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Speaker 2: Well, a little bit of FED speak. We had some
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Speaker 2: economic data today with the jobs claims kind of right
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Speaker 2: in line with expectations. I don't know, I kind of
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Speaker 2: feel like this FED obviously has taken March off the
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Speaker 2: table for a cut, and I don't know where we
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Speaker 2: are from May, maybe fifty to fifty. I don't know
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Speaker 2: what the worp thing mcgiggie says, But let's talk to
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Speaker 2: somebody who actually does this for a living. That would
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Speaker 2: be one Ira Jersey, chief US interest rate strategist for
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Speaker 2: Bloomberg Intelligence. He is down in the Bloomberg campus getting
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Speaker 2: ready for what will be a spectacular lunch. I'm sure,
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Speaker 2: because that's how they do it down there in Prince.
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Speaker 3: Let's just talk about that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, I mean, it's unbelievable. They did a renovation,
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Speaker 2: which I don't even why they did a renovation because
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Speaker 2: it was already a great facility. But it's even better now,
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Speaker 2: all right, Ira, talk to us about May. I'll give
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Speaker 2: you March. We're not going to do anything in March.
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Speaker 2: That's fine, But I'm focusing now on May. I could
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Speaker 2: argue that they don't need to do anything in May.
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Speaker 2: What do you think?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, And there's certainly and there's Paul, There certainly are
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Speaker 4: people who are arguing that very that very thing. When
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Speaker 4: you look at the recent data, it does seem like
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Speaker 4: the economy is not selling down very much. You don't
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Speaker 4: have you have some signals that maybe inflation will kind
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Speaker 4: of stabilize here instead of continuing to fall. So that's
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Speaker 4: leading some people to think that the Federal Reserve might
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Speaker 4: not might not cut in May. So we are pricing,
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Speaker 4: like you said, using the WRP function, around around a
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Speaker 4: three quarters chance of a cut in May. And I
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Speaker 4: think that that's probably the correct pricing given the information
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Speaker 4: that we currently have. I think the you know, the
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Speaker 4: thing that we have to remember, though, is that the
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Speaker 4: Federal Reserve doesn't want the difference between inflation and the
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Speaker 4: Fed funds rate to get too wide because they think
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Speaker 4: that that will tighten financial conditions too much and slow
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Speaker 4: the economy more. Now you know, how effective is monetary
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Speaker 4: policy right now? And what is the lead and lags
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Speaker 4: of monetary policy right now? No one really knows, and
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Speaker 4: it's certainly much longer this time, I think because of
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Speaker 4: some of the structural changes, like everyone with low mortgage
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Speaker 4: rates that are don't have to refinance again and won't
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Speaker 4: when interest rates are four hundred basis points above where
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Speaker 4: where their mortgages are.
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Speaker 5: That would be me so fair enough, IRA, And you
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Speaker 5: had Thomas Barkin talking to Michael McKee earlier saying that
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Speaker 5: it is conceivable that the neutral rate has risen after
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Speaker 5: the pandemic.
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Speaker 3: So it feels like the thing that kind of throws some.
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Speaker 5: Cold water is that if a higher neutral rate, then
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Speaker 5: were just less tight than we thought. Therefore we can
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Speaker 5: wait longer to cut or you don't have to cut
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Speaker 5: as much.
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Speaker 4: Sure, and the neutral rate almost certainly is higher, right
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Speaker 4: the question is how much higher We had a time
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Speaker 4: period in between the crises, both from two thousand and
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Speaker 4: nine call it to twenty twenty to the pandemic, where
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Speaker 4: where our star The real neutral rate, whatever you want
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Speaker 4: to call it, was probably exceptionally low. And one of
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Speaker 4: the big reasons for that was just the lack of
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Speaker 4: volatility in the economy. Also lack of volatility in some markets,
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Speaker 4: although you know, obviously markets went up and down, but
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Speaker 4: generally speaking, you had a situation where where you had
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Speaker 4: exceptionally low our store. So you know, our store is higher, right,
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Speaker 4: I mean there's almost people who are saying that it's not.
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Speaker 4: I think, you know, aren't considering that we're in a
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Speaker 4: different regime now than we were the last ten years.
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Speaker 4: I think the question is it higher like it was
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Speaker 4: in two thousand and five or nineteen ninety five or
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Speaker 4: you know, nineteen eighty and I suspect that that, yes,
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Speaker 4: our store is higher than it was the last decade
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Speaker 4: or so, but we're not going back to the nineteen
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Speaker 4: eighties when you know, the real neutral rate was probably
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Speaker 4: somewhere closer to eight or nine percent. So you know,
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Speaker 4: we're not We're not there, but we're also not at
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Speaker 4: fifty basis points where at one and a half percent
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Speaker 4: or two percent something like that is our estimate of
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Speaker 4: where our star is.
