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Speaker 1: today's program with the feder reserved and the economy. We're

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Speaker 1: Global Economic and Policy Editor Michael McKee. As always, Michael,

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Speaker 1: thank you very much for being with us. What should

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Speaker 1: we be looking for? You've told us we're all data dependent.

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Speaker 1: It's going to be interesting to see if the data

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Speaker 1: Is Tim craighead. Tim, great to have you on the program.

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Speaker 1: So you've picked out then for the quarter to come,

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Speaker 1: are they looking to really penetrate beyond the US you mentioned,

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Speaker 1: So when I think of solar panels, when I think

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Speaker 1: China once again leads the world in battery manufacturing. It

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Speaker 1: whatever ambitions Beijing may have at the moment, those become stymied.

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Speaker 1: You know, that's the big fear for these Chinese companies

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Speaker 1: is that, you know, the IRA has passed. Frankly, all

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Speaker 1: But the Chinese companies are looking at it. Their fear

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Speaker 1: someone like Marco Rubio, who's voiced opposition to Chinese clean

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Speaker 1: rules midway through to make sure Chinese companies can't benefit

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Speaker 1: so that they're they're worried about the rug being pulled

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Speaker 1: indication that that will happen, but that's the sort of

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Speaker 1: A lot of the way that China has developed these

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Speaker 1: stuff here, benefiting these foreign companies. My dad twenty five

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Speaker 1: years ago worked for General Motors when they opened their

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Speaker 1: first car plant in Shanghai. General Motors benefited hugely in

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Speaker 1: the first several years of that deal. But you know,

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Speaker 1: the they General Motors hired locally. They taught you know,

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Speaker 1: Chinese workers and executives how to run a world class

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Speaker 1: car operation. And now you know, you look at China's

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Speaker 1: car industry, and it's right up there, you know, neck

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Speaker 1: and neck with the US in terms of one of

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Speaker 1: the biggest in the world. Dan, thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for spending time to chat with us. Dan Mrtile there,

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Asia Energy Reporter joining from Beijing. I'm Bug Prisoner.

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Speaker 1: You can join Brian Curtis and myself weekdays for Bloomberg

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Speaker 1: Daybreak Asia, beginning at six am in Hong Kong, six

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Speaker 1: pm on Wall Street. John Doug thanks very much. Just

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Speaker 1: ahead on Bloomberg Daybreak weekend, a sneak peak at the

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Speaker 1: IMF meeting in Washington. I'm John Tucker. This is Bloomberg.

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Speaker 1: This is Bloomberg Daybreak weekend, our global look ahead of

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Speaker 1: the top stories for investors in the coming week. I'm

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Speaker 1: John Tucker in New York. Here come the big annual

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Speaker 1: meetings or the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

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Speaker 1: And for a look at why we're watching these meetings

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Speaker 1: especially closely, let's head to our Bloomberg ninety nine one

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Speaker 1: newsroom in Washington and sound on host Joe Matthew. John.

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Speaker 1: The IMF meets in Washington this weekend, while the cherry

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Speaker 1: blossoms are in bloom the forecast is not great, as

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Speaker 1: the IMF warrens, it's five year global growth outlook is

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Speaker 1: now at its weakest since nineteen ninety, and it's thanks

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Speaker 1: to a confluence of factors. As Managing Director Chrystallina Gorgieva

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Speaker 1: described an interview with Bloomberg's Tom King, countries that we

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Speaker 1: would expect to add to growth from TM markets. Low

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Speaker 1: income countries are in particularly difficult place because they have

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Speaker 1: been innocent bystanders, repetitive shocks that COVID Russia's invasion, the

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Speaker 1: fact that the word economy as a whole is now

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Speaker 1: less able to support the weakest members. Let's talk about

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Speaker 1: it now with Bloomberg's US economic policies are How would

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Speaker 1: you like that business card? Ramsey, Al Racabby, It's great

