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Speaker 2: Alex Steel, Paul Sweeny. Here we do have some breaking
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Speaker 2: news from the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court upholds US
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Speaker 2: gun ban in domestic violence cases. Whether to strike down
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Speaker 2: this federal gunban for people subject to domestic violence restraining
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Speaker 2: orders was the point in question. Let's go right now
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Speaker 2: to June Grasso, who covers everything law and legal for
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Speaker 3: June, can you walk us through this? Yeah?
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Speaker 4: Sure.
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Speaker 5: So this is a case where a man who was
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Speaker 5: subject to a domestic violence order wanted to get a gun,
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Speaker 5: and there is a federal ban on that. But the
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Speaker 5: Fifth Circuit, which has been pushing the law farther to
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Speaker 5: the right than even the Supreme Court likes, said that's unconstitutional.
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Speaker 5: And during the oral arguments this is not so much
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Speaker 5: of a surprise because during the oral arguments a majority
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Speaker 5: of the justices seemed to think that it was this
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Speaker 5: kind of restraint on owning a gun is logical.
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Speaker 3: I mean, this is the guy.
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Speaker 5: The case was really bad for the gun lobby because
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Speaker 5: the guy had gun out into public and shot the
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Speaker 5: gun off and there was this restraining order. So what
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Speaker 5: they're saying is, in this case, you can stop someone
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Speaker 5: from having a gun. Gun restrictions have been up in
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Speaker 5: the air for years since the Bruin case, the New
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Speaker 5: York case where the Supreme Court sort of toppled the
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Speaker 5: way the courts analyzed gun restrictions and they base it
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Speaker 5: on historical So you'll see gun cases where they're talking about, well,
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Speaker 5: was there something like this in the eighteen hundred? You know,
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Speaker 5: it's it's sort of a crazy way for me, it's
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Speaker 5: a crazy way to do it.
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Speaker 6: Does this open path for common sense gun legislation then,
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Speaker 6: because you one could argue this seems like pretty good
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Speaker 6: common sense. I would want someone who's convicted of domestic
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Speaker 6: violence thing having a gun. So if that's okay, can't
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Speaker 6: we also say someone who has I don't know, criminal rumstock.
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Speaker 3: Maybe yes, I see, that's what I mean.
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Speaker 5: I don't think I don't think it translates with this court.
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Speaker 5: I think this is sort of an exceptional situation because
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Speaker 5: we had that bump stock decision where they said where
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Speaker 5: they said, even though it operates like a machine gun,
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Speaker 5: the way it functions, you know, they use the term
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Speaker 5: function and they use the dictionary to analyze what function meant.
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Speaker 3: Justice comments, So.
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Speaker 5: You know, it would be nice to think that that
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Speaker 5: was the way that we have common sense gun regulations,
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Speaker 5: but I'm not sure that that's what this stands for.
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Speaker 2: I mean, at the end of the day, it says
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Speaker 2: that right the Second Amendment isn't so broad that it
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Speaker 2: protects the gun rights of those found to be dangerous.
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Speaker 2: So now are we going to get into his situation
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Speaker 2: where we have to define dangerous and like what what
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Speaker 2: constitutes a human being dangerous?
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Speaker 3: Is that what is going to come up now?
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Speaker 5: I mean, I have I really have no idea how
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Speaker 5: this is going to play out, because you know, it's
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Speaker 5: this it's a it's one case. It's a case where
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Speaker 5: the Fifth Circuit went out on a limb, and there
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Speaker 5: are set there are like more than ten cases. I
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Speaker 5: think this term where the Fifth Circuit went on a
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Speaker 5: limb and the Supreme Court almost has to take the case,
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Speaker 5: even if they don't want to take the case because
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Speaker 5: otherwise you have this you know, sort of abnormal law
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Speaker 5: in place, so it's hard to say what the what
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Speaker 5: the effect will be. I'm sure that that you know,
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Speaker 5: in other gun restriction cases, they'll use this to try
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Speaker 5: to show that there are, you know, there are ways
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Speaker 5: to get around it. I'll have to read the decision
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Speaker 5: to see to see exactly, you know, how it came down,
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Speaker 5: and it's by the Chief Justice. So that's a sign
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Speaker 5: that it's not going to be one of those you know, radical,
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Speaker 5: hard to understand decisions by Clarence Thomas, or it's going
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Speaker 5: to be sort of down as down the middle as
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Speaker 5: you can get so because he writes.
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Speaker 3: Sort of reasoned opinions.
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Speaker 5: So I think that and I think that, you know,
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Speaker 5: this is one that we expected, but still a big case.
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Speaker 3: It's eight to one.
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Speaker 5: I noticed Justice Thomas dissenting. There is not a gun
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Speaker 5: law that Justice Thomas wants to see. No, really, he
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Speaker 5: is consistently he's the one who wrote that opinion. As
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Speaker 5: I mentioned on the Second Amendment that broadened the Second
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Speaker 5: Amendment to you know, being able to carry handguns and
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Speaker 5: the restrictions that New York put into place, throwing them
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Speaker 5: out so I mean, he just there's just not a
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Speaker 5: gun law that he will ever say, is all right.
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Speaker 6: We should note that Michael Bloomberg, the founder and majority
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Speaker 6: owner of Bloomberg LP, the parent company oft Bloomberg Radio,
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Speaker 6: is a donor to groups that support gun control, including
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Speaker 6: Every Town for Gun Safety. So, again, as you mentioned
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Speaker 6: June eight to one ruling, does that surprise.
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Speaker 3: You not really?
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Speaker 5: I mean, the surprise that Thomas didn't he the surprise
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Speaker 5: is that even in this situation where you have a
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Speaker 5: guy with a domestic violence restraining order threatening people, even
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Speaker 5: then he said that, you know, he doesn't want it restriction.
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Speaker 3: That's the only surprise.
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Speaker 5: Otherwise, from the oral arguments, it seemed pretty clear that
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Speaker 5: there were a majority of the justices that were going to,
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Speaker 5: you know, allow this particular ban.
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Speaker 2: And we've been talking to June Grasso right now about
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Speaker 2: the Supreme Court upholding the US gun ban on domestic
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Speaker 2: violent cases. It's an eight one ruling, as Paul was
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Speaker 2: just mentioning, the Justice is saying the constitutional Second Amendment
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Speaker 2: isn't so broad that it protects the gun rights of
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Speaker 2: those found to be dangerous. Just as Clarence Thomas was
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Speaker 2: the lone dissenter. Okay, Jun, what do we learn anything
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Speaker 2: else today from the Supreme Court? They're like time five
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Speaker 2: days in taking.
