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Speaker 1: No, we are abeeny of rebeiny macro associates looking ahead

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of policy uncertainty. As I pointed out,

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Speaker 2: some of the economic policies of Traum may increase over

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Speaker 2: time growth, reduce inflation, being overall pro business, keeping tax

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Speaker 2: rates on capital and a liberal law, deregulating the economy,

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Speaker 2: and things like increasing the production of hostil fuels and

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Speaker 2: overtiming greaser economic efficiency and so on. So those are

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Speaker 2: the positives, and over time they could increase growth, they

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Speaker 2: other policy we don't know how much they're going to

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Speaker 2: be implemented, they will increase inflation and potentially be stockflationary.

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Speaker 2: In my view, tariffs are inflationary. Protection is the risk

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Speaker 2: if not the mass deportation. If we have unfunded physical

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Speaker 2: deficits and the promises imply eight trillion dollars of deficits

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Speaker 2: over additional over the next ten years, that's going to

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Speaker 2: If you try to disorderly weaken the dollar, that could

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Speaker 2: be inflationary, and if you interfere with independence of the FAT.

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Speaker 2: Now I think on the positive side, I think there

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Speaker 2: are a number of factors that are going to constrain the

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Speaker 2: bad policies. One is market discipline. If you follow pulse

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Speaker 2: that inflationary, then bond market digitalans are going to wake up.

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Speaker 2: Bond is going to go higher, the stock market is

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Speaker 2: going to correct, and it cares about the bond market.

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Speaker 2: It cares about the stock market. Secondly, Fed independence. If

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Speaker 3: Were to be going higher.

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Speaker 2: And also policy choices, as you pointed out, on one side,

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Speaker 2: escalate on tariffs, and others are total trade hawks on

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Speaker 1: Let's unpack some of that pe can't tariffs pick to

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Speaker 2: Well, if it's targeted, I would say that the impacts

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Speaker 2: and there'll be actually pressure on our trade partners to say,

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Speaker 2: if you don't want tariffs, you have to bring more

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Speaker 2: investment semiconductors. Authors it Besy, you name it to the

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Speaker 2: United States. So that's the escalator in order to de escalate.

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Speaker 2: But I would say the higher does STARTFF become, the

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Speaker 2: more there's an impact on improprices, the more there's an

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Speaker 2: and there's also the risk, of course of trade wars

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Speaker 4: So some people are arguing that we're in this wave

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Speaker 2: Well, the impact of high tariffs on the United States

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Speaker 4: You used to be called doctor doom. Are you retiring

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Speaker 4: that mantle?

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Speaker 3: I always said, I'm.

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Speaker 2: Not doctor douma, doctor realist. There are plenty of upside

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Speaker 3: So I'm not doctor.

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Speaker 5: Dum when it comes to terrorists. Just to go back

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Speaker 5: Greer as well thinks about China. In hearing to Congress,

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Speaker 5: he had talked about strategically coupling. Do you expect that

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Speaker 3: Yes, I do.

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Speaker 2: I think that one of the biggest risks is not

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Speaker 2: Listen to the long list of complaints of the Drum administration.

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Speaker 2: lots of other things. And also geopolitically, there may be

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Speaker 2: So the biggest risk is not just TARIF on China,

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Speaker 5: this moment you're describing, Well.

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Speaker 2: Certainly in anything to do with the high tech, we've

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Speaker 3: Under Biden was an arrow yard and.

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Speaker 2: High fences and stuff that was supposed to be critical.

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Speaker 2: I think that in the case of Trump administration, we

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Speaker 2: China did something much more, how to say, severe.

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Speaker 1: Does Europe need to pick a side.

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Speaker 2: They'll be in a very very tough position because geopolitically

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Speaker 2: You know, under the buy the administration was easy because

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Speaker 2: there was a compromise within the digit seven about the

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Speaker 1: How much worse could things get for the Europeans. We've

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Speaker 2: Well, things are really pretty bad already in Europe. I

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Speaker 2: not going to occur anytime soon. There's a fragmentation between

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Speaker 2: So I don't see either the Letter Report or the

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Speaker 3: So it looks pretty dark for your brain.

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Speaker 4: We don't really see a path out of here. We

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Speaker 2: Well, there are many good reasons why the dollar may

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Speaker 2: Trumpet said, I want to have actually the dollar at

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Speaker 3: I would not rule out there'll.

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Speaker 2: Be some big Mara Lago agreement. Is you know, the

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Speaker 3: You have to do other things for us.

