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Speaker 2: Morgan Stanley in the Soft Landing camp Self landings don't

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Speaker 2: have to play out in a straight line. This is

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Speaker 2: a tricky window where risk around growth are skewed to

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Speaker 2: the downside. A few false negatives in the data can

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Speaker 2: lead to belts of volatility. Andrew joins us now for more. Andrew,

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Speaker 2: welcome to the program. Let's start with that phrase, soft landing.

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Speaker 2: What does it mean to you?

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Speaker 1: Good morning? It's great to be here.

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Speaker 3: So for us it means inflation coming down, the FED easing,

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Speaker 3: and no recession. And that's you know, very much what

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Speaker 3: Morgan Stanley has been forecasting what we continue to forecast,

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Speaker 3: and I think that's what I think, fortunately, we've.

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Speaker 1: Been seeing from the data.

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Speaker 3: I think we were in a critical window over September

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Speaker 3: and still in October where you know, the market's going

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Speaker 3: to be more vulnerable to weaker data because the FED

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Speaker 3: and the ECB haven't really gotten underway yet with rate cuts.

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Speaker 3: But I think so far that data has come in

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Speaker 3: pretty solid, and I think that supports the soft landing view.

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Speaker 2: Andrew, do you refer to some of the data as

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Speaker 2: a few false negatives potentially in our future? Can we

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Speaker 2: talk about the data we had through the summer and

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Speaker 2: at the other side, which one was the head fake,

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Speaker 2: the deceleration in jombs through the summer, or the reacceleration

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Speaker 2: we saw on Friday.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so I think it was potentially this kind of

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Speaker 3: the more worry cyclical indicators for markets. You know, once

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Speaker 3: the unemployment rate has rise, it's almost kind of too

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Speaker 1: That's one of the last.

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Speaker 3: Indicators historically to crack, and at that point it's very

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Speaker 3: bad for equities and credit, and I think that's what

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Speaker 3: the market was concerned about. You had concerns about triggering

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Speaker 3: the SAM rule, You had concerns at the unemployment rate

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Speaker 3: the July meeting had still kept rates on hold.

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Speaker 1: Now you know, there was another view there, and that

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Speaker 3: View closer to the view of Morgan Stanley's economist, which

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Speaker 3: is at the unemployment rate was giving somewhat potentially kind

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Speaker 3: of misleading signals because of the shape of the labor

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Speaker 3: market the fact that participation was actually quite strong, that

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Speaker 1: Picture a bit. But we really didn't know.

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Speaker 3: And even you know, heading into the other week with

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Speaker 3: the the latest non farm payroll number, you had a

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Speaker 3: the usually wide set. So I think the number we

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Speaker 4: Even with those prints. It's interesting to look, Andrew at

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Speaker 4: how FED language hasn't changed. They are still talking about

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Speaker 4: a balanced approach. Balanced is the new buzzword. Collin said

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Speaker 4: it yesterday. Jefferson said it too. And we have an

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Speaker 4: with a strong economy, how positive is that for risk asses?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so we do think we're still in a good

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Speaker 1: We also followed that Atlanta FED tracker.

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Speaker 3: We think it's been a great indicator recently and it

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Speaker 1: But I think the other.

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Speaker 3: Important thing is inflation is really looking like it's getting

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Speaker 3: where growth is weakening more and you're getting a lot

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Speaker 4: Scenario lay out. It's happening in the treasury market, that

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Speaker 4: repricing has happened since Friday, but Andrew, in the corporate

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Speaker 4: still at eighty three basis points, exactly where they were

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Speaker 4: on Friday. Are you surprised by the resilience the unmovedness

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Speaker 3: Well, you know, look, spreads, spreads are tight, but our

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Speaker 3: tighted that we're in an environment of better than expected fundamentals.

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Speaker 3: We think soft landing is an unusually good backdrop for credit.

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Speaker 1: Credit likes moderation.

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Speaker 3: A soft landing is all about moderation and growth and

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Speaker 1: And you still have very good technicals, You still.

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Speaker 3: Have very strong demand relative to supply in the market,

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Speaker 3: and better than average fundamentals. Better than average technicals probably

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Speaker 3: So I think another important factor, and I'm glad you

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Speaker 3: linked it to yields, is we do think we're in

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Speaker 3: higher yields are bringing in more demand from insurers, from

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Speaker 3: pension front funds, from a lot of the buyers who've

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Speaker 5: Andrew, right now, we're dealing an environment where there's a

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Speaker 5: number of potential risks in the United States. There's the

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Speaker 5: politics potentially we're not going to know for days weeks,

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Speaker 5: and we could see a contested election. Then there's the geopolitics.

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Speaker 5: We see in the short term increase in the oil price.

