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Speaker 1: to it. Uh this morning here with an important conversation

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Speaker 1: with the White House. And what's so important here, John

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Speaker 1: and Lisa is we all know they're people that finessed

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Speaker 1: their way into sixteen under Pennsylvania Avenue, and there's others

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Speaker 1: that lean over the desk and just grind out work.

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Speaker 1: That's been the path of Brian Deese, director of National

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Speaker 1: Economic Council and most importantly of Middlebury and Yale. And

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Speaker 1: then he went to work John and actually went from

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Speaker 1: task to task to task as he went up a

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Speaker 1: Democratic Party food chain. It's very place to say that.

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Speaker 1: Brant Days of the National Economic Council joins us right now. Brian,

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Speaker 1: you've seen the polls. You know where the focus is.

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Speaker 1: The CPS poll in the last week say the administration

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Speaker 1: is not focused enough on inflation. Brian so let's start there.

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Speaker 1: The degree to which you think you can do anything

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Speaker 1: about it, well, I think we've got a pretty straightforward

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Speaker 1: and clear I plan to do so. It starts with

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Speaker 1: the context, as you were just noting historic economic growth

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Speaker 1: strongest in forty years, historic job growth more than six

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Speaker 1: million jobs last year, and the unemployment rate the biggest

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Speaker 1: dropping unemployment on record in this country, down to three

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Speaker 1: point So we have a lot of strength in the

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Speaker 1: economic recovery and the uniquely strong economic recovery that positions

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Speaker 1: us to go at the issue of price increases. And

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Speaker 1: you heard the Present yesterday with a pretty straightforward plan.

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Speaker 1: Number one, the FED needs to operate with the independence

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Speaker 1: that it has. He's nominated five very quality individuals to

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Speaker 1: the FED. They need to be confirmed without delay. And

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Speaker 1: from his pers active his approaches about expanding the productive

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Speaker 1: capacity the economy, making it easier for us to make

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Speaker 1: more goods, provide more services. That's about unsticking supply chains.

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Speaker 1: It's about make a boosting competition, making our economy more competitive,

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Speaker 1: and it's about lowering kitchen table costs, going right at

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Speaker 1: those costs that most directly impact families. So he's got

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Speaker 1: a straightforward plan here, it's the right plan for the

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Speaker 1: country and we're gonna stick at it. Brian just standing

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Speaker 1: with the Federal Reserve. So let's go there briefly. Muhammad

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Speaker 1: president of Queen's College, Cambridge said in the last few

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Speaker 1: weeks on our network, this was one of the worst

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Speaker 1: FED calls in the history of the Federal Reserve. Yet

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Speaker 1: Chairman pal got a second term. And you were part

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Speaker 1: of that interview process. What did you hear in that

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Speaker 1: person to lead this FED through this current environment. President

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Speaker 1: he saw in Chairman Powell, but also Layo Brainerd incredible

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Speaker 1: these are the right people to lead are the Fed's

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Speaker 1: effort and has now added on with three additional nominees.

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Speaker 1: If you look at this group of five, you see

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Speaker 1: that these are the right individuals, and importantly, what you

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Speaker 1: heard from the President yesterday, we're confident in putting our

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Speaker 1: faith in the institution. Unlike our predecessor, the President is

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Speaker 1: trying to reinforce that having the independence of the Federal

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Speaker 1: Reserve to make difficult decisions in this environment is incredibly important.

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Speaker 1: It's important for the economy, it's important for our democracy.

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Speaker 1: You got to make some difficult decisions now to break

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Speaker 1: was the direction of travel. Now, the things that you

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Speaker 1: talking about numbers, let's talk about substance. What are the

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Speaker 1: pieces of that that you think you can pass and

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Speaker 1: can alleviate some of the price pressure in the medium term.

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Speaker 1: We'll start with the biggest costs that a typical family

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Speaker 1: faces on a monthly basis, healthcare, prescription drugs, childcare. Those

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Speaker 1: this content. Brian earlier in the inflation are out look,

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Speaker 1: And this is where the hope is right now, and

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Speaker 1: though people don't feel this. You say way it's growth.

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Speaker 1: People say seven percent inflation. You say things are getting better.

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Speaker 1: The President yesterday said you could see what we did

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Speaker 1: Within the address yesterday, the President said we can do

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Speaker 1: your broader point these This is work not yet finished,

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Speaker 1: when you try and work to get crude output up higher.

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Speaker 1: through the very specific part of the policy effort that

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Speaker 1: by country. It's very specific and technical, but we're working

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Speaker 1: those plans that we have them in place for any contingents.

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Speaker 1: Do we have capacity here at home in the U s.