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Speaker 5: When we were talking before, I said, there are nineteen
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Speaker 5: cases and basically fourteen of them are the controversial, and
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Speaker 5: so today they came out with five decisions, four of
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Speaker 5: which were not controversial at all that we're really not tracking.
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Speaker 3: I mean, some of them are interesting.
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Speaker 5: One was about whether a US citizen has a constitutional
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Speaker 5: right to have her spouse.
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Speaker 3: You know, declared a citizen.
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Speaker 5: So that that's an interesting case, particularly in light of
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Speaker 5: what Joe Biden did this week relating to allowing spouses
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Speaker 5: who are married to US citizens who came to this
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Speaker 5: country illegally to stay in the country while they go
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Speaker 5: through the process. Normally they'd have to go back to
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Speaker 5: their home country, which is really risky. So it's interesting.
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Speaker 5: But still, so we have one week left so far,
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Speaker 5: one decision day on Wednesday. I'm sure they'll have more
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Speaker 5: coming up, they'll set more, but so we have all
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Speaker 5: the cases left. Presidential immunity, the January obstruction charges, the
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Speaker 5: Idaho abortion ban, the homelessness issue, Chevron case, which you
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Speaker 5: mentioned before, the case is on social media, the case
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Speaker 5: on Purdue Pharma air Pollution sec.
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Speaker 6: Why are they waiting? Do you think is typical?
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Speaker 5: All right, so it is typical. But so talking to
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Speaker 5: a professor yesterday, because I was questioning why they're all
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Speaker 5: and I always feel like they're waiting until the end
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Speaker 5: and they get them all out at once, and it
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Speaker 5: gets lost in the ether. You can't cover everything at once.
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Speaker 5: But what people say is that, well, the more complicated
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Speaker 5: cases with like six to three, they'll be dissents, there'll
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Speaker 5: be concurrences, and then they have to pass those around
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Speaker 5: the justices and so it takes longer.
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Speaker 3: But this professor I was talking to, Harold.
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Speaker 5: Krantz, said, you know, he thinks that the chief is
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Speaker 5: holding them. And because if you notice yesterday there were
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Speaker 5: four cases, three of them were about criminal procedure, they
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Speaker 5: were grouped together. So's it's odd to me that this
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Speaker 5: is just haphazard random they all come out. And the
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Speaker 5: Raheemi case, the case that we had heard today, was
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Speaker 5: one of the oldest cases. It was heard in November,
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Speaker 5: and usually you can tell how the cases come by
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Speaker 5: when they're heard.
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Speaker 3: So think about the Trump case. It took about.
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Speaker 5: Twenty days on the less Trump case.
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Speaker 3: Having to do with the ballot.
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Speaker 5: We're up to like forty something now on the Trump case,
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Speaker 5: it's so it's it's.
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Speaker 6: A we'll be stretched next week.
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Speaker 3: Okay, oh we'll be here, we'll be here. Well, you're
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Speaker 3: off Friday, off Friday.
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Speaker 5: Oh, that's going to be a big day.
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Speaker 2: Maybe you don't want to take prep now, I got
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Speaker 2: a double prep now, all right, Dune, thanks a lot,
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Speaker 2: June Grass joining us to help break it down. Just
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Speaker 2: to reiterate the Supreme Court upholds the US gun ban
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Speaker 2: and domestic violence cases. I should point out Smith and
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Speaker 2: Western shares are sliding over twelve percent, but that's also
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Speaker 2: because they said sales in the first quarter would be
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Speaker 2: ten percent lower a year on year than originally thought.
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Speaker 2: So if you're just looking at the market for that
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Speaker 2: kind of reaction, all right, let's get more on this
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Speaker 2: with Andrew Willinger. He's executive director Duke Center for Firearms Law. Andrew,
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Speaker 2: thank you for joining us. We appreciate it. Can we
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Speaker 2: get your reaction to this ruling?
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Speaker 7: Absolutely?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, So I think you know the big takeaway, of course,
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Speaker 4: is that the court here upholds a federal law that
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Speaker 4: restricts people who are under domestic violence restraining orders from
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Speaker 4: possessing firearms. It's an eight to one decision, so you
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Speaker 4: have eight justices in favor of that outcome. Justice Thomas
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Speaker 4: is the sole the center. And I think, you know,
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Speaker 4: what we were watching for, at least what I was
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Speaker 4: watching for with this case is sort of how broad
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Speaker 4: the decision would be. And the Court seems to settle
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Speaker 4: on something akin to a dangerousness principle, where they, you know,
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Speaker 4: the majority basically says that when there's some evidence that
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Speaker 4: a person poses a threat of harm to another person,
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Speaker 4: then that individual can be barred from possessing guns, consistent
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Speaker 4: with history.
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Speaker 6: Andrew, is there any reason for any gun protection advocates
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Speaker 6: to maybe read into this that, hey, this may create
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Speaker 6: an opening for you know, more common sense gun legislation.
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Speaker 4: So I think, having just had a chance to briefly
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Speaker 4: skim the decision, my read is that it's somewhat narrow
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Speaker 4: and that the court doesn't squarely confront you know, even
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Speaker 4: other related issues like banning convicted felons from possessing guns,
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Speaker 4: for example, you know, those convicted of non violent felonies,
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Speaker 4: and and sort of leaves those for another day. I'll
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Speaker 4: have to dig a little bit more into the various opinions,
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Speaker 4: because there are some concurrences as well that might shed
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Speaker 4: light on where some of the specific justices are. Well, I.
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Speaker 2: Think it just raises the question, then then what is dangerous?
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Speaker 2: So if you can't sell a firearm to someone who's dangerous,
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Speaker 2: how are we going to be interpreting that through legislation
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Speaker 2: and then through the courts?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and my my initial reaction to the decision is
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Speaker 4: that again the court, the majority, sort of leaves that
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Speaker 4: question a little bit open. You know, there was some
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Speaker 4: discussion at the oral argument that this specific law doesn't
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Speaker 4: really pose a difficult case because there has to be
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Speaker 4: a finding by a state court judge that somebody is
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Speaker 4: dangerous is likely to commit domestic violence. So, in other words,
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Speaker 4: this would sort of be a case in the heartland
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Speaker 4: of that principle.
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Speaker 7: But there might be edge cases.
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Speaker 4: With regard to other types of gun regulation that the
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Speaker 4: court will have to confront. And one takeaway I think
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Speaker 4: one initial takeaway from this decision is it wouldn't surprise
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Speaker 4: me if in the coming terms, the court did confront
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Speaker 4: some of those issues and decide those questions.
