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Speaker 1: show about the global economy. Today is November nine, but

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Speaker 1: It's just us, it's just the bench Park team today,

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Speaker 1: But let's just jump in, all right, Dan, First question

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Speaker 1: What do they tell him? The first thing he confronts

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Speaker 1: We mean continued projections ever since the world economy began

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Speaker 1: And is that a disappointment? Is that A I don't,

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Speaker 1: That was a country that Trump brought on, brought up

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