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Speaker 1: This is the Bloomberg Surveillance Podcast. I'm Tom Keane, along

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Speaker 1: a joy. Michelle Meyer I was discovered with her expertise

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Speaker 1: on the consumer and housing a number of years ago.

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Speaker 1: She had a sterling career with Global Wall Street and

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Speaker 1: now gives us an information knowledge with their economics that

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Speaker 1: you can only get at MasterCard. With the MasterCard Economics Institute.

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Speaker 1: Chief US Consumer expert, Michelle Meyer joins us this morning. Michelle,

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Speaker 1: you get the data like no other market economist in

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Speaker 1: the game. What is the state of the American consumer? Um? Yeah, Tom, So,

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Speaker 1: we are absolutely looking at the consumer with a high

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Speaker 1: level of detail, and what we're seeing, and what we

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Speaker 1: have been seeing for a while, is that the consumer

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Speaker 1: is out there, able and willing to spend. And this

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Speaker 1: speaks to the inflation data. It speaks to the labor

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Speaker 1: market data that the consumer still has purchasing power. Right

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Speaker 1: you have a labor market that's still expanding. Income growth

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Speaker 1: is out there, aggregate income growth in particular, there's still

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Speaker 1: some savings buffer and there's still access to expand um

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Speaker 1: the balance sheet. So to underestimate consumer has been um

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Speaker 1: you know, has been a problem without without getting into

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Speaker 1: the Vatican secrets. Are you seeing massive credit card usage?

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Speaker 1: And how do the higher interest rates of credit cards

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Speaker 1: fold into your optimism on the consumer. Look, what we're

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Speaker 1: saying about the consumer is that they are using all

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Speaker 1: of their sources of purchasing power, and the news is

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Speaker 1: that they still have a lot of purchasing power coming

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Speaker 1: from the labor market from job creation. So at the moment,

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Speaker 1: you still have a lot of income flowing in a

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Speaker 1: disposable income which is supporting that spending in real time,

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Speaker 1: so consumers don't necessarily have to rely as much on

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Speaker 1: other sources. It's not as though the consumer is strained

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Speaker 1: right now. They're doing a really good job being able

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Speaker 1: to navigate what has been for the last year some

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Speaker 1: pretty high prices um and that is what fuel the

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Speaker 1: inflationary numbers that we have seen all throughout last year UM.

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Speaker 1: But yes, the consumer of course is utilized savings. The

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Speaker 1: consumer of course has um increased credit card used as well.

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Speaker 1: You've seen, you know, from the Federal Reserve G nineteen

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Speaker 1: data UM revolving credit outstanding has been on the rise

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Speaker 1: after the post pandemic period where consumers paid down their debt. Michelle,

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Speaker 1: I'm looking right now. We just got a number of

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Speaker 1: data points from the United States government and the markets

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Speaker 1: are slow to respond, but they are starting to respond

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Speaker 1: a bit more. You see the naztack down now near

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Speaker 1: session lows around down one per and ahead of the open.

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Speaker 1: Do you get the sense that people have bought into

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Speaker 1: the disinflation story too much that we could see even

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Speaker 1: another bout of reinflation that sends cp I even higher.

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Speaker 1: So to me that the useful way of looking at

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Speaker 1: the good news on the disinflationary storyline is that the

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Speaker 1: supply side has really um come back, right. You've seen this,

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Speaker 1: So inventory levels are back to normal and retailers have

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Speaker 1: been able to return to just in time. Inventories which

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Speaker 1: makes UM pricing much easier, much more transparent, and during

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Speaker 1: the holiday season we did see UM consumers enjoy a

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Speaker 1: disinflationary story is over, but we have to be aware

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Speaker 1: that it's going to take time. So what's your sense

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Speaker 1: of where the market is wrong. I'm looking right now

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Speaker 1: and they're communicating that we should, then yes, inflation should

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Speaker 1: ultimately come down. It's just going to take time. This

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Speaker 1: to remember. Mishelle Mayer has been too long. Thank you

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Speaker 1: so much MasterCard Economics with us at this morning pit

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Speaker 1: a cheer, good morning to you, get to see you.

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Speaker 1: The head of Actress Strategy of Security. I said, thank you.

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Speaker 1: I think obnoxious arts or something, and Bloomberg, I gotta

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Speaker 1: admit that. Okay, let's get a light shot on the

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Speaker 1: door when he came out mark a kind of a ship.

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Speaker 1: JP Morgan made some headlines in the last twenty four hours.

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Speaker 1: He's had a difficult time calling this market over the

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Speaker 1: last twelve eighteen months, the USA could market anyway, and

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Speaker 1: yet this phrase volmer getting two point oh and in

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Speaker 1: it was this acronym zero d T E zero days

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Speaker 1: and there are weekly options as well, So single stocks

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Speaker 1: There's a Bloomberg screen called m OsO, which is the

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Speaker 1: You'll see the spy four twelve calls and the Spy

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Speaker 1: options that drived out of four times leverage. Futures drive

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Speaker 1: these moves start, they do you believe there's there's risk

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Speaker 1: What's the larger consequence of this? Is it a matter

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Speaker 1: is this something that's a more significant whipsaw waiting to

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Speaker 1: So I think the first thing is it's just much

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Speaker 1: These moves are amplified, so you can't see that. You've

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Speaker 1: my homes to Apple? Is that what we're doing now? Down?

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