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Speaker 6: Andrew, what is the Duke Center for Firearms Law?
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Speaker 1: Yeah?
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Speaker 4: Absolutely, The Duke Center for Firearms Law is an academic
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Speaker 4: organization that how is that the law school here at Duke,
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Speaker 4: and we seek to grow and build the scholarly field
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Speaker 4: of firearms law in the legal academy. We also have
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Speaker 4: a variety of resources on a Second Amendment cases and
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Speaker 4: other issues related to gun regulation that we host through
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Speaker 4: our website, blog, and database of historical gun laws for example.
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Speaker 6: Go ahead, Andrew, I just with that background, and given
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Speaker 6: what I know is you know, the majority of US
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Speaker 6: citizen's favorite common sense gun law. I think that's a fact.
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Speaker 6: What's from your perspective at the Duke Center for Firearms Law?
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Speaker 6: Why can't more legislation common sense gun laws? Why can't
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Speaker 6: they be enacted here in this country?
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Speaker 7: Yeah?
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Speaker 4: So, I mean, I think one one obstacle to to
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Speaker 4: some of these laws has been the tests, the legal
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Speaker 4: tests that the Supreme Court set for two years ago,
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Speaker 4: almost to the day in a case called Bruin, which
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Speaker 4: essentially says that the way courts are to evaluate Second
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Speaker 4: Amendment challenges is by determining whether a law is consistent
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Speaker 4: with historical tradition. And that you know that this case,
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Speaker 4: this decision today is the first, the first we've heard
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Speaker 4: from the Supreme Court since then on the Second Amendment,
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Speaker 4: so their first sort of chance to clarify what that
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Speaker 4: test should look like, and you have today a justice
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Speaker 4: is saying pretty clearly that, you know, we're not requiring
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Speaker 4: a twin, We're not requiring any kind of exact replica
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Speaker 4: in the historical record to support a modern gun law.
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Speaker 4: So I think that's important and consequential, and maybe maybe
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Speaker 4: to some extent, the justices in the majority are are
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Speaker 4: concerned that their their prior decision was interpreted by that
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Speaker 4: way by at least some lower court judges.
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Speaker 2: How do you how do you think gun laws or
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Speaker 2: the reaction to them evolve as it continues to seem
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Speaker 2: more politicized. And I know that's even crazier to say,
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Speaker 2: because it was already so politicized, but so many more
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Speaker 2: of the issues are now politicized. How do you think
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Speaker 2: this evolves in this country?
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Speaker 1: Yeah?
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Speaker 4: Absolutely, you know, again to take it back to the
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Speaker 4: to the Raheemi decision, I actually think this, this is uh,
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Speaker 4: this sort of illustrates maybe less of an ideological or
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Speaker 4: political divide as to certain types of gun laws. You know,
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Speaker 4: this is this is UH made maybe a law that
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Speaker 4: has you know, we know it has very broad public
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Speaker 4: support based on polling that that restrictions on domestic violence offenders.
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Speaker 4: Most the vast majority of people in the country support
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Speaker 4: those types of laws. And so today we have a
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Speaker 4: decision upholding that that regular at the federal level.
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Speaker 7: And so, you know, I think there will certainly be.
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Speaker 4: Other cases down the road that will be more of
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Speaker 4: a stark, you.
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Speaker 7: Know, ideological divide.
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Speaker 4: If you think about something like a restriction on semi
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Speaker 4: automatic rifles, so called assault weapons, that would be an
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Speaker 4: example where I would expect the court to really fracture
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Speaker 4: along ideological lines.
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Speaker 7: But that wasn't the case today.
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Speaker 6: When I was getting my MBA at Duke Alex, I
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Speaker 6: took one class at the Duke Law School. Big mistake,
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Speaker 6: do you run away? The kids work super super hard
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Speaker 6: like I had to work. In that case. My little
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Speaker 6: study group wouldn't let me just skate by. They weren't
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Speaker 6: like the business school. We were just punching our ticket
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Speaker 6: to go back to Wall Street. That's amazing. These kids
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Speaker 6: were like serious. So anyway, appreciate that.
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Speaker 3: S thanks for that and see you guys later.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, exactly, all right, Andrew, thank you so much for
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Speaker 6: joining us. Andrew Willinger, He's executive director of the Duke
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Speaker 6: Center for Firearms a lot.
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Speaker 2: Okay, So I was mentioning that we have the whole
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Speaker 2: triple witching Vin Signerella Poop poove that, so did Paul Sweeney.
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Speaker 2: We have another thing today, and that is ETF a rebalancing.
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Speaker 2: So here's like the broad Strokes, the State Street Global
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Speaker 2: Advisors Tech. ETF has to rebalance. It has about seventy
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Speaker 2: one billion dollars in that and the idea is that
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Speaker 2: you're going to have to buy some Nvidia and sell
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Speaker 2: Apple and it could kind of move individual stocks around.
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Speaker 2: So we wanted to see if this was actually a
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Speaker 2: big deal, not like the triple Witching thing. James Seffert
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Speaker 2: is Bloomberg Intelligence ETF research analyst and he joins us, Now, okay,
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Speaker 2: is it a big deal that's rebalancing?
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Speaker 8: I mean, I think it's a big deal. It showed
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Speaker 8: some of the issues with passive indexing. And there's a
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Speaker 8: lot of things that people like to complain about with
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Speaker 8: passive investing and passive indexing and things like that, and
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Speaker 8: we spend a lot of our time pushing back saying
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Speaker 8: it's not as big of a deal as people are
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Speaker 8: making it out to be. That said, I like to
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Speaker 8: go back and kind of point out times where sometimes
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Speaker 8: rules can be a little dumb and situations happen, where
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Speaker 8: wonky things happen in the markets, and I think this
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Speaker 8: is one of them. I mean, the after market closed today,
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Speaker 8: our estimates are somewhere around that this XLK ETF is
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Speaker 8: going to have to sell are almost thirteen billion dollars
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Speaker 8: worth of Apple and buy about eleven billion dollars of Nvidia. So,
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Speaker 8: I mean, that's just wonky in itself, I guess I
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Speaker 8: would say, but I'll stop there.
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Speaker 6: So, James, how do we get to this position? Doesn't
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Speaker 6: XLK this this ETF? Doesn't it do this stuff every day?
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Speaker 6: Like if in Vidia is going up, don't they buy
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Speaker 6: more in Vidia? I don't know how that works.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, So say most of these passive industries work is
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Speaker 8: they just hold these stocks in proportion to their market cap,
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Speaker 8: so the size of the company, that's how much they hold.
