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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Surveillance Podcast. I'm Tom Keene Jay Leye.

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Speaker 1: do you want to introduce our guests? Consider? No? No, Please?

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Speaker 1: You you're so so keen on disrupting the top of

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Speaker 1: the program. I urge you to. I urge you to

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Speaker 1: kick off the program. Bracecast somebody. Brace. There'll be a

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Speaker 1: spare mike in about two minutes if you want to

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Speaker 1: take it. The chief economist at JP Morgan, good morning

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Speaker 1: to you, Bruce. Good morning. One hundred straight months of

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Speaker 1: gains for payrolls. Why they expected in January? One hundreds

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Speaker 1: straight months of payroll gains in America? How much longer

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Speaker 1: can we do this for? I think we can continue

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Speaker 1: to do this for a while, especially since we now

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Speaker 1: have a FED who seems to be on a extended pause,

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Speaker 1: and you know, I think we have to absorb some

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Speaker 1: of the weakness coming from abroad, and we do have

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Speaker 1: some risks, but I don't think this expansion is close

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Speaker 1: to ending. So I don't see why we can't keep

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Speaker 1: going for a couple more years at least. John's really

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Speaker 1: important question. I didn't know that, John, that was a

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Speaker 1: hundred months in a row. John, wouldn't you agree as

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Speaker 1: we look at all the economis who speak to it

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Speaker 1: was a great Miscall of the of the recovery was

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Speaker 1: two hundred plus thousand a month. Everybody was suing a

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Speaker 1: couple of years ago. Everybody said, get ready for two

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Speaker 1: to slow, get ready for it to slow, and it

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Speaker 1: didn't happen. So brace if this can continue for the

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Speaker 1: time big, can it continue at the clip that it

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Speaker 1: has done through with what you set me up. I'm

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Speaker 1: a little bit cautious and saying I do think job

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Speaker 1: growth is is going to slow here because we've been

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Speaker 1: running an economy that's been supported by a stimulus and

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Speaker 1: that is starting to fade, and I think the global

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Speaker 1: economy softer as well. So we think job growth today

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Speaker 1: is gonna be a hundred and seventy thousand. I think

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Speaker 1: as we moved through the rest of the year, we

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Speaker 1: slow into the fifty range. If we're if our broad

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Speaker 1: forecast on growth being close to two percent is right, Uh,

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Speaker 1: that's still pretty good, and it's still gonna put a

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Speaker 1: downward pressure on the on the unemployment rate, and that

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Speaker 1: I think ultimately becomes your call. The FED is basically saying, hey,

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Speaker 1: we don't think we're going to see inflation anytime soon,

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Speaker 1: so we could signal a longer pause. I would agree

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Speaker 1: with that. I don't think the problem is going to

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Speaker 1: be inflation moving up, but I do think wages are

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Speaker 1: gonna get higher. And I think the problem as we

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Speaker 1: the compression in corporate profit margins that we begin to

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Speaker 1: see how will companies respond to decelerating nominal growth and

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Speaker 1: compressing margins. How would they respond to that just in

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Speaker 1: terms of hiring. Well, I think they're gonna bend a little,

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Speaker 1: and that's the forecast we have, but I don't think

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Speaker 1: they're gonna break, especially given that it has come against

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Speaker 1: So our call as the corporate sector pulls back modestly

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Speaker 1: economy that slows down to about a two pace. Here

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Speaker 1: if you're just joining US force casmin with j Pete Morgan.

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Speaker 1: I want to go back to the theme of the

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Speaker 1: week out of the San Francisco Feed, a brilliant paper,

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Speaker 1: thanks to Jim Edwards, a business decider, for really pushing

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Speaker 1: it forward. Uh, involuntary part time employment? Are the jobs

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Speaker 1: were creating? Are they full time? For the most part?

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Speaker 1: of that is Obamacare and some other things that have

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Speaker 1: not that we're creating bad jobs. It's that we are

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Speaker 1: the consensus view at the moment is that they've got

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Speaker 1: to the right place in terms of policy. But how

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Speaker 1: we got here, Bruce, was an absolute mess over the

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Speaker 1: last couple of months. Actually asked this question a couple

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Speaker 1: we sit here now with what many people assume is

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Speaker 1: yesterday and said, well, hang on a minute, the journey

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Speaker 1: does matter. How we got here was a total mess.

