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Speaker 2: There was a guy pushing a trolley with paper research
Speaker 2: and it was literally half a hockey goal high. Buried
Speaker 2: in that on a given morning was twenty five or
Speaker 2: thirty pages from a firm called C. J.
Speaker 3: Lawrence.
Speaker 2: And my recollection is it was within a green ink.
Speaker 2: The titling was within a green ink. Yard.
Speaker 4: Denny Quick takes is in the same CJ.
Speaker 2: Lawrence Green and we are honored from the span of
Speaker 2: those multiple decades. Edyard Denny joins us this morning. I
Speaker 2: can't say enough about your Denny quick takes. It is
Speaker 2: the read to give you confidence and push away your
Speaker 2: fears of the stock market, ed Yard, Denny, what's there
Speaker 2: to be afraid of right now in the stock market?
Speaker 5: Well, I think evaluation is a bit of an issue.
Speaker 5: I've been forecasting fifty four hundred for the S and
Speaker 5: P five hundred by year end. My concern is we
Speaker 5: might get there by midyear or earlier. I'm forecasting six
Speaker 5: thousand for next year, and I'm concerned we might get
Speaker 5: there by your end. So I'd like to have a nice,
Speaker 5: leisurely bullen market here, not to something like we had
Speaker 5: in the late nineteen nineties.
Speaker 4: A guy at.
Speaker 2: Yale where you got your parchment, I think his name
Speaker 2: was Schiller, used to talk a lot about exuberance that
Speaker 2: was out there. What is the character of our exuberance
Speaker 2: within the Yardenni and Kampora bull market?
Speaker 5: Well, I think we can look back to the nineteen
Speaker 5: nineties as a possible model for the environment we're in.
Speaker 5: If that's the case, then the next question is are
Speaker 5: we in nineteen ninety nine or are we in.
Speaker 3: Something somewhat earlier. I think at this point.
Speaker 5: We're more like nineteen ninety six. Remember December fifth, nineteen
Speaker 5: ninety six when Alan Greenspan had that famous speech in
Speaker 5: which he did a hamlet on.
Speaker 3: Us and he said, you know, how do we know if.
Speaker 5: The market's irrationally exuberant? And I think we're at that
Speaker 5: point now where everybody seems to be asking is it
Speaker 5: rational exuberance or irrational exuberance?
Speaker 1: So ed, when you look at the elements within the market,
Speaker 1: what looks most rational, what looks most irrational?
Speaker 5: Well, the evaluation multiple on anything related to artificial intelligence
Speaker 5: certainly is very high. The so called Magnificent seven there
Speaker 5: are multiple has been very high, though they're becoming more
Speaker 5: rational actually because some of the Magnificent seven are so
Speaker 5: magnificent anymore. We've seen Apple underperform, We've seen Tesla underperformed.
Speaker 3: So it's it's a healthy thing to see that the.
Speaker 5: Market isn't just Willy Nearly going across the board and
Speaker 5: marking up these mega, these mega stocks, these magnificent seven.
Speaker 5: I think clearly outside of the stock market, Bitcoin has
Speaker 5: had a heck of a move I think it's having
Speaker 5: a heck of a move.
Speaker 3: Down this morning.
Speaker 5: But there's so many signs of speculative excesses, edge of Denny.
Speaker 4: Is it edge of fossil?
Speaker 2: Like me, do you believe that there's an underlying under bitcoin?
Speaker 2: Is it an actual tangible and vestment.
Speaker 5: Well, this will probably get a lot of people mad
Speaker 5: at me, but I mean well, and that is I
Speaker 5: view I.
Speaker 3: View bitcoin as digital tulips.
Speaker 5: In other words, it is kind of like what happened
Speaker 5: in Holland with the bubble in tulips. But there's a
Speaker 5: huge difference here which really presents the possibility of much
Speaker 5: higher upside which we've already seen. And that is the
Speaker 5: notion that it's a global market and it's open twenty
Speaker 5: four by seven, and we're talking about tens of thousands,
Speaker 5: hundreds of thousands, millions of people playing in the bitcoin marketplace.
