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Speaker 3: What do you make it? Gold?
Speaker 4: It's just an extraordinary here. I mean it's only three China.
Speaker 3: I'm with Rebecca Patterson.
Speaker 4: I mean Central Backs've been buying a gold channeis I
Speaker 4: guess why.
Speaker 2: We get a brief here into the blur of our
Speaker 2: labor economy over Thursday and Friday. In the markets, equities, bonds, currencies, commodities,
Speaker 2: Rebecca Pattison joins us for years with Bessemer Trust, with Bridgewater,
Speaker 2: and now about thinking about these markets.
Speaker 3: Rebecca Classic you in your note you speak of a need.
Speaker 2: For immediate humility. How do we get humility in this market?
Speaker 2: If you're Paul Sweeney and you bought Nvidia two years.
Speaker 5: Ago, well, Paul, well done. We'll start off with that
Speaker 5: right now. What I think we're seeing that's pretty interesting
Speaker 5: is some broadening of global growth. Last year was all
Speaker 5: about the US being the engine, and now with the
Speaker 5: constant stimulus efforts by China, albeit focused on manufacturing, and
Speaker 5: that's trickling into Europe, we're seeing some very small, I
Speaker 5: don't want to overplay it, but green shoots in Europe.
Speaker 5: Even German confidence data this week came out slightly better
Speaker 5: than expected. And of course in the US we're seeing
Speaker 5: a pickup in manufacturing at the margin. So when we
Speaker 5: see a broadening, what it tells us is that we're
Speaker 5: going to see some slight shifts in preferences among investors.
Speaker 5: US consumers and investors will have more confidence taking overseas risk,
Speaker 5: especially with a big valuation discount overseas versus the US.
Speaker 5: We'll tend to see more cyclical assets do well, commodities,
Speaker 5: small caps, will tend to see less liquid assets do well.
Speaker 5: Emerging markets, and we often tend to see the dollar
Speaker 5: go down in this environment as US capital goes overseas.
Speaker 5: The question I have Tom Paul is does it last
Speaker 5: and how big a move is this or is it
Speaker 5: just incremental? And that's where the humility comes in. So
Speaker 5: I still like having a lot of my capital in
Speaker 5: US markets. I think the US economy is likely to
Speaker 5: remain strong for some time. But I think if you
Speaker 5: want to make a trade looking at a month or two,
Speaker 5: take a little bit more risk overseas or in some
Speaker 5: of these areas I just mentioned. This is the moment.
Speaker 4: So, Rebecca, I'm just reading through your notes. I see
Speaker 4: a lot of discussion of China. There are a lot
Speaker 4: of investors out there. I think I'm speaking for them
Speaker 4: when they say, I just don't know what to do
Speaker 4: with China. Some people say it's uninvestable. Some folks say,
Speaker 4: you know you have to be there because of the
Speaker 4: size of the market. How do you think about it, Well, you.
Speaker 5: Know, we have a huge amount of geopolitical risk unfortunately
Speaker 5: today around China, and we don't know if that's going
Speaker 5: to be status quo, get slightly better or get a
Speaker 5: lot worse. After the election. If Trump is elected in November.
Speaker 5: Based on what he's saying during the campaign and his advisors,
Speaker 5: we could expect tougher trade relationships with China, and so
Speaker 5: that geopolitical risk you can't write off. A lot of
Speaker 5: that has to be discounted in market valuations. At this point.
Speaker 5: We know Chinese stocks, even though they're off their lows,
Speaker 5: are still cheap. We know there's stimulus partiction, particularly in
Speaker 5: infrastructure and manufacturing. But again, is it a trade or
Speaker 5: is it an investment given the geopolitical risk, I'd view
Speaker 5: it as a trade if anything, And then you can
Speaker 5: always go through proxies find companies around the world, sectors
Speaker 5: around the world that will benefit from this without having
Speaker 5: the exposure in the country. Oil is a great example.
Speaker 5: Right now oil price is going up. Part of that
Speaker 5: is demand from China.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I find the specific room demand there to be key. Rebecca.
Speaker 2: I want to go all bust iner trust and you,
Speaker 2: let's say you got a short term vision of three years.