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Speaker 1: time of transition, bigger companies are leading and winning. That

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Speaker 1: wasn't true through the whole recovery. It's true now, But

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Speaker 1: I suspect that small firms gain brown once the economy

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Speaker 1: completely normalizes. NATA, thank you a really good point finish

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Speaker 1: on NATO Richards in that of the I d P,

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Speaker 1: I d P Chief Economist, as we talked to Craig

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Speaker 1: Moffatt about five G of Moffatt Nathanson and his expertise

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Speaker 1: on our worries and fears of five G. It's the

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Speaker 1: surveillance pop process. We look at experts. We try to

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Speaker 1: go to experts to give you perspective. On radio, on television,

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Speaker 1: Lisa brand Wintson, Time Key Now with Daniel Tannembob Dan

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Speaker 1: Tannembomb partner in ahead of America's in a financial crime

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Speaker 1: at Oliver Wyman and actually knowledgeable more than politicians on sanctions,

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Speaker 1: Dancer the Tannembomb prism. What did you hear yesterday in

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Speaker 1: the press conference that will change the behavior of Mr Putin? Well,

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Speaker 1: thanks for the intro tongue. I didn't hear anything in

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Speaker 1: the press conference yesterday that it is likely to change

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Speaker 1: the behavior um of Mr Putin. I think you've heard

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Speaker 1: since December this White House UM and al eyes talk

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Speaker 1: about the threat of sanctions should Russia move its forces

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Speaker 1: across the border as a reminder again, uh into Ukraine. UM.

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Speaker 1: I think hearing that emphasized again, I mean it did

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Speaker 1: sound actually a little trumpy at some points talking about

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Speaker 1: kind of you know, these are are kind of the

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Speaker 1: mother of all sanctions, so to speak. UM. I think

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Speaker 1: continuing to hold the line on what will happen UM

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Speaker 1: was pretty consistent from what we've heard out of the

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Speaker 1: administration over the last month or so. Okay, the last

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Speaker 1: month or so. But you know, let's try to get

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Speaker 1: over let's try to do the Oliver Wyman thing and

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Speaker 1: actually look in advance. So for Apple computer, Apple iPhones,

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Speaker 1: what does sanctions mean do they pull out of Russia?

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Speaker 1: So I mean this. The threats of sanctions have taken

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Speaker 1: on a variety of form, everything from sanctions on North

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Speaker 1: Stream to impacting energy, cutting off Russia from global payments networks,

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Speaker 1: sanctioning large Russian banks, and potentially restricting the importation of

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Speaker 1: you US origin goods. When I talk to clients, I'm

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Speaker 1: already hearing institutions, not necessarily in the consumer product space,

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Speaker 1: but in the financial services industry begin to work on

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Speaker 1: asset repatriation plans to begin to look at everything up

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Speaker 1: to a potential market exit of Russia, and that could

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Speaker 1: happen in advance of any further incursion into Ukraine. I

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Speaker 1: think the market concerns are really sparking a lot of

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Speaker 1: noise and jitters where some businesses are calculating that the

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Speaker 1: risk might not be worth the reward in the market

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Speaker 1: going forward. Just to give you some sense, Anthony Blinkin,

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Speaker 1: who's over in Europe meeting with Germany's old Off Schultz,

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Speaker 1: speaking right now, and he's talking about the negotiations with

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Speaker 1: Russia and the alliance with Europe, saying that the Allies

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Speaker 1: aim is to seek diplomatic resolution with Russia. This really

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Speaker 1: speaks to this feeling that we increasingly get that perhaps

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Speaker 1: their hands are tied. You point out that sanctions have

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Speaker 1: not worked in the past. Can you give us some

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Speaker 1: details about how clients are preparing for the escalation that

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Speaker 1: feels increasingly inevitable. I think, as we've seen from going forward,

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Speaker 1: sanctions between the US, EU and Russia certainly had a

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Speaker 1: material impact on the Russian economy. You've certainly seen what

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Speaker 1: was a growing economy in kind of the global scale

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Speaker 1: in Russia shrink and look more insular as it became

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Speaker 1: fortress Russia trying to insulate itself from sanctions. I'm not

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Speaker 1: seeing anyone do this yet, but I'm certainly seeing more

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Speaker 1: and more clients in the financial services sector really begin

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Speaker 1: to weigh is this a market that we want to

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Speaker 1: be in anymore? Given the uncertainty and all of the

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Speaker 1: risk that exists to our business. I think it's a

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Speaker 1: lot of planning. I'm not necessarily seeing anyone sell off

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Speaker 1: or pull the trigger quite yet, but there's a lot

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Speaker 1: of watching and waiting, and I think there's a lot

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Speaker 1: of companies that are really beginning to be concerned that

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Speaker 1: this might not be worth it being in the market anymore. So,

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Speaker 1: where will we see this when you look at a

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Speaker 1: market impact is simply because as we were talking about,

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Speaker 1: the announcement about bitcoin restrictions in Russia is having an

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Speaker 1: effect as Toomas talking about earlier on the price of bitcoin.

