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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio news.

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Speaker 2: We're joined on Bloomberg TV and radio by the chairman,

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Speaker 2: Jared Bernstein, chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisors.

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Speaker 1: It's great to see you. Welcome back. Great to be

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Speaker 1: back here with the two.

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Speaker 2: This is framed as an exit interview. I don't know

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Speaker 2: how that makes you feel, but we'd love to talk

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Speaker 2: about a couple of different things. And if that's the case,

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Speaker 2: as you pack up your office, I want to start

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Speaker 2: with the fight of your life, which I believe is

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Speaker 2: the fight you waged against inflation for the last time.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I thought you were at my confirmation here.

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Speaker 2: I thought maybe picked something else. But I think we

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Speaker 2: can agree that's what you've spent the most of your

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Speaker 2: time on, and it's what we've spent the most time

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Speaker 2: probably asking you about. When you look at a chart

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Speaker 2: over the last four years of CPI data, it.

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Speaker 1: Looks like a mountain.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you crest at the top of that mountain a

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Speaker 2: couple of years ago. And as we look at that

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Speaker 2: chart now we'll share it with our viewers on Bloomberg

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Speaker 2: TV and on YouTube. I wonder on how that makes

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Speaker 2: you feel if it brings back some PTSD traumas and

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Speaker 2: some of those.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I believe.

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Speaker 2: But also when you look at that, do you think,

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Speaker 2: look how much progress we made or how much left

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Speaker 2: we had to do both.

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Speaker 3: Certainly progress we've made, I mean coming down the other

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Speaker 3: side of that mountain was critically important. But you know,

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Speaker 3: Kayley and Joe, for us, the fight was never just

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Speaker 3: about getting inflation back down. That was absolutely key, and

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Speaker 3: we're proud of the work we did to help that. Specifically,

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Speaker 3: by the way, the Supply Side Disruption Task Force.

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Speaker 1: That's not something you hear a lot about that, but

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Speaker 1: we were.

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Speaker 3: Probably talking about it back in twenty one. The President

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Speaker 3: realized quickly that it was snarled supply chains that helped

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Speaker 3: cause that inflationary spike in part along with strong demand

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Speaker 3: and unstarling those changs was going to be really important.

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Speaker 3: But the thing that the President recognized was that we

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Speaker 3: also have to worry about costs the price level, not

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Speaker 3: just inflation. And that's why, starting you know, shortly after

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Speaker 3: that peak, we started talking about what we were doing

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Speaker 3: at lower costs. Because it's one thing to get grocery

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Speaker 3: inflation from thirteen percent down to around one one and

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Speaker 3: a half percent. That was a huge and important accomplishment,

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Speaker 3: But that just means your grocery prices are growing more slowly,

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Speaker 3: it doesn't mean they're coming down. And a lot of

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Speaker 3: people really wanted more deflation, not just disinflation, So our

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Speaker 3: cost cutting agenda was also a critical piece of the

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Speaker 4: And your point is well taken on how supply side

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Speaker 4: factors did ultimately contribute to the higher price pressures, But

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Speaker 4: you mentioned demand there as well, and certainly you're familiar

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Speaker 4: with the Republican argument that it was too much fiscal

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Speaker 4: stimulus that fuel demand and fueled inflation as a result.

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Speaker 4: When you look back on it now, do you think

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Speaker 4: the ultimate trade off was worth it keep the economy

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Speaker 4: and the labor market in better shape through some of

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Speaker 4: those stimulated efforts in exchange for what could have been

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Speaker 4: that additional marginal pressure upward on prices.

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Speaker 3: I do with the following asterisk or caveat, which is

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Speaker 3: that if you look at the trajectory of inflation or

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Speaker 3: the cumulative out which the price level grew across every

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Speaker 3: every one of them, and they all had different fiscal

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Speaker 3: and monetary policies. So I think it's a mistake to

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Speaker 3: I think the Republican argument is fundamentally undermined by that

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Speaker 3: international comparison.

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Speaker 1: You know. That said, the other.

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Speaker 3: Part of your the way you teed up the question

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Speaker 1: Is what did we get?

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Speaker 3: So we are now handing off one of the strongest

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Speaker 3: economies on record, and by some really important measures, whether

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Speaker 3: it's the number of jobs, you know, a four percent

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Speaker 3: average unemployment over this administration, that's an historical achievement, and

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Speaker 3: of course the stock market doing great in the past

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Speaker 3: couple of years. All of those indicators do take you

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Speaker 3: back to punching back as hard as we could against

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Speaker 3: the pandemic induced recession. So I want to be very

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Speaker 3: careful about not suffering from any of the amnesia about

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Speaker 3: what was going on in January twenty one when we

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Speaker 2: You've been very disciplined about staying independent from the FED

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Speaker 2: and not answering our questions about the FED for the

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Speaker 2: last four years. I salute you for your consistency every

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Speaker 2: now and then we got a little bit of a crackout.

