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Speaker 1: day today. We're talking about inflation on the back of

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Speaker 1: that CPI print. Uh this morning, certainly movie markets went

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Speaker 1: a round table, uh this discussion here in this segment,

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Speaker 1: Vince Cignarella, Bloomberg News macro strategist, and Jennifer Lee, Senior

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Speaker 1: economist and Managing director at BMO Capital Markets. Jennifer love

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Speaker 1: to start with you here. What's your takeaway from this

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Speaker 1: inflation print we saw this morning? Good morning? So you

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Speaker 1: know what what really worries about right now is that

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Speaker 1: here we are midway through October and we're all like

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Speaker 1: sort of reallying from this September CPI number, and I

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Speaker 1: think there's gonna be more to come. And I actually

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Speaker 1: told someone and I'm gonna humbly tell you guys this.

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Speaker 1: You know, I've told some one last week. Oh you know,

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Speaker 1: September CPI is gonna be important, but I think it'd

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Speaker 1: be less important because October is going to be the

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Speaker 1: one to watch. And I was referring to that because

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Speaker 1: of these OPEC plus production cuts, you know, um um,

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Speaker 1: and it's going to be upward pressure for energy. But

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Speaker 1: you know, I wasn't expecting you know, such broad really

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Speaker 1: really broad based gains that we saw in this report.

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Speaker 1: So this is troubling obviously, and using you know, the

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Speaker 1: reaction of the markets and uh, you know, and so

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Speaker 1: of course the question is gonna be what happens to

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Speaker 1: the FED, and uh, you know, is their credibility gonna

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Speaker 1: be at stake? You know, they might be saying we

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Speaker 1: might even have to raise rates longer. And I think

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Speaker 1: we cannot completely discount the possibility of a bigger hike

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Speaker 1: and Nove, Yeah, what about more, Vince, what about a

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Speaker 1: hundred basis points in November? I think that would show

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Speaker 1: a little bit of a sign of panic. First, when

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Speaker 1: we say I love Jennifer's work, I do read our material, uh,

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Speaker 1: and it's very good and very informative. Then if you don't,

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Speaker 1: you should um my weary here, and you know you've

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Speaker 1: heard me say this is a million times, is that

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Speaker 1: this is a systemic supply chain problem and the FED

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Speaker 1: is basically trying to fix a leaky pipe with a hammer.

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Speaker 1: I don't see how monetary policy is going to crush

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Speaker 1: and demand, if you will. What we need to do

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Speaker 1: is increased supply and I know that takes time. But

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Speaker 1: if the set is too impatient and raises too aggressively

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Speaker 1: and doesn't give it an opportunity to work its way

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Speaker 1: sheer danger that he's going to do exactly what he's

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Speaker 1: aflation scenario because wages are not going to keep pace

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Speaker 1: and Kohla was announced today the Bureau of Labor Statistics

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Speaker 1: announced social security increase next year at eight point seven.

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Speaker 1: That's not going to happen to the average worker going

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Speaker 1: get the supply chain problems. Yesterday we had a great

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Speaker 1: story in the terminal about Jim Bullard trying to buy

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Speaker 1: see that, Steve Matthews are a great piece. First they

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Speaker 1: was I guess he complained and said, listen, I'm on

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Speaker 1: you ordered this. Um. So the supply chain problems are clear,

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Speaker 1: where do you how do you see this coming down?

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Speaker 1: Why where do I begin? I mean food, I mean

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Speaker 1: And do you think that the markets are pricing in

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Speaker 1: you can't say it's not squash demand with with with

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Speaker 1: what you've already done. And we're not even taking accounts

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Speaker 1: said Blake. The financial conditions in the United States to

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Speaker 1: that extent anybody's guests, You really don't know. They keep

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Speaker 1: We'll see to mark some retail sales. Jennifer Lee, senior

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Speaker 1: economists and managing director at BEMO Capital Markets, and Vince Ignarella,

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Speaker 1: both jointing us giving us their thoughts on these markets

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Speaker 1: which are filling the impact of higher inflation. Print this

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Speaker 1: morning still got read on the screen here snp off

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Speaker 1: This afternoon, we're handled off the Harold Master and Tim

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Speaker 1: Never good, I don't know, and you'll send the reins. Mona,

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Speaker 1: investment strategist for Edward Jones. Mona, what do you make

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Speaker 1: underlying fundamentals in inflation UM, they've actually been all moving

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Speaker 1: So they just have to get unemployment higher. Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: You were early, and it looks like you were right.

