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Speaker 1: Joining us now is Howard Lutnik, Chairman and CEO of BGC,

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Speaker 1: also chairman of Cantor Fitzgerald. And let's talk about performance

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Speaker 1: for a second here, BGC. You looked at equities, it

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Speaker 1: was down, every other business really was on the rise.

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Speaker 1: What was driving performance and where are you going to

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Speaker 1: be making most of your money from this year?

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Speaker 2: So BGC for years was in the market where there

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Speaker 2: was zero interest rates, and so people sort of forgot

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Speaker 2: about us. We're the world's most valuable wholesaler. So everything

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Speaker 2: in the world that you guys talk about in trade,

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Speaker 2: we're the wholesale market. Like who does Goldman Sachs trade?

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Speaker 2: Who does JP Morgan call when they want to do

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Speaker 2: their trades? They called BGC where the wholesaler. So with

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Speaker 2: interest rates back, our stock was up ninety percent last year,

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Speaker 2: up thirty percent this year so far, and our business

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Speaker 2: is on fire. Revenues up eleven point seven profits up

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Speaker 2: nineteen point two percent.

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Speaker 3: And the most exciting.

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Speaker 2: Thing we're launching in September pretty soon, a competitor to

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Speaker 2: the awesome monopoly the Chicago Merchantolic Exchange. They do one

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Speaker 2: hundred percent of futures in America and now FMX, which

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Speaker 2: is run by the largest wholesale in the world. We

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Speaker 2: brought in some partners, ten of ten of the largest

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Speaker 2: banks and trading firms in the world, JP, Morgan, Goldman, Sachs, Citadel,

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Speaker 2: you name the list, they're all on the list. In September,

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Speaker 2: we bring competition. So I think our stock's going to

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Speaker 2: be fire. Obviously, we're going to try to do a

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Speaker 2: ninety percent again, right, we got some work to do

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Speaker 2: in the last bunch of months.

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Speaker 3: Let's talk about that competition.

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Speaker 4: Because, of course, Terry Duffy of CMEA has had some

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Speaker 4: words for you, both on his earnings call and in

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Speaker 4: the media, and it was one of actually the first

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Speaker 4: question on your earnings call basically Terry Duffy criticizing you

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Speaker 4: clearing trades through LCH when it comes.

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Speaker 3: Specifically to treasuries.

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Speaker 4: We know that we've reported that you've struck a deal

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Speaker 4: with LCH rather to basically cross margin with treasuries. Do

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Speaker 4: you foresee any issues there?

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Speaker 2: No, That's what I found so fascinating. You've got the

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Speaker 2: CEO of the Chicago Market dog changehere. It's seventy billion

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Speaker 2: dollars right with the monopoly on the only exchange doing futures.

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Speaker 2: Now here we come with our competition and we are

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Speaker 2: just in his head. Oh my gosh for him to talk.

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Speaker 2: He said, he said nasty things about me. I mean,

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Speaker 2: imagine saying nasty things about the guy who's going to

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Speaker 2: compete with you.

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Speaker 1: Well, he says, he's not going to sit by and

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Speaker 1: watch who takes share. At the end of the day,

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Speaker 1: I think Katie and I are both wondering, have you

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Speaker 1: talked to him?

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Speaker 2: Well, what's he gonna do? Do a dance while I

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Speaker 2: take share? I mean, look, he's got one hundred percent

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Speaker 2: market share. There's no chance we don't take share. And

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Speaker 2: we're going to take serious share because we've got partners

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Speaker 2: of all the big banks, all the big trading firms

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Speaker 2: are our partner. So LCCH clears interest rate swaps, right,

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Speaker 2: so dollar based interest rate swaps, so for futures are

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Speaker 2: really a future for swaps. So if you can do

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Speaker 2: both things together, it's really efficient, right because you're just

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Speaker 2: basically it's like stock few which you.

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Speaker 3: Talk about and stocks, right, they're good hits for each other.

