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- 0:28Speaker 2: search Bloomberg Podcast. Policy changes. A lot of folks are
- 0:33Speaker 2: highlighting the financial services industry to benefit from a lot
- 0:36Speaker 2: of policy changes. The absolute author on all of the
- 0:40Speaker 2: Bloomberg Intelligence work on this is Nathan Dean, Senior policy
- 0:43Speaker 2: ANALYSTO Bloomberg Intelligence. Nathan, I know you guys have gamed
- 0:46Speaker 2: this out. You've kind of looked at financial industry some
- 0:50Speaker 2: of the regulations that are that it's dealing with now
- 0:52Speaker 2: and that are still kind of on the table. What
- 0:55Speaker 2: do you think you're with what we're seeing here with
- 0:57Speaker 2: the elections.
- 0:58Speaker 3: Yeah, so, you know, with the fal services industry, it
- 1:01Speaker 3: all came down to this rule called the Basel three endgame.
- 1:03Speaker 3: You know, as outlined by the FED. You're talking about
- 1:06Speaker 3: a nine percent increase for the GESIPS, the Bank America
- 1:08Speaker 3: JP Morgan's of you will about three to four percent
- 1:11Speaker 3: in terms of the regional banks. Now, with President Trump
- 1:13Speaker 3: winning the Office of the Control of the Currency is
- 1:16Speaker 3: likely going to flip on day one of next year.
- 1:19Speaker 3: So this rule is effectively indefinitely delayed. You know this,
- 1:22Speaker 3: you would need to fed the OCC and the FDIC
- 1:25Speaker 3: to move forward. Now we think at thirty percent chance
- 1:27Speaker 3: of it being finalized by twenty twenty six. The reason
- 1:29Speaker 3: why we're not down to zero is because there is
- 1:32Speaker 3: potential out there that a Republican led regulator may try
- 1:35Speaker 3: and move forth with it, but the idea is going
- 1:37Speaker 3: to be completely different and they're going to essentially start
- 1:39Speaker 3: from scratch. So if you're talking about capital requirements on
- 1:42Speaker 3: a global scale, remember the European banks have already implemented
- 1:45Speaker 3: their version of this. There could be some questions here
- 1:47Speaker 3: on if the Americans aren't going to do this, why
- 1:49Speaker 3: should the Europeans on the same side. So certainly a
- 1:52Speaker 3: lot to play here in terms of the you know,
- 1:54Speaker 3: deregulatory efforts amongst the investment banks.
- 1:56Speaker 4: Nathan Dean, you are the consummate Washington insider. When I
- 1:59Speaker 4: need to get my IF's answered about what's happening in Washington,
- 2:02Speaker 4: I call you so I have a question here. What
- 2:04Speaker 4: name should I be looking at more closely than others?
- 2:07Speaker 4: Bill Lackman, Elon Musk's got Bess and Howard Lucknet. I mean,
- 2:10Speaker 4: talk to us about what the potential for a Trump
- 2:12Speaker 4: cabinet may very well look like.
- 2:15Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 2:15Speaker 3: So you know, obviously the big question is you going
- 2:18Speaker 3: to get the Wall Street President Trump? Or are you
- 2:22Speaker 3: going to get a populist President Trump? And that's the
- 2:24Speaker 3: question that I don't think anybody really has an answer
- 2:26Speaker 3: to because you know, for example, at the SEC, you
- 2:29Speaker 3: know you have Commissioner Hester Purse, who I think would
- 2:31Speaker 3: be a very popular SEC chair coming from more of
- 2:34Speaker 3: the conservative wing the populist side of the party. But
- 2:37Speaker 3: then there's also going to be folks like former J. Clayton.
- 2:39Speaker 3: You know, obviously his name's been in there for a Treasury,
- 2:42Speaker 3: but you know, somebody like a disciple, if you will,
- 2:45Speaker 3: a commissioner or chairman Clayton could be also a name
- 2:48Speaker 3: at the SEC. So the question that we have, and
- 2:50Speaker 3: we should find out about this more over the next
- 2:52Speaker 3: few weeks, is are you going to get the populist Trump?
- 2:54Speaker 3: Are the Wall Street Trump, and I think you're probably
- 2:56Speaker 3: going to get a combination of the both, where if
- 2:59Speaker 3: President Trump cares about your issue in terms of he
- 3:02Speaker 3: specifically wants to be involved, you'll get a populist Trump.
- 3:05Speaker 3: If it's something where he's happy to delegate to other
- 3:07Speaker 3: folks in Washington, then I think you may get a
- 3:10Speaker 3: Wall Street Trump.
- 3:10Speaker 4: Only think it took a long time for Trump to
- 3:12Speaker 4: pick his cabinet and his players back the first time around.
- 3:15Speaker 4: Apparently he's much more prepared this time. Talk to us
- 3:17Speaker 4: about timing around some of those selections. When can we appear,
- 3:19Speaker 4: When can we expect to hear something there?
- 3:21Speaker 3: Yeah, so I think you're gonna hear it, probably before,
- 3:24Speaker 3: probably within the next few weeks. I mean, to your point,
- 3:26Speaker 3: you know they've been talking about this for some time.
- 3:28Speaker 3: But I would also note that the Republicans have somewhere
- 3:31Speaker 3: between fifty two potentially as much as fifty six seats
- 3:34Speaker 3: in the Senate, and as a result, the Republican Senate
- 3:36Speaker 3: is going to be able to confirm a lot of
- 3:38Speaker 3: President Trump's appointees on a much quicker basis than if
- 3:41Speaker 3: you were to have a Democrat controlled Senate or even
- 3:43Speaker 3: a fifty or fifty one. Now why do we care
- 3:46Speaker 3: about this, Well, because the faster that those regulatory leaders
- 3:48Speaker 3: come in place, the faster they can start these deregulatory efforts.
