1 00:00:03,279 --> 00:00:07,680 Speaker 1: Broadcasting live to New York, Croomberg eleventh to Washington v 2 00:00:07,800 --> 00:00:11,200 Speaker 1: c Ruenberg nin and I'm work She'll Boston Bloomberg twelve 3 00:00:11,280 --> 00:00:15,920 Speaker 1: hunder San Francisco Bloomberg n to the country suius XAM 4 00:00:16,040 --> 00:00:19,480 Speaker 1: Channel one nineteen and around the globe the Bloomberg Radio 5 00:00:19,520 --> 00:00:24,040 Speaker 1: Plus Appen Bloomberg dot com. This is Bloomberg Surveillance and 6 00:00:24,120 --> 00:00:26,560 Speaker 1: good morning. I'm Karen Moscow along with Tom Keene and 7 00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:28,800 Speaker 1: Michael McKee and the opening deal brought to you by 8 00:00:29,040 --> 00:00:32,120 Speaker 1: s C I Imagine, a global operating platform designed to 9 00:00:32,159 --> 00:00:36,680 Speaker 1: deliver a differentiated and technologically rich investor experience. 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Your 17 00:00:56,560 --> 00:00:59,160 Speaker 1: treasury of four thirty seconds, the yield one nine two 18 00:00:59,160 --> 00:01:01,520 Speaker 1: per cent yield, the two year, point eight eight percent 19 00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:04,160 Speaker 1: non ex screwed oil down two point one percent or 20 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:06,679 Speaker 1: eighty eight cents to forty dollars fifty seven cents of 21 00:01:06,720 --> 00:01:09,440 Speaker 1: barrel comex gold is down two point two percent or 22 00:01:09,440 --> 00:01:13,160 Speaker 1: twenty seven dollars ninety cents to twelve twenty six an ounce, 23 00:01:13,280 --> 00:01:16,759 Speaker 1: the euro dollar eight and the N one twelve point 24 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:19,840 Speaker 1: seven eight. Tom and Mike Karen, Thanks so much, Tom 25 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:23,440 Speaker 1: Keen and Michael McKee. And to continue with perspective follow 26 00:01:23,520 --> 00:01:25,920 Speaker 1: up in the view forward off of what we heard 27 00:01:25,959 --> 00:01:28,039 Speaker 1: from James Bullard of St. Louis for thrilled to bring 28 00:01:28,080 --> 00:01:33,880 Speaker 1: you out of Michigan. David Burson, David Burson of Nationwide. 29 00:01:34,160 --> 00:01:37,520 Speaker 1: Dr Burson, good morning, Good morning out of Michigan and 30 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:39,959 Speaker 1: in Ohio. And in Ohio. I might point out it's 31 00:01:39,959 --> 00:01:43,080 Speaker 1: just that the pedigrees are important. We had UH Jim 32 00:01:43,120 --> 00:01:46,920 Speaker 1: Bullard of Indiana. Now you with UH Michigan. I want 33 00:01:46,959 --> 00:01:49,600 Speaker 1: to draw forward one of the thoughts he talked about, 34 00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:54,560 Speaker 1: which is the concern is moving too fast. And I 35 00:01:54,600 --> 00:01:57,400 Speaker 1: didn't get to the question with President Bullard about the 36 00:01:57,440 --> 00:02:01,600 Speaker 1: word the strange word measured and the idea of a 37 00:02:01,720 --> 00:02:05,200 Speaker 1: measured pace. This is of course associated with Chairman Greenspan. 38 00:02:05,880 --> 00:02:10,800 Speaker 1: Did we cause harm by desperately wanting the predictability of 39 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:15,600 Speaker 1: a gradualism. I'm not sure that the predictability was the problem. 40 00:02:15,600 --> 00:02:18,800 Speaker 1: I'm not sure the gradualism was the problem. I think 41 00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:22,520 Speaker 1: that the lateness of the start was the problem, and 42 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:26,040 Speaker 1: and I have a concern that starting too late this 43 00:02:26,080 --> 00:02:29,120 Speaker 1: time could be a problem. But but gradualism itself is 44 00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:32,080 Speaker 1: not the problem, because you get back to the hope 45 00:02:32,080 --> 00:02:36,400 Speaker 1: and prayer of FED. If they fall behind jumps and 46 00:02:36,440 --> 00:02:39,920 Speaker 1: there's that strange phrase jump condition. Have we have any 47 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:43,880 Speaker 1: recent experience of a FED that fell behind and had 48 00:02:43,919 --> 00:02:47,960 Speaker 1: to jump quickly? Well, I think you could make an 49 00:02:48,040 --> 00:02:52,359 Speaker 1: argument that in the last business cycle, um, the one 50 00:02:52,440 --> 00:02:57,720 Speaker 1: before the Great Recession, that the FED tightened too late, 51 00:02:58,160 --> 00:03:01,239 Speaker 1: That