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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Markets Podcast. I'm Paul Sweeney alongside

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Speaker 1: at Bloomberg dot com slash podcast. Well, our next guest

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Speaker 1: is all in the state of Kentucky. We've got an

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Speaker 1: undergraduate degree from the University of Kentucky, Wildcats NBA, from

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Speaker 1: the University of Louisville, the Cardinals. I don't know who

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Speaker 1: he roots for during hoops season. Ross Mayfield Investment Strategy

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Speaker 1: annals for Bared Wealth Management, Ross Louisville Place, Kentucky. Who

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Speaker 1: do you root for? It's Kentucky, highest times out of Kentucky,

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Speaker 1: high times out of that's strong. That's a strong. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they get some strong support there, dude. UK. I met

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Speaker 1: Rick Pettino when I was a kid looking at UK.

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Speaker 1: Really yeah, how'd that go? It was awesome? I Mean

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Speaker 1: I wasn't Ohio State fan obviously, but love Kentucky. Love

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Speaker 1: going down to Lexington and uh yeah, hey, Ross, what

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Speaker 1: do you make of this thirty year bond, it's two

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Speaker 1: point seven nine percent. I thought we were just at

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Speaker 1: like three point three three point four. What's going on

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Speaker 1: in the bottom market. What's that telling us? Uh? Growth

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Speaker 1: scare right, It's telling us that the market is finally

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Speaker 1: convinced that the set is I'm going to do whatever

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Speaker 1: it takes. And increasingly that looks like, you know, some

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Speaker 1: sort of recession, whether it's mild or not is up

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Speaker 1: for debate, but I think there's you know that you

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Speaker 1: talk talk about copper, talk about treasure, you olds, talk

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Speaker 1: about other industrial medals, all of them are reflecting, um

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Speaker 1: big growth turned down. So I think that's that's what

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Speaker 1: maybe we're halfway there. Not to be fair, he calls

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Speaker 1: himself Cassandra, he's a little bit dramatic about this kind

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Speaker 1: will be hit? Well, you don't get movies made about

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Speaker 1: you if you're not a little bit dramatic. I guess

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Speaker 1: you know, I think earnings will take a hit, right,

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Speaker 1: So currently I think I think the estimate for SMP

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Speaker 1: the average recession earnings contractions is like plus on the

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Speaker 1: even if you saw something like five, you know, kind

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Speaker 1: I think that's the big question. Right. Consumers held up

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Speaker 1: I mean, Lisa Shaalott from Morgan Stanley was saying, you

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Speaker 1: she says, we're not likely to see anything that bad.

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Speaker 1: But I just wonder if stocks can get hit as

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Speaker 1: When does this end? Where's the bottom? And you know,

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Speaker 1: They want to know where the bottom is. But the

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Speaker 1: reality is that bear markets outside of the kind of

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Speaker 1: like maybe dot Com but the the past. All right, Ross,

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Speaker 1: good stuff, Appreciate you're taking the time here. On a

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Speaker 1: Friday before July four, Ross Mayfield, investment strategy analyst for

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Speaker 1: BARED Wealth Management, be A, University of Kentucky, NBA from Louisville.

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Speaker 1: That's a good basketball rivalry down there. Have you ever

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Speaker 1: been to Kentucky? I have great bowling Green. I'm a

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Speaker 1: big fan of Bowling Green Kentucky. Now you bring in

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Speaker 1: She's got like seventy five thousand followers on Twitter, and

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Speaker 1: she's just generally a markets news hound. Okay, Now, I

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Speaker 1: We like tickers here, okay, so, and also we love this.

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Speaker 1: To me, it's a great story because it brings together

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Speaker 1: my favorite function at Bloomberg. But in any case, in

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Speaker 1: E t F tickers are fun. But the fund that

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Speaker 1: It's the JP Morgan Equity Premium Income e t F.

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