- 3:52Speaker 3: You know, a regulatory leader, for the most part, can't
- 3:54Speaker 3: just come in and say, right, this regulation, We're going
- 3:57Speaker 3: to just completely roll it back on day one. It's
- 3:59Speaker 3: gonna take nine months, twelve months, if not even two
- 4:01Speaker 3: years to move forth on that effort. So the quicker
- 4:04Speaker 3: those regulatory leaders come in place, the quicker the de
- 4:06Speaker 3: regulatory effort can take place.
- 4:08Speaker 2: Red headline crossing the Bloomberg terminal. Harris to deliver remarks
- 4:11Speaker 2: at Howard University at four pm Eastern time, so we
- 4:15Speaker 2: will have more reporting on that. Nathan is Brice president elect?
- 4:21Speaker 2: I mean, is President elect Trump is see had Lamed
- 4:23Speaker 2: Duck president? Is that a fair way to look at it? Now?
- 4:26Speaker 3: So generally, and I say this generally, in the second
- 4:29Speaker 3: term of a presidential term, if you will think President
- 4:32Speaker 3: Obama or President George W. Bush, you usually have about
- 4:35Speaker 3: eighteen months to expend your political capital. First one hundred
- 4:38Speaker 3: days of the presidency is critical. But as soon as
- 4:41Speaker 3: Congress begins to think about their midterm elections, and then
- 4:43Speaker 3: as the result when they come back, you know, why
- 4:46Speaker 3: should they stick their necks out for the president who's
- 4:48Speaker 3: going to be gone. So what do presidents tend to do.
- 4:50Speaker 3: They tend to go internationally, and they tend to travel
- 4:52Speaker 3: because the power of the presidency it's more powerful there. So,
- 4:55Speaker 3: you know, we do think President Trump is going to
- 4:56Speaker 3: be spending a lot of time abroad Ukraine, Middle East,
- 4:59Speaker 3: for example. There's a lot of stuff that he can
- 5:01Speaker 3: do there. But I wouldn't call him a lame duck
- 5:03Speaker 3: just yet, because again, the power of the presidency is
- 5:06Speaker 3: more powerful there.
- 5:07Speaker 4: Nathan, it'sok till ten thirty two am Eastern Time this
- 5:10Speaker 4: morning for China's Mystery of Foreign Affairs To congratulate President
- 5:13Speaker 4: elect Donald Trump. You know that China tariffs are coming.
- 5:17Speaker 4: You're betting man, what kind of tariff regime do you
- 5:19Speaker 4: think we're entering into. Is it going to be that
- 5:21Speaker 4: ten percent broad? Is it going to be sixty percent
- 5:23Speaker 4: on China? What are you hearing?
- 5:26Speaker 3: So this is where I think the process of tariff
- 5:28Speaker 3: is key. Now, remember, let's just say January twentieth, President
- 5:31Speaker 3: comes in. You see a red line over the terminal.
- 5:33Speaker 3: You say, President Trump signs an executive order saying tariffs
- 5:36Speaker 3: are coming. In the language of that executive order, however,
- 5:38Speaker 3: I think you'll see language that says the tariff is
- 5:40Speaker 3: not coming for two hundred and seventy days or three
- 5:42Speaker 3: hundred and sixty five days. Why, because tariffs are negotiation tools.
- 5:46Speaker 3: President Trump doesn't know what the reciprocal tariff on China
- 5:48Speaker 3: from China would be, and President Trump wants to use
- 5:51Speaker 3: this as a negotiation. So I think there's going to
- 5:53Speaker 3: be language in there allowing flexibility, allowing President Trump to
- 5:56Speaker 3: come back and say, eh, maybe not sixty percent, maybe
- 5:58Speaker 3: we'll go to ten percent because gave us a win
- 6:00Speaker 3: or something like that. So what we're saying is watch
- 6:03Speaker 3: out for that headline risk in the first or second
- 6:05Speaker 3: quarter of next year. But then you're gonna get probably
- 6:07Speaker 3: six months to actually truly understand what that tariff will
- 6:10Speaker 3: look like before it goes into fruition.
- 6:12Speaker 2: All right, Nathan, as always, thank you very much for
- 6:15Speaker 2: your analysis. Nathan Dean see your policy on US at
- 6:17Speaker 2: Bloomberg Intelligence. You find all of Nathan's research at Big
- 6:21Speaker 2: on the Terminal. He really boils down some of this
- 6:24Speaker 2: very difficult policy minutia into something that like real people
- 6:28Speaker 2: can you know that real people can understand and use.
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- 6:50Speaker 2: Live here in our Bloomberg and Actor Brokers studio, streaming
- 6:53Speaker 2: live on YouTube as well. All Right, we've got a
- 6:56Speaker 2: Republican in the White House, got a Republican Senate in
- 6:59Speaker 2: the houses yet to be determined. What does it mean
- 7:02Speaker 2: for policy? Our next guest has got some thoughts here.
- 7:04Speaker 2: Ed Mills, managing director in Washington, Policy analysts for Raymond
- 7:08Speaker 2: James ed, Okay, it's kind of a red wave. The
- 7:13Speaker 2: House is still to be determined. Now, what what policies
- 7:18Speaker 2: should we expect from a second Trump administration?
- 7:23Speaker 5: So I think one of the questions we've been answering
- 7:24Speaker 5: for folks here at Raymond James is what is different
- 7:28Speaker 5: this year from twenty sixteen? So, first and foremost, Trump
- 7:32Speaker 5: did not expect to win a twenty sixteen and didn't
- 7:34Speaker 5: have a transition Cheam, that's not true.
- 7:37Speaker 6: This time.