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Speaker 8: It's actually we can get into the wonky parts of
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Speaker 8: this a little bit too, but it's more about free
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Speaker 8: float market cap, which we can get into in a bit.
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Speaker 8: But essentially, theoretically, as the prices of these the values
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Speaker 8: of these stocks go up, the waiting in the hall
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Speaker 8: in the fund will go up. But there's things that
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Speaker 8: happen where you have to rebalance, so they rebalance quarterly.
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Speaker 8: Different stocks get moved from different sectors, so they'll come
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Speaker 8: out of the sector ETF. But theoretically, the way XOLK
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Speaker 8: works is it takes all the S and P five
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Speaker 8: hundred stocks that are in the tech sector and should
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Speaker 8: market cap weight them.
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Speaker 7: But there's these.
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Speaker 8: Rules from the SEC that have to do with registered
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Speaker 8: investment companies, So all mutual funds ETFs for the most
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Speaker 8: part fall under this registered investment company's ruling, and they
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Speaker 8: have diversification requirements. The problem is, if you just allowed
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Speaker 8: these things to be market cap weighted, you have the
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Speaker 8: three largest companies in the world in Microsoft, Apple and Nvidia,
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Speaker 8: all around three over three trillion dollars in market cap valuation,
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Speaker 8: and you'd end up with this fund being sixty plus
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Speaker 8: percent just in those three stocks, and the diversification rules
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Speaker 8: and the index rules don't allow that. And the way
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Speaker 8: they do that in this case is they just cap
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Speaker 8: the smallest one. So if you're over a certain weight
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Speaker 8: five percent ish and if all of those stocks over
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Speaker 8: five percent add up to over fifty percent, you cut
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Speaker 8: the bottom one to four and a half percent in
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Speaker 8: the fund. So essentially that meant for the last six quarters,
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Speaker 8: despite in Video should have had a significant weight, every
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Speaker 8: time it rebalanced, it got sold because it got capped
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Speaker 8: at four and a half percent. But last Friday, as
19:30
Speaker 8: of the market closed, which is when this fund looks
19:32
Speaker 8: at this on a free float adjusted basis, in Video
19:35
Speaker 8: was larger than Apple, So all of a sudden, now
19:38
Speaker 8: Apple is that smallest stock, so in Video is going
19:40
Speaker 8: to get a bunch of buys and Apple's going to
19:41
Speaker 8: get a bunch of sales. Ironically enough, today, with the
19:44
Speaker 8: way in Video is trading down over four percent, it's
19:46
Speaker 8: actually smaller than Apple. So if the date was today,
19:49
Speaker 8: we wouldn't be having this rebalance.
19:51
Speaker 3: So okay, I'm still confused it.
19:55
Speaker 2: So can we attribute any of the price action too
19:58
Speaker 2: of Apple and Nvidia in the past to this.
20:02
Speaker 8: So it's hard for me to know exactly what's going on. Right,
20:05
Speaker 8: So there was a massive inflow that went into this
20:07
Speaker 8: fund that's in. There's rebalance flows. Money comes in and
20:11
Speaker 8: goes out, and there's It's kind of happens over days
20:14
Speaker 8: as far as the rebouance goes. So when you it's
20:17
Speaker 8: called a reference date, that's the date. We're going to
20:19
Speaker 8: look at all the information from this date and we're
20:20
Speaker 8: going to use that information to do the rebalance. So
20:23
Speaker 8: in that case, it was last Friday, June fourteenth. The
20:26
Speaker 8: actual rebalance is going to happen today after market close.
20:29
Speaker 8: But the people making markets like, no, this is going
20:31
Speaker 8: to happen, right, It's not like this stuff happened and
20:33
Speaker 8: it closed on Friday last Friday, and then no one's
20:36
Speaker 8: paying attention to this or trading around. What's going to
20:38
Speaker 8: happen with these tens of billions of dollars being traded
20:41
Speaker 8: like things were happening Friday last week and all along
20:44
Speaker 8: this week they were preparing for these trades. So it's
20:47
Speaker 8: most likely that like Spider and anyone else that's tracking
20:51
Speaker 8: this index has the trade set up and lined up
20:53
Speaker 8: so they can match the underlying index. That's the ultimate
20:56
Speaker 8: goal of these passive funds. They want to track the
20:57
Speaker 8: underlying index. In this case, ex it's the large cap
21:01
Speaker 8: stocks and the S and P five hundred that are
21:03
Speaker 8: in the tech sector.
21:05
Speaker 6: Have we seen this before? If this feels like I
21:07
Speaker 6: haven't read this scene this dealt with this before? Is
21:10
Speaker 6: this new need?
21:14
Speaker 8: Yes and no. So there are instances where wonky things
21:17
Speaker 8: like this happen in many cases there with smaller stocks though.
21:21
Speaker 8: So I've written in the past about some dividend funds,
21:24
Speaker 8: and there's there's wonky issues with dividend funds where if
21:26
Speaker 8: you're waiting it by dividend yield rather than market cap,
21:29
Speaker 8: like this fund is weighted, as the price of the
21:31
Speaker 8: stock goes down, your dividend yield goes up. So basically
21:34
Speaker 8: what happens in some cases with those dividend yield funds
21:37
Speaker 8: or some other funds, some cash flow type funds as
21:40
Speaker 8: like they'll do cash flow yields and things like that.
21:42
Speaker 8: As the price of the stocks go down, it looks
21:44
Speaker 8: like their valuation metrics are getting better, but it's partially
21:47
Speaker 8: because the stock price is going down. So much, and
21:49
Speaker 8: there's often times reasons for that, and then many of
21:52
Speaker 8: these funds have like limitations, so if it goes below
21:54
Speaker 8: a certain market cap, we can't hold it. So all
21:56
Speaker 8: of a sudden they build up these massive positions and
21:58
Speaker 8: then it gets too small and then they're forced to
22:00
Speaker 8: dump it. And that's happened in the past, but it's rare.
22:03
Speaker 8: This is the first time I've ever seen it happen
22:04
Speaker 8: with a large cap ETF and a spund of this size,
22:07
Speaker 8: a grand seventy one billion dollars, like Alex said at
22:10
Speaker 8: the beginning of this, So yes, it's it's it's rare.
