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Speaker 1: It is a single best idea where we try to

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Speaker 1: put together the conversations we have on economics, finance, investment,

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Speaker 1: and international relations. Pick out two of our guests. That's

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Speaker 1: hard to do. Kitchooks today was absolutely fabulous with Society

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Speaker 1: General among others. But we go here with Constance Hunter

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Speaker 1: of Macro Policy Perspectives on a meeting she took with

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Speaker 1: Secretary Romando last night at the Council on Foreign Relations.

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Speaker 1: But before that, David Rosenberg of Rosenberg Research in Toronto,

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Speaker 1: And what's so important here and this is something we

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Speaker 1: really try to do, which is to frame out who

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Speaker 1: these people are. David Rosenberg worked for Merrill Lynch and

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Speaker 1: was absolutely iconic it parsing out inflation when very few

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Speaker 1: people did that. It was like Dylan at the Philadelphia

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Speaker 1: Folk Festival or whatever where he picked up an electric guitar.

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Speaker 1: Rosenberg did this before anybody else, parsing out inflation, and

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Speaker 1: we talked to him. But then when we of course

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Speaker 1: had to speak with David Rosenberg about parsing out what

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Speaker 1: your own Powell will say to the politicians.

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Speaker 2: The Fed has already walked back that dubbishness in December,

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Speaker 2: and you know, the market's leapt on some you know

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Speaker 2: comment that I think Mary Daily made about that maybe

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Speaker 2: futures price in you know, six rate cuts, not three.

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Speaker 2: The Fed has successfully calibrated the market back to whe

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Speaker 2: it was in December. I expect that. I think he's

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Speaker 2: going to be pretty hawkish. And everybody has lined up

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Speaker 2: hawkish relative to where they were in December, and the

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Speaker 2: question is going to be will he sound more or

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Speaker 2: less hawkish than what's priced in right now? My big

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Speaker 2: I think he's going to sound pretty hawkish tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: David Rosenberg, there is a bond bull price up, yield down.

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Speaker 1: We haven't seen that. It's going to be interesting to

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Speaker 1: see now. I would say that the ten year real yield,

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Speaker 1: even a bit higher than that, has come on down

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Speaker 1: a little bit of the disinflationary trend in the zeitgeist

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Speaker 1: of the last number of days. Sometimes I'm wrong, Bob,

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Speaker 1: don't you look at me like that. Often I'm wrong

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Speaker 1: and as wrong. Last night they called me up at

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Speaker 1: the consult foreign Relations Ambassador froman their Michael Frohner, with

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Speaker 1: all of his Pacific experience for the government his public

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Speaker 1: service to the nation, puts together a meeting with Joseph

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Speaker 1: the government and by private enterprise including KKR and otherworthies

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Speaker 1: across the Pacific RIM. I thought it'd show up. I

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Speaker 1: an absolutely packed room of people hanging on every word

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Speaker 1: of the Secretary of Commerce, Gina Ramundo, obviously the former

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Speaker 1: governor of Rhode Island. Many of you will know her

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Speaker 1: from that, and she was just it was piercing how

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Speaker 1: intense she was on explaining a new path for America

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Speaker 1: in the Pacific RIM. I got lucky and that constant

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Speaker 1: hunter was there from macro policy perspectives, and she gleaned

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Speaker 1: relationship here, the new tone that we'll see in America

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Speaker 3: The other thing that I felt was very interesting is

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Speaker 3: this is a public private partnership where the governments to

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Speaker 3: government relations give cover to make sure that you don't

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Speaker 3: have what do we call it an excessive stroke of

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Speaker 3: the pen risk, right, so you have if you're going

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Speaker 3: to go in and invest in these countries, that you

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Speaker 3: private partnership aspect means it's going to be very difficult

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Speaker 1: This CONSTANTNA there on one of the high points, and

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Speaker 1: the room and so look, this is a public private effort.

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Speaker 1: And she of course alluded to the failures we've had

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