- 7:37Speaker 5: He's going to have a lot more personnel to start off,
- 7:41Speaker 5: a playbook that they've been developing to implement, and so
- 7:46Speaker 5: I do anticipate a lot of robust policies to start
- 7:49Speaker 5: off twenty twenty five. That's on taxes, on tariffs, on trade,
- 7:55Speaker 5: on immigration. Now, to get taxes done, you probably need
- 7:58Speaker 5: the House of Representatives. As we're speaking right now, it's
- 8:01Speaker 5: starting to inch towards that complete sweep, and Republicans are
- 8:05Speaker 5: slightly better positioned to have a majority in the House
- 8:09Speaker 5: than Democrats. But there's a big difference between having a
- 8:12Speaker 5: majority and being able to govern ed mills.
- 8:14Speaker 4: I'm looking at the smp OR up two percent on
- 8:16Speaker 4: the day, led by the financial sector, the banks four
- 8:19Speaker 4: point seven percent on the day. We are up. Talk
- 8:21Speaker 4: us about financial regulation under a Trump administration, I mean,
- 8:25Speaker 4: is bar going to step down? Who's going to replace
- 8:26Speaker 4: Powell at the FED? I mean, who's going to be
- 8:28Speaker 4: controlling the Fed?
- 8:29Speaker 1: Here?
- 8:30Speaker 4: I mean, we know deregulation is good for the banking sector.
- 8:33Speaker 4: What are your thoughts there?
- 8:34Speaker 5: Yeah, Damian, you mentioned the two people that probably are
- 8:37Speaker 5: the only ones that stay with a Trump victory. Here,
- 8:42Speaker 5: every single federal financial regulator will lose his or her job.
- 8:47Speaker 5: This is the largest transition in US history. This has
- 8:51Speaker 5: become some court cases in the last couple of administrations
- 8:55Speaker 5: because of precedent. But we've been in what I've described
- 8:58Speaker 5: as a regulatory supersite. We've talked about higher capital standards
- 9:02Speaker 5: for big banks following the bank crisis last year and
- 9:05Speaker 5: the implementation of what's known as Basil three capital standards.
- 9:08Speaker 5: The regulators came out with new restrictive merger guidance in September.
- 9:13Speaker 5: Throw all of that out the window with the Trump victory,
- 9:17Speaker 5: and so that's what financials are reacting to. Not only
- 9:20Speaker 5: are their capital standards not going to get higher, we
- 9:23Speaker 5: could see significant regulatory relief because there is a deregulatory bent,
- 9:28Speaker 5: and we're probably likely to see a considerable amount of
- 9:31Speaker 5: consolidation in the bank space, which has been almost non existent,
- 9:35Speaker 5: lower than it was during the financial crisis. So the
- 9:38Speaker 5: financials are being viewed as a clear winner this morning.
- 9:42Speaker 4: Well, Paul and I are thinking about allocating the merger arbitrage.
- 9:44Speaker 4: I mean, talk to us a little bit about anti
- 9:46Speaker 4: trust regulation here in the US. I mean, can we
- 9:48Speaker 4: expect that to lighten up under Trump administration.
- 9:51Speaker 5: This is where it gets a little bit more interesting.
- 9:54Speaker 5: First and foremost, at the anti trust regulators. I look
- 9:57Speaker 5: at the FTC and Cheerly con Well. Her term's actually
- 10:01Speaker 5: already expired, but she gets to stay on as cheer
- 10:06Speaker 5: or as a commissioner in a democratic majority until the
- 10:09Speaker 5: president appoints in the Senate confirms her replacement. We'll be
- 10:13Speaker 5: watching to see if she steps down and goes on
- 10:15Speaker 5: to a different job. But in that case, it's still
- 10:18Speaker 5: only a two to two tie. So Donald Trump is
- 10:20Speaker 5: going to have to nominate someone to replace her and
- 10:23Speaker 5: elevate maybe one of the existing FTC commissioners to Cheer
- 10:29Speaker 5: before we have that change. At the Department of Justice
- 10:32Speaker 5: Anti Trust Division, Jonathan Canter will be gone on January
- 10:35Speaker 5: twentieth at twelve oh one. How long does it take
- 10:38Speaker 5: for Trump to make that change. That's something that we'll
- 10:41Speaker 5: be watching. Who is his attorney general, That's something that
- 10:44Speaker 5: we need to watch. That said, a lot of anti
- 10:48Speaker 5: trust activities started when Donald Trump was president. The lawsuit
- 10:51Speaker 5: against Google that we've been talking about in recent weeks,
- 10:55Speaker 5: that's finally gotten to the point where we might see
- 10:58Speaker 5: some action by the court to implement remedies that was
- 11:02Speaker 5: stuttered under Donald Trump. So populism is driving anti trust.
- 11:06Speaker 5: Populism drove Donald Trump. We will see some changes, but
- 11:10Speaker 5: it's not as clear cut of a change as we
- 11:12Speaker 5: discussed with financials.
- 11:14Speaker 4: And markets have been looking to, for example, comments by
- 11:17Speaker 4: Scott Besson x Soros of increasing domestic oil supplied by
- 11:21Speaker 4: three million oil equivalent barrels per day. People are looking
- 11:23Speaker 4: at Elon Musk. I mean, is Who's going to be
- 11:25Speaker 4: in Trump's cabinet here? I mean, is Scott Bessont really
- 11:28Speaker 4: a candidate for US Treasury Secretary? Is Elon Musk going
- 11:31Speaker 4: to be running the Department of Transportation? I mean, talk
- 11:34Speaker 4: to us a little bit about what we can expect
- 11:35Speaker 4: in the weeks ahead on Trumps cabinet.