22:15
Speaker 8: So that's why I said, I like to point it
22:16
Speaker 8: out when it happens, but it doesn't usually happen. And
22:18
Speaker 8: the only reason it's happening is because we have this
22:21
Speaker 8: unique situation where they've taken a bunch of names that
22:23
Speaker 8: used to be in the technology sector and move them
22:26
Speaker 8: out in a like reclassification. So Visa and mastercarda no
22:30
Speaker 8: longer in there, which are big funds. Obviously, Google and
22:32
Speaker 8: Meta and other ones have left, So all of a sudden,
22:34
Speaker 8: you left with this really top heaviness at the top
22:37
Speaker 8: of the tech sector. In these three stocks, and that's
22:39
Speaker 8: causing a lot of wonky things to happen. Now, the
22:42
Speaker 8: thing I'm watching is right now. Like I said, if
22:44
Speaker 8: the reference date was today, this this rebalance wouldn't be
22:48
Speaker 8: happening and Video would be the one being capped at
22:50
Speaker 8: four and a half percent. The next rebalance is September,
22:53
Speaker 8: So if Apple manages to stay larger than in Vidia
22:56
Speaker 8: on a float adjusted basis in September, we're going to
22:58
Speaker 8: have the exact reverse of this. So usually these index
23:01
Speaker 8: providers in this case SMP and the ETF is ETF
23:05
Speaker 8: providers in this case Spider or State Street, they try
23:09
Speaker 8: to keep the indexes exactly the same because they want
23:11
Speaker 8: continuity over time. I wouldn't be surprised if they look
23:14
Speaker 8: at kind of changing the rules about how they meet
23:16
Speaker 8: those diversification requirements rather than just arbitrary capping chopping off
23:20
Speaker 8: the third largest here. So that'll be something to watch
23:23
Speaker 8: in the next few months. But if they don't, we
23:24
Speaker 8: could come to the September and see like a reversal
23:27
Speaker 8: of this, or if Microsoft is somehow smaller than Nvidia
23:30
Speaker 8: and Apple, that will be the one that get sold
23:32
Speaker 8: and Apple will be bought. It'll be very interesting to
23:35
Speaker 8: watch what's going to happen. And this is like, this
23:36
Speaker 8: is an area that hedge funds are paying very close
23:38
Speaker 8: attention to and making markets. You asked if it's actually
23:41
Speaker 8: impacting markets. There are a whole teams out there that
23:43
Speaker 8: are watching for what these behemoth passive products are doing
23:46
Speaker 8: and what they're going to have to do in rebound
23:47
Speaker 8: dates and basically prepping for it.
23:49
Speaker 2: I want to see what like water cooler talk is
23:51
Speaker 2: with him and Eric Beltuna's oh gee, and they're like, hey, bro,
23:56
Speaker 2: let's check out this ETF and look at this flow.
23:58
Speaker 3: It's so cool.
23:59
Speaker 2: I just I just joke, because you guys are are
24:01
Speaker 2: so smart and so insane when it comes to all
24:04
Speaker 2: of these details with ets. But this is really helpful
24:06
Speaker 2: and we appreciate it and thank you very much. And
24:09
Speaker 2: it really helps to understand what happens with the Nvidia
24:11
Speaker 2: and an Apple when you have this kind of reshuffling.
24:13
Speaker 2: Right twice seventy one billion dollars that etf reshuffling. That's
24:16
Speaker 2: not nothing. And I'm looking forward to the Russell two thousand.
24:19
Speaker 3: I feel like we should.
24:19
Speaker 2: Definitely talk about that next week too. Just like a
24:22
Speaker 2: small caps have just not been able to keep up,
24:24
Speaker 2: and any keep up they have is like super micro
24:27
Speaker 2: at that point exactly.
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Speaker 2: Another headline that crossed earlier today is that Canada is
24:48
Speaker 2: apparently preparing tariffs on Chinese evs after the US and
24:51
Speaker 2: the EU did something relatively similar. We wanted to get
24:55
Speaker 2: more on that with Steve Man, Bloomberg Intelligence, Global Autos
24:57
Speaker 2: and Industrials research analysts. Hey, Steve Walker, us through so
25:00
Speaker 2: far what we know on this?
25:02
Speaker 9: Yeah, so Canada is basically following what the US and
25:09
Speaker 9: the Europeans have done, which is to slap potentially one
25:13
Speaker 9: hundred percent tariff another one hundred percent tariff on Chinese
25:17
Speaker 9: made cars coming into Canada. Now, the impact is very
25:23
Speaker 9: is muted. First of all, Canada sells about one point
25:28
Speaker 9: seven million vehicles a year compared to around sixteen million
25:33
Speaker 9: in the US thirty million in Canada in China, so
25:37
Speaker 9: the market is relatively small. I think the overall purpose
25:41
Speaker 9: of doing that is really to close the back door
25:45
Speaker 9: in the US Mexico Canada Free Trade Agreement to make
25:49
Speaker 9: sure that you know, Chinese cannot bring cars into the
25:54
Speaker 9: US through Canada.
25:56
Speaker 6: Okay, talkers about the Chinese EV market, Steve, how big
26:03
Speaker 6: is it? You say, you have a SAR there thirty
26:05
Speaker 6: million cars a year. What's the share of EV's today
26:09
Speaker 6: and kind of where do you think it's going to go?
26:12
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's it's it's pretty big. It's as much as
26:15
Speaker 9: twenty five percent now of annual sales. So you know,
26:20
Speaker 9: they've also, as you know, there's a lot of capacity
26:25
Speaker 9: in China. EV production capacity in China, and there's a
26:29
Speaker 9: lot of players out there. You know, a few of
26:31
Speaker 9: them trade here actually, Neo x pun Le Auto uh
26:35
Speaker 9: and so you know the government, you know, just to
26:38
Speaker 9: prop up consumer spending, actually rolled out some incentives to
26:43
Speaker 9: sell more battery electric vehicles in China. And some of
26:46
Speaker 9: the incentives are you know, on trade ins, you know,
26:50
Speaker 9: extra credit on trade in trading in their ice vehicles
26:54
Speaker 9: for the battery electric vehicles. So you know, twenty five
26:57
Speaker 9: percent now probably expected to row through the remainder of
27:01
Speaker 9: this year.
27:02
Speaker 2: So here's my question, if I'm a Chinese EV company,
27:05
Speaker 2: Can I then just go through Mexico because I appreciate
27:08
Speaker 2: this closes the window from Canada, so I can no
27:10
Speaker 2: longer really important to Canada and then through to the
27:13
Speaker 2: US because the tariffs will hit. But in Mexico I
27:16
Speaker 2: still can, right, So why not just ship all the
27:18
Speaker 2: EV's in there free trade agreement, ship all the EV's
27:20
Speaker 2: into the US.
