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Speaker 1: the Bloomberg Terminal, and the Bloomberg Business App. Well, let's

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Speaker 1: get straight to it. This. Francis Donald be Global Chief

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Speaker 1: Economists and Strategist at Manulife Investment Management. Francis an easy one.

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Speaker 1: What did you make of that? That's not an easy one, John,

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Speaker 1: because there's a lot of parcel through there. But the

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Speaker 1: main takeaway for me is, yes, we could talk about

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Speaker 1: terminal rate estimates and the pace of hikes, but what

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Speaker 1: I'm hearing is just more data dependence and myopic. Data

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Speaker 1: dependence can always be dangerous, but it is particularly problematic

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Speaker 1: in an environment where we have weather distortion, seasonal adjustment distortion,

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Speaker 1: low survey responses. We are in data that is really

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Speaker 1: having trouble setting us a clear signal, at least over

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Speaker 1: the long term, and I'm concerned that We're going to

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Speaker 1: see markets that are overreacting to data points that of

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Speaker 1: false decision, and potentially even a central bank that's moving

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Speaker 1: too quickly and making big policy changes even via communication

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Speaker 1: off of data that I think is going to be

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Speaker 1: very bumpy in the next three to six months. Francis,

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Speaker 1: with a shock that we saw yesterday, does disinflation come

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Speaker 1: to the rescue? Can we get a rapidity of sharply

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Speaker 1: lower inflation? You know, I think the FED may not

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Speaker 1: be focused on specifically some of those traditional inflation measures,

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Speaker 1: but that rise we've seen in inflation expectations and market

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Speaker 1: based measures, that's what's keeping me up at night. That

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Speaker 1: is moving in the wrong direction. Now it's countered by

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Speaker 1: inflation expectations among consumers that are still going lower, and

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Speaker 1: I'm hoping that the FED is focusing on those long

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Speaker 1: term inflation expectations, which are coming down quite a bit.

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Speaker 1: One of my bigger concerns is this summer, we're probably

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Speaker 1: going to lose some of the disinflation momentum that's largely

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Speaker 1: going to be base effects. So this downward momentum that

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Speaker 1: we've seen is probably going to stall. That's when we're

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Speaker 1: going to start hearing those words like stagflation come back,

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Speaker 1: and if we haven't seen some slowdown in jobs by then,

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Speaker 1: a feed that's going to stay hawkish through the summer

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Speaker 1: after what was rot yesterday? Is it walk it back Wednesday?

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Speaker 1: I mean, do you see come out today to the

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Speaker 1: house and change the tune a little bit. The only

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Speaker 1: way we're going to walk back this pricing for the

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Speaker 1: March meeting is what we see in the jobs data

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Speaker 1: in the next few days. And when I say jobs data,

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Speaker 1: jobs data that's going to be coming through, and no

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Speaker 1: one number is going to be I think more important

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Speaker 1: than the sum of those stories, especially in an environment

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Speaker 1: where we're really trying to dig deeper. We got to

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Speaker 1: look at private sector jobs data right now, people looking

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Speaker 1: at job postings on things like LinkedIn, And indeed, if

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Speaker 1: I think is even more important than the March meeting,

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Speaker 1: you've got to be looking at all of the data

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Speaker 1: story behind it. Francis, I understand what a bind freedhair J.

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Speaker 1: Powell is and how unique this moment is, and yet

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Speaker 1: the flip flopping of his messages is jarring. It's starring

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Speaker 1: for markets, and it's starring for people who are trying

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Speaker 1: this feder reserve. Do you think that that in and

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Speaker 1: of itself is detrimental or advantageous given that that uncertainty

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Speaker 1: tighter than they'd otherwise be. Well, it certainly makes our

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Speaker 1: on all laurels for six months. We have to be

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Speaker 1: a lot more flexible when it comes to the data

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Speaker 1: that's coming in. But there is a lot of short

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Speaker 1: termism in this industry and financial media. When you're an economist,

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Speaker 1: you're always looking for what is the next big story

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Speaker 1: But if you're a longer term investor, a lot of

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Speaker 1: Where do you think the market is getting the economy

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Speaker 1: Q one is certainly much stronger than many people expected.

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Speaker 1: That consumer is holding in strong. But the challenge comes

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Speaker 1: So if we're talking about the next three months, sure

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Speaker 1: there's no problem in saying this economy is stronger than

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Speaker 1: it's a very hard sell. One thing you can say

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Speaker 1: just really focus on your timelines. Are you talking about

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Speaker 1: lot of strategists, including myself, you need to work on

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Speaker 1: really being clear about their timelines for their forecast friends

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Speaker 1: to send that degree of confidence around each timeline. Do

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Speaker 1: you have more confidence about where we'll be in six

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Speaker 1: And I think that's actually the game is what does

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Speaker 1: Actually I'm concerned about that. I think it's going to

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Speaker 1: I'm more concerned about eighteen months from now. We've been

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Speaker 1: always to get your perspective. Great to see if francis

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Speaker 1: Like Cassie, I've got no idea what this is about.

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Speaker 1: But here's the quote from him. He thinks that if

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Speaker 1: And what Powell has been doing for months now is saying, Okay,

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Speaker 1: to and the duration at which we stay at that

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Speaker 1: The risk of a hard landing does go up in

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Speaker 1: that scenario, and the yield curve is telling you as much.

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Speaker 1: It impacts housing first, then manufacturing, then consumer and labor,

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Speaker 1: and it's actually playing out in that traditional way. Housing

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Speaker 1: home prices have been deflating for six straight months. Business

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Speaker 1: FED may not have the luxury of having. In this moment,

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Speaker 1: doesn't have. Right now, I'm looking at a ten year

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Speaker 1: that is suggesting the risk of hard landing is rising. Now,

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Speaker 1: So that's where I would say more of the complacency is.

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Speaker 1: the very inverted yield curve. I guess, to put this

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Speaker 1: I mean, there's some themes there that are really really

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Speaker 1: think that's very important information to have. It's one than

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Speaker 1: slowdown rate hikes is high right now, Dan Swank, thank

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