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Speaker 1: No reale. You've had a big move in bigcoin over

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Speaker 1: over the last several years. Have you rethought the way

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Speaker 3: And others, highly volatile.

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Speaker 2: Many people are going to it, but don't take El

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Speaker 2: Salvador the force. Everyone's used bitcoin as legal tender and

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Speaker 2: so I don't think it's going to ever become a currency.

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Speaker 3: There's going to be a speculative act.

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Speaker 1: One thing the dolar is appreciated against is bitcoin, and

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Speaker 1: I think this is where I would see some separation

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Speaker 1: is happening with bitcoin. There seems to be a preference.

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Speaker 1: There are market participants who believe that this is a

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Speaker 1: place to be if you're worried about it. Appreciation of

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Speaker 1: States of America do you see a case for it there?

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Speaker 2: Not really, because actually when the FED was essentially rising

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Speaker 2: twenty two, as there was the stock market correction, and

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Speaker 2: other stocks are going higher and the FED is easy

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Speaker 2: and inflation has fallen, Bitcoin is going higher again, So

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Speaker 2: historically has not been a hedge against inflation. Actually looks

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Speaker 2: like it's highly correlated. Positively, bit stocks a better relative

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Speaker 2: to the equity market, so it's not a traditional like

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Speaker 2: hedge like gold that is in periods of time or

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Speaker 2: inflation rising or the basement or worries about the dollarization.

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Speaker 2: So it's something to me looks like expectedly a said,

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Speaker 2: it is highly correlated with equity, so it's not a

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Speaker 4: You say, sort of parallel tracks to memestocks and some

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Speaker 4: of the other euphoria that we've seen. At the same time,

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Speaker 4: there seems to be something more concrete behind this. You

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Speaker 4: tandem because of what John is talking about, that store

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Speaker 4: there being a case for at least a crypto based

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure because if you're worried about inflation the

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Speaker 2: basement of fiat currency or even the dollarization, there are

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Speaker 2: plenty of other assets that provide a good head shorten treasuries, tapes,

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Speaker 2: oil out commodities, gold, precious metal. So it's not as

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Speaker 2: if there is not other alternatives. And as I pointed out,

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Speaker 2: in the last few years, when inflation was higher, actually

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Speaker 2: bitcoon was falling, and when inflection has fallen, bcone is

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Speaker 2: going higher, so it doesn't look like it's been actually

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Speaker 2: negatively correlated with inflation. So it is a spectul debaset

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Speaker 2: for some people is a store of value. But if

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Speaker 2: that a spectrum of variety of other assets that are

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Speaker 2: backed actually by real income or something store of value

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Speaker 2: that are a better hedge against some of the risks

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Speaker 2: that people worry about.

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Speaker 5: But given the change of tone in Washington, do you

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Speaker 5: think there could be retail adoption at any point.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, and.

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Speaker 2: There's already been retail adoption. But my word is actually

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Speaker 2: that the regulation on crypto might become looser like they

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Speaker 2: were before, and then you have another speculative run, You

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Speaker 2: have another sets of scams like FTXSPF and so on,

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Speaker 2: and then you get another bust. So the risk is

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Speaker 2: who are going to go towards a very little regulation.

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Speaker 2: You know, there are lots of players in this space

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Speaker 2: that are quite shady, and the lack of regulation actually

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Speaker 2: leads to a bigger bubble and a bigger bust.

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Speaker 1: On the line, none you a long time, Just want

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Speaker 1: to finish up with something positive. Looking out to twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty five. Favorite region line now, favorite economy, The place

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Speaker 1: you're most optimistic about for next year?

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Speaker 3: Which one?

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Speaker 2: It's a bit of consensus, but I think the United

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Speaker 2: States still is going to outperform weth in terms of

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Speaker 2: economic growth and equity markets.

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Speaker 1: Yes, it seems to be the one place to be here.

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Speaker 1: It repeated it don't we the United States. It keeps

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Speaker 1: coming back to America.

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Speaker 4: It feels like Tina. This is the Tina trade. There

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Speaker 4: is no alternative at a time or essentially, growth is

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Speaker 4: concentrated in the world's biggest economy, and maybe it's trickling out,

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Speaker 4: maybe it's not. But nonetheless you also have yield.

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Speaker 1: Here, no reel. It's good to say it, sir for

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Speaker 1: catching up with us. Thank you. Noria Rabini, that of

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Speaker 1: Rabeni Macro Associates,