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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, Podcasts, radio News. I want to just

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Speaker 1: thank you our great host Canada, but you'll probably hear

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Speaker 1: what I see and I have to be back here.

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Speaker 2: I'm Stephanie Flanders, head of Government and Economics at Bloomberg.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to Trumponomics, the podcast that looks at the economic

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Speaker 2: world of Donald Trump, how he's already shaped the global economy,

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Speaker 2: and what on earth is going to happen next. We're

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Speaker 2: recording this on Tuesday, the seventeenth of June, hours before

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Speaker 2: the official end of the fifty first g seventh Summit

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Speaker 2: being hosted in Canada, but after the US President unexpectedly

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Speaker 2: departed a day early. Maybe we shouldn't be so surprised.

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Speaker 2: He's made no secret of his disdain for these official

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Speaker 2: gatherings of world leaders, I mean, collective decision making. It's

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Speaker 2: not really his thing, nor is sharing the spotlight. Why

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Speaker 2: stick around arguing over a stupid communicate when you can

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Speaker 2: steal all the headlines by jumping on a plane unexpectedly

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Speaker 2: and posting on truth social But headlines aren't the same

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Speaker 2: as results, and so far, the president's one man banned

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Speaker 2: approach to ending foreign wars hasn't been going very well

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Speaker 2: at all. As I mentioned, we're recording this on the Tuesday,

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Speaker 2: the seventeenth of June. The conflict between Iran and Israel

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Speaker 2: appears to be intensifying today, and obviously we don't know

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Speaker 2: what will happen in the region before you listen to this,

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Speaker 2: but we can ask what the crisis in the Middle

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Speaker 2: East and potentially a soaring oil price would mean for

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Speaker 2: the US economy and for Donald Trump. And we've got

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Speaker 2: two brilliant voices to speak to that from our Bloomberg

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Speaker 2: Economics team in London here with me, which I'm like

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Speaker 2: to say is not always the case. Diaddou, chief emerging

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Speaker 2: markets economist, who's also a senior fellow at Harvard Kennedy

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Speaker 2: School and a great friend of the show. We heard

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Speaker 2: him a few weeks ago in Qatar. It was great

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Speaker 2: to be here and in Washington. Jenny Welch, our chief

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Speaker 2: geoeconomics analyst. Jenny, who's also been on the show several times,

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Speaker 2: previously served as the director for China and Taiwan on

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Speaker 2: the US National Security Council under the Biden and old

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Speaker 2: Trump administrations.

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much, Stephanie, an honor to be here.

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Speaker 2: Jenny you're someone who's I spent a fair bit of

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Speaker 2: time preparing notes for G seven summits, and I was

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Speaker 2: remembering that Donald Trump in his first term, he left

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Speaker 2: the last G seven that was also held in Canada

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Speaker 2: in a half about Canadian milk quotas. Is there any

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Speaker 2: point having them these G seven meetings in the age

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Speaker 2: of Donald Trump.

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Speaker 1: Well, interestingly enough, I think we're going to get an

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Speaker 1: answer to that question today on what the remaining G

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Speaker 1: that President Trump has departed it. They were able to

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Speaker 1: put out yesterday a statement on the ongoing Israel Ron conflict,

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Speaker 1: but even then they had to do a lot of

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Speaker 1: backroom dealing to get President Trump to sign on to it. Otherwise,

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Speaker 1: the expectations for the summer were pretty low heading into it.

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Speaker 1: I think there was a lot of focus really more

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Speaker 2: There is so much focus on who gets the bilateral

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Speaker 2: with Donald Trump, and I guess the ones who were

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Speaker 2: had to leave. But did he get anything done before

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Speaker 1: Well, we got additional progress. I say progress because there's

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Speaker 1: still some unsolved elements of the US UK trade deal,

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Speaker 1: were building anticipation for some sort of announcement at this meeting.

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Speaker 1: But Japan had their meeting and was surprisingly not able

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Speaker 1: have a meeting with President Trump was President Zelenski, who

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Speaker 2: The reason that Donald Trump went back to White House

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Speaker 2: I'm sure people listening will have been following most of

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Speaker 2: briefly how markets have responded to all intense purposes outbreak

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Speaker 3: Right the main market that we're talking about that's relevant

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Speaker 3: prices did go up or have gone up since Friday thirteenth.

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Speaker 3: Before the conflict, oil was around sixty seven dollars per barrel.

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Speaker 3: have implications for all prices. We looked at the scenarios.

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Speaker 2: Okay, and if in the past we've had oil shops.

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Speaker 3: Let's just talk about recent history and then we talk

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Speaker 3: about the longer history, the recent history, past twelve to

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Speaker 3: So everything that we thought was remote and unlikely has materialized,

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Speaker 3: think seven major turmoils in the Middle East, from the

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Speaker 3: of them have had little impact on all prices. Two

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Speaker 3: it seems that recently oil is getting decoupling from geopolitical

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Speaker 2: This is an administration that has talked more about oil

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Speaker 2: his Treasury sectary has talked about wanting to get oil

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Speaker 2: Do you think that is changing the way the administration

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Speaker 2: in terms of the price of the pump.

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Speaker 1: It does strike me that we don't see the same

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Speaker 1: But at the moment a lot of uncertainty about exactly

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Speaker 2: We've had the most sort of extreme examples of that

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Speaker 2: the thing that would change the way markets were thinking

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Speaker 3: I mean, right now market seems quite relaxed and calm,

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Speaker 3: not normal to see Daranga and bomb tel Aviv gain bomb.

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Speaker 3: That's absolutely not normal. So I think it's important to

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Speaker 3: He gets slower growth, you get higher inflation, and you

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Speaker 1: I think there's two simultaneous truths here. There is still

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Speaker 1: It's a fair question, especially because right now we're serving

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