WEBVTT - Single Best Idea with Tom Keene: Kathy Bostjancic & Lori Calvasina

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<v Speaker 1>Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio news.

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<v Speaker 2>The single best idea. We've been doing this a few

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<v Speaker 2>years and it's now getting the weirdness meter. The surveillance

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<v Speaker 2>weirdness meter is off the chart. And I don't mean

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<v Speaker 2>to be inflammatory, and I'm not predicting anything about equities, bonds, currencies,

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<v Speaker 2>or commodities, but the uncertainty out there, I want to

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<v Speaker 2>go through this. I think it's so so important. There

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<v Speaker 2>are three words in economics, risk, uncertainty, and ambiguity. Let

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<v Speaker 2>me start with the ambiguity, which is the least important

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<v Speaker 2>Douglas North, Nobel Prizeman or Washington, University of Saint Louis.

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<v Speaker 2>Ambiguity means a couple different things, and it's sort of

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<v Speaker 2>like in microeconomics, where something can happen and it cuts

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<v Speaker 2>eye their way, and it's ambiguous which way it cuts

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<v Speaker 2>whatever chart you're looking at or thought you're looking at

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<v Speaker 2>frankly algebraic equation. But also ambiguity around institutions, and it's

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<v Speaker 2>just an uncertain feel because of the ambiguous nature of institutions.

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<v Speaker 2>And then there's risk, which is a measurable doubt, a

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<v Speaker 2>measurable probability, a measurable uncertainty, and now everybody's tossing around

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<v Speaker 2>the word uncertainty. I mean, I'm hearing it about every

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<v Speaker 2>seven minutes on the show. We got a tip chart

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<v Speaker 2>we have the show. Every time someone mentions uncertainty, that's

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<v Speaker 2>the unmeasurable. And on this Monday, the unmeasurable, particularly off Teriff,

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<v Speaker 2>wonderment of the Trump administration is absolutely I've never seen

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<v Speaker 2>it like this. You need to get a view of

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<v Speaker 2>the American economy. We do that with Kathleen bus Johonsick

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<v Speaker 2>of Nationwide point.

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<v Speaker 1>That there's certainly dichotomy across the US economy and depending

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<v Speaker 1>where you are, particularly on the income spectrum, you're feeling

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<v Speaker 1>tougher times than others.

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<v Speaker 3>I would say, though even.

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<v Speaker 1>For lower income, lower middle income, they're struggling.

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<v Speaker 3>But it's not a recession. The unemployment rate is still

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<v Speaker 3>quite low. Although you know that said, if we adjust

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<v Speaker 3>for the drop in the participation rate, the unemployment rate

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<v Speaker 3>would have been four point seven as on Friday instead

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<v Speaker 3>of four point one. What we have seen is a

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<v Speaker 3>participation rate drop quite sharply the last two months, and

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<v Speaker 3>because discouraged workers, So the discouraged worker increase in June

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<v Speaker 3>was a record monthly increase going back to I think

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<v Speaker 3>it's nineteen ninety five.

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<v Speaker 2>That's the clearest explanation I've heard of this. David Rosenberg

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<v Speaker 2>with a brilliant note out of Toronto Friday or Saturday,

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<v Speaker 2>I can't remember when. I really want to emphasize that.

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<v Speaker 2>A lot of people I respect are saying, Okay, it

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<v Speaker 2>was a really pretty good jobs report, but it wasn't.

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<v Speaker 2>And there it is some Kathleen bus johnsick when you

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<v Speaker 2>take the goofy math of unemployment and labor which Mike

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<v Speaker 2>McKee gets and I don't. The answer is the unemployment

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<v Speaker 2>rate would have been four point seven percent given labor

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<v Speaker 2>force participation. Really something to think about is Chairman Powell

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<v Speaker 2>goes to a July FED meeting on the stock market

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<v Speaker 2>and the ability to be in the market. We got

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<v Speaker 2>a briefing from Lori Calvacina, RBC Capital Markets.

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<v Speaker 4>If I think back to my most recent trip to

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<v Speaker 4>Canada seeing investors up there, it was a very different

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<v Speaker 4>trip than what i'd say had back in December and

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<v Speaker 4>what I had had back in February, when I would

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<v Speaker 4>say we would go into meetings and the conversations were

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<v Speaker 4>pretty much all about tariffs when you talked to a

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<v Speaker 4>lot of global investors in Canada who are always sort

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<v Speaker 4>of thinking about countries and comparing them. We heard plenty

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<v Speaker 4>of conversation about tariffs on this last trip, but there

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<v Speaker 4>was also a lot of emphasis on AI and productivity

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<v Speaker 4>in the US, and people were actually starting to talk

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<v Speaker 4>about some non tariff related things. And I know that

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<v Speaker 4>sounds a little bit shocking, but I would say it

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<v Speaker 4>was not as negative a vibe as what I had

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<v Speaker 4>seen earlier in the year orar late last year.

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<v Speaker 2>Larry Kavasina, RBC Capital Marcus and of course that dovetails

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<v Speaker 2>into a fascinating earning season. Paul said it best. I

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<v Speaker 2>think he said. He pass SWEENI said, but it's also

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<v Speaker 2>about the guidance that will be there. Will we see

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<v Speaker 2>guidance given all the uncertainty that's out there. We'll try

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