that the FED kept interest rate at what were 52 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:04,600 Speaker 1: then rock bottom levels for for too long, and that 53 00:03:04,639 --> 00:03:08,040 Speaker 1: meant that the FED had to tighten too much and 54 00:03:08,040 --> 00:03:12,560 Speaker 1: and and too quickly at the end. And you know, 55 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:15,760 Speaker 1: it was the proximate cause of the Great Recession. Many 56 00:03:15,760 --> 00:03:18,560 Speaker 1: other things made the Great Recession much worse, certainly the 57 00:03:18,560 --> 00:03:20,959 Speaker 1: mortgage market did, But but I think that the FED 58 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:23,600 Speaker 1: having to tighten too much at the end was what 59 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:26,320 Speaker 1: tipped the economy into recession. David Person with us. He 60 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:28,480 Speaker 1: is with Nationwide UH, and we love to have him 61 00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:31,040 Speaker 1: on with the really impulse of the nation. We we 62 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:35,360 Speaker 1: we have not talked about housing enough. We've been remiss 63 00:03:35,480 --> 00:03:38,440 Speaker 1: on that. David, give us an update. It's a smaller 64 00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:42,480 Speaker 1: housing market is part of our economy, isn't it. Well. 65 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:46,960 Speaker 1: Certainly home sales and housing starts are are less of 66 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:49,720 Speaker 1: the economy now than they were the last expansion. But 67 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:52,760 Speaker 1: you can certainly make the case that housing was too 68 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:56,800 Speaker 1: big in the economy, too too important in the economy 69 00:03:56,840 --> 00:04:00,080 Speaker 1: before the Great Recession, lots of people buying why to 70 00:04:00,200 --> 00:04:03,240 Speaker 1: homes where they couldn't really afford them. I think now 71 00:04:03,320 --> 00:04:06,280 Speaker 1: we're seeing a more sustainable rise in the housing market. 72 00:04:06,320 --> 00:04:08,440 Speaker 1: And you know what, will housing goes up month a month. 73 00:04:08,440 --> 00:04:10,680 Speaker 1: It's affected by a lot of things, including weather. The 74 00:04:10,720 --> 00:04:12,880 Speaker 1: trend is clearly upward, and I think that we will 75 00:04:12,920 --> 00:04:15,240 Speaker 1: continue to see the trend upward, but at a more 76 00:04:15,320 --> 00:04:18,280 Speaker 1: sustainable pace for housing. And it's unlikely that it's going 77 00:04:18,320 --> 00:04:20,720 Speaker 1: to be housing that brings this expansion to an end. 78 00:04:20,880 --> 00:04:24,800 Speaker 1: What does Nationwide know about the availability of credit. It's 79 00:04:24,839 --> 00:04:26,960 Speaker 1: not our number one mail, but it's number three or 80 00:04:27,040 --> 00:04:30,680 Speaker 1: number four, which is when people say it's a normal 81 00:04:30,760 --> 00:04:35,640 Speaker 1: housing market, our listeners go nuts, well, it a credit 82 00:04:35,680 --> 00:04:39,520 Speaker 1: availability is tighter than it has been in the past. Again, 83 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:42,560 Speaker 1: clearly before the Great Recession it was way too easy. 84 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:45,200 Speaker 1: We're not saying that we ought to go back to that, 85 00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:49,440 Speaker 1: but credit availability is tighter now. Credit is tighter now, 86 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:51,599 Speaker 1: it is less available than it was, and I think 87 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:55,760 Speaker 1: that's along with just fewer homes on the market. That 88 00:04:55,960 --> 00:04:59,080 Speaker 1: is one of the key reasons why housing is growing 89 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:03,120 Speaker 1: more slow leave this time. If credit were more easily available, 90 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:05,839 Speaker 1: we see more home sales. You know, it's hard to 91 00:05:05,880 --> 00:05:09,080 Speaker 1: know when credit is exactly right. And I guess if 92 00:05:09,080 --> 00:05:11,000 Speaker 1: you had a choice between credit being a little too 93 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:13,880 Speaker 1: tight and a little too easy, we're probably better