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Speaker 1: Are there certain asset classes that are going to have

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Speaker 1: disproportionate and correlated blowouts one way or another in response

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Speaker 1: to some sort of action by the US on Russia.

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Speaker 1: I think, looking across a variety of sectors, I'm seeing

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Speaker 1: potential impact not necessarily isolated to one. I think when

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Speaker 1: I look at correspondent banking businesses that have operated in

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Speaker 1: Russia for some time, those seem like trime ones that

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Speaker 1: might be looking to cut themselves out of the market

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Speaker 1: pretty quickly. But I can't necessarily isolate it to one

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Speaker 1: specific segment. The institutions I'm talking to really cut across

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Speaker 1: a variety of different sectors, so this could be broader

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Speaker 1: than just a specific element of the market. Jan I

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Speaker 1: want to go back here to Apple, but then I

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Speaker 1: want to take it to a different company that's maybe

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Speaker 1: more appropriate to the negotiations and your expertise and sanctions.

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Speaker 1: You have CRIMEA two thousand fourteen maybe of Ukraine two

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Speaker 1: thousand twenty two. You've got Mr Putin, He's going nowhere.

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Speaker 1: And then you have the law against Apple, which has

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Speaker 1: to do with what Apple has to do to get

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Speaker 1: business done in Russia. What's the law against Caterpillar? I mean,

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Speaker 1: Caterpillar is machinery that's our number one export to Russia.

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Speaker 1: Do we have to assume that with any form of

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Speaker 1: moving into Ukraine that Russia is not going to be

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Speaker 1: able to buy Caterpillar products. So I think it's to

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Speaker 1: be made very clear. And President Biden tried to articulate

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Speaker 1: this yesterday and kind of walk back elements of this.

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Speaker 1: This sanctions and the responsive sanctions will be kind of

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Speaker 1: proportional to the actions that Russia takes. There's a variety

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Speaker 1: of different levels that the US has begun to package

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Speaker 1: with its EU allies in terms of what sanctions could

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Speaker 1: look like. That include things like import bands of American

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Speaker 1: origin agricultural products. Um, that's not to say that is

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Speaker 1: the lever they'll pull. I think you have to keep

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Speaker 1: some powder drying the situation. So I'd be surprised if

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Speaker 1: sanctions are levied all at once. Uh, there's certainly a

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Speaker 1: lot of concern around whether sanctions are levied preemptively which

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Speaker 1: could give Russia just a occation to further move into Ukraine,

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Speaker 1: or they're levied after they move into Ukraine, which didn't

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Speaker 1: really help the last time, and they haven't given up

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Speaker 1: crime need Mr Tanneb'm thank you so much for joining

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Speaker 1: us today, Daniel tanneb Oliver Wyman. They're expert on sanctions.

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Speaker 1: I learned a lot there that was great. We speak

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Speaker 1: the best and brightest, and that would be Craig Mafat,

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Speaker 1: founding partner, Senior research analyst at MafA. Nathanson and Craig.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to turn this into a consumer interview

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Speaker 1: about like am I going to be safe on my

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Speaker 1: playing with my five G phone? Forget about that. What

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Speaker 1: I want to talk about here is how the people

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Speaker 1: you are experts on how they adjust to what is

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Speaker 1: clearly a dysfunctional US government transportation and that what a

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Speaker 1: Verizon and the rest of them do with the US

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Speaker 1: government hit over the head by Emirates Air. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: tell you Tom that first. Well, thank you for having

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Speaker 1: me on and good to see you again. Good to

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Speaker 1: see Jonathan and Lisa. I've got to say you hit

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Speaker 1: the nail on the head. This is a highly dysfunctional government.

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Speaker 1: Uh and and it really goes back quite a few years.

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Speaker 1: I saw in the tea I heard in the teaser

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Speaker 1: you were you know, there was the comment snuck up

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Speaker 1: on everybody. It's hard for a calendar year to sneak

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Speaker 1: up on people if you can kind of find it

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Speaker 1: in your in your calendar if you look. And yet,

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Speaker 1: and by the way, this is not a story. We

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Speaker 1: started talking about this spectrum band being used for five

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Speaker 1: g back in so the f a A has had

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Speaker 1: five years to prepare, and the auction for these for

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Speaker 1: this spectrum band happened in the end of closed in

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Speaker 1: early one and a year later, the FCC suddenly says,

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Speaker 1: oh my goodness, wait a second, it is unbelievable to

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Speaker 1: me that that it took five years before the FCC

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Speaker 1: before or the f a A seriously engaged on this issue.