Speaker 2: I think a lot of our people watching and listening
Speaker 2: to us have that kind of perspective. And I got
Speaker 2: to be in the markets, and I guess the basic
Speaker 2: idea is their value in index, spread it out, capture
Speaker 2: it all, even if it's some form of adjusted index
Speaker 2: fund or is this where active management and stockpicking and
Speaker 2: really trying to figure out free cash flow works out.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 5: What we've seen historically, Tom, is that when we're in
Speaker 5: a period with liquidity being taken out of the market,
Speaker 5: ie central banks tightening, quantitative tightening happening, that's when you
Speaker 5: get more dispersion within securities, and so active management pays off.
Speaker 5: What we saw in the last ten years this move
Speaker 5: in passive, so passive assets actually larger than actively managed assets.
Speaker 5: That's partly a function of zero interest rates, and I
Speaker 5: think that environment is behind us and will be for
Speaker 5: a while. So I think we're in a relatively better
Speaker 5: world now and looking ahead, even if central banks cut
Speaker 5: a little, we're still not going to go back to zero.
Speaker 5: So I think we're in a relatively better place for
Speaker 5: active At the same time, there are spaces US large cap, global,
Speaker 5: large cap liquid government bond markets we're having. Some passive
Speaker 5: exposure makes sense because the fees are so low. If
Speaker 5: you can get your market beta, your market exposure cheaply,
Speaker 5: and then you can complement that with active manage, pay
Speaker 5: a higher fee, get take advantage of the dispersion that
Speaker 5: we're seeing in the markets with rice liquidity and have
Speaker 5: a barbell approach.
Speaker 2: I think what's fascinating, or Paul, is the adjustment here
Speaker 2: and the ten you're real yield two percent? Yep, that's
Speaker 2: that's like we're where we were eighteen months ago.
Speaker 3: Exactly right.
Speaker 4: We got one more squeeze, one more Rebecca, just real
Speaker 4: quick here, American exceptionalism we think about the economy, is
Speaker 4: that the thing here for you?
Speaker 5: It has been, it's going to continue to be. And
Speaker 5: part of it, I think that doesn't get enough attention
Speaker 5: is private equity.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 5: I know private equity isn't crushing it right now, but
Speaker 5: the US is more than half of global private assets.
Speaker 5: And we have an ecosystem that I think is going
Speaker 5: to continue to support that that keeps capital coming into
Speaker 5: our markets. You take that plus the depth of our
Speaker 5: capital markets. You have our education system, you have a
Speaker 5: culture that supports entrepreneurship and innovation. I think that allows
Speaker 5: the US to continue to benefit, especially in technology, and
Speaker 5: I think that can propel the exceptional I'm at the
Speaker 5: margin as we look forward, it's ours to learn.
Speaker 2: Yes, got to run, Rebecca Patterson, thank you for getting
Speaker 2: us started strong. Rebecca Patterson, of course, formerly with Bridgewater Associates.
Speaker 2: Markets are going to speak here in twelve minutes with
Speaker 2: claims folding economics into what we see for rate strategy,
Speaker 2: and Megan Swiber joins us right now with the Bank
Speaker 2: of America is where let's just get the land of
Speaker 2: Bank of America visualized.
Speaker 3: Where's the ten year yield the end of this year?
Speaker 1: You know, Tom, we don't really think it's going much
Speaker 1: further down. We have it at four twenty five. So
Speaker 1: even with a FED that's lining up to cut, we
Speaker 1: still really don't think longer term rates are going to
Speaker 1: rally all that much.
Speaker 2: Folding claims. In the jobs report tomorrow, I'm sorry. I
Speaker 2: see nominal GDP well over Michael Gabe, and nominal GDP
Speaker 2: well over four percent, and I see numbers that say
Speaker 2: there's fully employed America.
Speaker 3: Is that how you see it?
Speaker 1: That's how we're looking at it, Tom, And you have
Speaker 1: a FED that's guiding the market to cut. But this
Speaker 1: real question, and what Powell was alluding to yesterday, is
Speaker 1: they really don't know the level that they're going to
Speaker 1: cut rates too. A lot of questions around what that
Speaker 1: neutral rate is. It's a really abstract concept, but it's
Speaker 1: this idea that the Fed's hiped so much already and
Speaker 1: we're really not seeing much of that cooling in economic activity,
Speaker 1: seeing a lot of great progress on the inflation front.
Speaker 1: So that's what's going to drive the cuts. But really,
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, this could be a
Speaker 1: very different cutting cycle than what we've seen in the
Speaker 1: past when the FED is cutting to really ease conditions.