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Speaker 1: And how do you know that in a couple of

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Speaker 1: another rate hike. Well, I think in the next couple

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Speaker 1: they would shift back that quickly, even if the data

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Speaker 1: They actually welcomed some adjustment in financial conditions as they

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Speaker 1: solid economy. Um, yes, solid economy, but not the economy

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Speaker 1: So we come back to a solid economy. We continue

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Speaker 1: to see job growth, we continue to see wage inflation

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Speaker 1: move higher, but core inflation sticks it around two percent.

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Speaker 1: And the question is does the Fed have any reason

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Speaker 1: then the Federal Reserve behaved like it was a corner

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Speaker 1: the Federal Reserve has done this abrupt turn when so

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Speaker 1: many people saw this coming through eighteen into nineteen that

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Speaker 1: growth was going to slow. So why didn't the Federal

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Speaker 1: Reserve start making the adjustment in December? Why was it

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Speaker 1: Ammond's news conference in December. I didn't hear any of

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Speaker 1: This is an abrupt term, Bruce in six weeks. I

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Speaker 1: do think we had a shift in December which basically

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Speaker 1: But what they were signaling us in December was a

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Speaker 1: on their point in time, and certainly market participants were

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Speaker 1: frustrated by that, at least some. Uh. There's also issues

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Speaker 1: I'm going to defend the Fed a little bit here,

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Speaker 1: which is that I think they've made an important shift

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Speaker 1: uh this week, a shift that we didn't expect in

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Speaker 1: the magnitude of it. Um. But they have been gradually

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Speaker 1: has seen risk build pretty quickly. Basically, it started to

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Speaker 1: It's you know, you could argue it's slow for market time,

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Speaker 1: terms of what the data has been showing us. Bruce,

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Speaker 1: always get your insight on the economy, and of course

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Speaker 1: on the Federal Reserve as well. Bruce Cassman, the chief

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Speaker 1: economist that Jake P. Morgan let us digress over the

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Speaker 1: equity markets here. I've got some good guests coming up

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Speaker 1: on the labor economy. John Gallop joins from Credit speech

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Speaker 1: as well. John, you have a killer chart which answers

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Speaker 1: a lot of questions of our listeners. If you take

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Speaker 1: the stock market and you rip out Apple with all

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Speaker 1: When when you look at the earnings UM picture UM,

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Speaker 1: What do you say to people that say, well, this

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Speaker 1: Is this a useful exercise, John John John John Galub

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Speaker 1: has done that for fifteen years. That's oh. You know.

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Speaker 1: The funny thing is when I when I do, when

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Speaker 1: the earnings grew at about a ridiculously good number. I said,

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Speaker 1: of all, you have all these tax games, which tax benefits,

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Speaker 1: which aren't gonna continue into the future. You have a

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Speaker 1: whole bunch of one off items, and when you actually

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Speaker 1: look at the underlying trend, you're left with something probably

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Speaker 1: look at it with John. John Ferrell brings up a

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Speaker 1: really important point. A lot of people think having the

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Speaker 1: confidence to be in the market, to participate is an

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Speaker 1: easy task. You've been brilliant about participating in the market.

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Speaker 1: State the faith this morning, somebody's going on this weekend,

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Speaker 1: and as they get ready to root for the patriots

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Speaker 1: to get it done, They're gonna go. Should I be

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Speaker 1: in the market state the case for people to think

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Speaker 1: it's a simple exercise, Well, well I don't think right now, Tom,

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Speaker 1: it is such an easy exercise. I'll tell you why.

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Speaker 1: The first thing is is that the economy is legitimately

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Speaker 1: what the right, what the right prices, and you know,

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Speaker 1: from our standpoint, it's sort of fair or expensive again,

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Speaker 1: So Michaelson, anything in the jobs report today that causes

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Speaker 1: you to change your view or change what you think

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Speaker 1: the Fed will do? Uh? Here in the first half

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Speaker 1: of the year, it's interesting. Uh. You know, clearly Ellen's

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Speaker 1: had a more bearish calling the economy than the consensus

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Speaker 1: for this year, to see a deceleration in the economy

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Speaker 1: towards one percent by three Q. Of course, payroll numbers

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Speaker 1: were very strong. Headline peril numbers make people kind of question, well,

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Speaker 1: is that really what's going on? I would argue yes,

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Speaker 1: because there was a big revision last month downwards, so