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Speaker 1: Palmer is an analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence. He joins us

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Speaker 1: live in a Bloomberg Interactive broker studio. He's not phoning

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Speaker 1: it in today. Uh. They had some better and expected

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Speaker 1: results today, Jonathan. What are you taking away from this? Hi, Paul,

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Speaker 1: thanks for having me on. So Walgreen's reported this morning,

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Speaker 1: and really, if if we want to put some context

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Speaker 1: around the report, expectations were very low. I mean, Walgreen's

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Speaker 1: has been a huge beneficiary of vaccinations testing, and obviously

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Speaker 1: with people going and getting lower boosters and COVID levels

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Speaker 1: going down, they were seen as this huge kind of headwind. Uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, year over year approaching their fiscal two thousand

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Speaker 1: twenty three. So the guidance they gave next year actually

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Speaker 1: met expectations, which I think was a bit of a surprise.

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Speaker 1: And the company had a two hour call where they

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Speaker 1: really got glar annual about their efforts to transform the

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Speaker 1: company from you know, what we think of as just

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Speaker 1: as a traditional pharmacy into more of a healthcare service provider.

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Speaker 1: What are they saying about inflation? How's that impacting their margins. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so they've talked about it from a couple different angles.

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Speaker 1: You know, they've had wag wage inflation over the last

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Speaker 1: year year and a half. You know, they've had a

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Speaker 1: hard time keeping pharmacist and pharmacy tax and they've been

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Speaker 1: paying those people more. They see the wages are they're

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Speaker 1: hiring actually improving over the last two months. It's interesting.

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Speaker 1: You guys were just talking about China. You know, a

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Speaker 1: lot of the products that that kind of go in

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Speaker 1: that front of store, you know, of of Walgreens come

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Speaker 1: from China, and they said they're they're actually seeing some

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Speaker 1: of those supply challenges ease right now. Well, this interesting.

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Speaker 1: So but you're talking about so when we think about Walgreens,

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Speaker 1: we think about the drug store chains. But you say

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Speaker 1: they're trying to kind of transform themselves into more of

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Speaker 1: a broader healthcare company. How are they doing that. It's

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Speaker 1: taking a couple of different tax So the probably the

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Speaker 1: most obvious one is they've made a big investment into

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Speaker 1: a company called Villa Geen d and are moving some

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Speaker 1: of those clinics into their stores. They've been acquiring other

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Speaker 1: assets that are kind of pharmacy or healthcare related, especially

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Speaker 1: if armor se called Shields. They just closed an acquisition

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Speaker 1: called care Centric earlier this week that does a lot

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Speaker 1: of home health. There's a lot of move from traditional

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Speaker 1: health care settings into the home. So they're trying to

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Speaker 1: capitalize on the shift of healthcare, you know, from traditional

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Speaker 1: providers into uh different locations and kind of capitalize that

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Speaker 1: with their their their footprint. I mean, they have uh competition,

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Speaker 1: right because I'm sure all the other drug store change.

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Speaker 1: I know CVS is trying to do that as well.

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Speaker 1: That's right, CVS is there with their health hubs. You know,

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Speaker 1: we've got Amazon trying to buy or in the process

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Speaker 1: of buying one Medical. We've got the big insurers moving

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Speaker 1: and buying providers. So you know, I don't I don't

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Speaker 1: want to say that the tip of the spear in

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Speaker 1: this uh the strategy, but they're they're definitely making an

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Speaker 1: effort to transform. You know, what has been kind of

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Speaker 1: a business under pressure the last couple of years. So

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Speaker 1: just for like an average Walgreens or an average CVS store,

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Speaker 1: what's the revenue breakdown between the prescription part of the

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Speaker 1: business and the toothpaste in the shampoo and all the

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Speaker 1: other stuff. So Additionally, you know kind of rule with

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Speaker 1: them in the pharmacy space, about seventy of sales come

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Speaker 1: from the pharmacy and the rest is what they call

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Speaker 1: retail or front end Alright, So that business is it's

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Speaker 1: just like the rest of retail. It's kind of under

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Speaker 1: pressure from e commerce or just I don't know other

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Speaker 1: some of those pressures exactly. You know, you've had the

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Speaker 1: Amazon impact, You've had wal Mart, You've had cost Co

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Speaker 1: kind of eating away at those those retail margins over

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Speaker 1: the last couple of years. So these companies are looking

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Speaker 1: for ways to reinvent themselves and and you know people,

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Speaker 1: you know, I think the statistic is something along the

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Speaker 1: lines of, you know, like nine of the US population

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Speaker 1: was within like five miles of a CBS or a Walgreen.