27:22
Speaker 9: That is true, But just like what Canada did, I
27:25
Speaker 9: think they're going to close that back door as well
27:28
Speaker 9: at some points. But but look, the Chinese automakers, especially
27:32
Speaker 9: like BYD, has made it clear, uh that you know,
27:36
Speaker 9: they don't have any interest in entering the US market
27:40
Speaker 9: at the moment.
27:40
Speaker 10: And it's difficult.
27:42
Speaker 9: It's not it's not like they you know, you can say, oh,
27:45
Speaker 9: I'm coming in and selling cars in the US, and
27:47
Speaker 9: then you know you're you're able to be able to
27:50
Speaker 9: get a lot of gain a lot of customers just
27:52
Speaker 9: by doing that. You know they're gonna have to build
27:54
Speaker 9: a distribution network, they have to build a service network,
27:57
Speaker 9: and more importantly, given the geopolitic goal wrangling that's happening
28:02
Speaker 9: between the US and China, I'm not sure if a
28:06
Speaker 9: lot of the US car consumer are ready to buy
28:10
Speaker 9: a Chinese car at the.
28:11
Speaker 6: Moment, What do the Chinese automakers say, Steve about these
28:15
Speaker 6: tariffs in the US and the EU Canada. I mean
28:20
Speaker 6: to what extent, how impactful are these to their sales
28:23
Speaker 6: and what are we hearing from these Chinese automakers.
28:26
Speaker 9: Yeah, I think at the moment zero impact from the
28:32
Speaker 9: tariffs in the US and Canada.
28:35
Speaker 10: There will be some impact from the tariffs in the EU.
28:39
Speaker 9: They do have about two three percent market share in
28:44
Speaker 9: the in the in the European Union. But you know,
28:48
Speaker 9: the tariffs is not as as big as it is
28:51
Speaker 9: in the US. It's it's upwards of you know, thirty
28:54
Speaker 9: eight to fifty percent, and it really depends on the allmaker.
28:58
Speaker 10: For example St. Lentists.
29:00
Speaker 9: You know, they do plan to import some Chinese made
29:04
Speaker 9: evs into Europe through their new joint menture with Leap
29:07
Speaker 9: and Motor.
29:09
Speaker 10: Uh.
29:09
Speaker 9: But uh, you know so because you know Stulentis also
29:14
Speaker 9: has plans to with this h with Leap Motor within
29:18
Speaker 9: this joint mensure to build cars in Europe, the terrorists
29:21
Speaker 9: is a little bit lower. So terrorists are different for
29:24
Speaker 9: different automakers within the EU. So uh, you know, the
29:30
Speaker 9: penetration rate, you know, will be impacted. But I think
29:34
Speaker 9: over at the end of the day, Chinese will be
29:38
Speaker 9: able to still able to sell cars in the EU,
29:40
Speaker 9: but at a higher cost, and it gives the the
29:44
Speaker 9: incumbents some room to to actually grow.
29:48
Speaker 2: What what do you think the differential will would be
29:50
Speaker 2: Like an E a Chinese EV into Europe would cost
29:53
Speaker 2: X and and Volkswagen EV would cost y. Like what
29:58
Speaker 2: do we think that differential will actually wind up?
30:01
Speaker 9: Yeah, it ranges I think between thirty to fifty percent cheaper.
30:06
Speaker 9: The Chinese EV will be thirty to fifty percent cheaper.
30:08
Speaker 3: Even with the tariffs or without the tariffs.
30:11
Speaker 9: No, without the tariffs. So first of all, without the tariffs,
30:13
Speaker 9: and I think what the terriffs are trying to do,
30:16
Speaker 9: and not only the tariffs, any cars that actually comes
30:19
Speaker 9: into the EU from China will have to meet the
30:22
Speaker 9: local safety requirements. So there's going to be some changes
30:26
Speaker 9: that the Chinese automakers will have to make to their
30:29
Speaker 9: cars to meet those requirements. So overall, you know, with
30:34
Speaker 9: the changes of vehicles with the tariffs, what the EU
30:38
Speaker 9: is trying to do is make, you know, ensure that
30:42
Speaker 9: the prices of the Chinese car when they do hit
30:45
Speaker 9: the ground, will be very competitive to the EV's made
30:49
Speaker 9: by the local automakers there.
30:52
Speaker 6: Hey see, what's the latest thinking coming out of Detroit
30:55
Speaker 6: about electric vehicles? Obviously, you know, a couple of years
30:59
Speaker 6: ago they really started ramping up aggressively. Then demand seems
31:03
Speaker 6: to have faded here, so they're they're pulling back on
31:06
Speaker 6: some of their plans. What's the latest thinking from our
31:10
Speaker 6: US automakers about their move to EV's.
31:13
Speaker 9: Yeah, I was just at in Detroit last week, and
31:20
Speaker 9: you know, every I think the consensus is that EV
31:22
Speaker 9: battery evs are here to stay. You know, some of
31:26
Speaker 9: the estimates that we saw a few years ago when
31:30
Speaker 9: we you know, when we're thinking about BV is gonna
31:33
Speaker 9: hit you know, seventy five eighty percent on the market
31:36
Speaker 9: is not unlikely to get there anytime soon. And and
31:42
Speaker 9: if you look at global market, especially in the US,
31:44
Speaker 9: we're going to have a mix.
31:45
Speaker 10: Of powertrain, but BV will grow.
31:48
Speaker 9: I think some of the estimates out there, including ours
31:52
Speaker 9: at BI, we think the US market will probably hit
31:55
Speaker 9: you know, twenty five to thirty percent penetration rate by
31:59
Speaker 9: the end of the day decade, so from about nine
32:02
Speaker 9: percent today. So at different ominae kids are taking different strategies.
32:08
Speaker 9: If you look at the Lentis, you look at GM,
32:11
Speaker 9: they're fro on, They're still launching a lot of EV's
32:14
Speaker 9: the next couple.
32:14
Speaker 10: Of years more affordable EV's four is taking a step back, right.
32:19
Speaker 9: I think they it's not a bad strategy. They know
32:23
Speaker 9: the technology, they know how to build evs, so it
32:27
Speaker 9: doesn't hurt. It saves cash for the time being until
32:32
Speaker 9: they see critical mass and they can easily come back
32:35
Speaker 9: to the market.
32:36
Speaker 3: All right, Steve, we appreciate it. Thank you so very much.
32:38
Speaker 2: Steve Mann, Bloomberg Intelligence, Global Autos and Industrials research analysts.
32:44
Speaker 3: You have to wonder what policy though.
