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Speaker 2: Single, best idea. What a week it's been. It was
Speaker 2: a holiday lengthened work week. It felt like eight days
Speaker 2: a week trying to get through the news flow. Thank you,
Speaker 2: particularly to our Washington team who basically are going twenty
Speaker 2: four to seven covering the first days. I feel like
Speaker 2: it's weeks, but okay, we're four weeks into the second
Speaker 2: Trump administration, and I just want a major shout out
Speaker 2: to everybody, Margaret and everybody down in Washington for all
Speaker 2: that they've done. And of course he'll tiresly be through
Speaker 2: the weekend. We'll have the German elections on Sunday. Maybe
Speaker 2: it's off the US podcast radar, it should not be.
Speaker 2: It's actually a big deal, obviously, depending how it turns out.
Speaker 2: Coverage for that Monday morning. What a joy today to
Speaker 2: speak to Robert Kaplan, vice chairman of Golden Sachs, of
Speaker 2: course always in forever with his Dallas Fed. We talked
Speaker 2: to him, of course about Jerome Powell, Donald Trump and
Speaker 2: FED independence.
Speaker 3: The President can jawbone and pressure and that's not new.
Speaker 3: May be more intense right now, and the Fed will
Speaker 3: do its job and should to try to extent. They
Speaker 3: can't ignore that make decisions only. The biggest threat to
Speaker 3: the FED, I actually think sometimes is not from outside.
Speaker 3: Then you have to be careful as a governor or
Speaker 3: a president. Don't try to say things publicly you think
Speaker 3: might go over better, or worry about the pressure. Just
Speaker 3: do what you think is right. And as long as
Speaker 3: they manage themselves, I think they'll through this in an
Speaker 3: independent way.
Speaker 2: Robert Kaplan of Goldben Sacks and of course formerly with
Speaker 2: the Feeder Reserve Bank of Dallas, what a joy. We
Speaker 2: experimented once with Mark German from LA at five am.
Speaker 2: It was not a successful experiment, So when he's in
Speaker 2: New York it's important. And we were thrilled to have
Speaker 2: Mark German with us today. Can you imagine being in
Speaker 2: his case at University of Michigan and you've got degrees
Speaker 2: and information sciences and you become a journalist and you
Speaker 2: just work every day on sources. He is the definitive
Speaker 2: voice on Apple, and we are privileged that today along
Speaker 2: with the chat on Apple and Tim Cook in the MacBook,
Speaker 2: Mark German with a scoop.
Speaker 4: They moved the MacBook Pro, which is not their most
Speaker 4: popular machine, but a really hot seller and really importance
Speaker 4: what I use. It's what I think a lot of
Speaker 4: people here use, a lot of people in college and
Speaker 4: schools use. They can move that to an annual great cycle.
Speaker 4: Every November, like clockwork, you're getting a new MacBook Pro,
Speaker 4: just like you get a new iPhone every year. So
Speaker 4: that is a really big deal and I think is
Speaker 4: really important. MacBook Air that's the most popular mac okay
Speaker 4: last updated a year ago. Here's a scoop for your show.
Speaker 4: Apple's preparing to put the new MacBook Air M four
Speaker 4: on sale in March, so next month and just a
Speaker 4: few weeks from now. They've started preparations, they've started sending
Speaker 4: materials to their retail stores, they've ramped up production, and
Speaker 4: they're nearly ready to go on the M four thirteen
Speaker 4: inch and fifteen inch MacBook Air, their most popular machine,
Speaker 4: just in a few weeks from now.
Speaker 2: Classic Mark German there looking out to the next thing
Speaker 2: I'm going to need to buy for the keen household. Importantly, folks,
Speaker 2: we had a very serious conversation with Mark German about
Speaker 2: what's rarely talked about in the media. He's been an
Speaker 2: angel on this, which is the chips I don't understand
Speaker 2: really what they do. I can fake it, but I
Speaker 2: really don't know what I'm talking about. Mark German does,
Speaker 2: and he makes clear that the chip technology of Apple
Speaker 2: is the reason they exist and why he is writing
Speaker 2: about them day after day with an optimistic tone. Forward
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