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Speaker 2: So if I go you know, to the Morgan Stanley
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Speaker 2: fixing come trading floor and go over to the government desk,
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Speaker 2: I kind of feeling the traders there just kind of
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Speaker 2: scrolling through TikTok there's not a lot going on. It
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Speaker 2: feels like it's a trade range bound kind of trading range,
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Speaker 2: Is that right, iron, What maybe gets us out of that?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, we've been in a range. I think we'll probably
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Speaker 4: stay into a range at least until next week when
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Speaker 4: we get CPI in retail sales. You know, I don't
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Speaker 4: see really what would knock us out of this. So
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Speaker 4: it's not unusual for ten longer term treasury yields to
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Speaker 4: fall into some thirty to fifty base point range you know,
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Speaker 4: call it forty basis point range right now that we're in,
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Speaker 4: and just chop around within that until you get some
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Speaker 4: impetus that's usually fundamentally driven that drives the market out
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Speaker 4: of those ranges. And sometimes those ranges last for months
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Speaker 4: and months at a time. There was a you know,
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Speaker 4: I remember going back to twenty fifteen when we were
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Speaker 4: in the same range for about six months and I
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Speaker 4: was thinking about switching careers because there was nothing right about. So,
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Speaker 4: you know, I don't think we're going there right. I
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Speaker 4: think that we'll get some more information over at least
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Speaker 4: the next six weeks that gives us a better direction,
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Speaker 4: and maybe that direction and I think that this is
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Speaker 4: something that is permeating some of the trading desks, is, Hey,
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Speaker 4: what happens if the FED doesn't cut as much as
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Speaker 4: the market's pricing. What happens if the FED only it
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Speaker 4: cuts two or three times? In fact, we have a
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Speaker 4: model that you can find out, go to Beico Models,
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Speaker 4: and we look at the options market on some industry
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Speaker 4: of futures contracts, and what we say is that the
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Speaker 4: market's pricing for a twenty percent chance that the FED
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Speaker 4: only cuts once or twice this year. And that's something
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Speaker 4: that we have to keep in mind. That's a real
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Speaker 4: possibility now, and if we continue to have such good data,
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Speaker 4: I think it becomes a higher and higher probability as
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Speaker 4: a year goes on.
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Speaker 5: That's really interesting. I wonder what would happen in the
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Speaker 5: markets in that case. Like equities may I mean like
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Speaker 5: that equities may like get okay if the growth is
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Speaker 5: really there, But the bond market, I don't know. I
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Speaker 5: think that would be a real sea change. We've already
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Speaker 2: Let's go back to Disney, their stock that's having a
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Speaker 2: good day, up about nine percent here in early trading
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Speaker 2: on the back of a quarter that for some people was,
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Speaker 2: you know, kind of like boy, I think they've got
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Speaker 2: their handle on this thing now. And Laura Martin at
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Speaker 2: that's helping the stock up nine point nine percent here today.
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Speaker 2: she's been all over this name here. Hey, Keith, the
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Speaker 2: stock's up about ten percent here. What do you think
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Speaker 2: the market's reacting to here today?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean Disney is definitely back, Paul back with
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Speaker 6: a bank. Market is reacting to all of the profitability
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Speaker 6: that they're seeing with this company. I mean, one of
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Speaker 6: the big pain points with Disney has really been the
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Speaker 6: lack of streaming profitability. But now there seems to be
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Speaker 6: a clear path to the streaming business kind of getting
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Speaker 6: to that profitability metric. So we saw the losses come
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Speaker 6: in way below expectations. It was sixty five percent below
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Speaker 6: what people were projecting. They're still kind of guiding to
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Speaker 6: you know, hitting profitability by the September quarter, but most people,
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Speaker 6: i think on the street expected to happen much much sooner.
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Speaker 6: And then Hugh Johnston, who's the new CFO and this
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Speaker 6: was his first call with Disney, basically said that look
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Speaker 6: to or expect double digit operating margins in the streaming business.
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Speaker 6: And I think that was something that was really really
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Speaker 6: powerful because we know that, you know, the number that
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Speaker 6: we're all chasing is that twenty percent operating margin where
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Speaker 6: you know Netflix has been with their streaming business.
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Speaker 5: So the based on what we got, what is your
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Speaker 5: question today versus your question yesterday?
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Speaker 6: I mean, I think the one area that we kind
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Speaker 6: of still need clarity is how all of this the
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Speaker 6: streaming bundles are going to work. So it's really good
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Speaker 6: to see them kind of be proactive and go out
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Speaker 6: with their own solution. So they have that sports super
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Speaker 6: app that's coming out a little bit later this year
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Speaker 6: in conjunction with Fox and Warner Brothers. They have their
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Speaker 6: own ESPN Plus standalone app. Again a little bit of
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Speaker 6: you know, we're not really sure whether those are necessarily
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Speaker 6: going to can applies to each other. I don't think so.
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Speaker 6: I think, really Disney, what they're trying to do here
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Speaker 6: is kind of create this this super bundle because they
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Speaker 6: know that, you know, content bundling works, and everybody's kind
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Speaker 6: of looking aggregation is the holy grail, and I think
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Speaker 6: Disney wants to be at the forefront of it. But
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Speaker 6: definitely we need a little bit more kind of clarity
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Speaker 6: at least around like what the financial value creation is
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Speaker 6: going to be.