32:47
Speaker 2: We were talking to the Tahlion right, and they used
32:50
Speaker 2: to make basic trucks like EV trucks, right, And they said, look,
32:54
Speaker 2: the policy just wasn't there, and the demand just wasn't there,
32:57
Speaker 2: and we just couldn't sustain that part of the business.
32:59
Speaker 2: If we get a different administration, does that change, If
33:03
Speaker 2: we get different ruling in the EPAID does different things?
33:05
Speaker 2: Is that also change? Like what part of policy plays
33:08
Speaker 2: in demand?
33:09
Speaker 1: Yeah?
33:09
Speaker 6: I think what we learned and what we're still learning
33:13
Speaker 6: is it's got to be priced competitive. Yes, the charging
33:18
Speaker 6: storage situation is going to be vastly improved. And you know,
33:25
Speaker 6: I also think there's still a political thing there that
33:27
Speaker 6: I'm not sure they're going to be able to get over.
33:29
Speaker 3: Yeah.
33:29
Speaker 6: I think there's going to be some kind of political
33:31
Speaker 6: divide there where people are.
33:33
Speaker 3: Right, it's going to be like a political stance.
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Speaker 6: and that's where we go find this. We just heard
34:04
Speaker 6: Vinie and Charlie talking about existing home sales four point
34:07
Speaker 6: one one million. That's off slightly from the prior period.
34:10
Speaker 6: I went back and did the old GP function and
34:13
Speaker 6: set the tab to max to see how far back
34:15
Speaker 6: we could go, just to put that four point one
34:17
Speaker 6: one million homes sold in the month in context, and
34:21
Speaker 6: we usually do since like two thousand, about five point
34:25
Speaker 6: three million, so it's definitely below kind of where we were,
34:28
Speaker 6: and you know, hire interst rates and all that kind
34:30
Speaker 6: of stuff, and just people getting priced out. I wonder
34:32
Speaker 6: what that means for mortgage backed securities market. Mortgage backed securities,
34:36
Speaker 6: the Bloomberg Index of mortgage backed securities total return off
34:41
Speaker 6: about zero point one four percent here year to date.
34:44
Speaker 6: So what do we do here in the back half
34:46
Speaker 6: of the year. Let's check in with Erica Adelberg. She
34:48
Speaker 6: covers all this MBS stuff for Bloomberg Intelligence. She joins
34:51
Speaker 6: us here in our Bloomberg Interactive Broker studio. So as
34:54
Speaker 6: we sit here year mid year, Erica, how do you
34:57
Speaker 6: think about the back half of the year for mortgage
34:59
Speaker 6: back securities.
35:00
Speaker 11: Well, it's been a pretty interesting first half of the year,
35:02
Speaker 11: so let's just talk about that for a minute. As
35:04
Speaker 11: of two months ago, mortgages were down more than two
35:07
Speaker 11: percent in total return and on an access return basis
35:11
Speaker 11: versus treasury is about seventy five basis points. And since
35:14
Speaker 11: the FED reinstated, they're kind of one sided market where
35:18
Speaker 11: they probably won't tighten, but they're hoping to ease at
35:20
Speaker 11: some point this year. The markets were covered great, so
35:24
Speaker 11: you know, we're back to almost flat as you said
35:26
Speaker 11: for the year on total return, we're almost plad in
35:29
Speaker 11: excess returns too. So what happens for.
35:31
Speaker 3: The rest of the year.
35:32
Speaker 6: We think we could probably.
35:33
Speaker 11: Hold on to this. We don't think there's tremendous momentum
35:36
Speaker 11: right now. You would think there would be given the
35:38
Speaker 11: two months, but the problem is we're still on hold
35:41
Speaker 11: awaiting the FED and supplies great because there's not a
35:45
Speaker 11: lot of new homes, but net supply is actually increasing
35:48
Speaker 11: because what's not happening in existing homes is getting put
35:51
Speaker 11: into the new home market a little bit. So we're
35:54
Speaker 11: actually seeing some increase in net supply of mortgages, especially
35:58
Speaker 11: when you take into account the fact that the FED
36:00
Speaker 11: is you know, not buying. In fact, they're allowing their
36:03
Speaker 11: portfolio to run off, which contributes effectively more supply.
36:06
Speaker 3: Well, it's what I was wondering, who's buying these things.
36:09
Speaker 11: It's mostly money managers right now, and they're not the
36:11
Speaker 11: most reliable buyer inasmuch as if as friends get too tight,
36:15
Speaker 11: for instance, they may.
36:16
Speaker 3: Pull back a little bit.
36:18
Speaker 11: We're seeing some of the largest money managers right now
36:20
Speaker 11: being quite overrated the sector, So that might limit the
36:22
Speaker 11: amount of dry powder they have, you know, should they
36:25
Speaker 11: get concerned about the sector for one reason or another,
36:28
Speaker 11: or even just if that supply does pick up.
36:31
Speaker 6: Someone comes up to you in a COCTA party and says,
36:33
Speaker 6: and when someone comes up to you to Cockta party
36:34
Speaker 6: and says, what's a thirty ye mortgage? These days? What
36:37
Speaker 6: ticker do you put into Bloomberg terminal?
36:39
Speaker 11: I generally put in if I want a very short
36:41
Speaker 11: term thing, I put in their fixed thirty or fixed
36:44
Speaker 11: MB thirty or the fread. Yeah good, it's all I
36:47
Speaker 11: needed And that's the fastest one to type.
36:50
Speaker 6: Okay, MB thirty. So how how does the mortgage market
36:53
Speaker 6: react to kind of what the Fed's doing? How quickly
36:56
Speaker 6: does that work? How tight is it if we're going
36:59
Speaker 6: to get the FED start cutting into the back half
37:01
Speaker 6: of the year. Does a mortgage market anticipate that?
37:03
Speaker 10: Do they?
37:03
Speaker 11: Lag?
37:03
Speaker 6: How's that work?
37:04
Speaker 3: It really doesn't anticipate it much.
37:06
Speaker 11: Okay, It's going to be based basically on what happens
37:08
Speaker 11: with the tenure, and the tenure will be a little
37:10
Speaker 11: bit more forward looking than short term rates.
37:12
Speaker 3: You know, it may look to what.
37:13
Speaker 11: The Fed's going to do next year, for instance, but basically,
37:17
Speaker 11: right now, I think our rate strategist thinks that the
37:19
Speaker 11: ten yure is going to finish the yearround three seventy nine.
