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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg pm L podcast. I'm Pim Fox.

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Speaker 1: Along with my co host Lisa Abramowitz. Each day we

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Speaker 1: bring you the most important, noteworthy, and useful interviews for

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Speaker 1: right now in Congress are coming to the realization, uh

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Speaker 1: that it's going to take some time before Republicans can

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Speaker 1: fully implement repeal of Obamacare. Not only is it going

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Speaker 1: to take a while, but it will actually be incredibly complicated.

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Speaker 1: But there are some steps that the new Republican lead

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Speaker 1: administration can take in order to limit Obamacare. UH. For

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Speaker 1: a look at what those maybe, I want to bring

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Speaker 1: in Zachary Tracer of Bloomberg News who covers healthcare sector. Zach,

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Speaker 1: what are some of the measures that Republican aids are

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Speaker 1: talking about doing right when President Elect Trump assumes office.

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Speaker 1: That's right. So folks in d CRE are starting to

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Speaker 1: realize that it's going to take a while to repeal Obamacare,

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Speaker 1: and they're looking at what ways they can use regulations

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Speaker 1: at the Affordable Care Act over the next few months

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Speaker 1: and a few years. So one big target of that

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Speaker 1: push has been, uh, the benefits under the c A,

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Speaker 1: so figuring out ways to limit some of what's covered

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Speaker 1: in ways that might bring down the cost of plans

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Speaker 1: or get rid of things that some on the right

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Speaker 1: really don't like, things like contraceptive coverage, for instance. Is

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Speaker 1: that great? What about the idea of repealing it but

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Speaker 1: not repealing it. You repeal it in name because it's

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Speaker 1: a politically expedient thing to do, but on the other hand,

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Speaker 1: you kind of leave in place many of the exchanges.

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Speaker 1: Because I understand that more than six million people have

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Speaker 1: signed up for obam Care policies through the federal exchanges,

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Speaker 1: and that's four thousand more than had selected policies a

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Speaker 1: year ago. But your parton six point four million people,

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Speaker 1: that's a record, that's right. So we're seeing sign ups

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Speaker 1: proceed pretty much at pace. I think right after the

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Speaker 1: election of Donald Trump, there was some worry that maybe

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Speaker 1: people wouldn't sign up, you know, given all the rhetoric

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Speaker 1: about this law is going away, we're going to repeal it.

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Speaker 1: But it turns out that so far, sign ups are

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Speaker 1: on pace, and the government has said they think thirteen

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Speaker 1: point eight million people will ultimately sign up by the

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Speaker 1: deadline at the end of January. So if some of

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Speaker 1: these benefits are cut, would it lower costs for the

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Speaker 1: actual people who are getting the insurance plans or would

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Speaker 1: it lower the cost just for the government. You know,

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Speaker 1: that's a really good question. So they talk about cutting

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Speaker 1: these benefits in part as a way to limit costs.

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Speaker 1: So if you take coverage out of waait cost to

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Speaker 1: the government, well, it's it's it's both. So that the

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Speaker 1: government pays for a big piece of of the a

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Speaker 1: C plans, I give subsidies to individuals with low incomes

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Speaker 1: the individual man date, that's right, So individuals do have

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Speaker 1: to buy health insurance under the law, um and and

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Speaker 1: the government gives them subsidies to help them do that.

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Speaker 1: So what cutting these benefits would do theoretically is maybe

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Speaker 1: lower the cost of this health insurance. The big open

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Speaker 1: question is what do you cut? And we should be

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Speaker 1: really clear about this because these essential benefits are things

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Speaker 1: like hospitalization. There are things like your doctor's visits, labs,

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Speaker 1: these are You know, the question is, as one person

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Speaker 1: are Republicans really going to cut? And that remains to

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Speaker 1: Republican administration might maintain some incarnation of Obamacare once it

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Speaker 1: we're hearing right now is it looks like, very broadly speaking,

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Speaker 1: So you could see Obamacare persist, either in full or

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Speaker 1: get to sixty votes. Thank you very much for coming

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Speaker 1: in and spending time with us. Zachary Tracer is our

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Speaker 1: healthcare reporter for Bloomberg, giving us some insight into the

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Speaker 1: Obamacare Affordable Care Act and what it's likely to look

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Speaker 1: to be in Congress. It's going to be pretty complicated

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Speaker 1: you have to follow Zachary on Twitter at z Tracer

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Speaker 1: t R A C E R. Thanks very much. All right.

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Speaker 1: Here to tell us a little bit more about where

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Speaker 1: to put our money is David Kotak. He is the

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Speaker 1: chairman of the chief investment officer at Cumberland Advisors, David

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Speaker 1: ko Talk. How are you, sir? I'm terrific, and I

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Speaker 1: think we should have an index that samples New York

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Speaker 1: City's finest cheesecake. I'm willing to volunteer terrific, terrific conversation.

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Speaker 1: All right, well you while while you track cheesecake, I'm

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Speaker 1: interested in tracking investments. Where do you want to start?

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Speaker 1: You want to do bonds first? Tell us whether this

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Speaker 1: bond sell off means it's time to buy or should

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Speaker 1: you stay away. I'm looking at the tenure right now

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Speaker 1: three ten. We're getting a little bit of a bit

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Speaker 1: on both of them. Um, We in our shop are

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Speaker 1: not buyers of treasury intermediate or long. Here we think

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Speaker 1: there is more likely a little higher rate sometime next year,

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Speaker 1: possibly evento a three on the tenure. We are buyers

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Speaker 1: of high grade tax freeze. When high grade tax free

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Speaker 1: sold off, they sold off twice as viciously as the

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Speaker 1: taxable treasury bond. They went from eighty five of the

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Speaker 1: treasury yield to currently a hundred and thirty percent of

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Speaker 1: the treasury yield. I don't care what Donald Trump does

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Speaker 1: with the tax code, it's highly unlikely it's going to

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Speaker 1: be completely repealed. So four percent high grade tax free

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Speaker 1: up fifty basis points long Muni's over a hundred and

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Speaker 1: an ongoing kind of question out there. Are muni's oversold.

