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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Surveillance Podcast. I'm Tom Keane. Along

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Speaker 1: with Jonathan Ferrell and Lisa Brownwitz. Daily we bring you

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Speaker 1: Com and of course on the Bloomberg terminal Squeezing. Stephen

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Speaker 1: Stanley here with Amer's Pierpont as we wait for the

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Speaker 1: President United States in Madrid. Steve Stanley just doing fabulous

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Speaker 1: work on the makeup of the American economy with Aaron

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Speaker 1: Amer's Pierpont. What's your biggest mystery? Into Q three? Steve

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Speaker 1: Stanley on the classic equation, consumption, investment, government or trade dynamics.

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Speaker 1: Which one is the great Stanley mystery? Well, I think

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Speaker 1: you gotta watch the consumer and you gotta watch housing

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Speaker 1: because the markets are starting to smell us economic slowdown,

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Speaker 1: which I think is a little premature, but certainly that

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Speaker 1: to get a slowdown, that's where you're gonna see it.

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Speaker 1: So we've been focused very keenly, I think, over the

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Speaker 1: last couple of months on housing, and it does seem

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Speaker 1: to be cooling off, but it's cooling from a very

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Speaker 1: hot temperature. Uh. And these numbers today on the consumer

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Speaker 1: are a little disappointing. So um, I do think that

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Speaker 1: the consumer is going to have a big summer, people

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Speaker 1: been able to do for the last couple of years.

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Speaker 1: But the data this morning or not, uh, not all

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Speaker 1: that encouraging. And Steven, that's exactly where I wanted to go,

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Speaker 1: especially because real spending declined for the first time going

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Speaker 1: back to December, and more than people have previously expected.

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Speaker 1: This as inflation adjusted actual spending. How quickly is the

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Speaker 1: consumer based on this data and other incremental points that

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Speaker 1: we're looking at, how quickly is the consumer rolling over

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Speaker 1: in terms of their ability to really accept some of

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Speaker 1: the price increases. So well, there's ability and willingness, right,

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Speaker 1: and I think the ability is unusually strong because consumers

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Speaker 1: during the pandemic. Um, you know, all the fiscal largesse

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Speaker 1: the aggregate to spend. I mean, obviously inflation is going

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Speaker 1: to create stress for certain households. But uh, there is

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Speaker 1: a question about willingness, and I think given the consumer

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Speaker 1: confidence dada, you have to wonder a little bit about, um,

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Speaker 1: how eager consumers are going to gonna be to continue

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Speaker 1: to spend. My sense is that there's still very enthusiastic. Certainly,

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Speaker 1: any any field trip to the airport would suggest that

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Speaker 1: that people are are still looking to get out to

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Speaker 1: the airport tomorrow and it's going to be a nightmare.

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Speaker 1: Already prepared for this. Flights are getting canceled. How much, though,

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Speaker 1: is this part of the story that it is a blip.

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Speaker 1: It is revenge travel. It is people who are reprising

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Speaker 1: the past that they were not able to live during

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Speaker 1: the pandemic. That ends, it ends with the miserable experiences

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Speaker 1: fact that people have gone out, they've traveled, they're now exhausted,

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Speaker 1: already to start whatever it is that is the post

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Speaker 1: pandemic reality. How much is this the last hurrah when

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Speaker 1: it comes to travel and some of these inputs that

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Speaker 1: leads to the next phase that begins at Labor day, right, Well,

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Speaker 1: there's definitely it seems like there's gonna be some catch up.

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Speaker 1: So that's the short run burst, if you will, in

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Speaker 1: the economy, and I think that does certainly protect any

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Speaker 1: threat of the down of a downturn in the near term.

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Speaker 1: But but as you say, I mean, once you get

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Speaker 1: usual fundamentals. I mean, certainly, one thing that is on

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Speaker 1: the positive side is the labor market. And you know,

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Speaker 1: people have jobs and um incomes are not necessarily keeping

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Speaker 1: income growth has been pretty strong and I think sufficient

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Speaker 1: underlying fundamentals are still pretty good. I think what we

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Speaker 1: really have to see is how sensitive is the economy

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Speaker 1: too higher interest rates. We haven't had higher interest rates

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Speaker 1: financial crisis, and it remains to be seen how sensitive

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Speaker 1: So that again is why I'm keeping it. When this

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Speaker 1: conversation often comes up. Often here economists described the aggregate story,

