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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: you and your money, whether you at the grocery store

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Speaker 1: going to take a deeper look at some of the

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Speaker 1: latest appointments by President elect Donald Trump to his cabinet.

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Speaker 1: I want to bring in Justin Sink, Bloomberg government reporter

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Speaker 1: who's joins us from Trump Tower, as well as our

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Speaker 1: own Max Abelson, a Bloomberg finance reporter here in Bloomberg

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Speaker 1: eleven three oh studio. Um, Max, I want to start

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Speaker 1: with you about just you wrote this fantastic profile of

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Speaker 1: Steve Manuchin, former Goldman Sachs banker, who is present at

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Speaker 1: an elect Trump selection to be Treasury secretary. Um, what

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Speaker 1: based on his background does he bring to this post.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's exactly his background that makes it so

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Speaker 1: surprising that Trump has picked him to be Treasury Secretary.

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Speaker 1: I mean to answer your question quickly. We don't really

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Speaker 1: know much about what he wants policy. But what we

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Speaker 1: do know on what Zach Meder and I learned when

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Speaker 1: we wrote our profile of him for Business Week just

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Speaker 1: just a couple of weeks ago in late August, is

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Speaker 1: that this guy has like the kind of career it's

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Speaker 1: almost like a satire of elite success. He was. He

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Speaker 1: was just a reporter at the wide end, he was

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Speaker 1: actually a publisher of it. He joined Skull and Bones.

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Speaker 1: He became a Goldman Sachs partner just like his dad.

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Speaker 1: Then he ran hedge fund money for George Soros, that

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Speaker 1: Trump villain. He invested in Hollywood blockbusters, and he bought

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Speaker 1: a bank with a bunch of other billionaires one West.

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Speaker 1: You almost like couldn't make up a more perfect almost

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Speaker 1: like Trump villain. And yet um, he's the man Trump

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Speaker 1: has picked to be the next grusury sector the United State.

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Speaker 1: Could you just had a little color and expand on

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Speaker 1: the purchase of the bank in southern California? And what

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Speaker 1: happened when he was in his office in in uh

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Speaker 1: before this bank is going to fail. This goes back

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Speaker 1: to the debacle. He said this bank is going to fail,

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Speaker 1: We're gonna buy it. We're gonna make some money. And

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Speaker 1: that is indeed what he did. He gathered a group, Um,

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Speaker 1: he bought Indie mac he reranded it and as One West,

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Speaker 1: and they sold One West to see I t for

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Speaker 1: that's going to create some issues in the Senate for

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Speaker 1: the confirmation hearing because One West, of course, Um, you

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Speaker 1: if I'm remembering properly, so people including Lizeth Warrener are

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Speaker 1: definitely going to be honest case. I want to bring

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Speaker 1: in Justin Sinc who joined us from Trump Tower. Another

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Speaker 1: nomination today from President elect Trump was Wilbur Ross as

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Speaker 1: to that nomination. I think Wolver Ross faces some of

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Speaker 1: Stevens Communition Um with a billionaire investment investor UM, he's

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Speaker 1: known for buying and restructuring troubled companies. He has close

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Speaker 1: But I'm sure we're gonna hear a lot from Democrats

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Speaker 1: justin maybe just give us also some thoughts about Todd Rickett.

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Speaker 1: So he is a co owner of the Chicago Hub

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Speaker 1: I want to talk a little bit more about Minution

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Speaker 1: Minution has vowed to strip back Dodd Frank, saying the

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Speaker 1: steal your money. It's just so incredible to me that

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Speaker 1: he seems to be so unapologetically surrounding himself with people

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Speaker 1: But I certainly doubt I think rolling back Don Frank

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Speaker 1: is exactly what JP Morgan, what Wills Fargo, what Morgan Stanley,

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Speaker 1: worth noting that Mr Ricketts, Todd Ricketts, who is being

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Speaker 1: from some of these new members of his cabinet. Yes, Max,

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Speaker 1: Abel's and thank you so much. Finance reporter Bloomberg News.

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Speaker 1: Follow on Twitter at Max Abelson. Thanks to Justin Sink,

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Speaker 1: Government reporter Bloomberg News. Follow him on Twitter at Justin Sinc.

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Speaker 1: Pim Fox. Did you see the incredible surge in Fanny

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Speaker 1: May shares after Steve mnuchen Uh, the pick for the

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Speaker 1: Fannie Mae and Freddie mack Um. Yes, yes, I noted

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Speaker 1: well right now, a little bit more than twenty nine percent.

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Speaker 1: That's just since the comments were made early this morning.

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Speaker 1: And I would guess that Bill Ackman of Pershing Square

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Speaker 1: the bigger shareholder in this has almost Fanny May. I

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Speaker 1: these agencies backed uh, these agencies mortgages, ensures essentially um

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Speaker 1: It nice to be here. So just give us a

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Speaker 1: little sense of why Steve Manuchin's comments this morning came

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Speaker 1: So that's one thing is positive for shareholders, that he

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Speaker 1: in this context. Sure so so so Fanny, Fanny and Freddie.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they're basically the plumbing behind America's mortgage market.

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Speaker 1: What they do is they buy, they buy mortgages from lenders.

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Speaker 1: Fannie and Freddie will take that mortgage. Um that you know,

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Speaker 1: But the structural reforms, the tax reforms are going to

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Speaker 1: be plenty of food for for volatility, and volatility is

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Speaker 1: to thank you very much. An alternative call a contrary

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Speaker 1: call there. Axomerk much appreciated. Axomerk is the president and

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Speaker 1: the chief executive of MRK Investments, giving us his thoughts

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Speaker 1: on the dollar and gold and risk acid. Thanks for

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