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Speaker 2: of the Council of Foreign Relations, writing final days come

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Speaker 2: down to turn out? Does the floating garland of garbage

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Speaker 2: in soult reminded where the recon voters in swing states

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Speaker 2: of Trump's poor treatment of the island after Hurricane Maria,

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Speaker 2: seeing massive backlash, But will they vote on it? This

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Speaker 2: could make or break the election?

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Speaker 1: Heid?

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Speaker 2: He joined us now for more, Hidy, just elaborate on

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Speaker 2: that your thoughts on the last few days, this word

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Speaker 2: garbage and how it may shake up this election.

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Speaker 3: Rice. So I actually I'm paying a lot less attention

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Speaker 3: to the Trump comments on garbage than what happened at

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Speaker 3: Madison Square Garden on the floating island of garbage comments.

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Speaker 3: And I think the reason that I'm thinking that is

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Speaker 3: because right now it really does come down to turn out.

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Speaker 3: The polls are razorsin in the states that matter, in

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Speaker 3: the communities that matter. And so if you're undecided and

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Speaker 3: you haven't voted yet, what's going to make you decide?

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Speaker 3: If you're ambivalent, and you are, you know, you need

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Speaker 3: an actual reason to vote. Is what Trump's talking about,

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Speaker 3: going to actually, you know, turn the dial for you.

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Speaker 3: Because I think his I think his supporters are pretty

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Speaker 3: you know, they're they're pretty committed, and if they haven't

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Speaker 3: voted already, they're probably going to vote for him regardless

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Speaker 3: of the garbage comment. For the Puerto Rican community, I

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Speaker 3: think it's really a wild card.

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Speaker 4: That's That's what I'm paying attention to.

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Speaker 3: Because the comment at the event at Madison Square Garden,

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Speaker 3: even though Trump did not make it himself, he never

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Speaker 3: apologized for it, and it insulted and reminded Puerto Rican

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Speaker 3: voters in swing states of Trump's poor treatment of the

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Speaker 3: island after Hurricane Maria, about the way he delayed aid

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Speaker 3: and then when he got there two weeks after a

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Speaker 4: He threw a bunch of paper towels at the crowd.

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Speaker 3: And so, you know, it's a question of whether or

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Speaker 3: not these very large Puerto Rican specifically populations in these

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Speaker 3: swing states. And Marius talking about Pennsylvania. Half a million

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Speaker 3: Puerto Ricans live in Pennsylvania, in a state that Joe

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Speaker 3: Biden when he won last time, it was on eight

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Speaker 3: eighty thousand votes. So you know, we're talking about very

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Speaker 3: large numbers who could decide they're really not very happy

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Speaker 3: about what they saw four years more than four years

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Speaker 3: ago in the treatment of Puerto Ricans.

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Speaker 4: It was insulting and it could move the dial Heidi.

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Speaker 5: Of course, the flip side of this is a large

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Speaker 5: part of Individuals can also be turned off on the

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Speaker 5: President of the United States comments that half of Trump's

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Speaker 5: supporters are quote garbage and Kamala Harris is now having

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Speaker 5: to clean up Joe Biden's comments. Is he doing more

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Speaker 5: damage to her every time he goes out and speaks.

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Speaker 3: So I think that it was unfortunate that he used

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Speaker 3: that that that language, and it obviously harkened back to

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Speaker 4: So you know, but.

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Speaker 3: Again, if you are going to it's really about a

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Speaker 4: And what can what can motivate them.

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Speaker 3: To change their decision or if they are turned off

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Speaker 3: what can make them actually get up out of their

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Speaker 3: house and actually cast that vote. And I don't I

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Speaker 3: don't know if press in Biden's comments, which we're not reflected,

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Speaker 3: we're not we're not re electing President Biden, if they

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Speaker 3: actually are going to move the dial for that very

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Speaker 5: How do how do you think she sticks the landing

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Speaker 5: when it comes to the economy the ft this morning

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Speaker 5: calls Kamala Harris's other electoral foe inflation. This continuously shows

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Speaker 5: when it comes to inflation.

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Speaker 4: So it's really it's a hard it's a hard narrative.

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Speaker 3: I mean, people are actually people are generally hurting from

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Speaker 3: the fact that the goods, you know, the everyday goods,

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Speaker 3: guess what I would what I would suggest is that

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Speaker 3: on China, What that actually could mean for inflation? Well,

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Speaker 3: it's probably they're you know, those kind of tariffs are

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Speaker 4: We you know, we've had for many years.