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Speaker 1: to see Ramsey, Thanks for joining us. Do these meetings

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Speaker 1: begin with real concerns about geopolitics when you cansider the

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Speaker 1: weakest forecasts since nineteen ninety, that's right, Joe. The IMF's

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Speaker 1: managing director, Christelina Goorjeva, on Thursday came out with a

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Speaker 1: little intro speech heading into the meetings, talking about how

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Speaker 1: their outlook for the next five years is the weakest

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Speaker 1: since nineteen ninety. One of the things they mentioned at

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Speaker 1: the top was a global fragmentation, which is sort of

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Speaker 1: a thinly veiled comment about US and China at tensions

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Speaker 1: and worries around economic decoupling between the two. That comes

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Speaker 1: on top of UH these this global tightening and interest

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Speaker 1: rates that has been trying to fight inflation, and so

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Speaker 1: the impacts that that that's saying, that's a stronger dollar

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Speaker 1: which has made debt issues much more intense, and emerging markets,

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Speaker 1: and as we saw quite recently, it's set off some

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Speaker 1: financial stability issues with banking banking collapses in the US

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Speaker 1: and in Europe. That is sort of sending fears of

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Speaker 1: of of how a financial crisis might bleed into an

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Speaker 1: economic crisis. Give us a sense of what's going to

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Speaker 1: happen to Washington next week. It's gonna be an absolute

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Speaker 1: festival of policymakers and finance ministers and central banks. Despite

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Speaker 1: the paul cast by the Sport, Yeah it's not it's

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Speaker 1: not looking good, but at least the weather's nice. Everyone's

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Speaker 1: everyone's showing up for the for the IMF hosted spring meetings.

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Speaker 1: At the same time, there'll be a G twenty finance

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Speaker 1: be locked down with with parties shuttling back and forth,

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Speaker 1: and somehow you have to cover it all. There's going

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Speaker 1: to be you know, a lot of a lot of

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Speaker 1: motorcades and a lot of closed streets and then a

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Speaker 1: lot of I'm sure cocktail parties with I believe all

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Speaker 1: of the smart folks. Yeah, well they're being I mean

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Speaker 1: beyond the photo ops and the cocktail parties, will there

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Speaker 1: be progress? I suspect there's gonna be Uh, there's gonna

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Speaker 1: be a theme and a mission statement. But what happens

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Speaker 1: after that, Well, one of the there's there's two there's

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Speaker 1: two main things that would come out of something like this. Well,

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Speaker 1: this would be at the G twenty these communications where

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Speaker 1: from where these you know, these guardians of the global economy,

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Speaker 1: you get together and say these are the challenges that

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Speaker 1: we face and the way forward. Russia's invasion of Ukraine

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Speaker 1: has really thrown a wrench into that, and the last

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Speaker 1: couple times they've gotten together, the best they can do

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Speaker 1: on in the world and what the causes of it are,

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Speaker 1: Rategy Department, Jenny Yellen and even Biden would say Russia's

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Speaker 1: thoughts next week here in Washington, DC. Ramsey, I'll ricaby

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Speaker 1: many thanks for talking with us today on bloom Thanks Jo, John,

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Speaker 1: back to you, Helly, Thank you Joe. That was Bloomberg's

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Speaker 1: sound on host Joe Matthew reporting from our Bloomberg ninety

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Speaker 1: nine one news room at Washington, and you can hear

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Speaker 1: Joe on sound on weekdays one to three pm right

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Speaker 1: here on Bloomberg Radio. Also, stay tuned for a special

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Speaker 1: live coverage of key movers and shakers at the IMF

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Speaker 1: and World Bank meetings this coming week. And that does

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Speaker 1: it for this edition of Bloomberg Daybreak Weekend. Join us

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Speaker 1: and Monday morning at five am Wall Street Time for

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Speaker 1: the latest on markets overseas and the news you need

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Speaker 1: to start your day. I'm John Tucker. Stay with us

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