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Speaker 2: putting the pressure on Walmart, the President writing over the

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Speaker 2: weekend quote, Walmart should stop trying to blame tariffs as

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Speaker 2: the reason for raising prices, Eat the tariffs and not

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Speaker 2: charge valued customers anything. Neil Data of ronmac joint Us.

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Speaker 2: Now for more, Neil, welcome to the program. Lots to

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Speaker 2: get through. Let's start here. We know, by definition, the

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Speaker 2: importer pace the tariff. How are the costs shared? That's

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Speaker 2: the question. How do you think the cost will be

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Speaker 2: distributed in the month to account?

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Speaker 3: Well, I think the important thing here is the admission

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Speaker 3: that obviously the exporter is not the one that's paying, right.

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Speaker 3: I mean, that's an implicit subtext here. They're basically admitting

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Speaker 3: that it's American companies and consumers that will end up

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Speaker 3: eating the costs. So I think that's an important sort

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Speaker 3: of admission biomission there.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 5: Look, I mean I.

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Speaker 3: Think some of it's going to get passed on to consumers,

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Speaker 3: maybe half. I just you know, obviously, retail profit margins

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Speaker 3: aren't especially high to begin with, so I think it's

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Speaker 3: going to be challenging for a company like Walmart to

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Speaker 3: not pass on at least some of the tariff burden.

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Speaker 3: But keep in mind that, you know, the bigger issue

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Speaker 3: is what that means down the line. I mean, if

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Speaker 3: corporate profit margins get squeezed, ultimately, they're going to have

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Speaker 3: to pay the piper somehow, and I mean consumers, and

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Speaker 3: that might show up in the form of weaker hiring,

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Speaker 6: Hold on a second, Yal, this is actually a really

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Speaker 6: important point, and there's a question about how much some

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Speaker 6: of these retailers can increase prices where it becomes not

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Speaker 6: necessarily inflationary, but disinflationary because it surprises demand. Are you

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Speaker 6: seeing any evidence that that's actually happening, given that reports

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Speaker 6: have been pretty mixed and dependent on just execution as

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Speaker 6: much as anything else.

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Speaker 3: Well, I think companies are going to find significant resistance

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Speaker 3: in terms of, you know, trying to pass on the

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Speaker 3: higher costs, because ultimately the inflationary story boils down to a.

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Speaker 5: Household's budget constraint.

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Speaker 3: And when you talk about tariffs, I mean whatever goes

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Speaker 3: I mean, think about price and quantity, whatever goes into

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Speaker 3: so you know, look, I mean right now, nominal GDP

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Speaker 3: growth is probably barely growing at four four and a

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Speaker 3: So if you get a signify an increase in inflation,

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Speaker 3: you're going to get a big drop in real growth.

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Speaker 5: I mean it's as simple as that.

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Speaker 3: So look, I mean, the household's budget constraint is getting worse,

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Speaker 3: not better, and I think that you know that ultimately

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Speaker 6: We've gotten a pretty big consumer stimulus over the past

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Speaker 6: month that's come in the form of significantly lower oil prices,

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Speaker 6: and this is something that we've heard the administration talk

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Speaker 6: offsets some of the constraints on household budgets and actually

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Speaker 6: for things that might be more expensive due to the terraffs.

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Speaker 3: Well, we I mean, we have seen a widening in spreads, right,

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Speaker 3: So it's not like the drop in oil prices has

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Speaker 3: haven't really felt the benefits. But no, look at some level,

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Speaker 3: I mean, I agree with you that you know, the

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Speaker 3: drop in crude oil prices is meaningful and the FETs

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Speaker 5: And you know, a.

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Speaker 3: Typical rule of thumb I believe is a twenty percent

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Speaker 3: doesn't matter a lot for you know, underlying inflations, but

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Speaker 7: No, I want to get your take on what's going

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Speaker 7: on in Congress. We have this big, beautiful bill slowly

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Speaker 7: passing through the committee's potential is going to hit the

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Speaker 7: House floor by the end of the week. You've always

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Speaker 7: now potentially does this become a risk for financial markets?

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean, I don't. I don't, I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I mean I always talk to you about what's going

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Speaker 7: We have a view of what it means for financial markets.

