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Speaker 2: Bill Lee, chief economist at the Milkin Institute, who is

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Speaker 2: in Singapore for the eleventh annual Milkin Institute Asia Summit. Bill,

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Speaker 2: always a pleasure to have you with us on the program.

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Speaker 2: Lots to talk about this morning. We can talk about China,

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Speaker 2: we can talk about the US. We can talk about US,

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Speaker 2: China and the FED. Let's start off with the Fed.

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Speaker 2: I'm curious why you think this time the FED decided

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Speaker 2: to not be very clear about its course of action. Generally,

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Speaker 2: the market tends to know what the Fed is going

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Speaker 2: to do when we get to the day. Not this time.

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Speaker 3: Why, under Chair Powell, I think we've noticed that the

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Speaker 3: FED has really held its cards very close to the chest,

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Speaker 3: and they're maximize the amount of optionality they have by

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Speaker 3: saying that we're completely data dependent and we're going to

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Speaker 3: look at the last bit of data before we make

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Speaker 3: up our minds. In a way, it's done a disservice

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Speaker 3: to financial markets. When I use that the FED Reserve

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Speaker 3: in the old days, there's a lot of there's a

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Speaker 3: sense that we understood how the FED worked, we understood

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Speaker 3: its framework, we can anticipate its decision making. And I said,

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Speaker 3: I must say a criticism of the current FED is

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Speaker 3: this complete data dependency without telling markets what exactly it's

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Speaker 3: going to do with the data. And I think that

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Speaker 3: has been characteristic of Chair Paul's caution and wanting to

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Speaker 3: preserve his legacy of sticking the soft landing and being

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Speaker 3: one of the few FED chairmen who's able to do that.

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Speaker 1: Bill We've been talking about this debate in the marketplace

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Speaker 1: whether it's going to be a twenty five basis point

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Speaker 1: raid cut or a fifty basis point raid cut.

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Speaker 3: WO tear to weigh in, Well, let me just bring

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Speaker 3: out the old school model of how the Federal Reserve

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Speaker 3: has always worked and really continues to work at its core,

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Speaker 3: which is to say, they really want to make a

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Speaker 3: path that's clear to financial markets that we are going

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Speaker 3: to get back to neutrality. I personally believe that that

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Speaker 3: we should do it fairly quickly because the economy has

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Speaker 3: been cruising at at a steady pace, at a very strong,

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Speaker 3: steady pace, with inflation clearly coming down. But we're so

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Speaker 3: far away from a neutral interest rate that we should

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Speaker 3: just get on with it because there isn't a lot

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Speaker 3: of danger of inflation resurging, and the weakening economy has

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Speaker 3: got financial markets concerned, and I think cher Paul should

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Speaker 3: do a better job of explaining to financial markets there's

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Speaker 3: nothing to be concerned about. The US economy is on

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Speaker 3: cruise control and where in fact, you know, better than

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Speaker 3: normal right now, the labor market is not really shows

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Speaker 3: no signs of weakness at all, regardless of what whether

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Speaker 3: people believe this so called sombl or not. Normally pay

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Speaker 3: roll increases are like one hundred and fifty thousand.

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Speaker 2: We're a little crimped on time today. So let's kind

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Speaker 2: of have a little rapid fire action here. Let me

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Speaker 2: ask you, you know we usually have unanimous votes there,

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Speaker 2: do you expect a lot more divergence or dissent in

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Speaker 2: this decision?

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Speaker 3: I think the current Fed really is really wanting to

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Speaker 3: show a sign of unity, and that's why Chirpaul has

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Speaker 3: been so cautious in telling markets what the FED will

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Speaker 3: be doing until it actually does it, So I doubt

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Speaker 1: So I'm imagining that China is going to be a

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Speaker 1: big topic for the eleventh annual Milkin Institute Asia Summit.

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Speaker 1: Are you concerned about the degree to which China is

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Speaker 1: really stuck in this deflationary trap?

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Speaker 3: You know absolutely. In fact, I've been in Korea at

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Speaker 3: the World College Forum. I just came here and the

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Speaker 3: discussion is really all about China, and I've been telling

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Speaker 3: debilitating debt, and dismal demographics, and the debt's burden local

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Speaker 3: needed to stimulate the economy. And Chairman, She's aversion for

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Speaker 2: We imagine the Chinese economy to be stumbling a little

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Speaker 3: Why, well, what's relative to normal?

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Speaker 3: China's demographics has really slowed down to the point where

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Speaker 3: normal growth to keep the population employed, it has to

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Speaker 1: Very quickly, Bill, in about ten seconds, will we get

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Speaker 1: something from the PBOC that is stimulative here in the

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Speaker 3: That's not what they need. They need a fiscal policy,

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Speaker 3: fiscal stimulus, support income.

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Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, Bill Well Billy, chief economist at the Milk

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Speaker 1: and Institute in Singapore for the eleventh annual Milk and

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Speaker 1: Institute Asia Summit.

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Speaker 2: David Finnerty from our Bloomberg Live team, So we're looking

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Speaker 2: at the FED. I'm wondering, David, whether or not you

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Speaker 2: think that perhaps too much positivity has been priced into

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Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, in terms of you going with it's fifty

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Speaker 4: or twenty five, I think, certainly at my end it

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Speaker 4: should be twenty five. I think the market is, as

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Speaker 4: we've seen several times, it says it's really biased what's

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Speaker 4: right cuts, and it is what it is. So you

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Speaker 4: give them any chance of price in fifty, those certainly

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Speaker 4: run with that. And I think reality is if the

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Speaker 4: Fed does cut fifty, the markets could go, oh, you

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Speaker 4: mean fifty to fifty to fifty. So I reality, that's

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Speaker 4: what it's going to do. It will try and price in.