off 94 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:16,560 Speaker 1: with being a little too tight, but we'd probably rather 95 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:19,040 Speaker 1: have it be exactly right now. David Person with US 96 00:05:19,040 --> 00:05:21,760 Speaker 1: will continue this discussion and focus on the housing market 97 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:25,880 Speaker 1: and of course other aspects of consumption America. David Person 98 00:05:25,960 --> 00:05:29,200 Speaker 1: is Chief Economists with Nationwide. To give you a data 99 00:05:29,279 --> 00:05:30,960 Speaker 1: check here before we get to our look at the 100 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:34,240 Speaker 1: equity markets, negative thirty five on the dalloas and B 101 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:37,559 Speaker 1: down four points. VIX higher as you would expect point 102 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:41,880 Speaker 1: three six points fourteen point five three. I'm gonna attribute 103 00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:44,680 Speaker 1: some of that to James Bullard's comments, maybe some dissension 104 00:05:44,720 --> 00:05:48,120 Speaker 1: with the plots in the FED. Yeah, I think there 105 00:05:48,200 --> 00:05:49,599 Speaker 1: was a little bit of a nudge there. I wanted 106 00:05:49,640 --> 00:05:51,640 Speaker 1: to look at the two year yield, which hasn't moved 107 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:54,479 Speaker 1: all that much, but there's a list a general weight 108 00:05:54,520 --> 00:05:57,480 Speaker 1: to the tape, and what I will say is I 109 00:05:57,520 --> 00:06:01,080 Speaker 1: don't want to associate any market dynamics to Brussels. We 110 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:04,400 Speaker 1: looked at that carefully. Certainly we saw that was Sterling 111 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:07,839 Speaker 1: as a follow on to Brexit debate. Sterling weaker further 112 00:06:07,920 --> 00:06:12,200 Speaker 1: today one four Let me get up here quickly the 113 00:06:12,880 --> 00:06:16,880 Speaker 1: um Sterling chart before we go to David Wilson. The 114 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:19,279 Speaker 1: loaf for the day and Sterling, well, it just spiked down. 115 00:06:19,279 --> 00:06:25,400 Speaker 1: I stand corrected the low, so still sterling weakness maybe? 116 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:28,559 Speaker 1: Is the other market news here over the last forty 117 00:06:28,560 --> 00:06:32,400 Speaker 1: eight hours on the equity markets with a list of winners, losers, 118 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:36,039 Speaker 1: Dogs of the Dow David Wilson, is there a dog 119 00:06:36,080 --> 00:06:39,520 Speaker 1: of the Dow today? Uh? Nike would be your dog 120 00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:43,080 Speaker 1: of the Dow? Looking at stock performance because the shares 121 00:06:43,440 --> 00:06:46,680 Speaker 1: at the moment or down four percent. The world's largest 122 00:06:46,680 --> 00:06:49,480 Speaker 1: sporting goods maker expects fiscal year earnings and sales to 123 00:06:49,600 --> 00:06:52,760 Speaker 1: grow more slowly than analysts do based on the average 124 00:06:52,839 --> 00:06:57,240 Speaker 1: estimates in the Blueberg survey. Nike's outlook reflects growing competition 125 00:06:57,320 --> 00:07:01,240 Speaker 1: from under Armour and a stronger dollar. Another stock taking 126 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:03,640 Speaker 1: a hit, gill Lead Science, is down about two percent. 127 00:07:03,920 --> 00:07:05,680 Speaker 1: The drug maker may have to pay as much as 128 00:07:05,720 --> 00:07:09,920 Speaker 1: two billion dollars in damages plus royalties on its biggest sellers, 129 00:07:10,120 --> 00:07:13,760 Speaker 1: the hepside of C treatment Sivaldi and harbony. A California 130 00:07:13,840 --> 00:07:18,080 Speaker 1: journey jury yesterday ruled against Gilead in a patent dispute 131 00:07:18,080 --> 00:07:21,480 Speaker 1: brought by Murk and I Honest Pharmaceuticals. Mark shares up 132 00:07:21,480 --> 00:07:23,440 Speaker 1: half a percent at the moment, I Honest with a 133 00:07:23,520 --> 00:07:26,640 Speaker 1: six percent gain. General Mills down half a percent. The 134 00:07:26,640 --> 00:07:28,840 Speaker 1: food maker's fiscal third quarter sales were at the low 135 00:07:28,920 --> 00:07:31,920 Speaker 1: end of analyst projections. Revenue was hurt by five percent 136 00:07:31,960 --> 00:07:35,480 Speaker 1: drop in sales volume. Gold