WEBVTT - Single Best Idea with Tom Keene: David Rosenberg & Martha Gimbel

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<v Speaker 2>A single best idea, which is probably that today was

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<v Speaker 2>the single most original jobs day ever. It's a Tuesday,

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<v Speaker 2>and we had a sort of kind of like October

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<v Speaker 2>jobs report, a November jobs report two weeks after we

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<v Speaker 2>were supposed to see it, and then I guess we

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<v Speaker 2>move on to January. In two days we have the

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<v Speaker 2>inflation report, which I think is pretty much normal, but

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<v Speaker 2>don't hold me to that. I'll talk to Mike mckeeth

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<v Speaker 2>about that. It's an odd time coming out of government shutdown.

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<v Speaker 2>One of the oddities we've seen his rotation in the market.

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<v Speaker 2>Bringing up a theory which goes back one hundred years,

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<v Speaker 2>the Dow theory. The Dow theory is that the stars

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<v Speaker 2>aligned when the Dow Jones industrial average and the transportations

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<v Speaker 2>and the utilities go up together or down together. A

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<v Speaker 2>lot of good academic work on this in the nineteen

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<v Speaker 2>thirties and the depression, and it was sort of gospel

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<v Speaker 2>through World War Two and on my parents' fifties and sixties.

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<v Speaker 2>David Rosenberg of Rosenberg research on the Dow theory.

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<v Speaker 3>The Dow theory advocates obviously like what they're seeing I

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<v Speaker 3>don't know, Tom, if you look at it more from

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<v Speaker 3>a fundamental perspective, what the transports are really telling you,

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<v Speaker 3>except for the fact that oil and fuel prices are

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<v Speaker 3>coming down. So there's a historic inverse correlation of minus

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<v Speaker 3>fifty minus sixty percent between what oil prices do in

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<v Speaker 3>the transports. So the transports are seeing their margins improve

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<v Speaker 3>because of this exogenous development taking place. On the oil

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<v Speaker 3>price going down, is it giving any confirmation on the economy?

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<v Speaker 3>I would push against that view.

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<v Speaker 2>Really interesting idea there on oil, of course, the oil

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<v Speaker 2>Brent crude, the global price under sixty dollars a bit,

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<v Speaker 2>or West Texas Intermediate the American price so much based

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<v Speaker 2>off Texas and Oklahoma. West Texas Intermediate clocks in under

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<v Speaker 2>fifty six dollars a barrel. Those are wow statistics into

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<v Speaker 2>the end of the year. I do want to note

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<v Speaker 2>here that David Rosenberg spoke of Stephen Myron's disinflationary call

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<v Speaker 2>and really gave it some credence. There's a raging debate

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<v Speaker 2>about what inflation will be Q one of next year

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<v Speaker 2>and in to say, fourth of July Q two, what

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<v Speaker 2>will we see, say the end of May, what will

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<v Speaker 2>you see in that inflation report of June of next year.

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<v Speaker 2>What a raging debate right now. We'll do a lot

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<v Speaker 2>on that, I'm sure in the next six months. Think

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<v Speaker 2>Tank of the Year, without question, the Budget Lab at Yale,

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<v Speaker 2>their leadership on tariff analysis was outstanding. Martha Gimble drives

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<v Speaker 2>the ship, earning Tedesky with a shout out for the

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<v Speaker 2>work on tariff's. They're now beginning to look at AI

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<v Speaker 2>and they have an initial report. They make clear that

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<v Speaker 2>it's just a first report of many to come. This

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<v Speaker 2>is the Budget Lab at Yale and they're Martha Gimble

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<v Speaker 2>on AI.

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<v Speaker 4>I mean, it would be unusual, right for there to

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<v Speaker 4>be no labor market disruption when you introduce a major

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<v Speaker 4>new technology. I think the thing that everyone keeps forgetting

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<v Speaker 4>right is that it takes time for technological disruption to happen.

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<v Speaker 4>It took decades for electricity to disrupt the labor market.

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<v Speaker 4>It even took a pretty long time for the Internet

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<v Speaker 4>to kick in, right. It wasn't like immediately in nineteen

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<v Speaker 4>ninety seven we were changing all the things, and so

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<v Speaker 4>you know, AI feel so big and people are expecting

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<v Speaker 4>to see, you know, impacts immediately. That's just not how

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<v Speaker 4>companies were.

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<v Speaker 2>Martha Gimble at the Budget Lab at Yale. It's single

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