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Speaker 5: What is the biggest catalyst to potentially your soft landing scenario.

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Speaker 3: Well, I do think, you know, understandably, I think the

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Speaker 3: US election is going to and will get a lot

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Speaker 3: of that focus. You know, I think you are facing

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Speaker 3: a close election, that's one important factor, and between two

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Speaker 3: candidates with very very different policy agendas and policy proposals,

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Speaker 3: and so, you know, I think in terms of thinking

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Speaker 3: really going to potentially affect how investors think about pricing

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Speaker 3: why certainly, you know, at Morgan Stanley we've been devoting

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Speaker 5: Do you think the market right now is properly hedged

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Speaker 1: Well, I think that's it's difficult to say.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I think we have seen some increase in

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'll talk about the election more.

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Speaker 3: Generally, that is a kind of an unknown heading into

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Speaker 1: So, you know, I do think.

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Speaker 3: We as much as it's fair to say that the

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Speaker 3: election is bringing up the potential for volatility, is bringing

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Speaker 3: the potential for uncertainty, I think it's also possible. You know,

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Speaker 3: it's also fair to say that investors are very aware

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Speaker 1: Now. You know.

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Speaker 3: Again, I think it's a factor that we also when

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Speaker 3: again we're pretty optimistic, say on more m and a

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Speaker 3: moving past the election, just kind of having this once

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Speaker 3: this question is resolved, that that can be a positive

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Speaker 2: You're not the only one who's said that. Andrew appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: Andrew sheets the more constanting Camra Dawson of New Edge Wealth,

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Speaker 2: saying we would not be surprised to see continued volatility

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Speaker 2: in the near term as risk assets are going into

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Speaker 2: supportive monetary policy. With a very long word, Cameron Dawson

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Speaker 2: out loud. Cameron, thanks for that, put it in just

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Speaker 2: for you, Thank you very much. Let's talk about this

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Speaker 2: run we've seen in some of these individual names and

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Speaker 2: video has had a massive run five days of gains,

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Speaker 2: and for some people they're reflecting on the first half

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Speaker 2: inflation turned out to be a bit of a head fake.

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Speaker 2: We started to think about high rates for longer, and

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Speaker 2: tech stocks really started to perform and we reached in

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Speaker 2: for that playbook all over again.

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Speaker 6: It is interesting to see the equal weight S and

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Speaker 6: P five hundred, which has been doing better over the

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Speaker 6: last couple of months start to roll over on a

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Speaker 6: relative basis, which just suggests that maybe there's this narrowness

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Speaker 6: creeping back into the market. And you see it within

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Speaker 6: the tech sector itself. Look at video being strong driving semiconductors,

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Speaker 6: but flip the page to software. Microsoft is breaking down.

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Speaker 6: It's now below it's two hundred day moving average. So

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Speaker 6: even within the all great tech sector, there are pockets

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Speaker 6: of weakness being held up by just a couple of names.

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Speaker 2: Is this all about red cup expectations? Is that in

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Speaker 2: the drive and see or is it something else?

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Speaker 6: We think it's the confluence of everything if you take

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Speaker 6: a step back and appreciate the fact that you have

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Speaker 6: strong economic growth. Look at Atlanta fed GDP now at

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Speaker 6: three point two percent, supported by fiscal deficits. As if

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Speaker 6: we're in a crisis now with the bond market pricing

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Speaker 6: in the largest non recessionary cutting cycle in forty years,

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Speaker 6: What is rate or what are risk assets not to like?

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Speaker 6: And we think that's why you see credit spread so tight.

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Speaker 4: Does earning season help? With expectations of under five percent

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Speaker 7: They've been relatively flat.

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Speaker 7: That is absolutely critical to maintain, and.

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Speaker 4: You've seen that in seventy two percent of the companies.

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Speaker 7: Do you expect that to change? It's certainly the hope

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Speaker 2: So the banks would put on Friday, and we're all

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Speaker 1: What could that be about.

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Speaker 6: It's partially a function of the price increases that we

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Speaker 4: That is one of those things again just out of

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Speaker 7: Is there a sector.

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Speaker 6: I think it's all a reflection of this fading pricing power,

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Speaker 6: We don't think it would be be the end of

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Speaker 5: Cameron, I hate to be the debbie downer, but what

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Speaker 7: What if forward earnings actually look like for these companies.

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Speaker 7: We do know it does lower consumption.

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Speaker 6: It's less of an inflation risk and more of the

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Speaker 5: I meant, too, the debbie downer on the earnings estimates.

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Speaker 6: We've already been hearing from companies over the last let's

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Speaker 2: Think about how wide the rank is for twenty twenty

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Speaker 7: Completely massive?

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Speaker 2: That could be charactistmic camera, thank you, Did I do

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Speaker 1: Thank you? All right?