mining stocks are lower after 137 00:07:35,520 --> 00:07:38,080 Speaker 1: the precious medals price dropped by more than twenty dollars 138 00:07:38,120 --> 00:07:41,240 Speaker 1: announced in New York trading. Barrack Gold down more than 139 00:07:41,280 --> 00:07:43,240 Speaker 1: five percent of the stock cut the hole from by 140 00:07:43,360 --> 00:07:46,320 Speaker 1: Deutsche Bank and Newmont Mining with a loss of almost 141 00:07:46,360 --> 00:07:49,320 Speaker 1: five percent. Yeah, it's back to Nike. That David in 142 00:07:49,360 --> 00:07:52,760 Speaker 1: the time we've got left, three m is six point 143 00:07:52,760 --> 00:07:55,760 Speaker 1: four percent of the doubt. I did not know that. 144 00:07:55,800 --> 00:07:58,040 Speaker 1: You have to remember that the Dow was what they 145 00:07:58,080 --> 00:08:01,480 Speaker 1: call a price weighted index, so basically it comes down 146 00:08:01,720 --> 00:08:04,960 Speaker 1: to what the share price Lloyd boyd Lloyd Blank find 147 00:08:05,080 --> 00:08:08,840 Speaker 1: is six percent of the doubt. I did not know that. 148 00:08:08,880 --> 00:08:10,760 Speaker 1: There you go. It's all about, you know, the higher 149 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:14,240 Speaker 1: the share price, uh, the higher the waiting in the 150 00:08:14,320 --> 00:08:16,880 Speaker 1: Dow as opposed to the standard Force five hundred, which 151 00:08:16,920 --> 00:08:20,520 Speaker 1: is a market value weighted index. So it takes things 152 00:08:20,520 --> 00:08:24,120 Speaker 1: into account, like the size of the company of the 153 00:08:24,120 --> 00:08:28,360 Speaker 1: Dow was four stocks because of this massive skew not unusual. 154 00:08:28,520 --> 00:08:30,920 Speaker 1: This is why pros like you use SPX even though 155 00:08:30,960 --> 00:08:32,640 Speaker 1: we always quote the doll like we know what we're 156 00:08:32,640 --> 00:08:35,920 Speaker 1: talking about. One more stock quickly, all right, I'll give 157 00:08:35,920 --> 00:08:39,679 Speaker 1: you two quickly. That would be UH senteen and health Net, 158 00:08:39,720 --> 00:08:42,280 Speaker 1: which both of about three and a half percent. The 159 00:08:42,280 --> 00:08:47,040 Speaker 1: Health Insurance received clearance from California regular regulators for their 160 00:08:47,360 --> 00:08:49,640 Speaker 1: five billion dollar deal. They expect to complete it in 161 00:08:49,640 --> 00:08:52,520 Speaker 1: the next few days. California. Mama's Health Net is based 162 00:08:52,600 --> 00:08:55,760 Speaker 1: in the Los Angeles suburb of Woodland Hills. David Wilson, 163 00:08:55,800 --> 00:08:59,320 Speaker 1: thank you so much, greatly appreciated. Always every time I 164 00:08:59,360 --> 00:09:02,920 Speaker 1: swear Dave it. Wilson comes in. He parachutes down from 165 00:09:02,920 --> 00:09:06,079 Speaker 1: the top of the building into our courtyard in atrium, 166 00:09:06,120 --> 00:09:09,360 Speaker 1: comes up here with his parachute. I always learned something 167 00:09:09,720 --> 00:09:18,000 Speaker 1: with David Wilson. The Dow negative forty four points and 168 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:21,480 Speaker 1: he's Wall Street. There's hours surveillance being brought to you 169 00:09:21,640 --> 00:09:25,160 Speaker 1: by Masted White Planes. Visit Monsted. White Planes dot Com 170 00:09:25,880 --> 00:09:29,040 Speaker 1: is from around the world. Here's Michael barn John Tom, 171 00:09:29,080 --> 00:09:31,320 Speaker 1: thank you very much. Today Bell Jim held a moment 172 00:09:31,360 --> 00:09:33,640 Speaker 1: of silence in the country. Will have three days of 173 00:09:33,760 --> 00:09:37,120 Speaker 1: national morning after yesterday's Tibor attacks in Belgium killed thirty 174 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:40,720 Speaker 1: four people and wounded about two d others. Officials say 175 00:09:40,960 --> 00:09:44,760 Speaker 1: Brussels Main airport will remain closed until at least tomorrow night. 176 00:09:45,160 --> 00:09:48,400 Speaker 1: Two blasts went off at the international airport and another 177 00:09:48,480 --> 00:09:51,679 Speaker 1: at a subway station. Belgium police continue to search for 178 00:09:51,720 --> 00:09:55,240 Speaker 1: a man seen in a photo from airport surveillance walking 179 00:09:55,320 --> 00:09:58,599 Speaker 1: with two men believed to be the suicide bombers. Prosecutor 180 00:09:58,640 --> 00:10:02,120 Speaker 1: Frederick Van Leeu, through a translator, says following police raids, 181 00:10:02,160 --> 00:10:05,559 Speaker 1: a suspect has been arrested, but not the third man 182 00:10:05,640 --> 00:10:09,000 Speaker 1: believed to be on surveillance video at the airport. Afort 183 00:10:09,360 --> 00:10:12,679 Speaker 1: research have been carried out in Skarbek last night. 