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Speaker 2: How about the theme park business that seems to continue
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Speaker 2: to be a really solid business for them, and I
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Speaker 2: know they you know, they announced several months ago that
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Speaker 2: they're really stepping up their investment in their theme parks
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Speaker 2: and their cruises and all that kind of stuff. How
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Speaker 2: did that business do very very well?
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Speaker 6: So again, operating income was for the quarter was well
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Speaker 6: above three billion dollars. That was again above what the
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Speaker 6: street was expecting. And really what we're seeing is a
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Speaker 6: lot of momentum at the international parks. So they opened,
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Speaker 6: you know, they've opened so many new attractions in their
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Speaker 6: overseas properties. You have a new Frozen Land in Hong Kong.
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Speaker 6: You have the new Zootopia attraction in Shanghai, and both
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Speaker 6: of those are doing really really well for the company,
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Speaker 6: and that has really enabled them to take, you know,
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Speaker 6: implement all of these price increases. So international parks really
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Speaker 6: kind of doing extremely well. Domestically. There's a little bit
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Speaker 6: of pressure from wage inflation, there's a little bit of
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Speaker 6: pressure from you know, tough comms from like the Walt
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Speaker 6: Disney World fifty that anniversary celebration, but again, you know,
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Speaker 6: just transient parks are really set up very very well,
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Speaker 6: and you mentioned the sixty billion dollar investment. Now seventy
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Speaker 6: percent of that capex is going to be towards new attractions,
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Speaker 6: so this is really going to be a major, major
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Speaker 6: profit driver for them going forward.
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Speaker 5: Git there was a journal article that I just felt
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Speaker 5: like helped someone like me who's not seeped in Disney,
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Speaker 5: like you guys, understand how they're just seeping in to
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Speaker 5: all the Americana that's out there. They said, Taylor Swift,
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Speaker 5: football and Fortnite, but like anywhere that you will want
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Speaker 5: to be or listen to or watch.
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Speaker 3: Disney will be there. What did you make of the
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Speaker 3: Fortnite investment?
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Speaker 6: Super smart move by them, right, It's so strategic, it's
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Speaker 6: so smart, and it's still a kind of not a
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Speaker 6: huge investment. One point five billion gives them some steak,
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Speaker 6: gives them some skin in the game, and there's a
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Speaker 6: lot of upside, not too much downside. So I think
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Speaker 6: a really good way for them. And remember, Alex, they've
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Speaker 6: had this kind of really checkered past when it comes
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Speaker 6: to video games. It's not that they haven't been there.
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Speaker 6: They were in the publishing business. Didn't really work out
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Speaker 6: for them. They exited that business in twenty sixteen started
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Speaker 6: licensing out a lot of their content. But you know, licensing,
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Speaker 6: you're still kind of this passive participant. They really need
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Speaker 6: to be there. They need to be an active participant
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Speaker 6: in the video gaming industry. There's so much overlap between
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Speaker 6: all of the audiences that go to the you know,
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Speaker 6: the Disney parks and you know the people who are gaming. Right,
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Speaker 6: it's all these youngsters and they really want to be there,
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Speaker 6: and this is a great way for them to do it.
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Speaker 2: Well, listener, it just writes in here and says Carolo.
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Speaker 2: Swift also announced her concert movie would be exclusively on
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Speaker 2: Disney Plus starting next month.
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Speaker 5: Thank you for that, with five new songs. Really, yeah,
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Speaker 5: so you already saw it. You're gonna want to see
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Speaker 5: it again because there's five new performances.
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Speaker 2: On Contucker's all fired up for that, all right, So.
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Speaker 3: I'm going to address it throughout the two You were
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Speaker 3: going to.
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Speaker 2: Have to say exactly. He to talk to us about
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Speaker 2: the movie business to film, the entertainment business that was
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Speaker 2: at one point for a long time just a sort
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Speaker 2: of tremendous value. Just smash it after smash it, billion
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Speaker 2: dollar box office became the norm. What are they saying
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Speaker 2: about their theatrical business.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, and they were asked about this last night, Paul,
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Speaker 6: And you know, the content the studio has not really
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Speaker 6: been the blockbuster you know that it was. We've had
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Speaker 6: a whole string of misfires over the past few months.
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Speaker 6: But I think what Barb Bager was saying is they
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Speaker 6: are in the process of rebuilding. The whole content pipeline
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Speaker 6: is refilling. They're having this really smart move here with
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Speaker 6: this new Taylor Swift movie coming out on March fifteenth.
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Speaker 6: And then they spoke about, you know, having this new
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Speaker 6: Moana movie. This was originally going to be a series
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Speaker 6: on Disney Plus it's it's now going to be a theatrical,
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Speaker 6: full blown theatrical release. And again we're prepping for twenty
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Speaker 6: twenty six, really, which is going to be the biggest
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Speaker 6: year for the box office ever since the pandemic, and
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Speaker 6: a lot of that will be Disney kind of driving
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Speaker 6: the slate right with. You have the whole Star Wars
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Speaker 6: coming back with Mandalorian and Grogu, you have a whole
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Speaker 6: set of Marvel releases, so it's going to be really
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Speaker 6: interesting as we kind of build to that. So again,
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Speaker 6: nothing really major in twenty twenty four, maybe other than
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Speaker 6: you know, kind of the Deadpool movie. But we're kind
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Speaker 6: of building towards a much stronger slate in twenty five twenty.