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Speaker 2: That's what interest rate swaps and swap futures or SOFA

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Speaker 2: futures are. So we will have amazing cross margining opportunities,

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Speaker 2: and therefore we're going to bring this competition and investors

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Speaker 2: have not really understood how exciting that is within BGC's stock.

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Speaker 2: So I think what will happen is we're going to

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Speaker 2: launch in September. We're going to come out strong. But

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Speaker 2: it's a marathon. This is not sprint, and you know that.

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Speaker 1: Assume how much volume could you do in year one?

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Speaker 3: Well, I think year one we're going to do.

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Speaker 2: Our goal is to have the world record open interest,

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Speaker 2: meaning trades that are sort of parked at our exchange,

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Speaker 2: where investors are sticking it out with us. They're not

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Speaker 2: just coming and going, they're staying. We expect at the

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Speaker 2: end of the first year we will have the record

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Speaker 2: and that will bode incredibly well. So that's what I'm

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Speaker 2: looking forward to. That's the ribbon we're going to cut.

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Speaker 2: The most open interest ever for an exchange.

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Speaker 4: Well, we have that on record, so we'll have to

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Speaker 4: check in with you on that. App good with that,

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Speaker 4: But you mentioned the stock. I want to talk about

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Speaker 4: the stock because I was checking it's up eighty nine

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Speaker 4: percent over the past year. But you pointed out in

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Speaker 4: and you cited that as a reason why you're buying.

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Speaker 3: Back the stock. What do you think is a more

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Speaker 3: reasonable valuation. So we're a member of.

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Speaker 2: The S and P six hundred, which is sort of

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Speaker 2: like the mid cap stocks. We now, unfortunately, we've got

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Speaker 2: a long way to go to catching Vidia, you know,

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Speaker 2: instead of for three trillion sort of world. But so

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Speaker 2: you know, our stock is eleven percent revenue growth, ten

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Speaker 2: and nineteen percent profit growth. If you compare that to

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Speaker 2: other SMP six hundred stocks, they trade at twenty five

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Speaker 2: a zero revenue growth company when we're really eleven percent

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Speaker 2: top line revenue. And the reason for that is because

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Speaker 2: all those years of zero interest rates, people sort of

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Speaker 2: forgot what a great company we are. You know, I

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Speaker 2: used to describe us like Jillette, you know, every morning,

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Speaker 3: Bonds always, there's just going to be more issued.

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Speaker 2: If you're in the bond business, I promise you next

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Speaker 3: Good business for you as well.

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Speaker 1: Speaking of trading, you were bang on when it came

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Speaker 3: How about that? Right? I said it in December.

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Speaker 2: Now the whole world believes they're not going to cut today,

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Speaker 3: Going to cut September. So they're basically we're saying, yeah,

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Speaker 3: what about what about next year?

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Speaker 1: You think about the pace of cuts moving past September?

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Speaker 1: The election coming up, a lot of people are thinking

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Speaker 1: inflationary going into next year. How much room will there

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Speaker 2: I think both candidates both would like to cut rates,

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Speaker 2: so that's good for the bond business.

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Speaker 2: now looking to cut, all right, So it's really that's

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Speaker 3: Now, how about that. That's a good percentage itself, sort

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Speaker 2: I think there'll be some cuts next year. But you

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Speaker 2: have to remember zero is just not a thing. Okay,

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Speaker 3: It's just not a thing. So I think a couple

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Speaker 2: Maybe in the mid fours is a reasonable rate for

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Speaker 2: one in September. And that's the whole thing. It's not

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Speaker 2: unfortunately it's not that exciting. It's not seven cuts and

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Speaker 4: The way back to zero.

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Speaker 3: It's just not no chance, zero chance. We have a

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Speaker 2: For the Fed, it's their tool, right if they at zero,

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Speaker 2: what tool do you have that you can't?

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Speaker 3: What did they do? Quantitative easing? You're like, how is

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Speaker 2: But you have to remember, as the FED runs off

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Speaker 3: That's tightening tightening.

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Speaker 2: It's like it's cutting you know, it's it's cutting off

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Speaker 1: So, you know, if you think about the path forward,

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Speaker 3: So canter is in a really good place.