Speaker 3: So I have no idea how high I could go.
Speaker 3: I have no idea how low it can go.
Speaker 5: I'm an old fashioned guy like you are. I need earnings.
Speaker 5: I need I need coupons. I need something I can value.
Speaker 5: I need rents, something I can value, and I don't
Speaker 5: have that with bitcoin.
Speaker 1: You know, digital tulips that have a structure of a
Speaker 1: investment tool underneath them, with all those ETFs, right and
Speaker 1: also a digital tool, a digital tool up that is
Speaker 1: going to also have what's the verb happening to? Have
Speaker 1: you went to the fall?
Speaker 2: H Charlotte Greifeld was on yesterday and we're talking polka
Speaker 2: dot and doge and we're trying I'm trying to have
Speaker 2: a serious conversation with miss Haverford about Polka dot and doge.
Speaker 4: This is nuts.
Speaker 1: This is nuts. Okay, So doctor ed, let me go
Speaker 1: back to bitcoin because there are a lot of things,
Speaker 1: a lot of market structures to support this digital coin
Speaker 1: right now, when we see the happening in April, are
Speaker 1: you going to do you anticipate any kind of correlation
Speaker 1: with what we see in equities because a lot of
Speaker 1: that bullish sentiment tied to bitcoin has spilled over into
Speaker 1: equities or vice versa.
Speaker 5: Well, I think you're right, and I think where Bitcoin's
Speaker 5: and enthusiasm is spilled over its cooling into gold.
Speaker 3: I mean, gold was.
Speaker 5: Kind of sitting there doing nothing, and then all of
Speaker 5: a sudden, maybe some of the bitcoin enthusiasts concluded that
Speaker 5: they haven't own enough of it and it's too expensive
Speaker 5: and they want to look for other areas to diversify.
Speaker 3: So gold has been a winner.
Speaker 5: The gold mining showers haven't done as well. But look,
Speaker 5: I have to admit I've got some fomo every now
Speaker 5: and then when I see this bitcoin going up to
Speaker 5: seventy thousand, I knew about.
Speaker 3: A dollar at ten dollars. I knew it about it
Speaker 3: one hundred at one thousand. Why did I just buy
Speaker 3: a couple?
Speaker 2: And you have a huge response on YouTube this morning worldwide.
Speaker 2: People are listening to Edward Yard Denny. I want to
Speaker 2: go to the X axis, to thetter, whether it's just
Speaker 2: a normal X axis or dare I say we.
Speaker 3: Go log rhythmic.
Speaker 2: You've had the courage to go out to SPX six thousand,
Speaker 2: and I think you've put a twenty five handle on it.
Speaker 2: Why can't add your Denny model out to twenty twenty six?
Speaker 3: Oh, actually I have already.
Speaker 5: I'm glad you asked me because just recently we were
Speaker 5: talking about sixty five hundred in terms of earnings, the
Speaker 5: underlying earnings last year we said two twenty five, and
Speaker 5: there were a lot of people who are using one
Speaker 5: to eighty for earnings per share for the S and
Speaker 5: P five hundred, and we came awfully close two hundred
Speaker 5: and twenty two dollars is what the S and P
Speaker 5: five hundred earned last year. This year we also had
Speaker 5: bullish outlook for earnings two fifty and then the year
Speaker 5: after that. In other words, two two thousand and twenty five,
Speaker 5: we're talking about two seventy and then three hundred dollars
Speaker 5: a share for two twenty six, and we think that well,
Speaker 5: accommoday sixty five hundred on the S and P five
Speaker 5: hundred by twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2: You asking thank you for this kind of well, you know,
Speaker 2: I'm trying ed your Denny. Thank you so much for
Speaker 2: this conversation, folks. Sarah Hunt with US chief market strategist
Speaker 2: at Alpine Wood's Capital Investors. How how did we get
Speaker 2: from Dow eight thousand or Dow six thousand for the
Speaker 2: gloom crew to Dow forty thousand.
Speaker 4: It's just the growth of the nation, right, It's the
Speaker 4: growth of the nation.