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Speaker 5: Nothing big coming except for the Deadpool. Excuse me, I've
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Speaker 5: been waiting for this movie for years.
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Speaker 3: Deadpool three.
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Speaker 2: You're a big fan of the franchise.
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Speaker 3: Definitely not my audience that I'm talking to right now.
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Speaker 2: Okay, I thought you said Deadpool. I thought it was
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Speaker 2: like a financial movie. I would have gone see.
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Speaker 3: That Reynolds Deadpool.
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Speaker 2: It's very brilliant. Yeah, I don't grow out much.
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Speaker 5: This is the third one having Wolverine make a little cameo.
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Speaker 3: Whatever.
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Speaker 5: Anyway, it's gonna be awesome. Paul, What do you make
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Speaker 5: of like how fast Disney was.
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Speaker 2: Able to move Well, A lot of people tell you
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Speaker 2: they didn't move fast enough. But it's I think when
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Speaker 2: i Figer came in, I mean, yeah, yeah, and it's
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Speaker 2: but the stock's been kind of dead money for a
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Speaker 2: while and Githa well knows here. It's just a question
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Speaker 2: of when can we get a sense of when the
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Speaker 2: streaming losses are going to be in the rear view mirror.
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Speaker 2: And you know, bob byger surprises. You know, I guess
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Speaker 2: a year or so ago when he said some of
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Speaker 2: these assets might be for sale, like the ABC networks,
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Speaker 2: some of the cable networks. Any update on that, no.
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Speaker 6: So you know, yes he did. He you know, we
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Speaker 6: did have him kind of say everything's up for sale,
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Speaker 6: and then he kind of walked back all of that.
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Speaker 6: And now it's see, you know, it's kind of starting
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Speaker 6: to make sense because they're obviously taking all that content,
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Speaker 6: they're putting it now on the super app, So it
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Speaker 6: makes sense for them to still kind of hold on
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Speaker 6: to their linear TV assets because they still do have
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Speaker 6: very valuable sports rights on there. So I think they're
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Speaker 6: kind of aiming for this bigger, kind of grander strategy.
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Speaker 6: I don't necessarily think that they're looking to sell any
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Speaker 6: of their linear TV networks right now.
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Speaker 2: So interesting. Okay, very good Keith, a great update, Thanks
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Speaker 2: for taking the time. KEITHA wrong and nothing. She is
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Speaker 5: definitely listen to the whole interview on that podcast. Barry
16:34
Speaker 5: joins us now in the studio.
16:35
Speaker 3: Barry, what was your takeaway from the interview?
16:38
Speaker 5: I mean, you could argue, obviously he's talking his book,
16:41
Speaker 5: but today is a beautiful case in point of like
16:43
Speaker 5: nearing five thousand on a couple big tech stocks and
16:46
Speaker 5: that's it.
16:47
Speaker 8: So there were a couple of big takeaways. You know,
16:49
Speaker 8: we didn't talk about what he said surrounding the SEC
16:53
Speaker 8: no longer really enforcing things. She had to all enforce
16:55
Speaker 8: a little bit of insart or trading rules, but there's
16:59
Speaker 8: an absence there, according to Einhorn. To me, what's really
17:03
Speaker 8: fascinating about him is, here's a guy who had a
17:06
Speaker 8: spectacular start to his career first fifteen years, put up
17:11
Speaker 8: incredible numbers, famously shorted Allied Capital, famously shorted Lehman Brothers
17:17
Speaker 8: right before they went bankrupt, and then hit a rough
17:20
Speaker 8: stretch in the twenty tens. Normally that's where a story
17:24
Speaker 8: would end. But what makes Einhorn such a fascinating investor
17:29
Speaker 8: and analyst, and he was very proud to describe himself
17:32
Speaker 8: as an analyst, is they rethought their strategy. They looked
17:36
Speaker 8: at what's changed in the structure of the market and said,
17:39
Speaker 8: we can no longer do basic superficial value investing and
17:43
Speaker 8: hope the market catches up. We have to change our metrics,
17:47
Speaker 8: we have to change our approach. And for the past
17:49
Speaker 8: five years they've been putting up really good numbers. The
17:53
Speaker 8: shift has worked.
17:54
Speaker 2: What did they change? What did they change till I
17:56
Speaker 2: guess so?
17:57
Speaker 8: What their belief and their strategy used to be is
18:01
Speaker 8: find stocks that the market doesn't recognize the value what
18:05
Speaker 8: he described as variant perception, buy them and wait for
18:10
Speaker 8: the market to figure it out. Hey, you know, we
18:12
Speaker 8: buy stocks if the pe of the market is sixteen,
18:15
Speaker 8: we can find stocks with a pe of twelve and
18:17
Speaker 8: eventually everybody will come to our party, he said. As
18:21
Speaker 8: value investors have seen outflows as value funds have gone
18:25
Speaker 8: out of business.