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To wonder about the efficacy of the dot 210 00:11:51,360 --> 00:11:54,240 Speaker 1: plot on the policy rate part, because we're, you know, 211 00:11:54,640 --> 00:11:58,240 Speaker 1: implicitly giving some kind of forward guidance through that dot plot, 212 00:11:58,440 --> 00:12:02,000 Speaker 1: and I'm wondering whether that's counterproductive at this point. And 213 00:12:02,080 --> 00:12:04,200 Speaker 1: Butler made the comments in an interview with Tom Keene 214 00:12:04,200 --> 00:12:07,280 Speaker 1: and Michael McKee heard on Bloomberg Radio and television. Billard 215 00:12:07,320 --> 00:12:10,120 Speaker 1: also set a decline in joblessness below the natural rank 216 00:12:10,240 --> 00:12:13,559 Speaker 1: may force policy makers to raise rates faster in the future. 217 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:16,600 Speaker 1: U S stocks are lower along with crude prices, as 218 00:12:16,640 --> 00:12:19,120 Speaker 1: investors await more data for clues on the economy and 219 00:12:19,200 --> 00:12:22,360 Speaker 1: direction of monetary policy. To check the markets every fifteen 220 00:12:22,400 --> 00:12:24,839 Speaker 1: minutes throughout the trading day. On Bloomberg S and P 221 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:27,160 Speaker 1: five hundred down a quarter percent or five points to 222 00:12:27,640 --> 00:12:30,640 Speaker 1: forty four down, Jones Industrial average down a quarter percent 223 00:12:30,720 --> 00:12:33,400 Speaker 1: or forty one points to seventeen thousand, five hundred forty 224 00:12:33,720 --> 00:12:36,160 Speaker 1: and asdacts down a third of a percent or sixteen 225 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:39,440 Speaker 1: points to forty eight oh four. The ten year Treasury 226 00:12:39,520 --> 00:12:41,839 Speaker 1: up five thirty seconds, the yield one point nine two percent, 227 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:44,640 Speaker 1: yield on the two year point eight eight percent. Nimex 228 00:12:44,640 --> 00:12:47,000 Speaker 1: screwed oil down one point nine percent or seventy six 229 00:12:47,080 --> 00:12:49,960 Speaker 1: cents to forty dollar sixty nine cents of barrel comes. 230 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:52,240 Speaker 1: Gold is down two point four percent or thirty dollars 231 00:12:52,320 --> 00:12:55,280 Speaker 1: fifty cents. At twelve eighteen ten announced the euro a 232 00:12:55,320 --> 00:12:58,360 Speaker 1: dollar eleven eighty nine, the n one twelve point seven six, 233 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:03,040 Speaker 1: and that's a Bloomberg business. Karen, thank you so much. 234 00:13:03,720 --> 00:13:07,320 Speaker 1: We surprised with David Berson of Nationwide. David I don't 235 00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:09,080 Speaker 1: want to catch you unawares. I'm gonna do a little 236 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:11,320 Speaker 1: bit of the background here, but I'm sure you're more 237 00:13:11,360 --> 00:13:15,760 Speaker 1: than capable of diving in. James Bullard has been making 238 00:13:15,920 --> 00:13:19,959 Speaker 1: a lot of Irving Fisher eighteen sixty seven, two years 239 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:21,839 Speaker 1: after the end of the Civil War. He lived in 240 00:13:21,920 --> 00:13:28,840 Speaker 1: wonderful life to nineteen uh seven. He was hugely visible 241 00:13:29,440 --> 00:13:32,000 Speaker 1: to put things in perspective. A name that all of 242 00:13:32,080 --> 00:13:36,400 Speaker 1: you know, Joseph Schumpeter. We talked about creative des destruction. 243 00:13:36,920 --> 00:13:41,559 Speaker 1: Chumpeter of Harvard called Fisher quote the greatest economists the 244 00:13:41,720 --> 00:13:44,800 Speaker 1: United States has ever produced. That was, of course of 245 00:13:44,880 --> 00:13:48,959 Speaker 1: a a different generation. When you have James Tobin of 246 00:13:49,160 --> 00:13:54,160 Speaker 1: Yale and Milton Friedman of Chicago agreed. That shows you 247 00:13:54,360 --> 00:14:00,079 Speaker 1: the impact of Irving Fisher. So Dr Burson we of 248 00:14:01,080 --> 00:14:05,760 Speaker 1: James Bullard talking about a neo Fisherian moment, which is 249 00:14:05,880 --> 00:14:09,079 Speaker 1: thinking about the dynamics of real g d P and 250 00:14:09,200 --> 00:14:13,599 Speaker 1: the dynamics of inflation, which gets you out denominal g 251 00:14:13,800 --> 00:14:16,800 Speaker 1: d P. What do you make of the permazone of 252 00:14:16,880 --> 00:14:20,720 Speaker 1: a zero bound, the artificiality we live in, and what 253 00:14:20,880 --> 00:14:24,600 Speaker 1: it means within a neo Fisherian moment, you know, I 254 00:14:24,680 --> 00:14:28,440 Speaker 1: think that what what matters most here is Fisher's discussion 255 00:14:28,480 --> 00:14:33,600 Speaker 1: of debt deflation. UM that UH, when you have lots 256 00:14:33,640 --> 00:14:35,680 Speaker 1: of debt is as we did during the Great Recession. 