Speaker 6: It's the growth of the money supply. You had a
Speaker 6: huge amount of money come into the system over the
Speaker 6: last decade that started the financial crisis, and it just
Speaker 6: went right up until COVID when it was supposed to
Speaker 6: pull back, and then we flooded the system with more
Speaker 6: liquidity post COVID. So a lot of this is money
Speaker 6: looking for a home right so that you had no
Speaker 6: fixed income for a.
Speaker 4: While, So where were you going to put your money?
Speaker 6: You're going to put in equities.
Speaker 4: I'm going to.
Speaker 2: Speak for Roger Ferguson, which is always hazardous because he's
Speaker 2: a giant, he was a TIA, he's our number one
Speaker 2: person in retirement.
Speaker 4: I take immense umbrage.
Speaker 2: With people criticizing the ute of America, like Scarlett Foo
Speaker 2: saving for retirement, who said I'm going to buy stocks
Speaker 2: and that's supposed to be a bad idea.
Speaker 4: I just I don't agree with that. Stocks is how
Speaker 4: you do this right.
Speaker 6: Well, Stocks is where the liquidity went. A lot of
Speaker 6: that liquidity went into stocks. A lot of it went
Speaker 6: into real estate, and it went into real estate and
Speaker 6: pushed real estate prices high enough to the point where
Speaker 6: you couldn't necessarily afford to buy a house. Like people
Speaker 6: talk about the affordability question all the time, it's not
Speaker 6: just mortgage rates. It's the level of pricing and the
Speaker 6: house and the level of pricing, and the housing market
Speaker 6: right now is very high. It has not come down
Speaker 6: commensurate with interest rates.
Speaker 4: Going You just talked about that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so absolutely, then why wouldn't I want to put
Speaker 6: my money in an asset class that has done very
Speaker 6: well historically speaking, and is also one of the few
Speaker 6: places I can do it incrementally.
Speaker 4: It's great.
Speaker 2: Is if you take the twenty five foot Christmas tree
Speaker 2: out of the den, the price of your house scir
Speaker 2: that'll go up one hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: Well, I have to get that thing out first. So
Speaker 1: we talk about moving into equities that's driven by liquidy
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four, how much of that liquidity is
Speaker 1: now going too bitcoin? And is that competition for equities?
Speaker 6: I think it's just one more place where people can
Speaker 6: one put their opinion on, you know, the global monetary
Speaker 6: system and fiat money.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 6: People look at golden bitcoin in a similar way for
Speaker 6: that reason, even though whether or not they actually act
Speaker 6: that way is a different question, and some periods of
Speaker 6: time they will and in some periods of time they won't.
Speaker 6: But I think that you still don't have I mean,
Speaker 6: fixed income is now a bigger competition for equity money
Speaker 6: just because you have an interest rate where for nearly
Speaker 6: a decade you did not. So I think that there
Speaker 6: is that change is also is also there. But you've
Speaker 6: got companies with enormous cash hoards that are looking to
Speaker 6: put money to work in a variety of ways, and
Speaker 6: some of the fixed income is going to get absorbed
Speaker 6: by that. I mean, think about Apple's bounce sheet and
Speaker 6: Vedia's bounce sheet, and we've talked about how enormous they
Speaker 6: are relative to small economies of other nations. So there's
Speaker 6: a lot of there is competition, but there's still a
Speaker 6: lot of money in the system, and this is where
Speaker 6: you're starting to see that wage hike situation going on,
Speaker 6: like you just saw in Japan.
Speaker 1: Okay, So money in the system. We're seeing that, certainly
Speaker 1: with this past earning season, when the buzzword or the
Speaker 1: theme really was free cash flow. Everyone was trumpeting their
Speaker 1: free cash flow. Managers are getting paid based on free
Speaker 1: cash flow. If you think about David Zaslov at Warner
Speaker 1: Brothers Discovery, the use of cash, whether it's to plow
Speaker 1: it into buyback programs or in some cases starting a
Speaker 1: dividend for some of these growthy tech companies, how comfortable
Speaker 1: are you with the use of cash and would you
Speaker 1: want to see more of it diverted to dividends? Versus buybacks.