18:26
Speaker 2: You can't rely on.
18:27
Speaker 8: That sector to do that. So now we have to
18:29
Speaker 8: find deep value stocks that are taking matters into their
18:33
Speaker 8: own hands.
18:34
Speaker 2: What do you mean by.
18:35
Speaker 8: That, Well, cheap companies that have enough growth and enough
18:38
Speaker 8: cash flow to do big increases in dividends, big increases
18:42
Speaker 8: in share buybacks, and even if the rest of the
18:45
Speaker 8: market doesn't figure out their own business model, will allow
18:50
Speaker 8: their stock price to grow by returning capital to shareholders
18:54
Speaker 8: through buybacks and dividends.
18:55
Speaker 3: And that gets harder though.
18:56
Speaker 5: Isn't everybody looking for exactly the same thing in a
18:58
Speaker 5: smaller pool of candidates.
19:00
Speaker 8: You know, back when I was on a trading desk
19:03
Speaker 8: in the nineteen nineties, in the medieval times, there were
19:06
Speaker 8: thousands and thousands of sales side analysts, and everybody was
19:10
Speaker 8: looking for those sort of stocks, and there was there's
19:14
Speaker 8: something to be said for the shift, and I think
19:17
Speaker 8: he got this right. Algorithmic trading, quantitative analysis and passive
19:23
Speaker 8: investing has eliminated a huge number of those analysts. Then
19:29
Speaker 8: you take you know, the Wilshire five thousand is thirty
19:32
Speaker 8: four hundred stocks. There aren't as many stocks as there
19:35
Speaker 8: once were. Anything that small cap or microcap is completely overlooked.
19:40
Speaker 8: And so the odd thing about price discovery and passive
19:44
Speaker 8: investing is it's created these inefficiencies where value is getting overlooked.
19:51
Speaker 8: If everybody is doing either growth or passive, it creates
19:54
Speaker 8: an opportunity for investors like Einhorn.
19:58
Speaker 2: Do we know how much assets he has under mounage.
20:00
Speaker 8: I think it's about three or four billion dollars. I
20:02
Speaker 8: mean it's off his peak. He went through a period
20:05
Speaker 8: in the mid twenty tens markets up ten twelve percent.
20:08
Speaker 8: They're down eight ten twelve percent. They saw a bunch
20:11
Speaker 8: of outflows after really putting some big numbers up. In fact,
20:17
Speaker 8: over since inception in ninety six, they've still outperformed the
20:21
Speaker 8: S ANDP by just about double Maybe it's a touch
20:24
Speaker 8: light of that, but not on an annual basis total
20:27
Speaker 8: courtesy of compounding for twenty plus years. But there was
20:31
Speaker 8: the period in the twenty tens where he spent nearly
20:34
Speaker 8: the whole decade not putting up great numbers. And it's
20:37
Speaker 8: only the past five years that Greenlight has begun to
20:40
Speaker 8: outperform again. And that's what this second act is very
20:44
Speaker 8: unusual in finance. Most people don't say, Okay, I'm going
20:48
Speaker 8: to take everything I've done for the past twenty years,
20:50
Speaker 8: throw it out and start over. I give a lot
20:52
Speaker 8: of credit to him.
20:53
Speaker 5: What's interesting too is that he mentioned you know, al goes, etc.
20:56
Speaker 5: But also one of the top right articles, also right
20:58
Speaker 5: now in the terminal is meme trader is fueling an
21:00
Speaker 5: over twenty six hundred percent spike in a holographic tech firm,
21:05
Speaker 5: meaning that like misadigive plotin getting taken out by a
21:08
Speaker 5: bunch of random guys sitting at home on a computer
21:13
Speaker 5: like that must be very difficult too for him to
21:15
Speaker 5: sort of reckon with.
21:16
Speaker 8: You know, the funny thing when you see that take
21:18
Speaker 8: place is you have to realize that even a huge
21:26
Speaker 8: thousand percent move in some of these meme stocks, they
21:30
Speaker 8: have to be supported by the fundamentals. Eventually, you know,
21:34
Speaker 8: markets will eventually.
21:35
Speaker 3: Maybe bed bath and beyond a disagree.
21:37
Speaker 8: Right, Well, but you know, when we look at what
21:40
Speaker 8: happened with AMC, perfect example, they very intelligently said, hey,
21:44
Speaker 8: what's our stock price doing up? Yere, let's float some
21:47
Speaker 8: float some shares, Let's get get some capital in. And
21:50
Speaker 8: they were able to very inexpensively clean up their balance
21:54
Speaker 8: sheet in a way that most me companies don't get
21:59
Speaker 8: an option, don't get an opportunity to. So. So Yeah,
22:02
Speaker 8: and if you look at all those memestocks, they're all
22:05
Speaker 8: around trips, every last one of them is. You know,
22:08
Speaker 8: they've run up one thousand percent, they've given back ninety
22:11
Speaker 8: percent of those gains go bankrupt, right they've been Hey,
22:15
Speaker 8: by the way, if you want to buy a bankrupt company,
22:17
Speaker 8: then maybe you're not before the bankruptcy filing afterwards a
22:21
Speaker 8: different conversation, but before maybe you're not a really good
22:25
Speaker 8: fundamental investor. You're just playing that trend. I think Einhorn
22:30
Speaker 8: and we didn't talk about the meme stocks very much,
22:33
Speaker 8: but I think he would be he would be intended
22:35
Speaker 8: to you know, short those all.
