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Speaker 1: on the Bloomberg Welcome back to Bloomberg Surveillance. I'm Matt

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Speaker 1: Miller here filling in for Pen Fox. He seemed to

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Speaker 1: called in. It's an honor actually for me my all

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Speaker 1: time favorite radio show, Bloomberg Surveillance. I happen to be

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Speaker 1: in from Berlin for a couple of days, and U

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Speaker 1: Joe Wisn'tal joins me here in the studio anchor of

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Speaker 1: What You Amiss? Now, I want to get to a

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Speaker 1: very special guest. I'm sure Joe also is a cred

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Speaker 1: excited to talk to Charles Plosser, former Philadelphia Fed President

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Speaker 1: um joining us from Washington, d C. Charles, thanks so

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Speaker 1: much for your time right now. Let me first ask

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Speaker 1: It seems like we've never had a full fedboard. Well,

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Speaker 1: concerned about is it is that it reflects in part

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Speaker 1: not a big surprise. It's it's the concern about who's

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Speaker 1: back here on Bloomberg Surveillance. I'm Joe. Why isn't they

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Speaker 1: Sex Gregg, thank you very much for joining us here.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Joe. UM. In the wake of the election, I

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