Speaker 6: So we like capital allocation. That's giving back to shareholders
Speaker 6: if you can afford it, right, So that's the big question.
Speaker 6: They're trumpeting cash flow because if I can afford to
Speaker 6: raise my dividend and or I can afford to buy
Speaker 6: my stock back, that tells me something about the underlying business,
Speaker 6: as opposed to I can only afford to pay a dividend,
Speaker 6: and it's lucky I can pay that dividend. In some cases,
Speaker 6: I have to borrow to pay that dividend. You don't
Speaker 6: want to see that as an investor. It happens, but
Speaker 6: that's not what we're looking for in general. But I
Speaker 6: think that there is a trade off between those two things.
Speaker 6: I would argue I like dividends more than I like buybacks,
Speaker 6: but it does the same idea is that it's giving
Speaker 6: capital back and or to the extent that it's shrinking
Speaker 6: the share account making your metrics look better too.
Speaker 4: How do you like dividends if I'm paying a tax
Speaker 4: on it.
Speaker 6: I don't like paying taxes on anything, but I still
Speaker 6: have to pay. That's part of the zeitgeist. If it's
Speaker 6: a buyback and my capital gains go up, then I've
Speaker 6: got taxes on that side too. Taxes are going to
Speaker 6: be part of Taxes are going to be part of
Speaker 6: the equation about SPA slice it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, I want to talk about April twenty fifth,
Speaker 2: and I just randomly picked it. I picked a big,
Speaker 2: ugly company that's doing better than good. Microsoft announces earnings
Speaker 2: basically a month from now.
Speaker 4: Isn't the heart of the matter.
Speaker 2: The stocks we've chosen to be in, we believe the
Speaker 2: cash flows will be there.
Speaker 4: Do you see.
Speaker 2: Any risk of cash flows diminishing in the second in
Speaker 2: the first quarter report or the second quarter report?
Speaker 6: This is one of those areas that we keep talking about,
Speaker 6: which is that the largest companies now are those companies
Speaker 6: that have some very good base cash flows, and so
Speaker 6: do I see it? Could there be volatility within a
Speaker 6: quarter to quarter?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 6: Is there a long term issue with the cash flow
Speaker 6: of something like Microsoft right now? I don't think so.
Speaker 6: And I think that's one of the reasons that these
Speaker 6: large dominant tech stocks are remaining large and dominant because
Speaker 6: the cash is there. In the last run up that
Speaker 6: we had major technology run up in the early two
Speaker 6: thousand like that, the cash wasn't They're in a lot
Speaker 6: of those companies the stock rises move, but they weren't
Speaker 6: making any money. A lot of these companies are making
Speaker 6: a lot of money right now, and I think that
Speaker 6: that's one of the reasons that they end up remaining dominant.
Speaker 1: Does a lot of recash low repel activist investors or
Speaker 1: does it give them? Does it attract them in a
Speaker 1: way where they're thinking, Oh, there's something there's something more here.
Speaker 6: I think that it depends on what management's doing with
Speaker 6: that cash, lil and whether or not they think they
Speaker 6: can do a whole lot of a better job.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 6: So that's a question of what you're doing, and somebody
Speaker 6: looking at that going I could take that cash and
Speaker 6: do a whole bunch of other things with me.
Speaker 2: A really interesting discussion here, inequities. What's your portfolio turnover rate?
Speaker 2: How much are you moving in and out of stuff?
Speaker 6: It is not that high. We tend to buy and
Speaker 6: hold things for longer periods of time, right, So, I mean,
Speaker 6: I probably could give you a number off the top
Speaker 6: of my head, but it's going to be somewhere in
Speaker 6: the thirty to fifty percent releases ofso hire Right.
Speaker 3: Do you rebalance?
Speaker 6: Yes, we rebalance, but we also don't want to cut
Speaker 6: our winners off too early. So it's really a question
Speaker 6: of if I'm looking to rebalance, why am I looking
Speaker 6: to rebalance? Is it because everything else has gone down?