22:38
Speaker 5: Right, Barry, thanks a lot, really appreciate it wonderful to
22:40
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22:55
Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely. I don't know how he gets all these
22:57
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23:00
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23:23
Speaker 5: We're like almost close to five thousand on the SMD,
23:26
Speaker 5: so I realize it's a round number, but we still care.
23:28
Speaker 3: Let's see if Dan Griffith cares.
23:29
Speaker 5: He is a Huntington private bank. He's a vice president,
23:34
Speaker 5: the senior vice president there and director of wealth Strategy. Dan,
23:37
Speaker 5: I appreciate that your longer term and like five thousand
23:40
Speaker 5: won't mean a lot. However, what I keeping struck by
23:43
Speaker 5: is that we are continually over sold, way above our skis,
23:47
Speaker 5: but no one wants to sell right now as we
23:49
Speaker 5: near five thousand.
23:50
Speaker 9: No, I think that's right. I think what's interesting is
23:53
Speaker 9: as maybe this is for retail customers too. The five
23:56
Speaker 9: thousand number does make a difference because broadly it gets
23:59
Speaker 9: people to say, oh, maybe there is some confidence in
24:01
Speaker 9: the market, and I think there are a lot of
24:03
Speaker 9: underlying factors that support that. But I think round numbers
24:07
Speaker 9: sometimes do kind of wake people up and get them
24:09
Speaker 9: to say, maybe this is something I should pay a
24:10
Speaker 9: little more attention to.
24:12
Speaker 2: So what are you paying attention to these days?
24:14
Speaker 1: Dan?
24:14
Speaker 2: We had a great finish to twenty twenty three, probably
24:17
Speaker 2: took a lot of investors, you know, by surprise. Here.
24:19
Speaker 2: What are we doing here in February?
24:21
Speaker 9: A lot of I think we're looking at a lot
24:22
Speaker 9: of core numbers, and right now a lot of them
24:24
Speaker 9: look very positive.
24:25
Speaker 8: You know.
24:26
Speaker 9: Obviously we're looking for earnings growth next year. This year,
24:29
Speaker 9: you know, maybe ten percent or more. We're looking at
24:32
Speaker 9: jobless numbers.
24:33
Speaker 2: Again.
24:33
Speaker 9: We got a good number this morning, which I thought
24:35
Speaker 9: was really positive on the heels of you know, some
24:37
Speaker 9: great numbers earlier this month, and we're looking at the
24:40
Speaker 9: sentiment of our customers.
24:41
Speaker 2: In particular.
24:42
Speaker 9: We are a great middle market bank that does a
24:44
Speaker 9: wonderful job, particularly in the Midwest, particularly in manufacturing, and
24:48
Speaker 9: as we talk to our clients, they say, we're really
24:50
Speaker 9: optimistic about a lot of things, which is reflected in
24:53
Speaker 9: the ism numbers that you know earlier this month that
24:56
Speaker 9: we're pretty positive.
24:57
Speaker 2: So I think what.
24:57
Speaker 9: We're looking at is the core fundamentals. Even if we
25:00
Speaker 9: have a little bit of a slowdown later this year,
25:02
Speaker 9: which we're still fifty to fifty and have been for
25:04
Speaker 9: quite some time, we think that that will probably be
25:06
Speaker 9: a pretty modest pullback, that the economy is healthy enough
25:10
Speaker 9: to recover from.
25:11
Speaker 5: Well, let's be honest, it's still big tech. I mean,
25:13
Speaker 5: you look at the SMP equal weighted and we have
25:14
Speaker 5: definitely hit resistance. SMP moves higher. Yeah, okay, you get
25:17
Speaker 5: the Russell is having a little bit of a bounce today,
25:19
Speaker 5: but this is not a widespread rally.
25:22
Speaker 3: So what do you do.
25:23
Speaker 9: I think there's some validity to that. I think it's
25:26
Speaker 9: it's better than it used to be. Maybe that might
25:28
Speaker 9: be the way to describe it.
25:31
Speaker 3: We thought, okay, that's right exactly.
25:33
Speaker 9: I think the recovery is a little broader this year.
25:35
Speaker 9: Obviously it's still still one sided to some degree, but
25:38
Speaker 9: you know, the earnings beats we saw were eighty percent
25:40
Speaker 9: across the board, and that's a good example of where
25:43
Speaker 9: we think that recovery is maybe broader than it would
25:45
Speaker 9: have been in twenty twenty three.
25:47
Speaker 2: So what are some of the industries that are the
25:49
Speaker 2: sectors that you guys look at for opportunity here? I mean,
25:52
Speaker 2: John Tucker's belonging the Magnificent Seven, but the rest of
25:54
Speaker 2: us are looking for some value here.