- 11:38Speaker 5: Yeah. So when I look at one of the bigger
- 11:40Speaker 5: surprises of the election results was the size of the
- 11:44Speaker 5: victory for Republicans in the Senate, and the more that
- 11:48Speaker 5: Republicans pick up those seats, it could be a fifty
- 11:51Speaker 5: five seat majority when all is said and done from Republicans.
- 11:55Speaker 5: The higher that is, the more Trump is going to
- 11:58Speaker 5: be able to get anyone that he wants. And we
- 12:01Speaker 5: wouldn't have to worry about one or two senators denying
- 12:05Speaker 5: that nomination. Scott Bessen absolutely could be Treasury Secretary. There's
- 12:09Speaker 5: others leading that role. I'm a little bit more skeptical
- 12:13Speaker 5: as it comes to Elon Musk. To be a confirmed individual,
- 12:18Speaker 5: you have to divest a lot from what you own.
- 12:21Speaker 5: I just don't see that happening. The question I get
- 12:24Speaker 5: a lot from Elon too, is is he going to
- 12:26Speaker 5: drive all of these cuts? Call me skeptical of Congress
- 12:30Speaker 5: actually passing significant budget cuts. We get asked that after
- 12:34Speaker 5: every election, and our federal budget just continues to go up.
- 12:38Speaker 2: Ed, thank you so much for joining us. I appreciate
- 12:40Speaker 2: getting your perspectives. Ed Mills. He's a managing director and
- 12:43Speaker 2: Washington policy analyst over there at Raymond James joining us
- 12:47Speaker 2: from New York via a zoom.
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- 13:05Speaker 2: Damian Sasauer sitting in for Alex deel On paulse When
- 13:08Speaker 2: You're live, here in a Bloomberg Interactive Brokers studio streaming
- 13:10Speaker 2: live on YouTube as well. Donald Trump was elected the
- 13:14Speaker 2: forty seventh President of the United States, pulling off a
- 13:17Speaker 2: political comeback in one of the most polarized contests for
- 13:20Speaker 2: the White House in US history. While attending his supporters,
- 13:24Speaker 2: he said, this will truly be the Golden age of America.
- 13:28Speaker 7: I will not rest until we have delivered the strong, safe,
- 13:31Speaker 7: and prosperous America that our children deserve and that you deserve.
- 13:35Speaker 7: This will truly be the golden age of America. This
- 13:39Speaker 7: is a magnificent victory for the American people that will
- 13:43Speaker 7: allow us to make America great again.
- 13:48Speaker 6: All Right?
- 13:49Speaker 2: That was President elect Donald Trump's addressing his supporters last evening.
- 13:53Speaker 2: The question I think for the Democratic Party is where
- 13:56Speaker 2: does it.
- 13:57Speaker 1: Go from here?
- 13:58Speaker 2: Let's check in with Wendy Schuler, Professor Brown University and
- 14:01Speaker 2: interim director of the Watson Institute, joining us from Providence,
- 14:04Speaker 2: Rhode Island via zoom. Wendy, we've had, you know, a
- 14:08Speaker 2: few hours here to digest the news. If you're the
- 14:12Speaker 2: Democratic Party, how deep do you really have to look
- 14:15Speaker 2: inside the party to get a sense of what needs
- 14:18Speaker 2: to be done?
- 14:20Speaker 8: Well, you have to ask yourself why, you know popular
- 14:22Speaker 8: incumbent senators have been reelected before shared Brown, Tammy, Baldwin, Casey,
- 14:28Speaker 8: and Pennsylvania could not withstand the red wave, and so
- 14:32Speaker 8: you can attribute it to Trump charisma. The Trump followers.
- 14:35Speaker 8: We can do that if we want to as observers.
- 14:38Speaker 8: But you know, this ran deep, This reaction across voters,
- 14:43Speaker 8: across different kinds of voters, from different backgrounds, different ages.
- 14:47Speaker 8: This ran deep, and it was a signal that said,
- 14:50Speaker 8: we don't like the policies that you're enacting. So what
- 14:53Speaker 8: can they do. I think it's curious to go back
- 14:55Speaker 8: to or I'm sorry, not curious informative to go back
- 14:57Speaker 8: to Obama. Obama had a much strict border policy than
- 15:01Speaker 8: Joe Biden, and I think he did that because he
- 15:04Speaker 8: sensed there wasn't enough support in America for something more
- 15:07Speaker 8: liberal and more open. So you can say to yourselves,
- 15:09Speaker 8: the Democrats close the border for too late. The Democrats
- 15:13Speaker 8: didn't push hard enough to get those interest rates down.
- 15:15Speaker 8: The Democrats didn't pay attention to the price of eggs,
- 15:18Speaker 8: and that's unusual for the Democrats, who usually care a
- 15:21Speaker 8: lot about the price of eggs. So I think this
- 15:24Speaker 8: is not necessarily a reboot completely, but they have got
- 15:27Speaker 8: to meet the voter where the voter is, and last
- 15:30Speaker 8: night the voter was not with the Democratic Party.
- 15:33Speaker 4: When do you mention the border? And let's look ahead here.
- 15:34Speaker 4: Trump is about to embark on what many believed to
- 15:36Speaker 4: be the largest deportation program in US history. How does
- 15:41Speaker 4: he expect to round them all up? And where does
- 15:43Speaker 4: he intend to send them?
- 15:45Speaker 8: Well, you know, Trump always surprises us in the sense
- 15:48Speaker 8: that he'll sort of go off the ranch and then
- 15:50Speaker 8: I'll kind of moderate. You know. The idea is how
- 15:53Speaker 8: long does Trump want to be president? You know, he's
- 15:55Speaker 8: constitutionally prohibited from electing, being elected, and serving, not from running,
- 16:00Speaker 8: and so you know, does he want to last a
- 16:01Speaker 8: long time? Maybe get rid of the twenty second Amendment.