257 00:14:36,200 --> 00:14:42,440 Speaker 1: UM that having to sell assets at distress prices UH 258 00:14:42,640 --> 00:14:45,720 Speaker 1: causes deflation overall in the economy. And that makes it 259 00:14:45,840 --> 00:14:51,560 Speaker 1: very difficult for central banks to have a monetary policy 260 00:14:51,600 --> 00:14:54,480 Speaker 1: that works, because we saw this during the Great Depression, 261 00:14:55,080 --> 00:15:00,480 Speaker 1: when inflation is negative than real rates are positive and 262 00:15:00,480 --> 00:15:03,240 Speaker 1: and and you want to have nominal you want to 263 00:15:03,240 --> 00:15:06,320 Speaker 1: have real interest rates negative to try to boost UH, 264 00:15:06,560 --> 00:15:09,360 Speaker 1: to boost borrowing and saving. And you know, we haven't 265 00:15:09,400 --> 00:15:12,760 Speaker 1: seen that. We see a hoarding of money. UM. Now 266 00:15:12,840 --> 00:15:15,640 Speaker 1: we see nominal interest rates going down, but you know, 267 00:15:15,800 --> 00:15:18,320 Speaker 1: real interest rates are are are are still positive in 268 00:15:18,360 --> 00:15:20,600 Speaker 1: a lot of the world. And I think Fisher has 269 00:15:20,640 --> 00:15:22,920 Speaker 1: a lot to say about this. Fisher is and this 270 00:15:23,080 --> 00:15:28,160 Speaker 1: is too, folks, a very general statement. Fisher enjoyed simplistic models, 271 00:15:28,440 --> 00:15:33,040 Speaker 1: where his colleague and crime new Vixel. You'll hear John writing, um, 272 00:15:33,160 --> 00:15:35,320 Speaker 1: Steve Liesman over at the NBC has done great work 273 00:15:35,360 --> 00:15:41,880 Speaker 1: on this on Vixcellian economics. Fisher was simple models. Vixel 274 00:15:42,160 --> 00:15:45,160 Speaker 1: was much more complex analysis of how we get from 275 00:15:45,240 --> 00:15:49,080 Speaker 1: point A to point B and in doing that, David, 276 00:15:49,280 --> 00:15:52,240 Speaker 1: is simple better or do we need to maintain the 277 00:15:52,360 --> 00:15:56,520 Speaker 1: complexity that we see years ago from new Wixel or others? Now? 278 00:15:56,640 --> 00:16:00,120 Speaker 1: Which is better? You know? Neither isn't currently better? Or 279 00:16:00,680 --> 00:16:04,480 Speaker 1: what we need is is a theory that actually explains 280 00:16:04,680 --> 00:16:07,560 Speaker 1: what's going on. And ultimately you have to be able 281 00:16:07,600 --> 00:16:10,200 Speaker 1: to explain it to people if they don't understand what 282 00:16:10,240 --> 00:16:13,760 Speaker 1: you're saying, even if the theories correct, Um, you're you're 283 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:17,760 Speaker 1: you're not going to be listening to so so simpler explanations, 284 00:16:17,840 --> 00:16:20,440 Speaker 1: even if complex theories and when what Fisher was talking 285 00:16:20,440 --> 00:16:23,440 Speaker 1: about we're very complex things. He just expressed them in 286 00:16:23,480 --> 00:16:26,240 Speaker 1: a simple way. Uh, certainly for policymakers is a much 287 00:16:26,240 --> 00:16:29,040 Speaker 1: better way to go. Then the mystery is then and this, 288 00:16:29,200 --> 00:16:32,840 Speaker 1: folks is grandparents and great grandparents time. It was the 289 00:16:32,960 --> 00:16:36,080 Speaker 1: idea of the search and the frustration over economic growth. 290 00:16:36,760 --> 00:16:42,040 Speaker 1: It's really no different today, is it, David. As Jeff 291 00:16:42,120 --> 00:16:45,760 Speaker 1: M l has told me three point two, GDP solves 292 00:16:45,800 --> 00:16:49,320 Speaker 1: a lot of problems. I think that's exactly right. Um, 293 00:16:50,480 --> 00:16:53,640 Speaker 1: you know, growth over the last you know, almost ten 294 00:16:53,760 --> 00:16:58,760 Speaker 1: years of eight years anyway, the expansion of um. You know, 295 00:16:58,840 --> 00:17:02,280 Speaker 1: two percent growth just isn't enough. We need to be 296 00:17:02,360 --> 00:17:04,240 Speaker 1: able to get growth back up to three to three 297 00:17:04,240 --> 00:17:06,800 Speaker 1: and a half percent. That is the single best thing 298 00:17:07,359 --> 00:17:11,320 Speaker 1: to increase the wages of the average worker in the 299 00:17:11,480 --> 00:17:13,760 Speaker 1: US and and