37:22
Speaker 11: That's less than a fifty basis point rally from here,
37:26
Speaker 11: So we really don't expect mortgage rates to finish inside
37:29
Speaker 11: of six point fifty at the end of the year anymore.
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Speaker 2: I go back to who's buying again? Are banks buying
37:33
Speaker 2: mortgage backed securities? And like, will that change?
37:36
Speaker 11: That's a good question banks. Unusually for the banks who
37:40
Speaker 11: are usually a huge fan of mortgage backed securities, they
37:43
Speaker 11: when the FED started tightening, they were facing a lot
37:46
Speaker 11: of profit and loss unrealized gains losses on their balance sheets,
37:51
Speaker 11: and they were worried about volatility as well. So you know,
37:54
Speaker 11: after SVB collapsed, for instance, they just stopped buying mortgages altogether.
37:59
Speaker 11: In fact, they they didn't even reinvest their paid out
38:01
Speaker 11: so they were running off their portfolios too.
38:03
Speaker 3: And then you combine that with the fact that.
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Speaker 11: You know, the FED, it's a lot of extra supply
38:09
Speaker 11: for the rest of the market to absorb.
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Speaker 3: They have leveled off.
38:13
Speaker 11: Now they've started at least apparently reinvesting their paydowns, so
38:17
Speaker 11: that's a little bit of a less negative technical for
38:20
Speaker 11: the sector. But they really haven't come in in any
38:22
Speaker 11: significant size. We think that, I mean, there are two
38:26
Speaker 11: things that might happen. One is they just get more
38:28
Speaker 11: confidence once the FED starts to ease or at least
38:31
Speaker 11: starts really saying that they're about to ease. But we
38:33
Speaker 11: also think they might want a less disinverted yield curve
38:37
Speaker 11: or less less inverted yield curve double negatives. Get it
38:41
Speaker 11: mixed to right, Yeah, So so they might they you know,
38:45
Speaker 11: there's not a lot of incentives to them invest in
38:47
Speaker 11: a longer term security if it's yielding less than their
38:49
Speaker 11: funding right now.
38:50
Speaker 6: When I talk to credit an, I'll say, talk to
38:52
Speaker 6: us across about how tight credit spreads are. Is that
38:55
Speaker 6: a similar situation in the mortgage backed securities market.
38:58
Speaker 11: When you look at like the OS the mortgage market
39:00
Speaker 11: right now relative to the corporate market, it looks like
39:03
Speaker 11: relative to the past ten years that mortgages are really
39:06
Speaker 11: quite cheap. Corporates have done super well. But if you
39:09
Speaker 11: look back to pre financial crisis, before the FED held
39:12
Speaker 11: as many mortgages as they do on their portfolio. We're actually,
39:15
Speaker 11: you know, at a point where you know, maybe mortgages
39:17
Speaker 11: don't look so cheap to corporates anymore. They used to
39:20
Speaker 11: trade at a wider range. So it kind of all
39:22
Speaker 11: depends on your perspective and how much you think you
39:25
Speaker 11: know that the FED may come back in or not
39:27
Speaker 11: as a buyer of last resort if something goes wrong
39:30
Speaker 11: in the mortgage market.
39:31
Speaker 2: So at the end of the day, really we have
39:33
Speaker 2: to think about the affordability part of this equation, right,
39:36
Speaker 2: like it.
39:37
Speaker 3: Is who's mining, So that's part of it.
39:38
Speaker 2: But the affordability what do you think gets everything more
39:40
Speaker 2: affordable and kind of gets this market really moving?
39:43
Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean the funny thing is, you know, like
39:45
Speaker 11: like any bond investor, you know, I always like to
39:48
Speaker 11: say what's good news for consumers, and the economy is
39:52
Speaker 11: often bad news for bonds, So you know, the bond's
39:55
Speaker 11: rally when the economy is not doing well. And supply
39:58
Speaker 11: for mortgages, actual supply, not just net supply, would pick
40:02
Speaker 11: up if the housing market got more affordable. So we
40:04
Speaker 11: don't necessarily want that, I mean, mortgage originators to do,
40:07
Speaker 11: but mortgage investors may not, but I think it's going
40:11
Speaker 11: to have to take We're going to have to wait
40:14
Speaker 11: for rates to fall down because home price is today
40:16
Speaker 11: the existing home prices hit a new record at four
40:19
Speaker 11: hundred and nineteen thousand.
40:20
Speaker 3: For the median home price.
40:21
Speaker 11: And you know, although inventor inventories are building a little bit,
40:25
Speaker 11: if anything, they'll probably only build enough to kind of
40:27
Speaker 11: stagnate prices, so that what it takes is median incomes,
40:31
Speaker 11: you know, overtime growing and you know rates coming down
40:35
Speaker 11: over time.
40:36
Speaker 6: I mean, this great, great chart about who's buying, who's
40:38
Speaker 6: selling the Federal Reserve a year to date minus ninety
40:43
Speaker 6: minus ninety two billion or is that a percentage, because
40:46
Speaker 6: it then neutral funds are buying, dealers are buying.
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Speaker 11: That's minus ninety two billion in the first quarter. But
40:52
Speaker 11: you know, if you look at it, I do with chart,
40:54
Speaker 11: and I think.
40:54
Speaker 3: You're actually looking at it.
40:56
Speaker 11: The Z one holdings from the Fed and until now
41:01
Speaker 11: from March twenty two, March twenty two until now, when
41:05
Speaker 11: the Fed and the banks are running off their portfolios, households,
41:08
Speaker 11: it's called households, we're the only ones buying. Actually, they
41:12
Speaker 11: were really making up the difference. But the problem with
41:14
Speaker 11: that household number is it's a little inscrutable because it's
41:17
Speaker 11: actually the plug that the FED puts in there for
41:20
Speaker 11: anybody who doesn't fit into the insurance or the money
41:23
Speaker 11: manager or the redial fund. So we know it's a
41:26
Speaker 11: lot of private net well they call it households. We
41:29
Speaker 11: know it's a lot of a few hedge funds. But yeah,
41:32
Speaker 11: they let their portfolios run off last month, which is interesting.
41:35
Speaker 11: It's a trend to watch, but not a trend to
41:36
Speaker 11: be too concerned about yet.
41:38
Speaker 6: All Right, so I'm not I got the NB thirty
41:40
Speaker 6: year mortgage six point ninety four percent, so the bodinesses
41:42
Speaker 6: were below seven percent, but we're nowhere near me refinancing
41:46
Speaker 6: my six percent. I'm holding on to this thing. Eric
41:49
Speaker 6: Adelberg a Chief mortgage back security Strategies for Bloomberg Intelligence.
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