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Speaker 3: Well, I don't. I think basically what they're doing is

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Speaker 3: removing ahead wind, not putting in much tailwind. And so yeah,

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Speaker 3: I mean I don't think the uh. I guess my

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Speaker 3: you know. So I do think a lot of that

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Speaker 2: Treasury curve here, And then what do you think it is? Then?

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Speaker 3: I just think that, you know, it's a that's a

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Speaker 3: good that's a good question. I mean, I think there's

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Speaker 3: some residual sort of you know, fading of recession risk.

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Speaker 3: There's I mean, it's not just the US, right, I mean,

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Speaker 3: it's also global in nature. I mean, you have a

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Speaker 5: You have it in Europe as well.

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Speaker 3: But I think it's sort of it's a combination of

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Speaker 5: Sort of global fiscal story.

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Speaker 3: So, you know, the US story, I think by comparison

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Speaker 5: There, I think, as is the case for some of

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Speaker 6: We've been trying to sell thirty year treasuries to some

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Speaker 6: people as are coming on the show to see who

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Speaker 6: wants to buy them, and so far nobody has wanted

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Speaker 6: the resilience of the US economics story. So are you

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Speaker 6: one of those who sees this as an opportunity to

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Speaker 3: I mean, look, I mean, to me, there are too

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Speaker 3: many things in the economy that don't work with interest

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Speaker 2: I think it's sounds limitsing now. I think it's an

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Speaker 2: important point. You believe it's so limiting that the laws

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Speaker 2: of gravity still exists for the bond market.

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Speaker 5: Absolutely.

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Speaker 3: I mean, how long can you sustain a situation where Morgan,

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Speaker 5: That's I mean.

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Speaker 3: And as you know, my economic outlook is generally more

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Speaker 5: Cautious side of the consensus.

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Speaker 3: So I think if economic momentum is slowing down. Interest

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Speaker 2: No data, No appreciate your thoughts as always, buddy, no

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Speaker 2: data there of Remaka, Let's extend the conversation with Janet

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Speaker 2: Low of Stratetiga is a bad company. Jenet, welcome to

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Speaker 2: the program. To events one event, one outcome. Let's talk

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Speaker 2: about the event the US losing its final triple A

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Speaker 2: credit rating, this one from Moody's and the outcome Treasury

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Speaker 2: yields back through five percent on a thirty year bond.

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Speaker 2: Did the fiscal hawks in Washington just get some extra fuel?

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Speaker 4: Oh?

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Speaker 8: Absolutely.

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Speaker 4: This was definitely something that bolsters their argument. They had

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Speaker 4: gone into this fight a haul along saying there needed

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Speaker 4: to be much more significant budget cuts. They were the

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Speaker 4: ones who were pushing for even larger budget cuts in

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Speaker 4: still not satisfied with just overall where the fiscal situation is. Essentially,

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Speaker 4: they're looking at the federal spending levels and seeing that

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Speaker 4: it's essentially about still four percentage points higher than it

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Speaker 4: that's something that they really want to tackle here. So

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Speaker 4: the fact that you had on Friday morning, the members

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Speaker 4: that committee voting no against this bill to send a

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Speaker 4: signal that they wanted more significant cuts, they wanted to

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Speaker 4: the Moodies downgrade in the afternoon. That really added some

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Speaker 7: Did this up end Speaker Johnson's plan to get this

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Speaker 8: I don't think so.

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Speaker 4: I think that there is obviously some significant push here

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Speaker 4: to get this done. This is part of Trump's agenda.

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Speaker 4: He doesn't want this bill to get accomplished. There has

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Speaker 4: to be some compromises because obviously the fiscal conservatives do

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Speaker 4: and failure means that if you would actually have to

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Speaker 4: do a compromise with Democrats towards the end of the year,

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Speaker 4: if you can't get it done through reconciliation, and that

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Speaker 4: means that you would probably have higher spending levels and

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Speaker 4: higher taxes, and that's something that the conservatives don't want well.

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Speaker 7: To you and Jonathan's point, the fiscal hawks seem to

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Speaker 7: have some fuel right now after what happened with the

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Speaker 7: Moody's downgrade. Who else has leverage in this fight?

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Speaker 4: Yes, I mean, obviously I think the moderates, do you

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Speaker 4: still have leverage because they are not going to vote

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Speaker 4: for things that are going to cost them their seats.