Speaker 4: Well, given the FED, I mean, there's a lot of
Speaker 4: cross currents out there. One of the big ones is
Speaker 4: the labor market. We're going to get non We're going
Speaker 4: to get job as claims today, non farm payrolls tomorrow.
Speaker 4: How are you guys thinking about that?
Speaker 1: So the labor market data is important, But really, at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, when we're listening to the FED,
Speaker 1: they know that the labor market data has been really strong,
Speaker 1: and so this question about when is it time for
Speaker 1: the FED to cut really comes down to the inflation numbers. Recently,
Speaker 1: these inflation numbers have not been great for them. They're
Speaker 1: showing some signs of picking up, particularly in some of
Speaker 1: these cyclical components. So that really is what we think
Speaker 1: is going to weigh and move the needle more for
Speaker 1: the FED than necessarily some of this labor market data.
Speaker 4: Well, we started the year the WORP function on the
Speaker 4: Bloomberg terminal is suggesting maybe as many as six rate cuts.
Speaker 4: Now we're three or maybe even less than that. I know,
Speaker 4: it's kind of lost a lot of credibility with some
Speaker 4: people that were function. How do you get how many
Speaker 4: ray cuts are we going to see this year?
Speaker 1: Do you think so? House few would be of these
Speaker 1: seventy five basis points of cuts. So we see the
Speaker 1: Fed delivering that first twenty five basis point cut in June.
Speaker 1: But here's the difficulty. If they're not able to go
Speaker 1: by June, you get some questions around how close they
Speaker 1: can really begin that cutting cycle around the election season,
Speaker 1: and then you've also got base effects coming from from
Speaker 1: even just core PCE into the second half of the year.
Speaker 2: The lead guitar effects are as bad as well. Megan,
Speaker 2: let me cut to the chase here, which is I
Speaker 2: would say, no, nobody has a clue where we're going,
Speaker 2: other than in the fixed income space. Is witnessed by
Speaker 2: the real yield. We see a buoyant economy. Give us
Speaker 2: a primer on what a two year real yield.
Speaker 1: Signals ten year really yield is a nice investment opportunity
Speaker 1: for a lot of different clients, especially when we're looking
Speaker 1: at how much the equity market has rallied already. If
Speaker 1: you're worried about, you know, some of these downside states
Speaker 1: of the US economy, this is why people want to
Speaker 1: be buying duration. They want to be buying US rates.
Speaker 1: But the issue here again is that we're not seeing
Speaker 1: this very meaningful cool down in the US economy, and
Speaker 1: so rates are priced accordingly. We're having a lot of
Speaker 1: inflows into fixed income. I mean, you just look at
Speaker 1: like at ig high yield spreads.
Speaker 3: A lot of demands Bank of America.
Speaker 1: I mean, what we're seeing is very strong inflows into
Speaker 1: fixed income funds across the board, and that's really helped
Speaker 1: support this tremendous amount of treasury supply that we see
Speaker 1: coming to the market, and also investment grade credit supply.
Speaker 1: There's been a lot of demand to chase these higher yields.
Speaker 1: The real question here is just how much are we
Speaker 1: actually going to be able to see yields fall if
Speaker 1: the US economy is staying so resilient.
Speaker 4: When you and your colleagues at Bank of America, it's
Speaker 4: Merrill Lynch in my mind, I'm sticking with it. Thank you, Yeah,
Speaker 4: one of my employers, when you took me a great way.
Speaker 2: Wait a minute, when you light up the major firms,
Speaker 2: can we say you've worked for them all.
Speaker 4: And unfortunate they've all gone out of business after I've left,
Speaker 4: including Mery Lynch. So when you talk your hedge fund clients, sure,
Speaker 4: are they buying treasuries or are they shorting treasuries?
Speaker 1: It's a mix, it's a mix. So on the macro side, right,
Speaker 1: you have investors who are taking on this year that well,
Speaker 1: maybe the Fed is not going to be able to
Speaker 1: cut it all this year, and that can really trigger
Speaker 1: a lot of concerns for exactly where that very important
Speaker 1: neutral rate is for fixed income. Is it two percent
Speaker 1: real yield or is it something higher? And so that
Speaker 1: really is a very big temperature check for whether or
Speaker 1: not we can see yields continue to move higher. Is
Speaker 1: going to be the neutral and when the Fed is
Speaker 1: actually going to be.
Speaker 3: Kind of they're at the Bank of America Palace. Okay,
Speaker 3: they're having lunch. They got pizza out.
