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

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Speaker 1: We bring you insight from the best in economics, finance, investment,

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Speaker 1: and international relations. Find Bloomberg Surveillance on Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud,

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg dot Com, and of course on the Bloomberg Stephen

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Speaker 1: Schwartzman has given a hundred and fifty million pounds to

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Speaker 1: Oxford University, the largest contribution and it's eight hundred year history.

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Speaker 1: The Blackstone Group head has emerged as a major philanthropist

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Speaker 1: with donations to the New York Public Library m I. T. N. Yale.

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Speaker 1: Is also close to President Donald Trump and a little

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Speaker 1: bit of a scholar when it comes to China. Well,

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Speaker 1: I'm very pleased to be welcoming on Bloomberg Surveillance and

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Speaker 1: Blackstone Group chief executive here in London. He is Stephen Schwartzman.

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Speaker 1: See welcome to the program. Thank you so much for

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Speaker 1: coming in. Now. This is basically a faculty hub that

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Speaker 1: brings the humanities faculties to tackle ethical questions on artificial intelligence.

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Speaker 1: But who's it up to to figure out how we

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Speaker 1: regulate this so that we don't displace too many workers? Right? Well,

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Speaker 1: it's it's it's more than that. Uh. First of all,

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Speaker 1: it's bringing together the humanities faculties where Oxford is ranked

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Speaker 1: It's all been separate buildings, and now it's going to

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Speaker 1: disciplinary kinds of stuff. We're going to have a major

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Speaker 1: performing arts center uh. And UH that will enable certain

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Speaker 1: themes in the humanities to get played out. UH. And

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Speaker 1: then as I was learning about what Oxford was doing,

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Speaker 1: I realized that their capabilities in humanities and philosophy in

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Speaker 1: displacement of workers all kinds of other you know, unexpected

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Speaker 1: decisions of what should be actually implemented is I think

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Speaker 1: the second piece beyond just the technical. But Steve Shorts,

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Speaker 1: the politicians no longer listen to the academics, They no

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Speaker 1: longer listen to the global elite. Why would they listen

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Speaker 1: to anyone coming from Oxford? Well, I think the reason

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Speaker 1: is that in this intersection between technology about which governments

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Speaker 1: that it's important to have somebody who's an arbitrator, if

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Speaker 1: have knowledge UH and and broach the two areas UH

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Speaker 1: that there are naturals to do this. Just leaving this

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Speaker 1: to government, as we can see in the United States

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Speaker 1: What are the questions that you would ask about AI

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Speaker 1: that's China's right, UH. And the West has a different

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Speaker 1: set of core values. So one of the things Francine

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Speaker 1: our values are and vice versa. Steve Schwartzman, the Library

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Speaker 1: You were the sole remaining free trader, and his ear

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Speaker 1: If this is a Schwartzman Center for Humanity at Oxford,

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Speaker 1: In the last ten years, Steve Schwartzman has outdone Golden

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Speaker 1: Steve Buried in the bout at Oxford is a book.

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Speaker 1: that I wouldn't choose. Okay, would you be fedchair? And

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Speaker 1: in significant easing. The global bond market has twelve point

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Speaker 1: que should be to flush us out of core government

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Speaker 1: of looser monetary policy for so many central bankers. Will

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Speaker 1: for at the turn of the decade and going after

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Speaker 1: all for that, all you have to do is look

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Speaker 1: at where S and P five is. I understand where

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Speaker 1: we are now, Christian, I just mean going forward from

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Speaker 1: in terms of engineering significantly higher levels of growth and

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Speaker 1: I think they're not pushing on a string. We are

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Speaker 1: previous quest wasn't you know we are we? You know

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Speaker 1: you're making fun of people being defensive. We are not defensive.

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Speaker 1: Our outlook for S and P five hundred by your

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Speaker 1: end is probably close to thirty one hundred. I'm behind,

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Speaker 1: with your optimism? Do they slide into the market or

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Speaker 1: do they acquire shares today with optimism? Well, I think

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Speaker 1: they are probably going to be pushed into acquiring a position,

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Speaker 1: as opposed to going in. How are you pushed into it?

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Speaker 1: Pushed by Amazon? You're pushed into it by the markets

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Speaker 1: going up, and you steadily following because you're afraid of

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Speaker 1: falling behind. And that has been happening up there right now.

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Speaker 1: All year we're up sixteen percent, I mean twenty six

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Speaker 1: but longer term returns. And what we see is in

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Speaker 1: a year SMP really hasn't done much. So I think

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Speaker 1: there's that's this tremendous room for SMP five or U

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Speaker 1: stocks to do reasonably well. And I think if the

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Speaker 1: they are today. Christian momany with with us with Oppenheimer Funds,

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Speaker 1: we should say that Oppenheimer Funds has been a wonderful

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Speaker 1: supporter of this show, including our visits down there as Krishna. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: minor correction here, Appenheimer Funds doesn't exist anymore. We got

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Speaker 1: acquired by Investco, so we are investor. Excuse me, I

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Speaker 1: didn't know that that transaction finally had closed. We did.

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Speaker 1: We didn't change introducing Thomas f I c I O

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Speaker 1: at Investco did wed Yeah, what's the official name that

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Speaker 1: you're using? Investco? No, it's Investo. Should we do this

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Speaker 1: in the commercial break? No? I think you want? No,

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Speaker 1: it's great, It's okay with Investo. Excuse me. Let's bring

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Speaker 1: in Vince Reiner of Melan right now. Wonderful day, Vince

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Speaker 1: Reiner with us. Vincent Reiner, of course, head of economic

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Speaker 1: research for Alan Greenspan at the FED for decades and

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Speaker 1: really codified the quality of research in the modern FED.

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Speaker 1: If you were at the FED today, Vincent research, which

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Speaker 1: Vincent Reinhardt, which research? Nicknamed that research? That Vincent research.

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Speaker 1: If you were at the FED today and not at Melan,

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Speaker 1: which research piece would you reach for to advise Chairman

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Speaker 1: Powell what to do? Is it or fandes? Is it others?

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Speaker 1: Which is the research piece that matters? Actually, my initials

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Speaker 1: are v r R, so they do work. I actually

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Speaker 1: would be who nineties wrote about the predictability of the

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Speaker 1: federal funds rate. If you think about it, the overnight

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Speaker 1: rate doesn't really matter for long term rates that just

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Speaker 1: one day out of ten years. The FED, any central

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Speaker 1: bank projects an influence on longer term rates because they

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Speaker 1: affect the entire path for interest rates. That's why most

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Speaker 1: of your focus right now is about communication. What do

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Speaker 1: they say, how what how do they get? How far

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Speaker 1: out the yield curve do they influence the market? Way

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Speaker 1: further than makes it much sense? Actually, I don't understand,

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Speaker 1: like ten years deals move so much and why far

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Speaker 1: ahead forwards moves so much, And part of it is

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Speaker 1: central banks just have a hard time anchoring expectations. But

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Speaker 1: if you want to look about how far a central

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Speaker 1: bank and influenced things, how about President dry He's got

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Speaker 1: a negative tenure rating many of his jurisdictions. Uh, same same,

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Speaker 1: same as true for the Neyear zero policy rated tenure

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Speaker 1: rate in Japan. Central banking does matter. It matters for

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Speaker 1: the longer term in terms of how the anger inflation expectations.

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Speaker 1: Let's come back this Ryner where this with Melon. We're

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Speaker 1: thrilled death insive Wrayner with us. Thanks for listening to

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