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Speaker 1: also housing UM. And then the people with more modest

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Speaker 1: it's going to be important for the labor market to

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Speaker 1: wage gains, and um, you know you'd like to see

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Speaker 1: that continue, you would, Stephen. Thank you, Stephen standing there

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Speaker 1: of Amherst popon the challenge to the consumer issues we've

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Speaker 1: all got to think about when it comes to markets

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Speaker 1: and this economy. Closing out June and looking ahead to

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Speaker 1: July to like thirte CPN Americans, you like fourteenth JP

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Speaker 1: more can kicking off things for the banks in corporate America,

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Speaker 1: looking ahead to warnings, looking ahead to what they spawn

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Speaker 1: market is going to provide for this Federal Reserve and

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Speaker 1: it's next mazing. My shoemak At joins the snap Global

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Speaker 1: point is in this credit market for this FED to

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Speaker 1: have a rethink. It's not where we are now, where

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Speaker 1: The FEDS looking right now at the tight end conditions

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Speaker 1: is a feature, it's not a book. We're going to

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Speaker 1: see more of it, Michael. The clear theme here and

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Speaker 1: They always succumb to the political zeitgeist, the political pressure.

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Speaker 1: I respect the FED and the other central banks will

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Speaker 1: almost inevitable. But the question is how quickly they I

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Speaker 1: wouldn't say cave, but had the impact or decision making.

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Speaker 1: And for Chairman Powell in particular, it's really a challenge

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Speaker 1: because he's got to look at that wall down of

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Speaker 1: the FED and say, you know what, Arthur Burns worst

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Speaker 1: don't want to be number three. I've got to fight

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Speaker 1: outwigh to politics for him quite some time. Michael Schumacher

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Speaker 1: harsh today. Well, Mike, given that harsh review and given

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Speaker 1: So we think core probably a core inflation that is,

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Speaker 1: last cycle, granted fairly mild, but still at the end

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Speaker 1: so one fifty with incredible inflation and really the FED

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Speaker 1: coming back out of the bottle. That seems pretty reasonable

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Speaker 1: to us. That's how we get before. What is four

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Speaker 1: to do US equities, that's a really rough ride. So

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Speaker 1: big standard thing for you? Listening to President of God,

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Speaker 1: I listened to those three central bankers, John, it strikes

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Speaker 1: me the e c B has got the toughest job.

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Speaker 1: got the question of gas floats. I would circle, I

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Speaker 1: mean circle in bold red July one on the calendar.

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Speaker 1: It's the ECB meeting and also, perhaps more importantly, that's

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Speaker 1: going to drive policy through the CP. So they're all

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Speaker 1: uncomfortable that. I think that's a central bank. It's got

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Speaker 1: the biggest challenge ahead. Fascinating stuff. Mike my Shoemak of

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Speaker 1: that of Wolds FAKA for Global Wall Street, get out

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Speaker 1: the pad of paper and take notes. Jane Foley is

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Speaker 1: a student of foreign exchange. Yes, dollar centric, but with

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Speaker 1: Robbo Bank far more looking at the linkages between foreign exchange.

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Speaker 1: What I noticed irrefutable, and I know the President Trump

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Speaker 1: was way out front on this, Jane is strong strong dollar.

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Speaker 1: Trade weighted dollar by any indusicries is back to two

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Speaker 1: thousand three, even back to two thousand two. What is

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Speaker 1: the significance of a strong dollar back twenty years? Oh well,

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Speaker 1: this is, as you say, a pretty strong DOLI. But

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Speaker 1: I think what it's reflecting is is the riskiness of

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Speaker 1: or inverted correlation between the dollar and one hand and

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Speaker 1: risky assets. When risky assets are not performing well well,

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Speaker 1: the dollar goes up and vice versa. And I think

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Speaker 1: if we look at the tone and markets right now,

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Speaker 1: people talking about recession, the US recession potentially over over

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Speaker 1: the winter in Europe because the gas prices a slett

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Speaker 1: with growth worldwide, then then that's an environment which the

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Speaker 1: think that's, you know, very much a story that we're

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Speaker 1: looking at right now. I don't go short term with

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Speaker 1: too much respect for your work, Jane, but I am

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Speaker 1: going to do it here in June thirty where is

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Speaker 1: euro and Yenne set up against dollar September thirty, Well,

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