25:56
Speaker 9: I think, well, I think that's where to look around
25:58
Speaker 9: to say, if the the remainder of the sectors are
26:01
Speaker 9: going to be able to recover in ways the Magnificent
26:04
Speaker 9: Seven weren't, or they'll be able to kind of mirror
26:07
Speaker 9: what happened in twenty twenty three. And some of the
26:09
Speaker 9: sectors we're looking for are the ones that have been
26:12
Speaker 9: left out a little bit. Some of that also is
26:14
Speaker 9: going to be, you know, sectors that are less interested
26:17
Speaker 9: in interest rate fluctuation, so we're looking at that as well.
26:20
Speaker 9: So again, a lot of manufacturing is less related to
26:23
Speaker 9: interest rate, and so as a result, they're looking at
26:26
Speaker 9: just core supply chain, core demand, with consumer sentiments still
26:30
Speaker 9: being really close to one hundred. Again, a lot of
26:32
Speaker 9: them are very optimistic, and so there's upside there too.
26:34
Speaker 5: So let's talk about the industrial sector because it's so
26:37
Speaker 5: interesting with all the Infrastructure Act, the Chip Act, and
26:40
Speaker 5: the IRA, which is a structural story for these guys,
26:42
Speaker 5: But in terms of order books and actual profits and
26:45
Speaker 5: money in hand, we haven't seen that happen. How do
26:48
Speaker 5: you think that cycle plays out? And then how do
26:50
Speaker 5: you manage that as an investor? I think there are
26:52
Speaker 5: two things that are irrelevant.
26:53
Speaker 9: One is that we are starting to see inventories in
26:55
Speaker 9: demand start to just the beginning of them start to
26:58
Speaker 9: tick up a little bit. So I think we're we're
27:00
Speaker 9: just watching the wave begin to grow there. And again,
27:02
Speaker 9: in the conversations I get to have every day with
27:04
Speaker 9: business owners, I see that on a kind of case
27:07
Speaker 9: by case basis, there's optimism there that makes sense. If
27:10
Speaker 9: you look back at twenty twenty two, part of the
27:12
Speaker 9: strength that we see in the market today is that
27:14
Speaker 9: people were building in a potential recession in twenty twenty three,
27:18
Speaker 9: so they kind of tightened their belts and looked around
27:20
Speaker 9: and said, hey, what do we need to do to
27:21
Speaker 9: prepare for a recession that ultimately didn't happen. And so
27:25
Speaker 9: as a result, many of those companies have a core
27:27
Speaker 9: strength going into twenty twenty four right now that results
27:32
Speaker 9: from some really conservative behavior, and I think, particularly in manufacturing,
27:36
Speaker 9: that is a great example of that. So I think
27:39
Speaker 9: a lot of people are coming from a very solid
27:41
Speaker 9: foundation that isn't as interest rate restricted as we mentioned before,
27:45
Speaker 9: and so as a result, I think they're going to
27:46
Speaker 9: do well as we move into this year.
27:48
Speaker 2: One of the names that you guys talked about Parker
27:51
Speaker 2: Hannafin based in Cleveland, Ohio, Northeast Ohio.
27:54
Speaker 3: Company that's right, that.
27:55
Speaker 2: Is manufacturing and stocks up eleven percent year to date,
27:57
Speaker 2: up about forty seven percent of the trailing twelve months.
28:00
Speaker 2: So it's been a good call. What's your play there?
28:02
Speaker 9: Well, I think there are two things that are kind
28:04
Speaker 9: of a good news bad news scenario. One of them
28:06
Speaker 9: is that as manufacturing and industry kind of recovers, they're going.
28:11
Speaker 2: To recover, right.
28:11
Speaker 9: They benefit from that as their core business, and that's
28:14
Speaker 9: the good news the bad news for them or maybe
28:15
Speaker 9: for other folks, is they really benefit from people like
28:19
Speaker 9: Boeing and Airbus kind of stubbing their toe a little bit.
28:22
Speaker 9: So as Boeing has suffered some bad news, that's kind
28:24
Speaker 9: of good news for Parker Hannafin. Unfortunately, it doesn't look
28:27
Speaker 9: like that news is going to go an go away
28:29
Speaker 9: anytime soon, and so we think that's that's a play
28:31
Speaker 9: and something that our folks are looking at.
28:33
Speaker 5: You know, what Paul did, He left me Exon and
28:38
Speaker 5: there's Microsoft. We'll get to that. But you like Exon,
28:41
Speaker 5: I can't blame you after that quarter? What do you
28:44
Speaker 5: like about them? Could you still buy here?
28:46
Speaker 3: Yes?
28:46
Speaker 2: I think so.
28:47
Speaker 9: We've been excited about them for a long time, and
28:49
Speaker 9: obviously it's kind of funny to come back and say
28:52
Speaker 9: we're still excited.
28:53
Speaker 2: We still think it's good.
28:54
Speaker 9: And fortunately good earnings news kind of played out well there.
