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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg pim L Podcast. I'm pim Fox.

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Speaker 1: Along with my co host Lisa Abramowitz. Each day we

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Speaker 1: bring you the most important, noteworthy, and useful interviews for

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Speaker 1: SoundCloud and at Bloomberg dot com. All right, let's solve

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Speaker 1: some of the issues related to investing in fixed income

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Speaker 1: with Jim Bianco. He is the president and the founder

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Speaker 1: of Bianco Research, and he joins us now, Jim, great

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Speaker 1: to have you with us. As always, I wonder if

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Speaker 1: you could just comment on an interview that Bloomberg's Eric

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Speaker 1: Schatzka just did with the Ben Melkman Uh formerly of

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Speaker 1: Brevan Howard is speaking about the the slope of the

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Speaker 1: yield curve and how he sees that that is going

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Speaker 1: to increase. Uh. Great conviction, Great conviction. I beg your pardon,

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Speaker 1: great conviction that you're going to see this big slope

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Speaker 1: I I understand why you would think that if you

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Speaker 1: say and even if the FED was going to raise rates,

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Speaker 1: the long end of the Yelk curve would go up

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Speaker 1: a lot faster. But I'm not fully into the inflation

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Speaker 1: idea for a lot of people, that inflation is going

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Speaker 1: to return, and if not, and we see more weakness,

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Speaker 1: you're going to see the long end of the yeel

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Speaker 1: Yelk curve. They're not gonna go down in the front end.

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Speaker 1: They might still go up at the FED races rates,

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Speaker 1: But it really comes down to what your view of

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Speaker 1: inflation is. That it's it's not here yet. I understand

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Speaker 1: that everybody's looking for it. I get the idea that

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Speaker 1: wages are percolating a little bit, but they have been

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Speaker 1: But I've seen this movie since two thousand nine, at

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Speaker 1: you still have way too weak a growth I think

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Speaker 1: don't see that. I don't think we're going to get

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Speaker 1: the inflation that everybody's hoping for. See, you had Morgan

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Speaker 1: Jim Bianco, thank you so much for coming and joining us.

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Speaker 1: Jim Bianco of Bianco Research in Chicago. I want to

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Speaker 1: learn more about Suicide Squad. I want to learn more

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Speaker 1: about Suicide Squad from Paul Sweeney, the director of North

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Speaker 1: American Research and Media UH for Bloomberg Intelligence. Paul, did

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Speaker 1: contributors to a pretty strong quarter from Time Warner this morning.

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Speaker 1: He can be followed on Twitter at m Niquette. All right, Mark,

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Speaker 1: we got a pole and then there's something from President

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Speaker 1: The Shares of te connectivity. They are higher by about

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Speaker 1: about t E Connectivity. It has a former name, Tycho Electronics.

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Speaker 1: And here to tell us more about t E Connectivity

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Speaker 1: Terrence Curtain. Thank you, gentlemen for being here here. I

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