Speaker 2: Samit a Supermanian. Megan Schweiber Gabin shows up with three
Speaker 2: of his minions and all, and they're blah blah blah
Speaker 2: blah blah, and Brian moynihan walks in and what I
Speaker 2: know what Brian moynihan is going to say is, but
Speaker 2: this is what we see in the real economs. What
Speaker 2: do you forget about all the finance mumble jumble in
Speaker 2: the Georgetown financial malarkey. When you with Brian moynihan look
Speaker 2: at the real economy, don't you see a buoyant seed
Speaker 2: that's just irrefutable.
Speaker 1: We do see that in a lot of the data
Speaker 1: that we look at, our card data for examples. Just
Speaker 1: a fun part of my job is we get to
Speaker 1: actually go out and meet a lot of our corporate
Speaker 1: clients at be of a too.
Speaker 3: They meet their story so strange.
Speaker 1: Besides just the hedge fun folks, right, So you can
Speaker 1: kind of get a good temperature check from that as well.
Speaker 1: And really the story has been a story of resilience.
Speaker 1: It's been a story of still needing to find people
Speaker 1: to fill seats in the job market, and it's it
Speaker 1: is quite strung.
Speaker 2: I'll get none more in here, but the science here, Megan,
Speaker 2: is I just mad. Nineteen hundred dollars for an economy
Speaker 2: ticket to Europe, and he says the restaurants are packed.
Speaker 4: What I love about Brian moynihan tom is when you
Speaker 4: ask him in an interview, Hey Brian, where do you
Speaker 4: think rates are going? What he says our rates people, Yes,
Speaker 4: they're going to the economy is going well. Our economists say.
Speaker 3: He isn't back at Bank of bost He's very good
Speaker 3: at that.
Speaker 4: So he always gives you guys all the props. So
Speaker 4: Megan here, I mean, I think one of the concerns
Speaker 4: for a lot of folks is people are saying this
Speaker 4: FED is already behind the ball, inflation is whipped. They
Speaker 4: should be cutting now. What do you say to those folks?
Speaker 1: So the idea here is that a lot of the
Speaker 1: improvement that we've seen from the inflation backdrop so far
Speaker 1: has really been supply driven. It's been the story of
Speaker 1: the improvement in goods inflation, which was the easy part
Speaker 1: of the story. It was the part of the story
Speaker 1: that the FED knew was going to be more transitory.
Speaker 1: The big question for the FED, and what we'll see
Speaker 1: in the upcoming data prints, is whether or not we
Speaker 1: see more of this cooling and services. This is very
Speaker 1: important for inflation to come in sustainably where they want
Speaker 1: it to. So you know, certainly a lot of good
Speaker 1: progress has been made. The big question is the confidence
Speaker 1: and prediction around that staying where it is.
Speaker 2: Thirty seconds, we're all watching Final four with Megan swiber
Speaker 2: and somebody asks you, are you worried about the ballooning
Speaker 2: interest expense of the United States of America?
Speaker 3: Are you?
Speaker 2: So?
Speaker 1: This is actually a very big part of certainly how
Speaker 1: we're thinking about deficits going forward. And this is really
Speaker 1: where higher for longer can become a big problem for
Speaker 1: the largest borrower in the world. If you're seeing rates
Speaker 1: settle above a three to four percent handle, that's above
Speaker 1: where we think the long run GDP growth is of
Speaker 1: the US economy and can contribute to a lot of
Speaker 1: these financing costs. So it's a concern, especially in an
Speaker 1: environment where the head's not going to be able to
Speaker 1: cut all that much.
Speaker 3: Neature to come bring loin hand with you.
Speaker 2: We just want to hear him say well, Megan Schweibers
Speaker 2: says this exactly. Megan, thank you so much for the
Speaker 2: Bank of America Director US rates A strategy Jillian Tessa,
Speaker 2: shut up and read it. The book is simple, how
Speaker 2: to Listen when Markets Speak, And in classic Larry McDonald form,
Speaker 2: it's about yeah, the text, but also along the way
Speaker 2: vignettes do this, don't do that, little appendices and that
Speaker 2: that lead to thought provoking work. And that is a
Speaker 2: hallmark of what Larry McDonald has done for years. Everything
Speaker 2: is always interesting in the bear Trap Report.
Speaker 3: And then last year he wrote let me get the
Speaker 3: date out here.
Speaker 2: I think it was in the summer of last year.