Speaker 6: Because something's gone up so much that now I'm afraid
Speaker 6: that it's too big in the portfolio, and I don't
Speaker 6: want to take a single stock or a handful of
Speaker 6: stock risk that's too big. But that's the problem with
Speaker 6: underperforming the SMP last year, right because the sixth biggest,
Speaker 6: seven biggest stocks were all of the performance. So if
Speaker 6: you rebounce too much, you're you're trailing those indices.
Speaker 1: Talk about overseas markets, is there anything attractive about them?
Speaker 2: Right now?
Speaker 6: You know, we tend to be American US centric in
Speaker 6: terms of our investments. There are a lot of ways
Speaker 6: to play overseas markets with US companies. I think that
Speaker 6: for US, the difficult thing is seeing why another economy
Speaker 6: is going to either outstrip the US or do something
Speaker 6: more than just have a giant move. Now that Japan
Speaker 6: had a big move, but the currency had a big move,
Speaker 6: So if you're not in Japanese, yeah, that big move
Speaker 6: doesn't necessarily feel as good unless you completely hedge that
Speaker 6: move out. So for us. We like to look at
Speaker 6: things that we like to look at ways of playing
Speaker 6: overseas markets with US centric stock.
Speaker 4: Sir, thank you, Sarah Hunt. We'll have her in off
Speaker 4: in here. Just a great guest.
Speaker 2: Unlike the reality of a portfolio.
Speaker 4: This is a joy. Paper Soldiers. Don't look for the
Speaker 4: movie there it is.
Speaker 2: I'm sure she hasn't sold the movie rights, but it's
Speaker 2: under consideration.
Speaker 4: Salaiah Mosen.
Speaker 2: And the reason we're talking to her is because she's
Speaker 2: a real journalist. There's this rumor I'm a journalist. Guess
Speaker 2: what I'm not. Only Marty Schenker thinks I'm a journalist.
Speaker 2: My great advisor here at Bloomberg. Selaiah is the real deal.
Speaker 2: And she's gone out and put together the soap opera
Speaker 2: of your United States Dollar under Risk at Treasury. Given
Speaker 2: the crises that are out there, she runs our Treasury
Speaker 2: covers in Washington. The book is a piercing two hundred
Speaker 2: pages how the weaponization of the dollar changed the world order. Seleiah,
Speaker 2: congratulations and the courage on writing this. When Tim Geidner
Speaker 2: reads this book, when he reads Paper Soldiers, how upset
Speaker 2: is he.
Speaker 3: Going to be?
Speaker 7: I'm so excited this book is coming out on Tuesday Day.
Speaker 7: Tim Geidner is actually going to be excited, and not
Speaker 7: because of how he may or may not look at it.
Speaker 7: My conversation for the book with him came right before,
Speaker 7: about a month before the Russia invasion Ukraine, a month
Speaker 7: before those historic almost earth shattering sanctions that the US
Speaker 7: led the world on applying on Russia. And somehow he
Speaker 7: was so pressy in our interview. I asked him all
Speaker 7: of my questions. He answered everything patiently, and then he
Speaker 7: held me back at the end and he said, Seleia,
Speaker 7: when you're writing this book, I want you to think
Speaker 7: about how the next generation of policymakers at Treasury are
Speaker 7: going to have a different America that they're facing. And
Speaker 7: that shifted the lens through which I was looking at.
Speaker 2: So I sat across from Parliament with John Taylor, who
Speaker 2: was at a G seven meeting for a very ill
Speaker 2: John Snow and they were at the time with the
Speaker 2: fear of terrorism, foreign exchange transfers, and will as well.
Speaker 4: I want you to sell to our.
Speaker 2: Audience on Apple car playing YouTube, the why of this book.
Speaker 4: They're interested in the Fed, the Fed, the Fed, the Fed.
Speaker 2: Why does Albert Gallatin's Treasury matter in our nation's security.