around the world, as well as the 300 00:17:14,119 --> 00:17:17,560 Speaker 1: single best way to reduce income inequality. It's hard to 301 00:17:17,600 --> 00:17:20,640 Speaker 1: reach income inequality if you're not growing, then all you're 302 00:17:20,640 --> 00:17:24,159 Speaker 1: doing is simply shuffling the deck chairs. You need to 303 00:17:24,240 --> 00:17:26,920 Speaker 1: float the boat. Yeah, it would be permanently wrong of me, 304 00:17:27,400 --> 00:17:30,840 Speaker 1: unfortunately to quote and James Bullard alluded to this today folks, 305 00:17:31,160 --> 00:17:33,080 Speaker 1: where he said he was worried about shocks to the 306 00:17:33,200 --> 00:17:36,480 Speaker 1: system and too rapid market adjustments is the fet of 307 00:17:36,560 --> 00:17:39,720 Speaker 1: depths perhaps with the dots to where the market is. 308 00:17:40,320 --> 00:17:43,320 Speaker 1: But Mr Fisher, of course, with the acclaimed three days 309 00:17:43,359 --> 00:17:46,040 Speaker 1: before the crash, stock prices have reached what looks like 310 00:17:46,160 --> 00:17:50,000 Speaker 1: a permanently high plateau. We all have our skeletons in 311 00:17:50,080 --> 00:17:54,159 Speaker 1: our closet as this irving Fisher. Do you worry, David 312 00:17:54,240 --> 00:17:58,800 Speaker 1: person about market adjustments and does that lead us to 313 00:17:58,960 --> 00:18:03,359 Speaker 1: a cautious, measured approach? Well, I think we have seen 314 00:18:03,840 --> 00:18:08,320 Speaker 1: significant financial market volatility you know, certainly over the last year, 315 00:18:08,720 --> 00:18:11,800 Speaker 1: and I think that has led to more cautious policy 316 00:18:11,920 --> 00:18:14,840 Speaker 1: moves on the part of a central bank, certainly our 317 00:18:14,920 --> 00:18:18,359 Speaker 1: central bank, where you know, core inflation is edging up. 318 00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:20,560 Speaker 1: I think there's no question about that. But because the 319 00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:24,679 Speaker 1: financial market volatility and concerns about fragility, the fit has 320 00:18:24,720 --> 00:18:27,560 Speaker 1: been more cautious than probably this is critical and this 321 00:18:27,680 --> 00:18:30,560 Speaker 1: is what nationwide does so well. The idea of inflation 322 00:18:30,840 --> 00:18:33,360 Speaker 1: is up. And part of that, or what we'll call 323 00:18:33,560 --> 00:18:38,879 Speaker 1: core everyday inflation expenses such as housing impute that in 324 00:18:39,040 --> 00:18:43,240 Speaker 1: whether it's imputed rent, imputed housing impute, this impute that 325 00:18:43,840 --> 00:18:48,359 Speaker 1: David Person, is the character of this new surgeon inflation 326 00:18:48,840 --> 00:18:52,639 Speaker 1: different than others we've seen. Well, I'm not sure to 327 00:18:52,720 --> 00:18:54,200 Speaker 1: call it a church at this point. I know I 328 00:18:54,280 --> 00:18:55,920 Speaker 1: knew you're gonna get me on it. The moment I 329 00:18:56,040 --> 00:18:57,720 Speaker 1: use the word, I said, person is gonna put me 330 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:02,479 Speaker 1: in the nationwide time out chair. Um is it different? Um? 331 00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:06,000 Speaker 1: It is different in the sense that, uh, goods inflation, 332 00:19:06,080 --> 00:19:10,560 Speaker 1: particularly commodity inflation, is very very weak, if if existing 333 00:19:10,600 --> 00:19:13,720 Speaker 1: at all, because of we growth around the world. The 334 00:19:13,760 --> 00:19:18,200 Speaker 1: inflation we're seeing today is services based, and you know 335 00:19:18,440 --> 00:19:20,359 Speaker 1: that is somewhat different. But on the other hand, the 336 00:19:20,480 --> 00:19:23,560 Speaker 1: US economy is more and more services based economy, and 337 00:19:23,720 --> 00:19:26,680 Speaker 1: so the inflation is no less real by it being 338 00:19:27,240 --> 00:19:30,960 Speaker 1: um services based. Where's the consumer? This is the other debate, David, 339 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:33,720 Speaker 1: that I think you've got a different pulse sign being 340 00:19:33,800 --> 00:19:36,960 Speaker 1: out in Ohio. I mean the basic idea of where 341 00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:40,440 Speaker 1: whether the consumer. We get different opinions. I think the 342 00:19:40,640 --> 00:19:45,159 Speaker 1: consumer is doing okay. I think, uh, you know, certainly 343 00:19:45,160 --> 00:19:47,159 Speaker 1: at the high end, with the stock market doing well, 344 00:19:47,359 --> 00:19:50,560 Speaker 1: consumption that proper end things