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Speaker 1: So correct, you nailed Brown physics. I mean I heard

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Speaker 1: you were Suma Comelaoudy in Brown physics long ago. Let's

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Speaker 1: bring up the formula here that matters, which is the

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Speaker 1: area definition of an antenna Alpha New Jersey gave me this,

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Speaker 1: thanks sale for that. A equals landed squared, divide divide

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Speaker 1: four pie g. The MafA translation is, folks, is this

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Speaker 1: is going to get solved by rotating the antennas at

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Speaker 1: JFK so they don't approach the runways. Is it that's

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Speaker 1: simple a fix? Dr? Moffatt, Well, it's actually a little

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Speaker 1: simpler than that. Even so, look the radial propagation. So

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Speaker 1: think of a circle I R squared of the the

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Speaker 1: area covered right now, they're talking about turning down power

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Speaker 1: levels for two miles around an airport. Two miles around

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Speaker 1: an airport in some some airports are far enough outside

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Speaker 1: of downtown areas that doesn't matter. Some like LaGuardia or

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Speaker 1: Hobby or love or or or Reagan, it actually matters

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Speaker 1: quite a bit. Um. My suspicion is the solution will

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Speaker 1: be remember that that sector that antennas are sectorized, that is,

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Speaker 1: they serve in an arc of about twenty degrees um.

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Speaker 1: You won't turn down power on the entire antenna. You'll

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Speaker 1: turn down power on single sectors that face runways. And

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Speaker 1: remember what's that what's that issue here is the altimeter

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Speaker 1: that is measuring the height of the airplane only when

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Speaker 1: you're quite close to the runway. So you will turn

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Speaker 1: down the power level on antenna's that face runways for

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Speaker 1: that sector. It's not a terribly hard problem to think

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Speaker 1: of how you get to the solution. And by the way,

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Speaker 1: the ultimate solution is actually fixed the damn altimeters um

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Speaker 1: that that are subject to interference outside of the band

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Speaker 1: they're supposed to be operating in. So, Craig, if it's

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Speaker 1: a simple if it's a relatively simple face X And frankly,

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Speaker 1: this whole episode has exposed, as you said, the profound

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Speaker 1: dysfunctionality of the government on a broader level. How do

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Speaker 1: you then factor in some of the infrastructure spending that

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Speaker 1: you were pointing to that could actually help the telecom sector,

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Speaker 1: that could help some of these five G rollouts at

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Speaker 1: a time when the government doesn't seem to be that

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Speaker 1: on top of things. Yeah. Look, I think the infrastructure

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Speaker 1: that goes down a completely different path the the infrastructure

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Speaker 1: built for the broadband, for example, pushes the responsibility for

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Speaker 1: broadband construction out to the states. So you're going to

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Speaker 1: have fifty individual states coming up with their own proposals

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Speaker 1: for how they think about uh cost justifying individual projects

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Speaker 1: where they want to target um. That's that's its tone

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Speaker 1: level of dysfunctional, I think, and the reason that Congress

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Speaker 1: chose that path was that they were frustrated with the

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Speaker 1: f c C in part because of the fccs handling

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Speaker 1: of UH the so called art off auctions were other

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Speaker 1: rural broadband UM. I actually think the FEC did a

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Speaker 1: pretty good job in that case, but there was frustration

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Speaker 1: over that, and so they chose an alternative that I

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Speaker 1: think is also likely to be dysfunctional. I think in

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Speaker 1: this case, though, to go back to the the the

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Speaker 1: issue of of the f A A and the f CC,

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Speaker 1: I don't think there's any ambiguity this time who's at fault.

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Speaker 1: This is a problem of the f A A, not

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Speaker 1: the FCC. The FEC was very clear, had a very

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Speaker 1: measured process throughout this entire episode, and it was the

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Speaker 1: f A A that simply refused to engage. So I

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Speaker 1: think this time you have to point the finger at

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Speaker 1: the FAA and you can understand why Verizon and A,

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Speaker 1: T and T are so incredibly frustrated. UM that at

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Speaker 1: the not even the eleven hour, it's it's well passed midnight,

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Speaker 1: and suddenly to raise these concerns about yesterday's news is

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Speaker 1: incredibly frustrating for the carriers. The Y S N coupon us,

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Speaker 1: didn't it some twenty two? Feel still feel like I'm

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Speaker 1: into a twenty So chill this morning. Craig on his sofa,

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Speaker 1: Craig Moffett, that of Moffett Nathanson. Thank you, Craig. Send

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Speaker 1: up West to Michael Sagred. This is the Bloomberg Surveillance Podcast.

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