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Speaker 1: the headline number is not as big. And if you

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Speaker 1: look at the unemployment rate, you know, uh kind of

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Speaker 1: perplexingly is it's actually up now two months in a row,

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Speaker 1: and the U six is up five tenths. So I

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Speaker 1: think the underlying jobs market may be actually weakening more

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Speaker 1: than what the headlines might be suggesting. So I I

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Speaker 1: think Ellen's got it right. I think we're going to

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Speaker 1: continue to decelerate on growth. That doesn't mean we'recession. And

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Speaker 1: I think there's a good reason for that companies earnings

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Speaker 1: are not as strong, so they're not going to be

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Speaker 1: hiring as rapidly. So Mike, what's given we do have

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Speaker 1: a dovish fed at the moment, the economy seems solid

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Speaker 1: to two and a half percent, what would get you

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Speaker 1: a little bit more aggressive as it relates to equities price,

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Speaker 1: So you know clearly in December we're pretty vocal that

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Speaker 1: was right at our bare case target. That's a great price.

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Speaker 1: I would be a very attractive price too, and by

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Speaker 1: the way, it's stocked by stock. So what I don't

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Speaker 1: like right now is that the market's kind of going

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Speaker 1: back to some of these high flying stocks and paying

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Speaker 1: probably too high and multiple. So we're being very sensitive evaluation.

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Speaker 1: And there's definitely things out there that we like that

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Speaker 1: are properly priced, But I think you need to be

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Speaker 1: disciplined about your entry points. You don't have this big

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Speaker 1: you know, easy monetary policy when you when you look

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Speaker 1: at all your analysts Acrosse and I don't know how

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Speaker 1: many research annelsts you have, but it's an island nation.

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Speaker 1: When you look at your research annelists, what do they

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Speaker 1: say down the income statement and can corporate officers adapt

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Speaker 1: to the new lower revenue prospects. I mean, is there

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Speaker 1: a wiggle room there for them to hold margins and

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Speaker 1: maintain free cash flow? Well, Tom, there's there's one thing

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Speaker 1: we know about corporate America is that they're very good

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Speaker 1: at cutting costs and that probably know it's world class,

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Speaker 1: that's what that's what American companies do well, and they

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Speaker 1: will absolutely react quickly if the topline prospects start to deteriorate.

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Speaker 1: And I think as once again, I think we're starting

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Speaker 1: to see some of that. If you actually peel back

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Speaker 1: the onion on some of his labor numbers, I'm not

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Speaker 1: sure that that's not what's going on already. I think

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Speaker 1: we're starting to see companies reevaluate cap X potentially. You know, Um,

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Speaker 1: one of the reasons why Amazon stock was down overnight

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Speaker 1: because they're spending more money than maybe people expected. Well,

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Speaker 1: if they're going to do that in the face of

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Speaker 1: lower revenues, by the way, they have missed revenues for

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Speaker 1: a couple of quarters. Now, um, then that's gonna have

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Speaker 1: a margin impact and then ultimately they'll have to cut

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Speaker 1: back if that doesn't change. So companies will absolutely respond, uh,

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Speaker 1: in spades, if if if top line is short. So, Mike,

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Speaker 1: are there any sectors at the moment that you feel attractive?

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Speaker 1: Let's take Thanks for example, they lead the market down

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Speaker 1: in December, leading it back up here in the first quarter,

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Speaker 1: real quickly. How to view those Well, I mean, fang

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Speaker 1: is not really a sector, but I know what you're saying,

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Speaker 1: so high multiple you know, kind of software internet, Uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, maybe secular growth type companies. Uh, that is,

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Speaker 1: that is what has really served investors well in the

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Speaker 1: era of KIWI and fiscal austerity, right, low growth world.

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Speaker 1: You want to you want to pay them for growth.

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Speaker 1: And we made a call last year that we think

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Speaker 1: that era is kind of over, meaning those docks are fine,

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Speaker 1: those are great companies. Okay, you just gotta be careful

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Speaker 1: what you pay for them. And I would argue in

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Speaker 1: December they were on sale and you should have been

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Speaker 1: buying them. But here a lot of these things have

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Speaker 1: come back to the point now where I think they're

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Speaker 1: probably overpriced. I would be okay, they're offering better value.

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Speaker 1: Mike Wilson with US of Morgan Stanley. Thanks for listening

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