- 16:04Speaker 8: I don't know what he plans, but I think he
- 16:07Speaker 8: will scale this idea up back, especially since the border
- 16:10Speaker 8: has been shut down and you know, undocumented migration has
- 16:14Speaker 8: slowed so much. Does he really have to do this?
- 16:17Speaker 8: Does he have to disrupt the country this way? You know,
- 16:20Speaker 8: he could do some of it, but I don't think
- 16:21Speaker 8: the pressure's on him to do all of it because
- 16:24Speaker 8: Biden has already taken this step, and he'll keep that
- 16:26Speaker 8: policy in place.
- 16:27Speaker 4: When do you mention the twenty second Amendment? You're not
- 16:29Speaker 4: the first one today to talk about it, but you
- 16:30Speaker 4: know what I'm most interested in, And John Tucker mentions
- 16:33Speaker 4: it's the FED right. And Trump has made no secret
- 16:35Speaker 4: about his intention to have a greater say and monetary
- 16:37Speaker 4: policy here in the US. My question for you is
- 16:39Speaker 4: what legal mechanisms can Trump take advantage of in order
- 16:42Speaker 4: for the to give the Oval Office more control more
- 16:45Speaker 4: saying monetary policy.
- 16:47Speaker 8: Well, I mean the Federal Reserve Act. I mean literally
- 16:49Speaker 8: the Act creating Federal Reserve and all the bills that
- 16:51Speaker 8: have come you know after that and reauthorizing it. You know,
- 16:54Speaker 8: that's something that's been sort of a partnership with private
- 16:57Speaker 8: monetary institutions BANG and the federal government. And the thing
- 17:02Speaker 8: about Donald Trump is gonna need cash, right, You can't,
- 17:05Speaker 8: you know, you can't crash the government and crash the
- 17:07Speaker 8: economy by the federal government running out of cash. So
- 17:11Speaker 8: there is a symbiotic relationship between really big banks and
- 17:14Speaker 8: the Federal Reserve itself and the success of a president.
- 17:17Speaker 8: So there's going to have to be negotiations there. But
- 17:20Speaker 8: I don't think the heads of big banks. You're just
- 17:22Speaker 8: going to hand over the keys of the kingdom to
- 17:24Speaker 8: the president of the United States and amount of who
- 17:26Speaker 8: they are, and so that will be a negotiation, and
- 17:28Speaker 8: Trump fancies himself as a very good negotiator.
- 17:31Speaker 2: Wendy, does Kamala Harris have a future as a leader
- 17:33Speaker 2: of the Democratic Party. I'm thinking maybe in four years time.
- 17:37Speaker 8: I think, all things considered, she ran a good campaign
- 17:40Speaker 8: what she was given, the time frame that she had
- 17:43Speaker 8: to work within, and her balancing act of trying to
- 17:45Speaker 8: separate from the Biden record and also present some sort
- 17:48Speaker 8: of plan for the future and bringing in and solidifying
- 17:51Speaker 8: particularly younger women, even older women. I think there's still
- 17:55Speaker 8: a block and a constituency that she can tap if
- 17:58Speaker 8: she wanted to run again. I just don't see this
- 18:01Speaker 8: as a Kamala Harris failed campaign. I see it as
- 18:03Speaker 8: Trump being a former president and energizing their base and
- 18:07Speaker 8: not making the same campaign mistakes they did in twenty
- 18:09Speaker 8: twenty and the Biden record. You know those numbers from
- 18:13Speaker 8: exit polls yesterday on the wrong track, Those were extraordinarily
- 18:17Speaker 8: high numbers. And I don't know if anybody could have
- 18:19Speaker 8: won in the face of those numbers.
- 18:21Speaker 4: Wendy, I wonder if you could shift your attention here
- 18:23Speaker 4: to what's going on in Ukraine. Obviously, Zelenski was the
- 18:26Speaker 4: firebrand who rejected Trump's request for information on Hunter Biden's
- 18:29Speaker 4: dealings back during his first tenure. And look the battlefield's changing.
- 18:32Speaker 4: Just yesterday, right, Ukrainian forces had their first run in
- 18:35Speaker 4: with North Korean troops in the Kurk region. What comes
- 18:37Speaker 4: next for the Ukraine, for Zelenski, for Central Europe, and
- 18:41Speaker 4: for Russia under a Trump administration.
- 18:44Speaker 8: Well, I think Trump is a fan of Putin, and
- 18:47Speaker 8: I think Trump has said before that he thinks there's
- 18:49Speaker 8: a deal that can be reached. So my guess is
- 18:52Speaker 8: Trump says, listen, we're not going to send you the
- 18:54Speaker 8: same kind of weaponry, We're not going to support you
- 18:56Speaker 8: the same way. Go to the table, cut a deal,
- 19:00Speaker 8: up crimea I mean literally, these are the things that
- 19:02Speaker 8: he'll say. And maybe we'll make sure that more of
- 19:04Speaker 8: your people don't get chilled. I mean, I think that's
- 19:06Speaker 8: what we'll do. And in the Middle East, you know,
- 19:08Speaker 8: I think people who think that he'll be a diehard
- 19:10Speaker 8: suborner of Israel, maybe, but he may go to the
- 19:13Speaker 8: saudiast and say, what kind of deal do you want
- 19:14Speaker 8: to cut to get this thing over with against Iran.
- 19:17Speaker 8: I mean, he wants to make deals and be the hero.
- 19:20Speaker 8: And that's something we've seen before and we'll see again.
- 19:22Speaker 8: So whatever whoever's dealing with him has to be able
- 19:25Speaker 8: to give him some sort of victory he can walk
- 19:27Speaker 8: away with.
- 19:28Speaker 2: Wendy, thank you so much. We appreciate that.
