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Speaker 1: Angela miracles reign as the head of Germany appears to

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Speaker 1: be coming to an end. This is the news uh

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Speaker 1: this morning, we are broadcasting live from the Bloomberg Interactive

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Speaker 1: Broker's studios. What does this mean for arguably the most

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Speaker 1: powerful country in the European Union going forward? Joining us now,

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Speaker 1: Irene finnel Hannegman. She's an adgict Professor of International Affairs

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Speaker 1: at Columbia University. Irene, thank you so much for being

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Speaker 1: with us. What did you make of this announcement this

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Speaker 1: morning from Uncle Bob. Well, first of all, this was

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Speaker 1: clearly talk because both the international markets and certainly in

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Speaker 1: Germany itself, this was not expected. But I do want

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Speaker 1: to make one or two points. We have to understand

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Speaker 1: that Andrea Macil has announced that she is stepping down

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Speaker 1: which she has been actually UH since almost thirteen years,

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Speaker 1: almost twenty years. Excuse me. However, she is not stepping

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Speaker 1: down from the translorship. This is very important. She is

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Speaker 1: still in her fourth term as Chancellor and will be

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Speaker 1: at this point, which is the reason why there has

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Speaker 1: not been as great a shock as they could have been,

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Speaker 1: she is not stepping down as Chancellor. That is the

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Speaker 1: first thing. The second point I want to make that

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Speaker 1: she really at this point did not have a choice,

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Speaker 1: as there have been severe electoral losses both in Bavarian

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Speaker 1: and Hesse in the last two weeks, and her party

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Speaker 1: would choose toff close to has now some been somewhere

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Speaker 1: I think we never need to underestimate Angel America. In

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Speaker 1: many ways, we have to remember she's been underestimated to

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Speaker 1: she first came into politics in the ninety nineties under

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Speaker 1: Trancellor Cold she was called the Matron, the young lady.

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Speaker 1: She then became Muttie, the protective mother figure for Germany, cautious,

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Speaker 1: is is this in fact a very very smart preemptive

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Speaker 1: move which instead of risking total disruption and intra factional fights,

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Speaker 1: I think that this is still a story in progress.

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Speaker 1: This is not a definitive story. The other issue is

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Speaker 1: Her chosen successor would be any great Kranenbauer, who was

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Speaker 1: So we are still right now in the wait and see.

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Speaker 1: Angelmack led Europe through the financial basically all of the

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Speaker 1: Irene vanel Hanagan, thank you very much, Adjunct Professor, International Affairs,

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Speaker 1: Columbia University. You're listening to Bloomberg Markets. We're broadcasting from

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Speaker 1: the Bloomberg Interactive broker's studios. Our topic now is Tesla

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Speaker 1: and joining us as Robert Hockett, Professor of laud Cornell University,

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Speaker 1: Bureau of Investigation and potential misstatements related to production of

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Speaker 1: Model three Sedans. Bob Hockett, what can you tell us

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Speaker 1: about this investigation and have you seen anything similar in

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Speaker 1: the past? Well, in many ways, um, actually thanks for

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Speaker 1: regulators will be the determinators ultimately. UM, it's kind of

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Speaker 1: the New York Fed and the International Monetary Fund and Pam,

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Speaker 1: Let's talk or have you talk about how bad is

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Speaker 1: Now there is? You know, I think that's one aspect

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Speaker 1: So they're trying to identify those players that could act

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Speaker 1: you get saved, but if you're not big enough, guess what,

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Speaker 1: You're gone. Very Darwinistic and we're seeing the faults actually

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Speaker 1: healthy thing that the martin you know, the invisible hand

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Speaker 1: of the market is at work here, the invisible hand

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Speaker 1: making itself felt. You know, honestly, China's intervention, it's still

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Speaker 1: my head hurts a little bit to understand where they're intervening,

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Speaker 1: where they're willing to, where they want to leverage, why

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Speaker 1: they're incentivized to do so. A lot of questions, Brendon

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Speaker 1: to Herne are really outlined a lot of really important issues.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for being with us. Brendan Hern,

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Speaker 1: Chief Investment Officer, at Crane Shares based in New York

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Speaker 1: and PAM. A lot of people are focusing on China

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Speaker 1: as sort of the lynchpin in the future of global markets,

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Speaker 1: certainly for emerging markets, but also in particular in Europe

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Speaker 1: given the important expert export lines of transmission. Lisa Abramo

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