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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Surveillance Podcast. I'm Tom Keane. Along

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Speaker 1: do now is what Bloomberg Surveillance does best. We welcome

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Speaker 1: all of you on radio and television to a clinic

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Speaker 1: now with when Thin He's Global out of Currency Strategy

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Speaker 1: and Brown Brothers hareman that barely describes as encyclopedic perspective

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Speaker 1: on the history of foreign exchange and Pacific, specifically his

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Speaker 1: Pacific rim that's a mouthful from Japan down to his Burma.

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Speaker 1: Dr Finn, thank you so much for joining. I think

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Speaker 1: we need to educate all, including myself, on the ancient

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Speaker 1: Japanese trajectory of needing to weaken the yend. The Yen

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Speaker 1: starts out in ninety nine after World War Two, set

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Speaker 1: at three sixty. It goes on to plause our Chord

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Speaker 1: two hundred stronger yet stronger Yen. The Louivi Chord oops

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Speaker 1: two years later we screwed up one twenty and then

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Speaker 1: the shock which you and I lived in of to

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Speaker 1: use a phrase from Boston, wicked strong Yen of eighty.

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Speaker 1: What where are we at now at one thirty within

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Speaker 1: the ancient Japanese continuum to hate and dislike strong Yen? Well,

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Speaker 1: first of all, thank you very much for having me, Tom,

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Speaker 1: It's always a pleasure. Uh. You know, I think there's

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Speaker 1: two things that we're really looking at right now. There's

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Speaker 1: that old adage that you can never have too much

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Speaker 1: uh looking for a weekend and higher inflation for years,

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Speaker 1: if not decades, as you know, and they're finally getting it,

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Speaker 1: but at at a pace that is quite uncomfortable. Now,

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Speaker 1: I want to circle back to what you what I

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Speaker 1: think Jonathan mentioned about how they coln sort of square

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Speaker 1: the circle and they can't. Professor Mundel, who had had

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Speaker 1: uh way back in the sixties, talked about the impossible trinity.

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Speaker 1: You cannot run h have free capital controls, run independent policy,

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Speaker 1: and also influenced exchange rate. You cannot have all three,

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Speaker 1: and so right now Japan has free capital flows and

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Speaker 1: they are keeping uh materre post ultra loose. So there's

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Speaker 1: it is as Mr Mundell, Professor Mundell would say, it

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Speaker 1: is impossible to control the end. It's going to find

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Speaker 1: its own level. Uh. The doubling down on your control,

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Speaker 1: it stands out and starts contrasts. Earlier today the ricks

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Speaker 1: Bank delivered a surprise hike. So when the ricks Bank

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Speaker 1: is more hawkish than you, that that's saying something. When

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Speaker 1: in a situation like this one, I think we will

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Speaker 1: recognize that you've just illustrates it. Something has to give.

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't use that what something has to break? But

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Speaker 1: something has to give. How do you get a read

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Speaker 1: on on what gives? Is it in the government bond

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Speaker 1: John has stupid determined. You know it's it's um It's

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Speaker 1: not just a Japanese phenomenon. Also, obviously, this yeok of

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Speaker 1: had remained at low levels. And yet here we are,

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Speaker 1: the US ten year is getting close to etcetera, etcetera.

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Speaker 1: So it's making it much more challenging to me the

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Speaker 1: Bank of Japan just delivered an ultra doubbish hole there.

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Speaker 1: they are saying no tightening through fiscally year twenty four.

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Speaker 1: where I think it will go. But we are nowhere

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Speaker 1: near close to that pain threshold yet. In the meantime,

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Speaker 1: when how much does this disrupt the idea of the

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Speaker 1: To what you said two or three questions ago. What

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Speaker 1: we're going to hear is bad people like that George

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Speaker 1: Sorrows on Black Wednesday, quote are manipulating yen, are manipulating dollar,

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Speaker 1: Winston greant to catch up as a wife of Brand brothers.

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Speaker 1: Harriman joining us now is someone who likes emerging markets,

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Speaker 1: who likes US stocks. It's widely the global chief investment

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Speaker 1: strategist at the black Rock Investment Institute, Whitely, Let's start here,

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Speaker 1: why do you still like the equity story? Um, if

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Speaker 1: the deal over from the war in Ukraine will impact

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Speaker 1: European economies a lot more than US economies. So our

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Speaker 1: But that's very much speaks to this world of policy divergence.

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