- 19:30Speaker 1: As always.
- 19:30Speaker 2: Wendy Schilder, Professor Brown University and Interim Director of the
- 19:33Speaker 2: Watson Institute. Joining us from Providence, Rhode Island.
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- 20:00Speaker 2: as well as to check that out Over there, the
- 20:02Speaker 2: world is reacting, trying to make sense of kind of
- 20:04Speaker 2: the political elections we held here last evening in the
- 20:07Speaker 2: United States, new president, new Senate, and still to be determined,
- 20:12Speaker 2: a House of Representatives, so we're trying to talk to
- 20:15Speaker 2: some smart people around the world about kind of the
- 20:17Speaker 2: views of what might change going forward. Our next guest Mukunda.
- 20:21Speaker 2: He's a professor, a lecturer of management practice at the
- 20:24Speaker 2: Yale School of Management. So gotam a big surprise for
- 20:28Speaker 2: a lot of people waking up this morning to find
- 20:31Speaker 2: out that Donald Trump is the president elect and that
- 20:34Speaker 2: the Republicans have retaken the Senate. Here, what was your takeaway?
- 20:38Speaker 2: What do you hear when you when you talk to people.
- 20:41Speaker 9: Hi, Paul, So, first one is if you were surprised,
- 20:44Speaker 9: that kind of means weren't paying attention, right, the polling
- 20:47Speaker 9: was very clear this could go either way that right,
- 20:50Speaker 9: You know, maybe you're surprised by the magnitude of Trump's victory,
- 20:53Speaker 9: but this was a fifty to fifty election going in.
- 20:55Speaker 9: Then fifty fifty elections have to get resolved one way
- 20:57Speaker 9: or the other. For what's going to happen next, I
- 21:01Speaker 9: think there's some things you can kind of bet on.
- 21:03Speaker 9: It looks at this point increasingly likely that Republicans are
- 21:05Speaker 9: going to take the House of Representatives too. If you
- 21:08Speaker 9: have Republicans in the House, the Senate, and the presidency,
- 21:11Speaker 9: you can expect the tax cut. It'll be a realm
- 21:12Speaker 9: almost certainly a deficit finance tax cut, because that's what
- 21:15Speaker 9: always happens. Second, I think Trump has committed himself to
- 21:20Speaker 9: tariffs in a way that I suspect he's not likely
- 21:23Speaker 9: to back off from right away. But once he does that,
- 21:26Speaker 9: you're going to see economic impacts within the United States,
- 21:28Speaker 9: going to see retaliatory tariffs. Like the way in which
- 21:32Speaker 9: that trade struggle escalates is going to shape the political
- 21:35Speaker 9: dynamic going forward in ways that we can't predict right
- 21:38Speaker 9: now because we just don't know what the reactions are
- 21:39Speaker 9: going to be. That's all domestic domestic policy. On foreign policy,
- 21:44Speaker 9: I think we can pretty quickly get some insight, and
- 21:47Speaker 9: there I would be really concerned. If I were the Ukrainians,
- 21:50Speaker 9: I would just I'm not sure Ukraine's position is tenable anymore.
- 21:54Speaker 9: They will essentially have to rely on Western Europe to
- 21:58Speaker 9: supply them for their defense. I just don't know that
- 22:00Speaker 9: that's within Western Europe's industrial capacity, and I, you know,
- 22:04Speaker 9: for my friends in Ukraine, I don't know what to
- 22:06Speaker 9: say to them right now. And Second, the basic underpinning
- 22:11Speaker 9: of international politics since the Second World War has been
- 22:14Speaker 9: in a lot of different countries. We're willing to bet
- 22:16Speaker 9: their survival on the reliability of the United States as
- 22:19Speaker 9: an ally. That is not an overstatement. South Korea has
- 22:22Speaker 9: North Korea, but that has nuclear weapons, and they do
- 22:24Speaker 9: not have nuclear weapons. Japan has China not too far away,
- 22:27Speaker 9: that has nuclear weapons. They do not have nuclear weapons.
- 22:30Speaker 9: They had said that we trust the United States so
- 22:33Speaker 9: much to protect us that we are willing to risk
- 22:36Speaker 9: our national survival all that. If you are a defense
- 22:39Speaker 9: that you know you are part of the defense statism
- 22:41Speaker 9: in South Korea Japan, I don't see how you make
- 22:43Speaker 9: that bet anymore. I don't see how you could possibly
- 22:46Speaker 9: do that given Trump's express beliefs about alliances, and in
- 22:49Speaker 9: that situation, I would suspect both significant increase in defense spending.
- 22:53Speaker 9: And you know, right now, I'm sure they're having meetings
- 22:56Speaker 9: about whether they need to acquire a nuclear and Drumman, if.
- 23:00Speaker 4: You could talk to us a little bit about the
- 23:01Speaker 4: timeline between now and when Trump is expected to announce
- 23:04Speaker 4: some of his cabinet picks, I mean any color air.
- 23:07Speaker 9: So we'll find out a lot more because the cabinet
- 23:09Speaker 9: picks will determine, you know, a huge amount of what
- 23:12Speaker 9: happens next. Democrats were obviously deeply concerned by rumors that,
- 23:17Speaker 9: you know, Steve Bannon and Michael Flynn and Stephen Miller
- 23:21Speaker 9: would have very very senior roles in the Trump administration
- 23:23Speaker 9: and shaping its policy. But it's also possible that we'll
- 23:26Speaker 9: get the second term version of Steve Mnuchen and Jem
- 23:30Speaker 9: Mattison people like that. And I know when you talk
- 23:32Speaker 9: to people, you know, very sect people in the financial sector,
- 23:35Speaker 9: their expectation is that some of their peers will go
- 23:37Speaker 9: into this administration and act in the same way that
- 23:40Speaker 9: they did in the last one. Which one of those
- 23:42Speaker 9: happens is entirely up to Trump. And my guess is
- 23:45Speaker 9: what we'll start to see is if we look at
- 23:47Speaker 9: the people around him, the way I would say is
- 23:50Speaker 9: they're all ambitious and they don't play well with others.