Speaker 2: It was like an article in the New Statesman in London.
Speaker 2: It was like ten thousand words, Lawrence McDonald, these are
Speaker 2: the forces that are putting a constant bid under the market.
Speaker 2: Every once in a while you write something that is
Speaker 2: so prescient you just go, damn, I hate him. I
Speaker 2: got to read these ten thousand words. Joining us now,
Speaker 2: Lawrence McDonald, great to have.
Speaker 3: You with us.
Speaker 2: It's not that you nailed the bullmarket like your Dnni
Speaker 2: or Akampora, but you said, there's this.
Speaker 3: Wall of money out there.
Speaker 2: How does that wall of money in your acclaimed essay,
Speaker 2: how does it fold into how to Listen when market Speak?
Speaker 6: Well, you know, Tommy, think about passive investing, right and
Speaker 6: Jack bowlgels up in heaven, God bless him. But you know,
Speaker 6: the vanguard origination of passive investing. Passive invest's starting with
Speaker 6: the best of intentions, the best of intentions, but at
Speaker 6: some point passive becomes a little bit more evil because
Speaker 6: there's thirty five trillion, at least thirty five trillion time
Speaker 6: to the index S and P. And so when you
Speaker 6: have a stock like in Nvidia that's now become five
Speaker 6: percent of the S and P five five percent, and
Speaker 6: it's trading eighty percent above it's two undred day moving average. Meanwhile,
Speaker 6: you know, the energy sector as a whole is only
Speaker 6: three percent of.
Speaker 2: The S ANDP.
Speaker 6: And so what happens is at some point, too much
Speaker 6: money is in passive investing. There's not a lot of
Speaker 6: thinking behind that, and it gets very crowded in what
Speaker 6: we call herdy in other words, right like a herd,
Speaker 6: and it creates more distortions on the upside, and it
Speaker 6: will create more distortions on the downside.
Speaker 2: Okay, somebody like Cliff Astinus, who's smarter than me, you know,
Speaker 2: they're basically apoplectic about the interior dynamics of the market.
Speaker 2: Years ago with Lehman, this is what you did. And
Speaker 2: my answer is when you wake up in the morning,
Speaker 2: what does Larry McDonald apply from how to listen when
Speaker 2: markets speak over? I just want to get to the
Speaker 2: end of twenty twenty four. What's the dynamic you're using
Speaker 2: right now, Larry to analyze this market.
Speaker 6: Well, you know, as a former Lehmen trader, our first
Speaker 6: book was a New York Times bestseller and it's done
Speaker 6: pretty well. It's in about twelve languages. But I tell
Speaker 6: my wife once a month, Tom, if we sell a
Speaker 6: million books, we'll break break even on our Leman stock, right,
Speaker 6: So in other words, you know, it's it's been a
Speaker 6: long road. But the lesson from this book is that
Speaker 6: the Lehman collapsed. The response to that was a four
Speaker 6: trillion fiscal and monetary response, four trillion the response to
Speaker 6: COVID So far it has been all in about sixteen
Speaker 6: trillion fiscal and monetary. Fiscal and monetary response. So everybody's
Speaker 6: in at twenty ten to twenty twenty portfolio. In other words,
Speaker 6: everybody's in that kind of disinflation regime portfolio, which includes
Speaker 6: a lot of growth stocks. It doesn't include any hard assets,
Speaker 6: it's all financial assets. There's twenty two trillion TOM in
Speaker 6: the Nasdaq one hundred twenty two trillion, and there's very
Speaker 6: little money in real hard assets bitcoined overall. Most of
Speaker 6: the money is in what we call financial assets. It's
Speaker 6: bonds and growth stocks. But in an inflationary regime that
Speaker 6: is sustainable, and that might just happen after a sixteen
Speaker 6: trillion fiscal and monetary response, you probably need an entirely
Speaker 6: different portfolio. A twenty twenty to twy thirty portfolio is
Speaker 6: going to look a lot different, a lot different Tom
Speaker 6: than a twenty.
Speaker 4: Twentyfolio, exactly. So, Larry, the book's incidled how to listen
Speaker 4: when markets speak? Boy, what are the markets telling us
Speaker 4: right now?
Speaker 6: Well, right now, we have a tremendous amount of capital
Speaker 6: that's moved into certain spots, and volatility is low, and
Speaker 6: there are opportunities really in if you look at not
Speaker 6: just gold and silver, but look at aluminum.
Speaker 3: Look at al.