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Speaker 4: I think it will. We'll be back to six rate

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Speaker 4: cuts because it's called a point weight cuts this year.

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Speaker 4: I mean, the market's going to go with it if

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Speaker 4: you give it any chance. So I think I'm in.

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Speaker 4: There's something in the twenty five camp. And one of

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Speaker 4: the logic is I said, if you go fifty, the

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Speaker 4: market's going to go because you remember, back in the

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Speaker 4: June dot plot was we go The media forecast was

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Speaker 4: for one rate cut this year, So suddenly you do

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Speaker 4: fifty just three months later, it looks panicky. Yes, the

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Speaker 4: data has slowed down. I get that, but I don't

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Speaker 4: think the data warrants are fifty. But if you give fifty,

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Speaker 4: the market's going to go. You're behind the curve. We're

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Speaker 4: going to price in more weight cuts very quickly.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the bond market certainly has done a lot of

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Speaker 1: the heavy lifting lately, and that's one of the factors

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Speaker 1: that has really kind of made financial conditions relatively easy.

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Speaker 1: The other part of the story is the dollar and

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Speaker 1: its relative weakness, and also higher stock prices. So do

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Speaker 1: you think that the FED would be right in erring

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Speaker 1: on the on the conservative side.

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Speaker 4: For me based off the data? If there really the

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Speaker 4: Fed's looking at, we're here not to control stock market

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Speaker 4: indirect you could say it is, but if it's looking here,

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Speaker 4: we're trying to get that soft landing. I think the

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Speaker 4: data for me warrants a twenty five, and then you

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Speaker 4: can you can leave the door open to look for

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Speaker 4: data weekends, then we can do fifty. That's fine, But

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Speaker 4: the moment, I don't think you know, four point two

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Speaker 4: percent on employment rate. Yes, it's been upticking, but it

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Speaker 4: did stabilize last month, So let's see that uptick trend continues.

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Speaker 4: I know, could argument be if you leave it you're

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Speaker 4: behind the curve. But then again, are you going too

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Speaker 4: aggressively too early? So I'm I'm for me. I think

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Speaker 4: twenty five is wanted.

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Speaker 2: I kind of think they'll go fifty. But then we'll

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Speaker 2: have more hawkish commentary than what some people might be expected,

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Speaker 2: just to give them, you know, a very broad range

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Speaker 2: of movement. Now you've got, you know, a lot of

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Speaker 2: room there in between the fifty, and you know, Policymaker

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Speaker 2: Powell who's sounding like, you know, this might be all

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Speaker 2: we can muse about all of this. You know, your

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Speaker 2: your thoughts on whether the economy needs some juicing.

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Speaker 4: Well, at the moment, I said, I think base it's

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Speaker 4: certainly slowing down. I think twenty I said, I'm in

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Speaker 4: the twenty five camp. I think the cats for the

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Speaker 4: Fed if you do fifty and go oh and that's it,

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Speaker 4: the market's going to go no, no, no, no, you're

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Speaker 4: fifty to fifty to fifty, and that's what the market.

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Speaker 4: You know, the market is buiased that way. So you know,

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Speaker 4: I think you it's go be very tough for the

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Speaker 2: They could do it they could do it in a

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Speaker 2: slightly different way. They could say, well, the Fed funds

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Speaker 2: kind of say, you know, we think fifty basis points

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Speaker 2: down below three percent, right, so there's a really big gap.

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Speaker 2: So they could say, well, fifty basis points is the

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Speaker 2: to see how this works out. I don't expect too

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I get your point. I mean, i'd say, the

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Speaker 4: market's going to hear what it wants to hear, and

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Speaker 4: the market's going to go fifty and I want six

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Speaker 4: and you've opened the door to that, and I'm going

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Speaker 4: to run with that. So it's the market interprets it

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Speaker 4: how it wants to interpret, and it's very biased towards

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Speaker 4: anything dubbish. I'm going to that's all I'm going to hear.

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Speaker 4: I forget the rest. I'm hearing the Dovist parts.

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Speaker 1: So you fear like a tantrum. And at this point

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Speaker 1: the Fed cannot afford to have the market not on

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Speaker 1: its side. Is that fair?

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Speaker 4: I think it's tough to control the markets. Is that

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Speaker 4: you've seen how much the markets whipsawed this year, said

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Speaker 4: go back to January with the sick rate cuts, expecting

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Speaker 4: one in March, and then it went back to no

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Speaker 4: rate cuts. And so the market continue shows its hand

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Speaker 4: in terms of its behavior. And I just think you've

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Speaker 4: got to be careful what you asked for in that

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Speaker 4: the market is going to go very aggressively. If you

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Speaker 4: give me signals of a rate cut, I will literally

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Speaker 4: run with it. So I think fifty is the market's going.

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Speaker 4: You're well behind the right curve. We're going to put

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Speaker 4: in one fifty this year and then let's not get

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Speaker 4: to next year because we've got to do more next year.

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Speaker 4: So I think heels get crashed and stuff. So I

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Speaker 4: think it's just it creates a mess for the FED

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Speaker 4: to try and control it. You know, you've got like

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Speaker 4: this kid who's running around. You're trying to control what

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Speaker 4: it does on the lease and the market's going, well,

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Speaker 4: you give me a big leash to just do what want,

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Speaker 4: and I'm going to I.

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Speaker 2: Think the market's pretty I think the market is pretty mature,

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Speaker 2: and it seems like right now it's kind of understands

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Speaker 2: that whether it's twenty five or fifty, it's the beginning

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Speaker 2: of a cycle, and the cycle, you know, there's no

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Speaker 1: You know, it's interesting. There was a report that we

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