- 23:53Speaker 9: That would be a characteristic describe to a lot of
- 23:55Speaker 9: these people, and so I think we're likely to see
- 23:58Speaker 9: some really intensive what you might call court politics. I
- 24:02Speaker 9: was just telling a bunch of students earlier today that
- 24:04Speaker 9: if you want to understand what's going to happen next,
- 24:05Speaker 9: you need to go back and read histories. The Byzantine Empire,
- 24:08Speaker 9: because that's kind of what we're thinking about, is lots
- 24:11Speaker 9: and lots of different people struggling to capture the ear
- 24:13Speaker 9: of the king and to get his support for what
- 24:16Speaker 9: they want to do and for their own strength and power.
- 24:19Speaker 9: And given what we've seen about Trump and Trump and
- 24:21Speaker 9: how fast he goes through staff, we might see that
- 24:24Speaker 9: shifting for a moment to moment, because if you look
- 24:26Speaker 9: at sort of what Stephen Miller wants to do and
- 24:29Speaker 9: what say Elon Musk wants to do, there's not a
- 24:31Speaker 9: lot of overlap between those two.
- 24:34Speaker 2: Gotham talk to us about the idea of checks and
- 24:36Speaker 2: balances here, Trump and the White House, Republican Senate, perhaps
- 24:42Speaker 2: a Republican led a House. Is it up to the
- 24:47Speaker 2: Supreme Court to act as a final check on a presidency?
- 24:50Speaker 2: Is because there are some concerns that how the Supreme
- 24:53Speaker 2: Court has evolved over the last several years that even
- 24:55Speaker 2: that may not be an effective check.
- 24:58Speaker 9: Well, I think that's right. I mean, it'll be the
- 24:59Speaker 9: super because there's not it. There's no one else, especially
- 25:02Speaker 9: if Republicans take the House, that right, that that'll just
- 25:06Speaker 9: pit for the next two years. There will be no
- 25:10Speaker 9: center of power significant enough to stand up to the
- 25:12Speaker 9: White House. And I agree with you. The Supreme Court
- 25:14Speaker 9: has made a series of rulings that no significant, no
- 25:17Speaker 9: major legal scholar would have predicted, giving sort of the
- 25:21Speaker 9: Trump presidency and levels of authority that are unprecedented in
- 25:24Speaker 9: American history. But the other half of that, I'll say
- 25:27Speaker 9: is is two years is not that long, and American
- 25:30Speaker 9: politics is deeply reactive. Political scientists referred to it as thermostatic. Basically,
- 25:34Speaker 9: whatever the president does, the average Americans starts to oppose it,
- 25:37Speaker 9: and so we might, you know, ten years later, maybe
- 25:40Speaker 9: the support at the classic example that is Obamacare, where
- 25:42Speaker 9: when Barack Obama passed it, it cost him an enormous
- 25:45Speaker 9: landslide defeat in the next set of elections, but ten
- 25:48Speaker 9: years later it's actually quite popular. So what we could
- 25:51Speaker 9: expect is whatever Trump does, whether you agree with it
- 25:54Speaker 9: or disagree with it, everything we know about political science
- 25:56Speaker 9: says that the average American is going to disapprove because
- 25:59Speaker 9: that's just how big America free responder chain. If that
- 26:02Speaker 9: is strong enough, then you'll see the House switch sides
- 26:06Speaker 9: again in twenty twenty six, and then you'll might start
- 26:09Speaker 9: to see some real checks and balances. But for the
- 26:11Speaker 9: next for the next twenty four months, I expect them
- 26:14Speaker 9: to have essentially a free hand.
- 26:16Speaker 2: All right, Gotham, thank you so much. We appreciate that.
- 26:18Speaker 2: Gotham mccondac Professor, Lecturer of Management Practice at the Yale
- 26:23Speaker 2: School of Management up in New Haven.
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- 26:45Speaker 2: Let's see about policy, because a lot of changes to
- 26:48Speaker 2: be expected from a global policy here in a Trump administration,
- 26:50Speaker 2: particularly one where it also has a Republican in the
- 26:55Speaker 2: Senate as well in the leadership roles. Monica guerre joins
- 26:58Speaker 2: US executive director and head US Policy from Morgan Stanley
- 27:01Speaker 2: Wealth Management. Monica, thanks so much for joining us here. Uh,
- 27:04Speaker 2: I say, huge political news over last evening and into
- 27:08Speaker 2: this morning. How do you frame that out for your
- 27:11Speaker 2: Morgan Stanley Wealth Management customers as it relates to their portfolios?
- 27:17Speaker 6: Yeah, no, that's that's a great question, you know, one
- 27:19Speaker 6: of the things that you know, we are really focusing
- 27:22Speaker 6: on is, you know, what does the president have control over,
- 27:26Speaker 6: especially since we don't have the full outcome on Congress.
- 27:29Speaker 6: So that's what we're talking about right now. And what
- 27:32Speaker 6: we see is trade tariffs and energy policy really being
- 27:35Speaker 6: the most sensitive to President along Trump's second term. So
- 27:39Speaker 6: for example, you know, you can have higher tariffs on
- 27:42Speaker 6: China and a potential universal tariff and those could you know,
- 27:44Speaker 6: potentially negatively drag on growth and boost inflation in the
- 27:50Speaker 6: short term. But you know, we're also focusing on some
- 27:53Speaker 6: of the other you know, fact winners that could come
- 27:56Speaker 6: out of you know, his executive branch.
