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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Surveillance Podcast. I'm Tom Keane. Along

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Speaker 1: and of course on the Bloomberg terminal. Right now, we

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Speaker 1: are thrilled to bring to you a Rockin rog And

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Speaker 1: he is of course at the University of Chicago Boost School.

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Speaker 1: He is of course a former Reserve Bank of India governor,

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Speaker 1: but also one of the most prescient students of American

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Speaker 1: culture and our future. Were thrilled that Dr Roger could

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Speaker 1: join Bloomberg this morning. Rockerman, want to go back to

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Speaker 1: I think it was two thousand twelve and your postmortem

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Speaker 1: in the Corporate and the Corporation and Finance where you

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Speaker 1: talked about the near death experience of two thousand eight.

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Speaker 1: How close are we to that now? When you look

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Speaker 1: at the unique challenges every central bank happens, including the

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Speaker 1: work at Bank of India UH ten days ago, I

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Speaker 1: will say, how close are we to a two thousand

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Speaker 1: twenty two near death experience? Well, every UH sort of

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Speaker 1: episode is different. Of course, I think we are not

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Speaker 1: as fearful of the banking sector this time because of

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Speaker 1: substantially more capital in that sector. What is less known

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Speaker 1: as what happens in the shadow banking system, uh, the cryptos,

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Speaker 1: the finance companies, the various funds, and UH. What has

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Speaker 1: happened over the last ten years is we've had very

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Speaker 1: easy money. Very easy money means leverage. Very easy money

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Speaker 1: means a dependence on liquity, UH, and dependence on being

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Speaker 1: able to roll over stuff. And the big unknown is

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Speaker 1: how many, how much of the financial sector is is

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Speaker 1: actually going to have problems as rates go up, as

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Speaker 1: rollovers become more difficult. Yesterday, day before, we saw that

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Speaker 1: happening to stable coins. What else is waiting out there

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Speaker 1: by now? Pay later? Yeah? What what's so important here,

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Speaker 1: Dr Roger? And is the University of Chicago's intellectual foundation

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Speaker 1: and leadership on the breaking of inflation by Paul Woker

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Speaker 1: a few decades ago. I know history doesn't repeat, but

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Speaker 1: what are the methods we need to do to break

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Speaker 1: this inflation? Well, Paul Volker used a sledgehammer, right. He

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Speaker 1: essentially created a double dep procession in order to squeeze

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Speaker 1: out inflation. We hope it doesn't come to that this time. Nevertheless,

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Speaker 1: I think the message from Volker is as inflation gets legs,

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Speaker 1: as it picks up, as it spreads, and it spreads

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Speaker 1: across the world, you have to take strong medicine, and

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Speaker 1: that means raising rates, typically a percentage point or two

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Speaker 1: above the prevailing inflation rate, and right now we are

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Speaker 1: so far from it. Now. The good news, I think

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Speaker 1: last few days, they seem to have come down. That's

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Speaker 1: an interesting development. People think the Fed is serious. The

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Speaker 1: markets may not be perfectly right, but they certainly think

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Speaker 1: the FED has a chance. Now you look at five

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Speaker 1: year five year forward expectations, they had gone up to

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Speaker 1: two and a half percent. They're back down to two

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Speaker 1: point three now. So there's something here suggesting the market

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Speaker 1: believes the Fed is serious. Program. You're talking about the

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Speaker 1: concern about financial stability as well as this belief in

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Speaker 1: faith that the FED can actually bring down inflation, that

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Speaker 1: they're actually to go ahead and do that. In some ways,

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Speaker 1: does the FED get more conviction to go faster and

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Speaker 1: more from the fact that the disruptions, whether it's in

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Speaker 1: the stable coin that you talk about, whether it's the

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Speaker 1: fact that we've seen massive amounts of pain in the

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Speaker 1: Does that give the FED more confidence that they can

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Speaker 1: raise rates to the pace that they're planning to. I

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Speaker 1: certainly into late last year and earlier this year, Um,

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Speaker 1: that was a source of concern. Everybody knew the FED

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Speaker 1: One is that inflationary expectations get more entrenched as you

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Speaker 1: maybe inflation has gone up, but I'd rather prefer having

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Speaker 1: But I think these are things that take time. I

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Speaker 1: Very importantly here, your book, The Third Pillar, was one

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Speaker 1: It isn't. And my big worry is that we've spent

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Speaker 1: build up elsewhere, level up, so to speak. I always

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Speaker 1: go right now and moving forward into the summer. Is

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Speaker 1: a joy to speak to Angelo's stand. She is non

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Speaker 1: resident Senior Fellow Brookings and author of my book of

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Speaker 1: the Year, made far too early in this Tumultua was

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Speaker 1: two thousand, twenty two Putin's world. All I can say

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Speaker 1: is it's definitive. Professor Stan, thank you so much for

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Speaker 1: These claims are speculative and made by those who are

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Speaker 1: not medical professionals. So Dr stant I remember you on

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Speaker 1: I am not a medical doctor. Good morning, So it

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Speaker 1: His speech was very short. We all expected something longer

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Speaker 1: But they still do have the firepower and the manpower,

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Speaker 1: that's a rather messy set of negotiations. But they are

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Speaker 1: still take time. Angela Stent years ago, I remember asking

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Speaker 1: same one to you. We were wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong

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Speaker 1: This one does feel different. Powell's basically penciled in fifty

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Speaker 1: So I'll leave that to Chris. But but down a bit.

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Speaker 1: But John, the problem is Harvey's standing on the ledge

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Speaker 1: let's work through this. You had a big coal on

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Speaker 1: That seems to be sort of where it's gonna land.

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Speaker 1: But our big issue is how little tightening is priced

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Speaker 1: aspirational at this point. Tom I need to put it

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Speaker 1: kindly in you've got to say, well, where are the

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Speaker 1: I think that the deal here, John, is that the

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Speaker 1: Is that the piece is good enough for the level

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Speaker 1: So I think the FED is it's looking at the

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Speaker 1: really multiplies the chance of an overshooting too much. Typing

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Speaker 1: my shoemaca of waging Mike Tons to think about that.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, buddy, and good luck with Chris when you

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