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Speaker 2: I mean we're third so far this year, and it's

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Speaker 3: We're in a really good spot.

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Speaker 2: Caner's got a great healthcare franchise. Now we don't do

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Speaker 2: all of the new developments in biotech and biopharma present

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Speaker 2: Market twenty twenty five, you're going to see the IPO

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Speaker 2: and on this show all day, you're just gonna have

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Speaker 3: You're gonna start.

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Speaker 2: Seeing three a week, and you're gonna start seeing four

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Speaker 3: By the middle of the next year, five a week.

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Speaker 2: They're gonna be coming hot and heavy, and you guys

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Speaker 2: are gonna be awful busy on the show.

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Speaker 3: Well, I know that.

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Speaker 4: You're hosting a dinner on August second, basically asking attendees

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Speaker 4: to pay twenty five thousand dollars to attend, and even

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Speaker 4: more so if they want, of course a photo.

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Speaker 3: It's gonna be a great chick out. It'll be really

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Speaker 3: great chicken h.

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Speaker 4: But how much are you looking to raise here? Are

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Speaker 4: you trying to set any sort of record here when

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Speaker 4: it comes to fundraising.

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Speaker 2: I think we'll raise over ten million dollars for the evening,

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Speaker 2: and I mean, what an honor to have President Trump

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Speaker 2: crowd will come. I'll probably keep it to one hundred

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Speaker 2: It's a race now. It's a hot race now. And

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Speaker 3: I can to that end.

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Speaker 1: You actually donated to the twenty sixteen Senate campaign for

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Speaker 2: Well, putting on me what my wife does is not

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Speaker 2: No, there's a good balance in every marriage. There's a

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Speaker 3: One issue, and she knows that.

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Speaker 2: Donald Trump literally sat down with my wife and told her,

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Speaker 2: in my house we have unit inmity around Donald Trump.

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Speaker 4: And of course you have big plans at Canter Fitzgerald

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Speaker 3: Would you serve?

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Speaker 2: You know, the rules are if the president asks you

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Speaker 3: So I'm going to offer to help him there.

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Speaker 2: But if he asks, you got to do what the

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Speaker 3: I love I want a little story time.

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Speaker 1: How did your relationship with Donald Trump develop and how

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Speaker 2: Well, I've known him for thirty years. I mean, when

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Speaker 3: He's extraordinary.

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Speaker 2: I went with him to a Minnesota rally, okay, and

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Speaker 2: me introduce jd Vance. So I walked out in this rally,

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Speaker 2: Doesn't usually feel like a rock concert sort of guy.

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Speaker 1: Now, where do you worry about some of the comments

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Speaker 2: I think the vice president quickly moves to behind the president.

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Speaker 3: That's their job.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think he wants to bring He wants the

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Speaker 3: But the fact is the only.

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Speaker 1: The Trump trade in your view as somebody who knows him.

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Speaker 2: I think the Trump trade is a broadening of the base, right.

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Speaker 2: He's going to cut corporate taxes, which is a broad

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Speaker 4: So Howard, somehow we only have a minute left with you.

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Speaker 4: You were with Donald Trump in Minnesota. You were also

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Speaker 3: Sure?

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Speaker 2: So you know securities markets, everybody finances securities and nobody

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Speaker 2: how to custodian it will work with other custodians, but

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Speaker 2: And we're going to start lending on bitcoin. We're going

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Speaker 2: So it'll be a huge business because it's a huge

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Speaker 2: asset and it's only bitcoin. We're only focused on bitcoin.

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Speaker 2: But with Canter Fitzgerald will be financing bitcoin. And I

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Speaker 2: think it's a fun business and it's a big asset class,

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Speaker 2: but it's more.

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Speaker 3: Like a commodity. People talk about it like it's a currency.

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Speaker 3: Howard, I got a producer in my ear. We have

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Speaker 3: to have you.

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Speaker 4: Back very soon, maybe in September. Our thanks, of course

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Speaker 4: to Howard Lutnik. He is Chairman of Canter Fitzgerald