Speaker 7: The US the world runs on US dollars. The Treasure
Speaker 7: Department is the steward of the dollar. The dollar touches
Speaker 7: everyone's life. You could be a cocoa bean picker in Ghana,
Speaker 7: you could be an oligarch or a business tycoon somewhere,
Speaker 7: and you need the dollar, the global financial system to
Speaker 7: make any kind of transactions to keep up your livelihood.
Speaker 7: The US has used that dollar to protect itself after
Speaker 7: nine to eleven. The global the war on terror did
Speaker 7: not start with military tanks rolling toward a country. It
Speaker 7: started with the stroke of the pen when George W.
Speaker 7: Bush gave the Treasure Department fresh authorities to track money
Speaker 7: that the money flow of terrorists, and to use economic sanctions.
Speaker 7: So the dollar gets us health, it gives us the
Speaker 7: pursuit of happiness, It gives us connection to the world.
Speaker 2: And an alshy protext in the Scarlet is Valerie, you
Speaker 2: started just staying said in the Great Barrier, I con
Speaker 2: greeted Berkeley. It is our exorbitant privilege.
Speaker 1: It is our exorbitant privilege, and it's one that we
Speaker 1: don't have to think about a whole lot when it
Speaker 1: comes down to it, because day in and day out, sleiha.
Speaker 1: Most Americans aren't really concerned with the relative strength or
Speaker 1: weakness of the US currency unless they're traveling abroad. You
Speaker 1: mentioned an oligarch overseas, you mentioned a foreign business owner,
Speaker 1: But for ordinary Americans, day in and day out, it's
Speaker 1: not something we have to trouble ourselves with. In your reporting,
Speaker 1: what do you think will most distress ordinary Americans about
Speaker 1: the dollar and how the government has weaponized the dollar.
Speaker 7: I think the most distressing thing is what's playing out
Speaker 7: every day across the country and in Washington. It's the
Speaker 7: self inflicted wounds that we are giving our country, and
Speaker 7: that is actually damaging the US's dominance in the world
Speaker 7: and the dollar's dominance in the world. If Washington can't
Speaker 7: get if the US can't get its fiscal house in
Speaker 7: order make sure it's electorate feels heard, feels happy, becomes united,
Speaker 7: then dollar dominance and American hedge money around the world
Speaker 7: is not going to last.
Speaker 1: Okay. The US Treasury, as you know, has always pledged
Speaker 1: allegiance to a strong dollar. They all answered that they
Speaker 1: want a strong dollar. Obviously, we know it's much more
Speaker 1: nuanced than that. What are they really saying, sal how
Speaker 1: or is that statement nothing at all?
Speaker 7: Now? It's really nothing at all. You know, it was
Speaker 7: treasury lore. It was a mantra from the strong, from
Speaker 7: the Bob Ruben administration. At the time. It meant that
Speaker 7: we are relying on our economic strength to rule global
Speaker 7: commerce and to run our own economy, and it underpin globalization.
Speaker 7: And now Trump started a movement to look inward more
Speaker 7: populous policies, and Biden has carried that fourth By America friends,
Speaker 7: shoring sound a lot like make America greater again and
Speaker 7: America First. And so we are shifting toward a policy
Speaker 7: where there's no real dollar policy, because no one wants
Speaker 7: to admit to a week dollar policy because with one hand,
Speaker 7: peak exchange rate is good for manufacturing. With the other hand,
Speaker 7: dollar dominance and hegemony is really good for a.
Speaker 2: Celeyah off of paper soldiers. And I guess it's after
Speaker 2: the book. It'll be for your second edition, your sequel.
Speaker 2: I should say, how's Yellen doing? Has she been a
Speaker 2: successful Secretary of Treasury?
Speaker 7: She's still there. She has navigated through a lot. You know,
Speaker 7: she had to be there to oversee the execution and
Speaker 7: implementation of some really complicated, huge sanctions on Russia and
Speaker 7: take a lot of the flak. A lot of people
Speaker 7: these days are wondering whether those sanctions really worked or not.