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Speaker 2: I just wonder, I don't know if you feel more

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Speaker 3: Well, first of all, people ask me, right now, you know,

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Speaker 3: what are you going to do after this job.

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Speaker 1: One of the things I say is I'm going to

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Speaker 1: talk about the.

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Speaker 3: FED, So hopefully here for certainly going to remain pretty

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Speaker 3: quiet about the FED as long as I'm a still chair.

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Speaker 1: Of the CEA. I mean, look, I think one.

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Speaker 3: Place I take your question is is just how much

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Speaker 3: we valued FED independence.

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Speaker 1: And that wasn't just some weird kind of idea we had.

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Speaker 3: We're just acutely aware that economies have been brought to

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Speaker 3: largely because of unforced errors on inflation. Now in some cases,

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Speaker 3: I think, I think there are many critics who worry

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Speaker 3: being inflationary, whether it's deportation or tariffs or lots of

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Speaker 3: tax cuts. And you know, I'm not going to go

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Speaker 3: there myself. I want to give these guys a chance.

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Speaker 3: Let's see what they do.

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Speaker 1: They don't want.

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Speaker 3: Higher inflation or interest rates. I think we can be

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Speaker 3: pretty clear on that. But once you start messing around

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Speaker 3: with FED independence, I think you're making a pretty fatal

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Speaker 4: Well, you just said they don't want higher inflation. But

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Speaker 4: do you think ultimately when you look at the layout

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Speaker 4: a new spike upward in prices.

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Speaker 3: Kayley, again, I want to give this incoming team the

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Speaker 3: they're good economists. They don't want to generate higher inflation

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Speaker 3: the economy's fiscal outlook, all of those, of course are inflationary.

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Speaker 3: And then if you add in compromising FED independence, you've

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Speaker 1: I will say the following.

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Speaker 3: If there are those who think that, hey, we did

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Speaker 3: On the inflationary side, twenty twenty five is a lot

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Speaker 3: different than twenty seventeen. Right there, you're looking at an

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Speaker 3: anything going the other way. This is a very different

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Speaker 3: would say in that regard, they have fewer degrees of freedom.

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Speaker 1: And again I think they know.

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Speaker 2: That independence, though as a as a principle is something

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Speaker 2: that some would argue is being challenged right now by

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Speaker 2: this incoming administration. The man who was just experiencing his

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Speaker 1: I don't think so.

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Speaker 3: Again, I think there are things one says in sort

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Speaker 3: But then when he chaired the CEA, I had to

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Speaker 2: And so I think I think of in this team

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Speaker 3: I think that, you know, I want obviously, that's what

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Speaker 3: I've said that numerous times, and I want to pursue that.

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Speaker 3: But I also think that, uh, the idea of hitting

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Speaker 4: We heard the President in his farewell address last night,

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Speaker 4: also say that he wishes the incoming administration's success because

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Speaker 4: minutes later, he went on to warn of what he

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Speaker 3: Well, that's exactly how I view it. And I'm glad

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Speaker 1: He said, This is what I want our work to address.

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Speaker 3: So to me, what he said about about this threat

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Speaker 2: Yet it must have frustrated him to not see them

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Speaker 2: the number one issue here. So what was the most

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Speaker 2: frequent question? I mean, you would ask you, Jared, what

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Speaker 3: Well, interestingly, you say frustrating, and it's an interesting point

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Speaker 3: know it's frustrating, you know, to be seeing this out there,

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Speaker 1: Well, look what's happened to wages.

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Speaker 3: I know you've talked about this and documented this at Bloomberg.

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Speaker 1: Low wages did the best.

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Speaker 3: You know, the low age growth was the strongest that

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Speaker 3: comes right out of this running this biden esque full

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Speaker 3: employment economy.

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Speaker 1: The black unemployment rate over Joe.

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Speaker 3: Biden's four years was the lowest on record of any

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Speaker 3: four year term.

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Speaker 1: All right, that's huge.

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Speaker 3: Support for I think the president's theory of the case.

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Speaker 3: Now you can ask about the disconnect between that and politics.

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Speaker 3: I think that takes us back to the price level

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Speaker 3: and that discussion. But the President was well aware of

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Speaker 3: this architecture of how the economy works and recognize the progress.

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Speaker 1: We made on it.

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Speaker 4: And we'll leave it on that note. Jared Bernstein, the

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Speaker 4: outgoing chair of the Council of Economic Advisors, thank you

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Speaker 4: so much for joining us. Thank you on Bloomberg TV,

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Speaker 4: at the radio.