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Speaker 1: Municipal bonds sold off dramatically after the President elect Trump

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Speaker 1: lower taxes, particularly for wealthier people, would reduce the appeal

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Speaker 1: for these tax free municipal bonds. Talking about municipal bonds,

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Speaker 1: I want to talk about Puerto Rico. I know, David

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Speaker 1: governor um At this point, would you be a buyer

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Speaker 1: is just sort of just a quagmire that is not

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Speaker 1: worth it. Oh, it's a terrible quagmire, Lisa. We we

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Speaker 1: believe in that the only bonds that we will own

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Speaker 1: in Puerto Rico are very specific ensured bonds and those

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Speaker 1: that have internal credit structures that have to be researched.

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Speaker 1: There's seventy billion in debt, as you know, outstanding in

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Speaker 1: Puerto Rico, and we go through every insurance contract, every

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Speaker 1: bond indenture, and every cross collateral claim. That's the only

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Speaker 1: If you'd have the resources, then there's opportunity. We have

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Speaker 1: some Puerto Rico bonds which have three and four layers

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Speaker 1: Puerto Rico agency. But you've really got to do the

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Speaker 1: detail work to do it. The politics of the island

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Speaker 1: have to change. And whether it's sixty billion or seventy

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Speaker 1: it requires political change, and it will be imposed on

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Speaker 1: them by the board that will now run Puerto Rico's

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Speaker 1: finances instead of the local government. David can I just

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Speaker 1: take you to Muni bonds just complete that. I want

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Speaker 1: to understand a little bit more. What kind of maturity

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Speaker 1: in California two point seven one, tenure in New York

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Speaker 1: two point four seven. Are those the kinds of bonds

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Speaker 1: want to go thirty for California three point six three,

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Speaker 1: New York three point four. I would go thirty years

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Speaker 1: return that is very appealing for a high grade credit.

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Speaker 1: A lot of people think that this still is an

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Speaker 1: Aren't you concerned about this? Of course I am. It's

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Speaker 1: the unfunded liabilities of SATAN, local governments and others are

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Speaker 1: a realistic reduction of the earnings assumption to bring it

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Speaker 1: funding is another positive step. The worst state is Illinois.

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Speaker 1: New Jerseys not far behind. Other states which have difficulties

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Speaker 1: include Connecticut, Kentucky, Louisiana. We have states and gradations in

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Speaker 1: We will not own it for a client. Closed and

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Speaker 1: bond funds. Are they attractive? Maybe, but you've got to

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Speaker 1: in the fund? The details are you know, the devil's

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Speaker 1: in the details always always is stocks. Ah, Now we

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Speaker 1: have the major question. Every dollar cut in the thirty

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Speaker 1: corporate tax rate equates to about the dollar dollar and

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Speaker 1: a quarter permanent shift of additional earnings in the SNP

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Speaker 1: five hundred index. If that rate is going to go

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Speaker 1: to say, I need to reconsider the valuation of the

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Speaker 1: stock market. What the details will be in that tax

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Speaker 1: code change is another devil that hasn't been revealed, all right,

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Speaker 1: and we got right now price earnings ratio for the

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Speaker 1: SMP five twenty one with dividen deal of about two.

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Speaker 1: So I guess that would change all of that as well.

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Speaker 1: David co Tech, I'm so glad you could join us.

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Speaker 1: Whether it belonged on Twitter. Um, you know, that's a

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Speaker 1: earlier this month the Council of the European Union approved

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Speaker 1: rules and locally domiciled money market funds. They'll impose stricter

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Speaker 1: liquidity requirements, limit redemptions, among other measures. And only I

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Speaker 1: was struck by your talking about the fact that there

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Speaker 1: are European financial instruments in these money market funds. Um,

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Speaker 1: what kind of dislocation could we see in this market? Uh,

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Speaker 1: not only as these new rules come on board, but

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Speaker 1: also as potentially banking issues increase in that region. Well,

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Speaker 1: the two things you have to look at of just

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Speaker 1: absolute yields as they spread versus a risk free curve

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Speaker 1: the U S treasuries as an example, and the bid

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Speaker 1: sell to the bid mass because those wide now there

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Speaker 1: could be some problems and that's just an expression of

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Speaker 1: liquidity and One of the things in the real paradox

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Speaker 1: of these rules is you've got liquidity money markets and

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Speaker 1: it's all of a sudden it's locked up for thirty

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Speaker 1: days or whatever um. That creates a real concern for

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Speaker 1: a lot of investors. So I could see the similar

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Speaker 1: type of thing happening, and with the banking system being

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Speaker 1: a little bit more influx in Europe. Now remember again

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Speaker 1: a little well, are you buying? Are you buying? European

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Speaker 1: money markets are staying now, We're staying domestic right now.

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Speaker 1: We want to see how these rules on unfold before

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Speaker 1: we step into that market again. I think we'll just

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Speaker 1: we'll be focused on the prime space, but we have

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Speaker 1: to remember as well. Uh you know, last I saw

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Speaker 1: how that plays into this whole equation is going to

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Speaker 1: be very interesting as these rules get get phased in.

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Speaker 1: Thanks very much, Henley Smith of to Build Avenue Asset Management.

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