about it just in terms of numbers, because this business
Speaker 7: is all about numbers. The original tariffs of April seconds
Speaker 7: were about six hundred billion worth of tariffs six hundred
Speaker 7: billion dollars, which was basically attacks of two percent on
Speaker 7: the US economy. US economy is about thirty trillion dollars
Speaker 7: of GDP, so six hundred billion in tariffs was about
Speaker 7: two percent hit, which is why you had the odds
Speaker 7: of recession go straight up, because if you think growth
Speaker 7: rates are about two percent, you put it too percent
Speaker 7: tax on it, you get to zero. Now, with all
Speaker 7: the walkbacks, worried about four hundred billion in tarras. Okay,
Speaker 7: so we've walked back about one third of that, and
Speaker 7: I think ultimately we get to somewhere of about two
Speaker 7: hundred billion in Tariff's still very high, but it's not
Speaker 7: a two percent hit to the economy. And that's what
Speaker 7: the market's been pricing in the whole time. Earnings are
Speaker 7: probably higher for next year than that immediate base case
Speaker 7: in April second, and at some point the markets are
Speaker 7: going to look to twenty twenty six, and by the
Speaker 7: summer we're looking at twenty six and not twenty five anymore.
Speaker 7: And I think that's what's happening in the market.
Speaker 3: Weekend, and a weekend this weekend doesn't feel like it
Speaker 3: doesn't not in this business.
Speaker 7: I mean, I mean, look, we've all glued to our
Speaker 7: screens for a long time. So there's now weekend, there's
Speaker 7: the Sunday nights checking the futures.
Speaker 1: We're going to do that again.
Speaker 7: But I think the intensity of it, as I said,
Speaker 7: the markets have learned, this is negotiating. This is a
Speaker 7: negotiation with doctor Navarro on to set the stake in
Speaker 7: the ground, to commit the US on unnegotiating.
Speaker 2: Saturday, Denis went bust ranking. We're saying China tech waking
Speaker 2: up to the revolution with the US Chinese trite sensions
Speaker 2: abound down John's staff for more. Alongside of Leasha to
Speaker 2: NY Town, it's going to say a sink we kind
Speaker 2: of tried tos Why does tech fits in?
Speaker 3: It's all of this.
Speaker 8: Look, I think Tech news that they're walking back from
Speaker 8: the cliff in terms of what they're going to need
Speaker 8: to do right because the reality is that that's the hearts.
Speaker 1: And lungs of the supply chain.
Speaker 8: And I think what you've seen the Nvidia moment really
Speaker 8: essentially giving Huawei the China market. I think that was
Speaker 8: really that was the start of this. I think it
Speaker 8: was the start of the administration recognized they're gonna have
Speaker 8: to pull back, pull back, and look, you can't you
Speaker 8: can't argue with the data.
Speaker 2: How self sufficient is Chinese tech without US tech?
Speaker 8: Look, they need US tech. But which is be someone
Speaker 8: that spends so much time in China. I mean if
Speaker 8: you put them in a room with a Selser bottle,
Speaker 8: toothpick and you know, in a straw, they come out
Speaker 8: with an AI chip. So the problem is is that
Speaker 8: you don't want to put China in the situation that
Speaker 8: they're going to have to ultimately innovate, because it's my view,
Speaker 8: for the first time in thirty years, the US has
Speaker 8: been ahead of China when it comes to tech. So
Speaker 8: the last thing you want to do is cut US
Speaker 8: tech off at the knees. And I think now the
Speaker 8: administration is part what we're seeing in the market. They've
Speaker 8: taken steps back and I think now at least getting
Speaker 8: to some sort of balance. But still look, a lot
Speaker 8: of you know, definitely allow more wood to chop ahead.
Speaker 4: They're resenting the diffusion rule onto the Biden administration. So
Speaker 4: some of these geopolitical swing states are going to get.
Speaker 3: More access to US chips.
Speaker 4: How does China take advantage of that?
Speaker 8: I mean, look, China definitely is gonna, you know, from
Speaker 8: a market share perspective, go after. I think we've already
Speaker 8: seen in terms of Quai and others what they're going after.