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Speaker 1: So Cracker Barrel can say, now, you said their customers

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Speaker 1: come within you know, their stores or within one mile

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Speaker 1: of an ex of offer freeway. So I get where

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Speaker 1: you're going with that. So the idea is that you know,

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Speaker 1: go to where the patients are right and they're they're

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Speaker 1: increasingly at home, so you know, they're they're looking at

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Speaker 1: their footprint and saying, how do we how do we

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Speaker 1: squeeze more dollars out of these stores. Are are any

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Speaker 1: of the companies in your universe, um, lacking funding because

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Speaker 1: financing costs are climbing. Yeah, it's a good question, you know.

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Speaker 1: That came up on the call this morning. Walgreen's is

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Speaker 1: kind of a little bit unique in that they own

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Speaker 1: a couple of Big Steaks and some other companies. They

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Speaker 1: own about of their distributor, Maris source Bergen. They've been

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Speaker 1: trying to sell their Boots pharmacy for the last year

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Speaker 1: or so. That's kind of pending right now, so they

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Speaker 1: haven't had those same kind of capital constraints. But you know,

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Speaker 1: most of the companies that I cover are big healthcare incumbents.

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Speaker 1: They're pretty profitable, they have access to capital. It's not

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Speaker 1: really an issue for these kind of bolton acquisitions. They

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Speaker 1: want to do, all right, great stuff. Jonathan Palmer, Bloomberg

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Speaker 1: Intelligence covers a lot of the healthcare space on the

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Speaker 1: retail side of the healthcare space as well. Let's get

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Speaker 1: right to it. Jeff Cleveland, director and chief economists were

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Speaker 1: paid in in regal joins us on the phone. So, Jeff,

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Speaker 1: this inflation print came in pretty darn hot. Um. Yes,

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Speaker 1: thank you. What are your thoughts? What do you what

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Speaker 1: do you tell your clients? Well, the problem here is

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Speaker 1: that everyone thought that inflation was going to moderate, and

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Speaker 1: the hope was the goods prices would fade, so like

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Speaker 1: use car prices would go down, which they did in

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Speaker 1: this month's report, and then that would track down overall inflation.

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Speaker 1: But that hasn't happened. The services side has continued to accelerate.

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Speaker 1: So this is a really really nasty report. UM. If

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Speaker 1: you look at shelter for example, up point seven point

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Speaker 1: eight percent month to month, medical care costs up point

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Speaker 1: eight percent. If those services numbers that are sticky, and

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Speaker 1: I think will continue to boost core inflation UH at

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Speaker 1: least for the next few months and possibly well into

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Speaker 1: next year. So that means, you know, core inflation year

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Speaker 1: on year remains right around where it is UH six

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Speaker 1: point six to seven percent UM into the middle of

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Speaker 1: next year. And I think that is a really nasty

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Speaker 1: situation for the Federal Reserve and in turn for for investors.

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Speaker 1: What is going on in the equity markets. We were

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Speaker 1: down more than two percent on the SMP. Now we're

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Speaker 1: up one point two percent. You know, we're we're looking

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Speaker 1: at it over thousand points swing on the down Jones

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Speaker 1: and tess Ravage currently gaining four hundred and fifty points.

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Speaker 1: Why our investors buying this? I don't know. If you

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Speaker 1: got to talk to the producer here he brought a

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Speaker 1: bond market economist to talk about the area market, I

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Speaker 1: don't know. I mean, my gut tells me it's probably positioning.

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Speaker 1: But there are people far far more, far better on this.