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Speaker 3: We know what they do, what they're They're inflationary, and

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Speaker 3: it depends if they are tactical and targeted versus across

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Speaker 4: I don't think I don't think that.

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Speaker 3: That voters really understand that that that Trump, saying that

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Speaker 3: he is tariff man, can get into the Oval Office

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Speaker 3: day one and actually without any checks and balance, he

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Speaker 4: That would be inflationary. And what does that mean.

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Speaker 3: It means that it's going to impact consumers intermediate inputs,

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Speaker 3: like for every every business that's part of a supply chain.

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Speaker 4: You can count on retaliation.

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Speaker 3: You'll blow up all of our our FTAs with countries,

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Speaker 3: and our allies will push back pretty pretty heartily against

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Speaker 3: us in a world where we actually need our allies,

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Speaker 3: we don't need to alienate our allies. So I think

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Speaker 3: that there are you know, it's not only inflation, but

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Speaker 3: you could have both, you know, commercial inflation and and

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Speaker 3: geopolitical reactions that would be highly negative. What does the

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Speaker 3: FED do, We're talking about the FED for next week.

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Speaker 3: What does the FED do if they're facing you know,

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Speaker 3: challenges to inflation on the on one side, and then

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Speaker 3: spillovers that might impact credit markets, mortgages, company borrowing, You're

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Speaker 3: going to be in a very different, a very different

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Speaker 3: dynamic if we come January and.

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Speaker 4: You have massive across the board tariffs.

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Speaker 1: And post id or what are you watching in the

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Speaker 1: final days of the election race.

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Speaker 3: So you know, again it's the markets are are not

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Speaker 3: a good predictor of of of who's going to be

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Speaker 3: in this in this election, who's going to win this election.

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Speaker 3: But I do think that the fact that you've had

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Speaker 3: a lot of women show up in early voting, You've

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Speaker 3: Harris's into Harris's camp.

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Speaker 4: The fact that.

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Speaker 3: You do have these narrow, these narrow populations, who can

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Speaker 3: actually you really determine the election one way or the other,

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Speaker 3: and we just don't know. Anyone who tells you they

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Speaker 3: know who's gonna win doesn't know what they're talking about.

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Speaker 3: We are neck and neck right now, and we're not

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Speaker 3: going to know until until the votes are finally counted,

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Speaker 3: and that might not be next next Tuesday, might not

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Speaker 3: be next week.

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Speaker 2: Don't say that, Heidi, hoping it's so low by THENI

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Speaker 2: do you appreciate your time as always, Hidi cree by

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Speaker 2: Redik of the Council on Farm Relations. Seth Carpenter, the

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Speaker 2: chief Global economist that Mark and Stanley is with us

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Speaker 2: around the table, Seth to sixteen. Should I ignore the

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Speaker 2: random number generator tomorrow morning at eight thirty Eastern if

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Speaker 2: it's weak based on the fact the jobless claims are

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Speaker 2: this slow?

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Speaker 6: Absolutely. I think if it's weak, even if today hadn't

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Speaker 6: been two sixteen, you would have still ignored the random

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Speaker 6: number generator. The bottom line is the labor market's actually

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Speaker 6: pretty healthy. I think the two sixteen is consistent with that.

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Speaker 6: I think the fact that you're getting a little bit

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Speaker 6: of a drift up in the continuing claim says, boy,

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Speaker 6: you know, maybe people aren't getting rehired as quickly, but

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Speaker 6: there's not a wave of layoffs, and that, for me

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Speaker 6: is what's fundamental.

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Speaker 2: The hurricane impact doesn't seem to be there. Last week

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Speaker 2: already predated. Those numbers were actually below the hurricane impact

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Speaker 2: the pre hurricane hit. And then you've got the strikes.

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Speaker 2: So we're not seeing any real mushrooming into the economy

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Speaker 2: off the back of these strikes either. How do you

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Speaker 2: frame a downside surprise like this. I'm still scratching my head.

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Speaker 2: What are we doing here down at two sixteen?

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Speaker 6: I mean, this is the question we keep asking ourselves.