is doing very well. But 345 00:19:50,680 --> 00:19:53,680 Speaker 1: I think as as we continue to see job growth 346 00:19:54,280 --> 00:20:01,439 Speaker 1: be solid, income gains grow modestly, we're gonna see spending 347 00:20:01,480 --> 00:20:05,159 Speaker 1: increase on the part of consumers over this year. By 348 00:20:05,160 --> 00:20:06,560 Speaker 1: the end of the year, we're gonna look back and say, 349 00:20:06,640 --> 00:20:09,480 Speaker 1: you know, the consumer was was pretty good this year. David, 350 00:20:09,560 --> 00:20:12,200 Speaker 1: thank you so much, particularly for that clinic on Fisherian 351 00:20:12,800 --> 00:20:15,720 Speaker 1: neo Fisherian theory. Not every day you've got a guy 352 00:20:15,760 --> 00:20:17,800 Speaker 1: that comes on that can do that. Just just pop 353 00:20:17,920 --> 00:20:20,840 Speaker 1: right in and talk about fisher from the twenties and 354 00:20:21,520 --> 00:20:23,560 Speaker 1: uh yeah, from the twenties, that would be the decade 355 00:20:24,040 --> 00:20:27,200 Speaker 1: David Berson is with nationwide. He is their chief the college, 356 00:20:27,280 --> 00:20:30,320 Speaker 1: John Tucker, did your eyes glaze over there? Neo fish 357 00:20:30,800 --> 00:20:33,800 Speaker 1: Neo for sharing, It's not Stanley Fisher. No, I did 358 00:20:33,840 --> 00:20:37,399 Speaker 1: not know it's been up this sty Fisher, but I 359 00:20:37,760 --> 00:20:39,920 Speaker 1: must have been. I got a couple of tweets that said, hey, 360 00:20:40,400 --> 00:20:42,840 Speaker 1: we should have talked a lot more about neo Fisherian, 361 00:20:42,880 --> 00:20:45,119 Speaker 1: but within the time frame that we had, it was 362 00:20:45,160 --> 00:20:50,320 Speaker 1: a little people that are experts on neo Fisherian dynamics. Yeah, 363 00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:54,440 Speaker 1: it would be the real GDP and the inflation. I man, 364 00:20:54,640 --> 00:20:58,879 Speaker 1: David Gura is an expert on neo fish economics. He 365 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:02,200 Speaker 1: wanders in here that at us forward into the next 366 00:21:02,560 --> 00:21:07,240 Speaker 1: hour of Bloomberg Radio World worldwide. The only Neo for 367 00:21:07,359 --> 00:21:10,960 Speaker 1: sharing is David Kotok and Trout. That's that's what he's 368 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:13,239 Speaker 1: looking for, is all. And it was. That was great, folks. Um. 369 00:21:13,320 --> 00:21:15,879 Speaker 1: I urge you to look out on our various social 370 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:19,360 Speaker 1: media and iTunes. The podcast I hope will be out 371 00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:23,840 Speaker 1: here in a bit the complete interview with James Bollard. 372 00:21:23,880 --> 00:21:26,200 Speaker 1: I think it was a different way to speak to 373 00:21:26,960 --> 00:21:29,360 Speaker 1: our public policy interview. Maybe it'd be a good idea 374 00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:32,720 Speaker 1: instead of a press conference. John Tucker, Janet Yellen could 375 00:21:32,760 --> 00:21:35,280 Speaker 1: just have a conversation with Mike McKee and Tom Keane. 376 00:21:35,520 --> 00:21:38,920 Speaker 1: We bring in somebody from the outside Binion an Apple 377 00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:40,960 Speaker 1: Bomb from the New York Times, somebody like that to 378 00:21:41,359 --> 00:21:44,560 Speaker 1: help us out. But just you know, a conversation with Jane, 379 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:48,320 Speaker 1: and then policy we can talk to her about Neo 380 00:21:48,440 --> 00:21:52,600 Speaker 1: y yea Ellian policy as well. Anyways, it's fine. We 381 00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:55,399 Speaker 1: hope you enjoy the economics we do. We try to 382 00:21:55,480 --> 00:21:57,560 Speaker 1: keep it in the King's English as best as we can. 383 00:21:58,160 --> 00:22:01,680 Speaker 1: And of course, look, you cant finance investment in international 384 00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:07,000 Speaker 1: relations as well. So a lot uh going on here. 385 00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:09,960 Speaker 1: Let me see the latest headlines from Belgium. We'll have 386 00:22:10,119 --> 00:22:12,840 Speaker 1: these for you through the day. There is a new 387 00:22:12,920 --> 00:22:16,720 Speaker 1: police operation in the Old Lacked area of Brussels that 388 00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:21,000 Speaker 1: according to the Associated Press. 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