Speaker 6: CoA ol Co equity is moving I think about sixty
Speaker 6: seventy percent off the lows, right, and that's from the
Speaker 6: since the fourth quarter. And you've got oil and gas
Speaker 6: companies making new highs in the XL. So I think,
Speaker 6: what's happened with the market's telling us is that there's
Speaker 6: a migration of capital that's starting. Capital is moving from
Speaker 6: financial assets into hert assets. And if Powell is truly
Speaker 6: on this dubbish crusade in an election year as to
Speaker 6: lean a little bit dubbish relative to where inflation is,
Speaker 6: then I think the market's telling us that you want
Speaker 6: to start moving into you know, your aluminums, your coppers,
Speaker 6: and your heart asset equities.
Speaker 4: So Larry, I mean, I guess you know a lot
Speaker 4: of folks were sitting here and we're looking at this
Speaker 4: the S and P five hundred. Let's just take that
Speaker 4: from October up about twenty five percent. Here is a
Speaker 4: market ahead of itself. Here do we need to get
Speaker 4: a little bit more cautious here?
Speaker 6: Well as a whole the index. You know, what we
Speaker 6: argue in the book is the everybody's four oh one
Speaker 6: K in the United States has been hijacked by about
Speaker 6: twelve companies, and everybody knows that. And it's nice when
Speaker 6: it's rolling along, but it's more like it's more like
Speaker 6: we're heading toward a transition. You know, I think the
Speaker 6: market is clearly over valiant relatives too, Okay, you know,
Speaker 6: in a sustained inflation regime and sustained inflation regine is
Speaker 6: going to put on a lot of challenges to high valuations,
Speaker 6: and it's going to also move money into different spots.
Speaker 6: But yeah, I mean I would be very cautious here
Speaker 6: relative to you know, when the street's falling over all
Speaker 6: over themselves. To upgrade stocks, you typically typically want to
Speaker 6: take the stuff, some equity off the table.
Speaker 3: I want to get you back. We're out of time,
Speaker 3: but I got thirty seconds. Really important.
Speaker 2: How should our listeners and viewers use the financial media
Speaker 2: you've been hyper critical? How should they use Bloomberg surveillance
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Speaker 6: Well, I think you know overall the financial media, pay
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Speaker 5: Of course he does.
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Speaker 1: I don't have.
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Speaker 3: It's a sign of desperation.
Speaker 7: Well, they're trying to get those users, keep the popular ones,
Speaker 7: you know, they still want people to you know, perform on.
Speaker 3: The I'm not going to mince words, folks.
Speaker 2: I would love to find a way to exit X
Speaker 2: because of the garbage that's in my feet, the inappropriate stuff.
Speaker 3: That's in my feet.
Speaker 7: Have you joined threads?
Speaker 4: I tried it for two days, as did everybody else.
Speaker 2: It's like it was like a committee formed it. These
Speaker 2: things have a real personality, like Lisa Matteo.
Speaker 3: Who elon deserves a blue star next.
Speaker 7: Okay, uh, this one is interesting. The Estate of Committee
Speaker 7: and George Carlin, you know who died Back in two
Speaker 7: thousand and eight, they yet filed the lawsuit against two
Speaker 7: podcasters who were allegedly using AI to create a new
Speaker 7: carl In comedy special that was released on YouTube. Well,
Speaker 7: it turns out they reached an agreement to end the lawsuit.
Speaker 7: The podcasters will remove that AI generated special. They're going
Speaker 7: to stop using his image. His name is likeness unless
Speaker 7: they get permission.
Speaker 3: What do you think.
Speaker 4: I think it's artificial intelligence, Tom, It's kind of one
Speaker 4: of the risks to artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence can create
Speaker 4: the video, the audio, everything, and so if you're a
Speaker 4: content creator, think about the writers in the Hollywood you're
Speaker 4: really concerned about that.
Speaker 2: Keith Grossman called Keith Grossman folks Generateloomberg Surveillance and he
Speaker 2: was hugely formative in what we do here and a
Speaker 2: great advisor as well. Keith Grossman called me up and
Speaker 2: he's doing his fake Tim Keen voice and he's.
Speaker 3: Like, Tom, we don't need AI. We could just have
Speaker 3: kids do it. I don't. This isn't going to be
Speaker 3: out of control fast.
Speaker 7: Yeah, And that's why this is a big thing because
Speaker 7: it's advancing, like you know the AI deep fake technology laws,
Speaker 7: so it's starting.