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Speaker 4: They are obviously the majority makers in this Congress, and

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Speaker 4: so that's going to be really important for them to

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Speaker 4: not have significantly drastic cuts. So that's why I think,

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Speaker 4: you know, having work requirements moved up to twenty twenty

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Speaker 4: seven rather than immediately makes a little bit more sense.

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Speaker 9: You also do have the Salt Caucus, so the blue.

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Speaker 4: State Republicans who are pushing for a higher salt deduction,

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Speaker 4: they believe that that's really important. So they're still going

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Speaker 4: to be pushing to get their leverage in here. And

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Speaker 4: then obviously we do need to watch the Senate as well.

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Speaker 4: The Senate is saying that they're signaling that they're not

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And I think this is a really important piece

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Speaker 6: How much does that offset the increases to the deficit

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, so I think we still think that

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Speaker 9: But if we were looking at.

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Speaker 4: The fact that maybe we would have significant tariffs in place,

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Speaker 9: To boost the US economy. It could have been worse situation.

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Speaker 4: If you actually have some of these pro growth tax

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Speaker 2: Jennet, just finally, just to wrap it up, do you

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Speaker 4: I do. I do think that they will get this

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Speaker 4: And the fact that you had the Budget Committee meeting

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Speaker 4: important to show that they really do want to get

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Speaker 9: The bill to move forward.

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Speaker 4: And now they have a couple of days before they

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Speaker 2: Jeannette, appreciate your time. Thank you. Janet Low there thost fatiguas,

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Speaker 2: Kathy joins us now for more. Kathy, welcome to the

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Speaker 2: Just your initial reactions to the needs from Moodies over

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Speaker 9: Yeah, it really wasn't a big surprise.

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Speaker 1: As you indicated earlier, they had them on negative watch.

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Speaker 9: They're following s and p and pitch.

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Speaker 1: As I watched the negotiations over the tax bill or

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Speaker 9: So not a big surprise.

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Speaker 1: But it does bring forward all the issues that you've

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Speaker 1: been talking about that we're not enough path to sustainability,

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Speaker 1: something we need to address, but Congress doesn't seem willing

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Speaker 6: I feel like every couple of years we talk about

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Speaker 6: you don't want we love. How close are we to

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I've never been a big fan of the bond

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Speaker 9: But that being said, in nineteen eighty.

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Speaker 1: Five we've got sequestration, which which actually did help get

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Speaker 9: How close are we?

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Speaker 1: You know, I don't think that we're looking at a

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Speaker 9: When you combine the whole policy mix.

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Speaker 1: We have tariffs, a lower dollar that goes with that,

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Speaker 9: Of capital capital that we need.

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Speaker 1: So I think that we just continue to see a

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Speaker 7: Sense, Kathy, when it comes to a fiscal deal that

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Speaker 7: actually makes sense, what are you talking about? Is there

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I mean I'm not a plicy analysts, but if I

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Speaker 1: I get back to three percent deficit relative to GDP,

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't be cutting taxes on everybody, and I would,

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Speaker 9: But that's not what's going on. You know, now we're

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Speaker 1: Cuts and spending is maybe trimmed a little around the

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Speaker 1: edges on Medicaid, but really all that does is on Medicaid,

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Speaker 1: you're just going to limit access. You're not, they're already

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Speaker 9: Doctors is at a bare minimum level.

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Speaker 1: So you're just limiting access to healthcare for part of

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Speaker 5: He Kathy.

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Speaker 2: In the grund scheme of things, we're having this conversation

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Speaker 2: when things are good, the hot dates is still okay,

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Speaker 2: The hot date is still okay, and we will un

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Speaker 1: Well, I think they'll fall, just not as much as

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Speaker 1: all of that is going to be negative for getting

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Speaker 1: the capital inflows. We need to attract buyers of our bonds,

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Speaker 1: so we can cut rates, but we in line with

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Speaker 1: slower growth and lower inflation.

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Speaker 9: But they're not going to go back to levels that

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Speaker 6: Have thought given that, Kathy, does that limit the argument

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Speaker 6: for bonds just as you talk to potential clients as

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Speaker 6: a counter cyclical hedge the way that they have been traditionally.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I was looking at the correlations between

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Speaker 9: They once did.

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Speaker 1: But I think that it's going to be periodic dislocations

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Speaker 1: probably send the stock market lower and you'll need to

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Speaker 1: be somewhere, and frankly, a four and a half to

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Speaker 1: five percent treasure yield is not a bad place to sit.