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Speaker 2: Second guard Cameron Dason and new h Wow Cameron, thank

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Speaker 2: you very much. So here's the latest fame of bracing

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Speaker 2: for Milton's landfall. Already stretched thin following how Urricane Helene.

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Speaker 2: The agency is preparing for a three billion dollars deficit

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Speaker 2: to meet immediate needs. The former FEMA administrator, Craig Fugu,

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Speaker 2: joins us now he let the agency under the Obama administration. Craig,

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Speaker 2: thank you for giving us your time this morning. We

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Speaker 2: recall also some of the work that you did with

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Speaker 2: maybe we can start the conversation there of the hurricane

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Speaker 2: When you think back to that period. What's different about

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Speaker 8: Well, I think we're just seeing rapid tentification that we

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Speaker 1: Not have the leak time. The good thing.

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Speaker 8: About Milton is there's been a lot of time to

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Speaker 5: Craig, let's talk about the FEMA response. Are they prepared?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? I get this question a lot.

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Speaker 8: And as bad as Selene was, FEMA has a lot

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Speaker 1: The response in Hurricane Helene.

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Speaker 8: That's I think a big concern for people in that

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Speaker 8: And again, the party in any of these disasters will

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Speaker 5: FEMA recently said that they have only nine percent left

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Speaker 8: Well, those numbers really referred to staffing required for long

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Speaker 5: Is the current funding enough or do you think Congress

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Speaker 5: off the campaign trails?

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Speaker 8: Well, right now, FEMA does have money to do the

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Speaker 1: I think the bigger.

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Speaker 8: Question is going to be the level of funding required

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Speaker 8: for long term recovery, the permanent work. And that's not

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Speaker 8: just going to be FEMA. There'll be a lot of

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Speaker 8: federal agencies that will need additional funding to support the

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Speaker 8: recoveries from these previous storms and disasters as well as

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Speaker 8: what we're about to see with her Kane Melton.

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Speaker 4: And it's not even just those storms, Craig before it,

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Speaker 4: it was wildfires out west that also required FEMA money.

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Speaker 4: So you get to this point, as John mentioned, a

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Speaker 4: three billion dollar deficit. Does there need to be a

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Speaker 4: structural change with FEMA and its funding to ensure that

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Speaker 4: it can continue to deal with successive climate issues.

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Speaker 8: Well, this was a situation we actually faced it in

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Speaker 8: the Bomb administration and then Speaker Ryan and at that

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Speaker 8: time OMB Director Jack lou had come up with a

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Speaker 8: way to increase FEMA's funding, but it was always based

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Speaker 8: upon the past storms, the past disasters. So the problem

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Speaker 8: is is we get bigger and more intense disasters with

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Speaker 8: little break between them. We really need to look at

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Speaker 8: a funding mechanism going forward. But I think it's critical

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Speaker 8: we understand this is your federal tax dollars. This is

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Speaker 8: be slowing down. It's growing rapidly, and it's far beyond

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Speaker 8: just what FEMA programs are being taxed with. So for

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Speaker 8: the federal taxpayer, we're seeing a tremendous trans for a

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Speaker 8: risk to the taxpayer where previously insurance covered this, and

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Speaker 8: as the insurance markets are no longer able to provide

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Speaker 8: affordable or available insurance due to these increasing impacts, we're

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Speaker 8: seeing this transfer risk to the taxpayer and that's going

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Speaker 8: to grow. And I don't know if we have answers

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Speaker 8: for that yet.

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Speaker 7: What does that mean?

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Speaker 4: Craig from when these areas get rebuilt that are still

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Speaker 4: under risk, a place like Tampa also had impact from

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Speaker 4: Helen Now again Milton, when government agencies, when FEMA, when

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Speaker 4: others go in to rebuild these areas, does it need

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Speaker 4: to look different this time because they are under constant threat.

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Speaker 1: The answer is yes, And.

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Speaker 8: FEMA has for a long time been focused on rebuilding better,

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Speaker 8: not just putting things back. But the challenge is we're

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Speaker 8: going to have to not only just put it back better,

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Speaker 8: We're going to have to build it for the future risk,

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Speaker 8: and that isn't going to be inexpensive. The other problem

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Speaker 8: I see is that we're going to increasingly see it

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Speaker 8: transfer risk to government run programs like the Citizens Insurance

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Speaker 8: program in Florida, because commercial assurance is finding extremely difficult

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Speaker 8: to be able to stay in these markets where it's

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Speaker 8: affordable product given their extreme exposures.

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Speaker 2: It's a conversation we had earlier this morning, just devastating. Craig,

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Speaker 2: appreciate your time this morning. Thank you, sir, Craig Fuget there,

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