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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Surveillance Podcast. I'm Tom Keene, along

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Speaker 1: with Jonathan Ferrell and Lisa Brownwitz Jailely, we bring you

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Speaker 1: and of course on the Bloomberg terminal. He is extraordinary man.

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Speaker 1: He would say that Edward Himan invented market economics with

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Speaker 1: honor and grace to Alan Greenspan as well. Evercors I

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Speaker 1: s I chairman, and we're thrilled that Adeiman could brief

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Speaker 1: us here into August, into Q three and into Q

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Speaker 1: four of this tumultuous two thousand twenty one. And I

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Speaker 1: want to cut to the chase. You've seen this out

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Speaker 1: of your engineering at M. I t an ear of

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Speaker 1: pricing power, It can't happen. Another ear of pricing power,

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Speaker 1: it can't happen. And this time around you say there

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Speaker 1: is pricing power, and corporations can to adapt to the

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Speaker 1: new inflation. How do they do it? So when we

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Speaker 1: UH survey retailers in particular, they tell us that pricing

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Speaker 1: power is the most Ever. We also UH survey manufacturing

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Speaker 1: companies that they say the same thing and so cost

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Speaker 1: her up. But independent of that, liber cost her up also.

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Speaker 1: But in an independent of that, uh, companies are able

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Speaker 1: to pass it along. Uh because I guess because the

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Speaker 1: economy is good, people are getting pay increases. Uh. But

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Speaker 1: it also is important because it allows earnings to go up.

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Speaker 1: And earnings are in a second quarter that were explosive,

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Speaker 1: but I guess more important they'll be a strongly the

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Speaker 1: third quarter as well. What do you see for Q four,

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Speaker 1: I mean the idea year of inventing market economics into

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Speaker 1: market analysis. Many would say, you did that chart paragraph, chart, paragraph?

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Speaker 1: What are the chart say now about the fourth quarter?

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Speaker 1: So in terms of economic growth, we have it slowing

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Speaker 1: down to about six from roughly ten percent in the

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Speaker 1: second and third quarters. Uh. And but because I'm really

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Speaker 1: focused on the stock market, uh, I think earnings will

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Speaker 1: increase again. We have earnings in the second quarter to

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Speaker 1: twenty which is probably twenty dollars ahead of the constensus,

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Speaker 1: and then maybe thirty and maybe two forty in the

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Speaker 1: third and fourth quarters. And that was the pe you know,

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Speaker 1: something like nineteen times with Bonnils, you know, below two percent,

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Speaker 1: and the dead ballance sheet increasing ADDI, uh, every single month.

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Speaker 1: As you mentioned high prices, you alluded to what you thought,

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Speaker 1: but I just want to get you to emphasize it's

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Speaker 1: just a little bit more higher prices in the foundation

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Speaker 1: for higher prices that virtuous cycle that seems to be

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Speaker 1: taking place at the moment. Is that a virtuous cycle

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Speaker 1: you think overwhelms the Federal Reserve? Or is this the

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Speaker 1: right kind of price growth? Um? Well, I think inflation

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Speaker 1: is going to be more than expected. Uh. You know,

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Speaker 1: are surging, and that's of the core CP. I Uh,

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Speaker 1: around six. You can do the math on what that does. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And then wages have been going up, and like we

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Speaker 1: inflation is likely to to run ahead of expectations. But

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Speaker 1: I think it'll settle out around and say twenty three,

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Speaker 1: so it won't get out of hand, but it's gonna

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Speaker 1: be higher than that it has been in the past.

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Speaker 1: And how does that shape your view some what the

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Speaker 1: Three cleep below where we are right now, but that

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Speaker 1: high rate to change if you think that's gonna stick.

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Speaker 1: I just wanted how to shape your views of money

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Speaker 1: to you policy. Well, you know, I hate to stay

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Speaker 1: the obvious with a thrill of discovery. But you know

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Speaker 1: they're gonna they're gonna move, and they're already indicated they're

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Speaker 1: gonna move. Uh. So they'll start the taper. It'll tak

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Speaker 1: And neither of those are tightening, they're just you know,

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Speaker 1: less generative. And then if they keep raising rates, which

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Speaker 1: get a tightening position. So I feel I think the

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Speaker 1: find workers? Do you just say to yourself, Ed, raise

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Speaker 1: Pretty pretty pretty much. We'll see if there's uh an

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Speaker 1: big popping wagers. And but it's also moving up to

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Speaker 1: change he set work. Black Rock is giving an eight

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Speaker 1: is it Jerome Powell continuing his services to the Federal

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Speaker 1: you have having a broader uh footprint. I mean, Joe,

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Speaker 1: But you know, I think John, what we've got to

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Speaker 1: try and generate a decent outlook with some confidence. So first, uh,

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Speaker 1: let's not leave the monetary apart behind because it's still

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Speaker 1: I think a huge tail wind, and monetary policy leads

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Speaker 1: in this pandemic. We do this with Peter Hotez, who

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Speaker 1: has become nationally known many media appearances, speaking in English

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Speaker 1: and also as a pinata for the anti vaccination Crow

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Speaker 1: were thrilled that Dr Hotels could join us. Yes, from

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Speaker 1: Baylor College of Medicine, but far more you need to know.

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Speaker 1: He is co director of Parasites Without Borders with an

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Speaker 1: incredible focus on the children of this world. He's Texas

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Speaker 1: Children's Hospital and dowed share in tropical pediatrics. Peter Hotez,

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Speaker 1: you deal seven in children. What is the risk to

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Speaker 1: the vaccination rates are just so abysmal. Peter, how sick

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Speaker 1: requiring hospitalization. Now we're starting to see UH intensive care

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Speaker 1: all hands on deck to try to keep the kids

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Speaker 1: from getting infected. Should schools be fully reopened? Look, I

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Speaker 1: look in Louisiana, Mississippi, fifteen six of the adolescents are

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Speaker 1: and holding that hostage to more fiscal stimulus is just

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Speaker 1: I think it's a combination. I mean, you know, whenever

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Speaker 1: And if those policies fail to work, um, then you're

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Speaker 1: And most of the inflation will prove to be temporary.

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Speaker 1: You know. The critical point is the risks are for

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Speaker 1: what the Fed is doing is is it's really accentuating

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Speaker 1: I want to get you in trouble with Barenburg in Germany.

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Speaker 1: Tell me about the new Bundesbank from where you sit

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Speaker 1: than it used to be. Mickey, it's gonna catch up

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Speaker 1: just to flight for the heritage of Baronberg. That with

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