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Speaker 1: Sam's l Sharmon and founder of Equatic Group Investment in

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Wall Street Week with David Weston from Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: Getting tired of higher interest rates, chasing stubborn inflation, of

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Speaker 1: This is Bloomberg Wall Street Week. I'm David Weston. This

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Speaker 1: week our contributors Larry Summers on the Fed decision Day Wednesday,

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Speaker 1: evidence of inflay. Shouldn't restraint yet? In train? And Steve

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Speaker 1: Rattner on what's at stake for investors as Americans go

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Speaker 1: Even as the First Lady of Ukraine, Orleana's Olenska, told

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Speaker 1: Their profits are windfall of war In Brazil and In Israel,

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Speaker 1: new elections yielded old results, with former president Lula da

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Speaker 1: But the main events for Global Wall Street this week

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Speaker 1: welcome both of you back to Wall Street. We're good

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Speaker 1: to have you here. Let me start you with you, Sarah,

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Speaker 1: Wall Street really loves ambiguity because the truth is that

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Speaker 1: while the midterm election results scarcely constituted a warm vote

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Speaker 1: figures I gave on this program last week. That was Lewis,

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Speaker 1: growth rates have tended, they've tended to be faster than

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Speaker 1: I am four entitlement reform. I am four looking at

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Speaker 1: business leaders who watched this show, whose packs are giving

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Speaker 1: Larry Summers are very special contributor here in Wall Street Week.

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Speaker 1: He is, of course from Harvard University. Finally, one more thought,

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Speaker 1: second acts. There what most of us hoped for, but

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Speaker 1: f Scott Fitzgerald once thought Americans may not get. History

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Speaker 1: regret at not completing my turn, but with gratitude for

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Speaker 1: the privilege of serving a sure president. And Steve Jobs

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Speaker 1: where it is still incredibly relevant and focus on those

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Speaker 1: This week we got our fair share of new second

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Speaker 1: Lula was in a Brazilian prison on money laundering charges,

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Speaker 1: ducking and weaving and moving ever further towards the religious right,

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Speaker 1: but doing whatever it takes to survive former Israeli Prime

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Speaker 1: power after the fifth selection since two thousand nine. Time

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Speaker 1: will tell whether the second acts of Messrs Lula Da

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Speaker 1: Silva and Netanya, who looked more like Tiger Woods or

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Speaker 1: like Steve Jobs. A lot of times people think they're crazy,

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Speaker 1: but in that craziness we see genius that does it.

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Speaker 1: For this episode of Wall Street Week, I'm David Weston.

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