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Speaker 1: Now that's what we're hearing as well. Yeah, I think

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Speaker 1: the issue here for me is, Okay, if we're gonna

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Speaker 1: see this kind of momentum month a month in inflation

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Speaker 1: carring us through year in then the Fed goes seventy

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Speaker 1: five in November. It's quite likely they go seventy five

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Speaker 1: in December, the Fed phones rate gets to five percent

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Speaker 1: very soon. Here, um, do two year yields at forty

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Speaker 1: forty three makes sense? Oddly not? In my view. Two

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Speaker 1: year yields have to go higher, probably up closer to

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Speaker 1: five or even above five percent, because the FT is

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Speaker 1: going to get to five and they're gonna stay there

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Speaker 1: for a while if they really intend on bringing inflation down.

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Speaker 1: So that to me is not a good mix for

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Speaker 1: equities in the short run um, So that that's kind

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Speaker 1: of my rough take. What's your recession call, Jeff, And

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Speaker 1: I guess it's a question is kind of timing duration,

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Speaker 1: you know, depth of those types of things. How what

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Speaker 1: are you thinking about that today? Well? I have a

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Speaker 1: simple man, So I think the fact that the unemployment

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Speaker 1: rate fell last month is probably tells us we're not

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Speaker 1: inter recession. Generally, the unemployment rate is rising when you're intercession,

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Speaker 1: so maybe we're not there yet, it just hasn't started.

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Speaker 1: The other way that I like to look at it

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Speaker 1: is three months, uh, you know T bills versus ten

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Speaker 1: year yields. When that yield curve slope inverts, that starts

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Speaker 1: the clock and there can be a lag. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it could be nine to twelve months before the start

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Speaker 1: of the recession. So right now, you know, that kind

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Speaker 1: argues for us maybe going into recession second half of

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Speaker 1: next year. So it's something that's still off on the horizon,

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Speaker 1: is it shall? I think the other question shallow. Everyone's

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Speaker 1: in the shallow camp, so that kind of makes me nervous.

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Speaker 1: You know. You hear a lot of like it'll be

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Speaker 1: a we'll have a recession share, but it'll be mild

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know about that. I mean,

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Speaker 1: on the one hand, you have aggressive FED tightening, which

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Speaker 1: is likely to continue giving the inflation backdrop, so that

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Speaker 1: means you could have a much harder landing. And the

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Speaker 1: second thing is it's just just been an unusual macro cycle.

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Speaker 1: We had a huge amount of stimulus, we had a

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Speaker 1: huge shifting consumer behavior. As it shifts back, maybe you

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Speaker 1: have a more significant downturn. Yeah, I mean, I can't

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Speaker 1: rule that out. I guess there. It happens once in

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Speaker 1: a while when you get super hammered and then the

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Speaker 1: next day you're kind of okay and you're like, wow,

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Speaker 1: I don't know how that worked out. But for the

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Speaker 1: most part, when you drink this much, you know you're

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Speaker 1: out sick. Yeah. People say, well, where's the imbalance, Jeffrey,

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Speaker 1: I mean, we don't see it. Consumers look good, household

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Speaker 1: balancies look good, and I say, well, you know, the

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Speaker 1: imbalanced this time around was on the fiscal and monetary support.

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Speaker 1: It was an unusual and epic amount of stimulus provided. Yes,

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Speaker 1: perhaps at the time it made sense given what was

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Speaker 1: expected to happen with COVID, but nonetheless it was huge.

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Speaker 1: It was you know, two to three trillion in money

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Speaker 1: transferred to household that went into spending, and that has

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Speaker 1: to unwind at some point, right, Well, and all the

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Speaker 1: other thing is, I mean, does the consumer look good? Um,

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Speaker 1: Brett Farve got paid, but there were a lot of

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Speaker 1: other people that found it more difficult to access that

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Speaker 1: fiscal stimulus. And maybe you know, luxury apartments are still

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Speaker 1: going for a lot. First class tickets are going to

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Speaker 1: be selling. You know, young sales will won't get hurt

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Speaker 1: that much, but it's gonna be harder for the other half. Yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: we'll see how the retail sales comes in tomorrow. Jeffrey,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining us. Jeffrey Cleveland, director

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Speaker 1: and chief economists for Paid In and Regal. He sick

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Speaker 1: guy that did the Triple Crown of swimming, I mean

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Speaker 1: around Manhattan that we went out the Catalina channel. He

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Speaker 1: did the English channel. I don't know what possesses people

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Speaker 1: to do that kind of stuff, but he did it.

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Speaker 1: Good for him. Thanks for listening to the Bloomberg Markets podcast.

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