Speaker 7: The oil price cap was a really big deal for
Speaker 7: Janet Yellen, and of course inflation. She was one of
Speaker 7: the people who was calling it transitory while millions of
Speaker 7: Americans were seen and then it turned out to not
Speaker 7: be true. But I think we still need some time
Speaker 7: to know whether how her legacy will stand after her.
Speaker 2: I can't say enough about this book. It's a little book,
Speaker 2: but it's a powerful book. Paper Soldiers, How the weaponization
Speaker 2: of the dollar changed the world order Selaya Moss, And
Speaker 2: it just can't find the words for the dialogue and
Speaker 2: the velocity as through it of all these people worrying
Speaker 2: about crisis one in crisis too, Sleiah, thank you so
Speaker 2: much for Paper as Soldiers.
Speaker 3: She is with Bloomberg.
Speaker 4: News in Washington.
Speaker 2: You daily look at the front pages without royal coverage.
Speaker 4: It's from around the world except the UK. Lisa, what
Speaker 4: do you got?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 8: We're starting with the Wall Street Journal. Apparently there is
Speaker 8: a fake Bill Ackman that is scamming investors out of
Speaker 8: millions of dollars on Facebook. So the problem is that
Speaker 8: the real actman can't do anything about it. Okay, so
Speaker 8: his company has found more than ninety different ads that
Speaker 8: are impersonating him. One of them promised annual returns of
Speaker 8: one hundred and twenty five percent, another twenty five exactly exactly,
Speaker 8: another twenty five percent return in a week, and told
Speaker 8: victims to hold these three stocks and you'll.
Speaker 5: Get a million.
Speaker 4: The entity is doing so he can't go out to.
Speaker 8: Can't do nothing about it, and that's the problem. It's
Speaker 8: not just Acman. I mean Kathy Wood's Ark investment matter.
Speaker 8: She had this caleto and a lot of people. I
Speaker 8: even my own brother in law had his Facebook account
Speaker 8: taken over and he can't do anything.
Speaker 4: But what's Facebook doing about this?
Speaker 8: They're doing nothing about it, and.
Speaker 4: That's the problem. Full disclosure.
Speaker 1: You're sending out my stock messages when someone complains.
Speaker 2: I have a secret account on Instagram, but I had
Speaker 2: to leave Instagram because Instagram wouldn't.
Speaker 4: Fix the problem.
Speaker 1: What happened when you tried to consent with that?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Oh it was a great bloomberg. We have a whole
Speaker 4: team here that does this. It wouldn't like any other firm.
Speaker 2: But the answer is you're telling me about mister Ackman,
Speaker 2: and I'm saying, okay, Facebook, can you fix it by
Speaker 2: Friday twelve noon.
Speaker 4: Don't tell me they can't.
Speaker 8: Yeah, well they can in certain intoms like they have.
Speaker 8: But the problem is that more just keep popping up.
Speaker 8: So once they delete a few a few.
Speaker 1: More bim with two ends or black three ends.
Speaker 8: It just continues and continues. So next it's a tough one.
Speaker 8: But the red flags, yes, you have to be aware
Speaker 8: of those red flags. This is from Bloomberg Law. It's
Speaker 8: it's kind of I have to kind of dig into
Speaker 8: this one. There's saying new lie detecting AI for job interviews,
Speaker 8: violating some old laws. This was a case bought over
Speaker 8: in Massachusetts the use of ARTI artificial intelligence as a
Speaker 8: lie detector when people are interviewing for a job. So
Speaker 8: this is a problem. This is a court case with
Speaker 8: CBS Health. The person said they use this video interview
Speaker 8: technology that was developed by a company that reported their
Speaker 8: job reported these job seekers while they were answering questions.
Speaker 8: They then took that video and sent it over to
Speaker 8: an AI company that basically starts to interpret how the
Speaker 8: people are reacting, So it's it's giving them their emotions,
Speaker 8: it's making an assessment on the person from that, you
Speaker 8: know information we feel uncomfortable. Yeah, so it's like you're
Speaker 8: being recorded and then you're having AI tell the company
Speaker 8: who you really.
