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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, from

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Speaker 1: the White House, the economist Jared Bernstein, of course a

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Speaker 1: member of the White House Council on Economic Advisors. Dr Bernstein,

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Speaker 1: what is so charming about your work out of Hunter

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Speaker 1: College in Colombia, as you've always gone for the societal

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Speaker 1: effect of America. How does the Biden administration sustain the

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Speaker 1: confidence of society given the shock of these these false

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Speaker 1: steps in our in our clearing from the pandemic. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's a it's an important question. And I do want

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Speaker 1: to make clear that while you appropriately called me Dr Bernstein,

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Speaker 1: and I'm not a medical doctor, and uh, we have

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Speaker 1: a deep staff of medical authorities and public health officials

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Speaker 1: who are just pouring over this information. Uh. On your question,

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Speaker 1: which again it's it's always a joy to talk to

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Speaker 1: someone who kind of knows the history of what we're

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Speaker 1: talking about here. Um, if you look at the polling

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Speaker 1: on the infrastructure proposal, north of seventy of Americans are supportive,

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Speaker 1: and more than fifty of Republicans are. And the reason

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Speaker 1: is is when it comes to the fact that there

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Speaker 1: are four hundred thousand schools and child care centers where

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Speaker 1: lead leeches into the water. There's thirty million people who

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Speaker 1: don't have access to to fast broadband. Uh, there are

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Speaker 1: essential workers facing poverty. Uh. These are issues that are

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Speaker 1: well understood by so many people outside of the Beltway

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Speaker 1: in terms of their necessity. I'm not just talking about voters.

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Speaker 1: I'm also talking about governors and mayors who understand the

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Speaker 1: cost of disinvestment in infrastructure. Jared, what does a change

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Speaker 1: in the transition of a hundred days or whatever the

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Speaker 1: number of days is from the Trump administrations take on

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Speaker 1: science from where you sit versus a Biden administration. This morning,

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Speaker 1: there's going to be a press conference, I believe at

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Speaker 1: ten am. Tell us the science that you observe. It's

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Speaker 1: six Pennsylvania Avenue. Yeah. From the moment that President Biden

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Speaker 1: took office. UH, you know, facts were very much uh

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Speaker 1: back in the mix, and science is a huge part

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Speaker 1: of that. UM. Obviously Dr Faucci has continued to play

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Speaker 1: a key role. But this has always been a fact

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Speaker 1: in science driven area of inquiry for for our administration.

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Speaker 1: And that's precisely what's occurring right now as we speak.

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Speaker 1: On not going to lean into it because you know,

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Speaker 1: I want to stay in my economics lane, but that's

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Speaker 1: the fact of the case. That's the responsible thing to do,

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Speaker 1: and we'd expect nothing less from you, sir. But we

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Speaker 1: do have to talk about the economy and the reopening

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Speaker 1: effort as it bears to the context around the vaccination

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Speaker 1: effort as well. So John, let's go there. Does this

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Speaker 1: jeopardize the vaccination timeline of the administration of potentially reopening

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Speaker 1: this economy in any way, shape or form. It is

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Speaker 1: a totally fair question to which I don't know the answer,

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Speaker 1: and I don't think anyone else does either. I think

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Speaker 1: before we can make the kinds of timing determinations that

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Speaker 1: you're asking about, we have to understand how disruptive this is,

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Speaker 1: and we just don't know yet. It is the case,

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Speaker 1: as you well know. Again, I think the rescue plan,

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Speaker 1: I don't think we know the rescue plan UH played

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Speaker 1: a key role in producing and distributing vaccines in helping

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Speaker 1: us really accelerate the curve of getting shots and arms.

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Speaker 1: A hundred and fifty million shots and arms a hundred

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Speaker 1: fifty million checks out the door. So that that's the

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Speaker 1: rescue plan and action. But it's a fair question to

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Speaker 1: which we don't have an answer yet, and it wouldn't

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Speaker 1: be prudent for me to speculate given the information I

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Speaker 1: It would also did something Counse didn't it. It It feeled

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Speaker 1: because I imagine that was really the impetus to hear

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Speaker 1: I've been asking this question continually, we all have on

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Speaker 1: this program. The base case the consensus from you, Jared

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Speaker 1: is transitory from the Federal Reserve transit tree. How would

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Speaker 1: And if you look at the document that myself and

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Speaker 1: think that kind of an index, which incorporates so many

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Speaker 1: different household survey measures, market measures, is the right way

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Speaker 1: to think about future pressures, whether whether whether the anchor

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Speaker 1: maintains or is nudged. What would you say, though, Jared,

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Speaker 1: to people who pushed back on your idea of transitory

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Speaker 1: keeping rates very low. What's your response, Well, in fact,

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Speaker 1: we've done this sort of thing before, and in fact,

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Speaker 1: not only did we see unemployment full to fifty year

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Speaker 1: the indicators. We are, as we tried to express in

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Speaker 1: the indicators to try to understand the dynamics between heat

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Speaker 1: which we expect, whether it's the rescue plan or the

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Speaker 1: job's plan, Helping families and businesses get the relief that

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Speaker 1: they need, Helping states and localities get the resources they

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Speaker 1: need safely reopening schools. All of that is going to

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Speaker 1: contribute to economic growth, and it's going to have some

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Speaker 1: impact on prices as we're seeing. But the key point

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Speaker 1: is distinguishing between heat and overheat, and the overheat story,

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Speaker 1: which we argue is something that we're going to completely

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Speaker 1: watch carefully, but is a lower risk probability than uh.

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Speaker 1: The importance of the other measures I've talked about that

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Speaker 1: how I believe it should be done. There's a question

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Speaker 1: spend at one point eight trillion dollar cash pile. How

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Speaker 1: concerned are you about the issues around vaccines affecting that

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Speaker 1: have to continue to look as we do at not

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Speaker 1: what it was showing was increased confidence, increased re engaging

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Speaker 1: in that regard, John, ifor one as a journalist, appreciate

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Speaker 1: the increased transparency. We've caught up many times together. Now

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Speaker 1: closed on inflation as well. I do you wonder, and

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Speaker 1: inflation dynamics are something I have studied for many decades,

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Speaker 1: When we got to truly full employment, and as we predicted,

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Speaker 1: inflation pressures were quiescent. So I think we've learned a

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Speaker 1: lot about this area of macro policy substantively, and I

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Speaker 1: think we just have to continue investigating it. Jared, there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of fancy talk here and inflation, and we

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Speaker 1: what it's about a bag of groceries. I've had more

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Speaker 1: three years. Is it here to stay? Yeah? This is

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Speaker 1: But tell us about food inflation. You know, when I

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Speaker 1: going to react to four percent plus food inflation? Lisa A.

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Speaker 1: you know, these sectoral impacts on prices. I think where

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Speaker 1: we're coming from. We have to look at the American

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Speaker 1: people's nutritional needs and make sure they're meeting them. And

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Speaker 1: many people even now as UH we as the economy

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Speaker 1: have too many people facing nutritional shortfalls, and we have

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Speaker 1: a really effective program UH SNAP are formerly called food Stamps,

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Speaker 1: which meets those needs. And and we've we've extended that

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Speaker 1: SNAP meets people's nutritional needs. Jared always appreciate kailed that

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Speaker 1: Jared Fernstein, White House Council of Economic Advice as men.

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Speaker 1: But joining us from the White House and important conversation

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Speaker 1: because if we'll talk about the sustainabilly, something the vice

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Speaker 1: as well. Simonta, great to catch up, Thank you very much.

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Speaker 1: Samonti will cut to that, the State Street Senior economist.

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