Speaker 2: To do it.
Speaker 3: So the car to state one, Yes.
Speaker 7: They agreed to settle, so so yes, they reached an
Speaker 7: agreement to end that lawsuit. So it's a step in
Speaker 7: the right direction.
Speaker 5: That's what.
Speaker 4: Are you doing well, street journals.
Speaker 7: So I don't know if either I had braces growing
Speaker 7: up and I hated it, but.
Speaker 4: Your teeth are teeth are amazing, thank you mom or dad.
Speaker 7: Yes, but now the nerd look, it's cool again because
Speaker 7: kids or gen z are getting fake braces, so they're
Speaker 7: cosmetic braces. They buy them online, they apply them on
Speaker 7: home with with scissors and glue. I'm sure their parents
Speaker 7: are not thrilled about this. It's a trend on TikTok.
Speaker 7: But apparently a lot of licensed dental professionals are installing
Speaker 7: these fake braces. So they have pre made wires brackets.
Speaker 7: They put them on your teeth with nail glue. It
Speaker 7: doesn't sound right. I don't know how you get them off.
Speaker 7: I didn't get to that point of it, but it's
Speaker 7: this new trend going on, and I don't know, but
Speaker 7: orthodonts are saying it's not good. The risk can include
Speaker 7: tooth law, even gum recession.
Speaker 3: This is nuts.
Speaker 2: And there was one Orthodonis guy up in Massachusetts.
Speaker 3: I bought him a new heayroo.
Speaker 4: Yes exactly.
Speaker 2: He put like fourteen more feet on the sailboat due
Speaker 2: to the offspring's hurrizica.
Speaker 7: My daughter six grand done none.
Speaker 4: Thenwards you have the plastic thing after the retainers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're under the couch with the airba.
Speaker 4: My nineteen year old just reached out to me and said,
Speaker 4: can I get invisile lined? And my answer was no,
Speaker 4: because I spent that six thousand dollars on the braces
Speaker 4: and you did not wear the retainer when you're at
Speaker 4: fifteen or sixteen when you should have. So now you're exactly,
Speaker 4: we need to rent.
Speaker 3: We need to rent the Irish guy to come over exactly. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: are you done or is there one? We got one
Speaker 3: because it is landed.
Speaker 7: No, this is a medical breakthrough.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 7: The patient you remember hearing about it, transplanted pig kidney.
Speaker 7: He's headed home. He's been discharged from the hospital after surgery.
Speaker 7: The doctors is at Massachusetts General Hospital. He's sixty two
Speaker 7: years old. His name is Richard Slayman. He is working fine.
Speaker 7: They say the kidney is producing urine, removing waste products,
Speaker 7: delivering the body's fluid, so it's doing all the things
Speaker 7: it's opposed to. The guy even says he left the
Speaker 7: hospital with one of the cleanest bills of health he's
Speaker 7: had in a long time.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 7: So there's you know, there's still no word if you know,
Speaker 7: anything can go wrong after that, but it's this step
Speaker 7: in the right direction of Wow. I mean, cross species
Speaker 7: Oregon transplantation could become a thing.
Speaker 4: We had Sam Fizzelli in studio yesterday Bloomberg Intelligence. Did
Speaker 4: you Yeah, he does all the farmer stuff, and he
Speaker 4: just said they're making amazing breakthroughs and cancer, drugs and dementia.
Speaker 4: He's heading out to a conference in San Diego this
Speaker 4: weekend where they have some major major breakthroughs in dimension
Speaker 4: Alzheimer's and things like that. So he says the next
Speaker 4: ten years are gonna be really, really big for medical breakthrough.
Speaker 2: One night, we had the North Spring in MGH, and
Speaker 2: to make a long story short, everything worked out fine
Speaker 2: due to the wonderful people at the Massachusetts General Hospital
Speaker 2: and as wandered around the halls.
Speaker 3: At three am, board staff.
Speaker 2: Everybody's finally sleeping, and I wandered into the pretty much
Speaker 2: extent eighteen forty six ward where they first used ether,
Speaker 2: and that was at MGH in America.
Speaker 3: They were doing it in England and all.
Speaker 2: That, but it was eighteen forty six was the first
Speaker 2: public demonstration of what we all take for granted today.
Speaker 2: It's really spiritual, mass channel, very cool what they're doing
Speaker 2: up at MGH, and of course some of the other
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