Speaker 8: But the reality is really the H twenty right like
Speaker 8: ones you restrict the age twenty in terms of Nvidia,
Speaker 8: that sort of started this sort of game of Thrones
Speaker 8: battle that we're seeing in China. Definitely edging in terms
Speaker 8: of what I've used the AI revolution Boba, you know,
Speaker 8: I think front and center, but US continues to own
Speaker 8: the AI revolution, and I think the one thing as
Speaker 8: we go into Switzerland, you go into talks, the last
Speaker 8: thing you want to see here is administration just double
Speaker 8: down because if you do that and you don't lower
Speaker 8: the tension, you don't de escalate, it's US tech that
Speaker 8: gets hurt. And right now, I think that's sort of
Speaker 8: the tenuous situation we're in, although much more positive than
Speaker 8: called three four weeks ago.
Speaker 5: And Alisha really points to what we've seen in the
Speaker 5: markets recently, which is as the tone has softened, we
Speaker 5: have seen a huge ripporring rally in tech and everyone's
Speaker 5: been piling in. It's the hey, AI stories back on,
Speaker 5: Let's go? Is that going to be the leadership again
Speaker 5: or is this a tenuous rally in face of some
Speaker 5: of the uncertainties of how far some of these negotiats
Speaker 5: tactics can work.
Speaker 7: So the one the thing that uncertainty is that it
Speaker 7: creates a two way market, and I think many investors
Speaker 7: see this as a great entry point. The multiples are
Speaker 7: much lower, the stocks have been crushed, and you know, ultimately,
Speaker 7: I think the narrative that US exceptionalism is over has
Speaker 7: been has been very strong, and we saw this rush
Speaker 7: into global markets, and the question is today I'm just
Speaker 7: going to point out that the S and P has
Speaker 7: outperformed developed international month to day, and there's a reason
Speaker 7: for that, and that's partly because the tech earnings. With
Speaker 7: the multiples and the cash flow, you can't get around it.
Speaker 7: And ultimately, as an investor, you're investing in future cash flows.
Speaker 7: And what we saw from these companies is that there's
Speaker 7: nobody else that can touch these companies.
Speaker 8: And to your point, it was a jail in Bruns
Speaker 8: and movement for the taxpase, let's say the nixtent.
Speaker 1: And it was a jail and Brune and six bucks.
Speaker 8: You've seen ultimately what happened here in terms of the AI.
Speaker 2: Right, the AI race flash points allow me to sort
Speaker 2: of date town a compo Deep sixx one. Okay, big
Speaker 2: upset be on Tride. Let's forget right, Deep six one
Speaker 2: the second one. I think this week Apple coming out
Speaker 2: and saying so is paked on Google.
Speaker 3: What was your reaction to that headline? That was a shot.
Speaker 1: Across the bow, right.
Speaker 8: I mean, just given what we're seeing, even on the
Speaker 8: regulatory fronts, the last thing Alphabet needed to see. Look,
Speaker 8: I think barxworts and a bite there, and it's like
Speaker 8: it's our search queries like where AI is not ending
Speaker 8: Alphabet's hearts and lungs in terms of, you know, their core,
Speaker 8: their core money train. But it shows Apple when it
Speaker 8: comes to AI and building it out, they're gonna have
Speaker 8: to do their own path and they're gonna have to
Speaker 8: build some of that out.
Speaker 1: And you talk about deep seek to almost kind of
Speaker 1: put it in a bow.
Speaker 8: Look this every big tech firm wants to be. They
Speaker 8: want to be the seed at the table. No one's
Speaker 8: gonna say, okay, hey, Apple, Google, you could be our
Speaker 8: our AI or open AI. And I think that's the
Speaker 8: reality that we're seeing here.
Speaker 2: At least it just quickly. Has the tech trait changed?
Speaker 2: Is it different now? Do you have to play it differently?
Speaker 3: I think you do.
Speaker 7: You have to differently. I mean it's no longer close
Speaker 7: your eyes and just throw the dart at the magnificent seven.
Speaker 7: I mean, there's clearly different growth rates here. But the
Speaker 7: power of the size of the companies, we think is
Speaker 7: still going to actually drive the SMP here. So we
Speaker 7: think the American exceptionalism trade lives on and maybe in
Speaker 7: different ways. But look at industrials have been rallying, you know, aerospace,
Speaker 7: defense has been rallying, Tech has been rallying. This is
Speaker 7: the base of the US economy and the SMP. It
Speaker 7: does suggest also just say that some of the conversation
Speaker 7: coming from the White House is finding its way back
Speaker 7: into the market in a positive way and not just
Speaker 7: putting a lid on things. Like we said weeks ago,
Speaker 7: the forty eight hundred low is in. It's a regardless
Speaker 7: of recession.
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