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Speaker 6: So this whole expansion, we've been on the constructive side

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Speaker 6: of things. When it was hard landing versus soft landing,

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Speaker 6: we said soft landing. When it was late summer and

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Speaker 6: we got a week jobs report, we said, don't worry

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Speaker 6: about the economy as strong and people through rotten garbage

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Speaker 6: ass Untilda said, we were ugly and stupid. If we've

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Speaker 6: think these numbers are really consistent with a super healthy

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Speaker 1: So then why should the FED cut rates next week?

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Speaker 6: I think the Fed's view on this is going to be.

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Speaker 6: Inflation's coming down, it's clearly off its peaks, it's trending down.

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Speaker 6: The number we got today it is a little bit

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Speaker 6: the trend is still pretty clearly down, and so from

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Speaker 6: their perspective, you can still lower rates from where we are,

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Speaker 6: be restrictive, try to take a little bit more steam

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Speaker 6: So I think they're trying to walk this very fine

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Speaker 1: I'm looking right now at the PCEE data. Within all

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Speaker 1: of this, you see a strong labor market and see

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Speaker 1: pce inflation data that came in slightly above expectations. At

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Speaker 1: what point does that get people's attention? At what point

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Speaker 1: do central bankers start caring about the inflation rate again?

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Speaker 6: Well, I think we saw, for example, in Q one

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Speaker 6: of the year, and then Q one data were strong

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Speaker 6: surprise to the upside, and they pushed off the rate

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Speaker 6: cuts obviously until September. So I think it needs two things. One,

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Speaker 6: a couple more months of upside surprises, because we really

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Speaker 6: have had things come down. You'll remember Chris Waller from

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Speaker 6: the FED. So the reason he went for fifty basis

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Speaker 6: points instead of twenty five was because inflation data had

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Speaker 6: surprised them to the upside. So a month or two

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Speaker 6: to the upside isn't going to change the fundamentals. And

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Speaker 6: then he needed to be compositionally. The stuff that we

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Speaker 6: know has a lot of inertia, like housing inflation that

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Speaker 6: sort of wobbled for a little while, it wasn't clear,

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Speaker 6: and then it came down again. And I think as

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Speaker 6: long as those really core pieces no pun intended on inflation,

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Speaker 6: as long as there's really central parts of inflation keep

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Speaker 6: trending down, then I think they're going to feel comfortable.

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Speaker 5: Most voices on the FMC said they didn't want to

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Speaker 5: see to cherry in the labor market.

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Speaker 4: That was part of their reasons.

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Speaker 6: Mission accomplished.

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Speaker 5: Right, Seriously, what do they come out and say in

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Speaker 5: terms of the assessment of the labor market on Thursday.

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Speaker 6: I think you're going to see words along the lines

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Speaker 6: of solid, robust, healthy. The unemployment rate is four point

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Speaker 6: two percent, so it's up off of the lows we

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Speaker 6: had had an unemployment rate that was around three and

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Speaker 6: So I think one of the key parts is tariffs. Right,

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Speaker 2: You've got to work out who wins. You've got to

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Speaker 6: Absolutely, we were to literally take everything that's been said.

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Speaker 6: Let's just deal with tariffs that we were talking about before.

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Speaker 2: Markt anticipants a running around saying not a big deal,

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Speaker 6: I do think so. I do think so. The rejiggering

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Speaker 2: Seth, it's got to see you as always, Thank you, sir.

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Speaker 2: good to see you.

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Speaker 2: Got to start with this economic data. Is there anything

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Speaker 7: Good, looks good, looks fine, looks quiet. I think that's

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Speaker 7: For equities, it has made a move for sure in October.

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Speaker 7: This is a good day of quiet. I think the

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Speaker 1: So are you saying that essentially this is noise and

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Speaker 7: Well, today's story is going to be the month end story.

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Speaker 1: Do you see a shift in the narrative though right now?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, and that's been a big explanation for what's happened

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Speaker 5: Is there a chance they skip though and push this

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Speaker 7: There's always some probability around skip, but we think the

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Speaker 5: They have to pause, right because policy in twent twenty five.

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Speaker 5: Does anyone have any idea what that's going to look like?

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Speaker 7: I think you're absolutely right, but they will start to

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Speaker 7: For us, we think it's really important from a strategic

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Speaker 2: So treasury is a big pace of that. Given the

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Speaker 7: the capex that's needed for going green. So that kind

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Speaker 7: in regulatory that really guides the sectors that we like

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Speaker 2: It's a fascinating sector right now, that's for sure. Lindsay.

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Speaker 2: Is wonderful to catch up with you, as always, appreciate it.

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