Speaker 4: Are train the AI.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's well, it's of the real world Adobe. I
Speaker 2: think this morning was done ten percent or something. And
Speaker 2: then you know there's some financial issues. But also there's
Speaker 2: this like, Okay, when's the AI click in? And I
Speaker 2: really wonder if that's when we look ahead?
Speaker 4: Is that the discussion?
Speaker 1: Is this the best use of AI? Is this what
Speaker 1: we want the AI to be used for?
Speaker 3: Right? That's a good question.
Speaker 1: That's one thing to make things more productive and more seamless,
Speaker 1: But is this the seamlessness we're seeking?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 4: Maybe minution will make TikTok the new AI. Next?
Speaker 8: Yeah, Okay, Wall Street Journal Luxuries resorts, they are ramping
Speaker 8: up their kids club. They're going all out because more
Speaker 8: families are traveling. So you have accommodations that started about
Speaker 8: fourteen hundred dollars a night. You have places that offer
Speaker 8: kids programm like Spanish language lessons. They can learn Spanish
Speaker 8: while they're on vacation.
Speaker 1: Kids want to do that.
Speaker 4: They can take dance lessons.
Speaker 8: I think kids just want to go in the water pool.
Speaker 8: I don't know, but they're doing it. It's like kids
Speaker 8: clubs on steroids, that's what they're calling it.
Speaker 4: It's a huge deal.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And to give a snapshot into this, it's cheaper
Speaker 2: for me. I'm leaving for Paris tonight. It's cheaper for
Speaker 2: me to go to Paris than to go to some
Speaker 2: resort with kids clubs. Because the key number you just
Speaker 2: said was fourteen hundred dollars a night.
Speaker 3: That's cheap.
Speaker 2: That's cheap, trust me, that's cheap in prime season the Caribbean.
Speaker 2: And it's gone up from the pandemic. I had the
Speaker 2: last plane out of Jamaica literally when the pandemic collapsed everything.
Speaker 4: And I would say.
Speaker 2: Since twenty nineteen it's gone up eighty percent.
Speaker 4: I'm guessing eight zero.
Speaker 1: That's pricing power.
Speaker 2: And it's all yeah, talk about pricing and every unit sold.
Speaker 2: It's like, I'm sorry, mister King, we can slip you
Speaker 2: in a Jamaica in July.
Speaker 4: That really works out.
Speaker 2: But you know that is this goes to the real
Speaker 2: estate scarlet you were talking about. I'm sorry, I'm looking
Speaker 2: around and it's a boom economy.
Speaker 1: Everyone's trying to get into the towns where the schools
Speaker 1: are good so they can set their kids up so
Speaker 1: that maybe one day their kids can have a similar
Speaker 1: standard of living that they enjoy right now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would say that's part of what do you got?
Speaker 4: You got something last week?
Speaker 8: Taylor Swift it's a Friday Royal, so they got a
Speaker 8: special treat Disney. Plus, remember they're going to stream her concert.
Speaker 8: It was supposed to be tonight. Well they did it
Speaker 8: last night, what at nine pm? So all the Swifties.
Speaker 8: It was a surprise the Swifties got. They're probably a
Speaker 8: bit tired this morning. They've seen a plate to watch it.
Speaker 8: But I mean, Disney report, you played like seventy five
Speaker 8: million dollars for those worldwide streaming rights. So it went
Speaker 8: off last night. They had a few extra songs in there,
Speaker 8: and yeah, it was like a special treat for them.
Speaker 6: So we got a day or like, do you have
Speaker 6: a Swifty.
Speaker 4: In your family? Oh yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah hardcore I.
Speaker 2: Think every family does. I've said this before. There's a
Speaker 2: spectacular video of her with the guitar. It's a number
Speaker 2: of years ago at the Bloomberg Cafe. The sounds terrible,
Speaker 2: the mic is terrible for guitars and two and I'll
Speaker 2: give her that. And she literally just walks up there
Speaker 2: and sits down, and you know, seeing her in really
Speaker 2: difficult conditions.
Speaker 4: She's the real deal.
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