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Speaker 1: We've been just advocating staying shorter, you know, benchmark a

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Speaker 2: You're not alone, Kathy, that's for sure.

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Speaker 5: Kathy.

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Speaker 2: John's a child swabbing. We need to turn to the

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Speaker 2: bond market. Christian Mammali of Lafat College with this to say,

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Speaker 2: I still like bonds despite the recent pain, for the

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Speaker 2: now for more Christian, Welcome to the program, sir. Before

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Speaker 2: we get to tarifs and inflation, downgrades. How relevant is

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Speaker 2: that downgrade from Moody's ever at all?

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Speaker 8: Well, so, I think your vestent is right on this kind.

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Speaker 10: That is, the downgrade itself should have happened a while ago,

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Speaker 10: and it really isn't much of a driver of anything

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Speaker 2: But Krishna, as you know, it's coming after a big

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Speaker 2: policy shock on the trade front, and that's raising questions

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Speaker 2: and what it means for fixed income coming forward from here.

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Speaker 2: What do you think it does mean?

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Speaker 10: Well, So, I think the real issue for the economy

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Speaker 10: and it isn't really the impact of the fiscal deficit

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Speaker 5: For that much.

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Speaker 10: So I think what we are talking about here is

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Speaker 10: the tariff situation will get resolved, the tax will probably

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Speaker 10: gets passed, but with lower level of fiscal expansion in

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Speaker 10: twenty six twenty seven than what we are expecting right now,

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Speaker 10: that's really not a bad environment for bonds, and especially

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Speaker 10: in the light of the fact that inflation is really

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Speaker 10: not going to be that big a deal. It's you know,

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Speaker 10: tariff's impact in price levels, but it's really not as

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Speaker 10: inflationary as people are thinking in terms of it's a

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Speaker 8: So if that is the case, inflation is.

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Speaker 10: Not a big deal and real rates are high, and

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Speaker 10: you end up with a tax package that is more

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Speaker 10: reasonable rather than meaningfully expansionary, I think that's not too

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Speaker 10: we can generate bond type returns out of low wall

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Speaker 10: hedge funds just as much. So no, we are not

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Speaker 6: Yes, all right, So here's my question, Krishna, why does

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Speaker 10: Well, so I would say that you have to put

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Speaker 10: So you know, if we are giving, we are making

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Speaker 7: Chris, Now, will you talk about in your notes that

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Speaker 7: you don't foresee a recession but a slow down. What

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Speaker 7: would make you reconsider that actually the US could tip

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Speaker 10: Well, if the tax bill doesn't pass and tariffs get implemented,

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Speaker 10: that's a fiscal consolidation for the history book. So I

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Speaker 10: think that really would get us into a recession. If

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Speaker 10: don't think we get a recession.

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Speaker 7: Well, that's already baked in that this we're going to

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Speaker 7: get an extension of TCJA. The issue right now is

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Speaker 7: potentially a lot of people talked about how this was

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Speaker 7: a removal of a headwind, but does this actually offer

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Speaker 5: Well, so I.

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Speaker 10: Would say the fiscal consolidator or the tax impact effectively

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Speaker 6: So right now you see that there's a downside risk

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Speaker 6: to growth. You see it because there is not necessarily

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Speaker 6: Is this going to be something that can sustain some

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Speaker 6: of the private credit, the private investment that's been ongoing

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Speaker 6: a very difficult time the fact that you are going

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Speaker 6: to private assets.

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Speaker 8: Well, so, you know, I think private credit and.

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Speaker 10: Things like that are really a reflection of credit growth

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Speaker 10: a meaningful way, again, it's an open question whether they

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Speaker 10: will away from, you know, just giving them a little

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Speaker 10: the expansion private credit probably comes to, you know, the

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Speaker 10: growth that probably stops to some extent because banks will

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Speaker 10: have an opportunity to do a lot.

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Speaker 8: Of things, you know, without that.

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Speaker 10: You know, if the US economy and US corporate sector

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Speaker 10: is as good in the shape as it has been

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Speaker 10: over the last two three years, I think private markets

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Speaker 10: probably continue to do from a growth standpoint, as opposed

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Speaker 10: to return standpoint right now, probably continue to do just fine.

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