- 27:59Speaker 4: True Baby Drill, I mean, Monica talk to us a
- 28:01Speaker 4: little bit about what we're seeing in the commodity complex here.
- 28:03Speaker 4: I mean, I see it off one and a half
- 28:05Speaker 4: percent year to date. It was just up a few
- 28:07Speaker 4: weeks ago. You would think maybe perhaps with some of
- 28:09Speaker 4: the policies that Trump is floating here on the energy sector,
- 28:12Speaker 4: are certainly you know, minerals that are hard to get
- 28:14Speaker 4: et cetera, that we would see something bounce back here.
- 28:16Speaker 4: But it seems like things are kind of rolling over.
- 28:18Speaker 4: Curious to hear your thoughts there.
- 28:20Speaker 6: Yeah, and you know, the partment of energy. That's a
- 28:23Speaker 6: great example of you know where Trump has a lot
- 28:25Speaker 6: of control to acting the laterally on the on the
- 28:28Speaker 6: drilling side, and we don't see that really impacting the
- 28:31Speaker 6: market positively because you know, more supply could put pressure
- 28:36Speaker 6: on pricing as you're thinking about from the from the
- 28:39Speaker 6: market's perspective, that set. If we're thinking about energy broadly
- 28:44Speaker 6: inclusive of a clean energy agenda, there's a real risk
- 28:48Speaker 6: there to clean energy from my policy perspective, from a
- 28:52Speaker 6: you know, rollback and potential inflation reduct Reduction Act tax credits.
- 28:58Speaker 6: But one of the things we want to highlight here
- 28:59Speaker 6: on energy is that even though you could have sort
- 29:03Speaker 6: of a deconstructive approach to tax credits, clean energy policy,
- 29:08Speaker 6: et cetera, what you're really focusing on here is rates
- 29:13Speaker 6: the rate environment. Clean energy is an industry functions like
- 29:16Speaker 6: growth stocks, and so when rates are low and markets
- 29:20Speaker 6: right now are currently pricing in four cuts through the
- 29:22Speaker 6: end of twenty twenty six, essentially energy clean energy can outperform.
- 29:27Speaker 6: And so that's that's what we're focusing on in the
- 29:30Speaker 6: energy sector, is that while from a policy perspective, you
- 29:33Speaker 6: don't see much movement on traditional You could see movement
- 29:36Speaker 6: sort of negatively placing a drag on clean energy. The
- 29:40Speaker 6: real story is the rate story on clean energy.
- 29:44Speaker 4: So I'm looking at the vix here. As my colleague
- 29:46Speaker 4: Paul Sweeney, you know, rightly points out, we're back down
- 29:49Speaker 4: to sixteen, off twenty two percent day over day, you know,
- 29:53Speaker 4: off nearly a third since you know, the fourth since Monday.
- 29:56Speaker 4: You know, talk to us a little bit about, you know,
- 29:58Speaker 4: expectations for volatility under a Trump regime. I remember during
- 30:01Speaker 4: his first term, you know, you know, it was jump risk, right,
- 30:04Speaker 4: it was, you know, one day he says something, you know,
- 30:06Speaker 4: his left leg is feeling one thing, and all of
- 30:08Speaker 4: a sudden he says it, and the markets kind of
- 30:10Speaker 4: react to that. You know, we've been in an environment
- 30:11Speaker 4: for the better part of the last four years, Monica,
- 30:14Speaker 4: where it's been all about rate differentials, all about monetary policies,
- 30:17Speaker 4: all about the Fed. Is there any chance that the Fed,
- 30:19Speaker 4: that you know, rate differentials, can retake control of the
- 30:22Speaker 4: market narrative here or are we just in Trump's world
- 30:24Speaker 4: and everyone's just living in it.
- 30:27Speaker 6: That's a that's a great question. I mean, I think
- 30:30Speaker 6: the drop off in the vix that we're seeing that's
- 30:33Speaker 6: just par for the course with normal election year activity.
- 30:36Speaker 6: Once you have right the president set, you have a
- 30:40Speaker 6: sense of what's happening with Congress. Granted we don't really
- 30:42Speaker 6: know what's happening with a House, volatility plummets. Yes, you're
- 30:46Speaker 6: going to see a headline response. One of the one
- 30:48Speaker 6: of the sort of murky areas around Trump is which
- 30:51Speaker 6: Trump are we going to get? Does that mean that
- 30:53Speaker 6: we get more disruption or is it really a story
- 30:56Speaker 6: all about Congress and what they do with taxes. In
- 30:58Speaker 6: that case, if it's focused on is things are likely
- 31:01Speaker 6: to remain more stable, especially as we lost the play
- 31:04Speaker 6: by play as they debate each provision under the Tax
- 31:08Speaker 6: Cuts and Jobs Act, you could get you an extension
- 31:11Speaker 6: of most of it. But what's important here is that
- 31:13Speaker 6: even if you have you know that's a shallow red
- 31:16Speaker 6: wave in the House and you have that unified government,
- 31:19Speaker 6: those thin margins mean that they're still room for the
- 31:22Speaker 6: GOP to play. So we are going to be watching
- 31:24Speaker 6: that for a while and I think that yes, Trump
- 31:27Speaker 6: is the disruptive, disruption president. Right, we're thinking about headline
- 31:32Speaker 6: reaction volatility that's short lived, but over the long run,
- 31:37Speaker 6: what we're all going to be focusing on is that
- 31:39Speaker 6: tax agend and what happens in Congress.
- 31:41Speaker 2: All right, Monica, thanks so much for joining us. Monica Aguera,
- 31:44Speaker 2: executive director a head of US policy for Morgan Stanley
- 31:47Speaker 2: Wealth Management.
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