28:57
Speaker 9: We think their play in the in the shale, the
29:00
Speaker 9: Permian and shale where they are right now, that is
29:01
Speaker 9: kind of just beginning to come out. And I also
29:04
Speaker 9: think the fact that they are a much more vertical
29:06
Speaker 9: company makes a big difference, you know, because they have
29:08
Speaker 9: the opportunity to if oil is volatile, they're still working
29:11
Speaker 9: on the chemical side as well, So we think the
29:13
Speaker 9: vertical nature of their company makes it makes it something
29:17
Speaker 9: that is a lot more attractive than even others appeers
29:19
Speaker 9: in their sector.
29:20
Speaker 2: Alex do people even talk about peak oil anymore?
29:24
Speaker 5: No, no, no, but I mean yes, no, that'll always
29:27
Speaker 5: come back. But if what we've learned in the past
29:30
Speaker 5: fifteen years is that US oil companies will innovate like crazy,
29:35
Speaker 5: and they can and they can execute like the permium
29:37
Speaker 5: revolution on the show, revolution that happened from like the small.
29:40
Speaker 3: Guys, not the big guys. So as long as we have.
29:42
Speaker 5: That innovation there, it's going to be hard to really
29:44
Speaker 5: see that the peak demand thing.
29:47
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the question we ad.
29:49
Speaker 5: We're definitely not at, but that's what we're definitely headed
29:52
Speaker 5: to that at some point. Hence Saudi Arabia, you know,
29:56
Speaker 5: pulling back on what they're going to be producing in
29:58
Speaker 5: terms of thirteen million barrels a day and developing a
30:00
Speaker 5: twelve million.
30:01
Speaker 3: Right like you have. The end is coming, but it
30:03
Speaker 3: could be coming like forty years later.
30:05
Speaker 2: Saudi ramcod do. I guess a secondary offering now with
30:08
Speaker 2: Bolmi Saxon City twenty billion dollars offering. So it's a
30:11
Speaker 2: nice payday. Yeah, yeah, how that goes? Because I got
30:13
Speaker 2: rent Crew, it's still at eighty bucks. Good time to
30:15
Speaker 2: sell some stock, I would think, right, all right? Another
30:17
Speaker 2: I think name that our analysts here at Bloomberg Intelligence
30:20
Speaker 2: are super bullish on is Microsoft. So what's your call there? Again?
30:24
Speaker 3: Kind of singing the same song.
30:25
Speaker 2: I hate to do it.
30:26
Speaker 9: Not particularly innovative, but I think if you look at it,
30:29
Speaker 9: we used to talk about Microsoft as, you know, a
30:31
Speaker 9: computing company. Now you look at it and say they're computing,
30:34
Speaker 9: they're a cloud company, they're a gaming company, their AI company,
30:38
Speaker 9: and in particular, if you look back, they're really starting
30:40
Speaker 9: to report meaningful profits from their AI business. And so
30:44
Speaker 9: obviously we think that's the beginning of a wave as well.
30:46
Speaker 9: There's lots of reasons to think that Microsoft has some upside.
30:50
Speaker 2: I'm looking at the an R function for Microsoft. A
30:52
Speaker 2: couple things jump out of me. First sixty five analysts
30:55
Speaker 2: cover the stock. How efficient is that? That's a lots
31:01
Speaker 2: five holds no cells? So Street likes it.
31:05
Speaker 8: Yes.
31:05
Speaker 5: What I also love about these picks is that these
31:07
Speaker 5: are like I mean, I appreciate Microsoft is at the
31:09
Speaker 5: forefront of AI, but they're also like old school real
31:13
Speaker 5: economy companies. Again, I realized that Microsoft might be treading
31:16
Speaker 5: that line in a big, big way. But like a
31:18
Speaker 5: Parker Hannat been in an Exxon like, these are not
31:21
Speaker 5: We're going to get into a recession.
31:22
Speaker 3: Everything's going to be terrible. You can only a bet
31:24
Speaker 3: On AI right.
31:25
Speaker 9: Well, I think Outset's right right. Exon's another example of
31:28
Speaker 9: where you've got wonderful core fundamentals and that vertical piece
31:31
Speaker 9: that we talked about, and on top of that, they've
31:34
Speaker 9: got the horsepower and ability and a track record I
31:37
Speaker 9: think in both cases to do the kind of innovation
31:39
Speaker 9: that's going to bring them into the future in a
31:41
Speaker 9: meaningful way. And those are the kind of companies we
31:44
Speaker 9: really like.
31:45
Speaker 2: All Right, very good Dan, thanks for making the trip in.
31:47
Speaker 2: Thanks for having me. Dan, Yes, Senior vice president and
31:50
Speaker 2: director of Wealth Strategy, Huntington Private Bank.
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32:13
Speaker 5: So something that's on my radar. It may have faded
32:16
Speaker 5: a little bit from yours, but it is important. Is
32:18
Speaker 5: the Biden administration placing a moratorium on LG export projects
32:23
Speaker 5: to non FTA countries.
32:25
Speaker 3: It was huge.
32:26
Speaker 5: I was in Florence and it was a huge, huge deal.
32:28
Speaker 5: Everyone was complaining about it. Everyone was worried about it,
32:31
Speaker 5: and no one understands it. So let's get into it,
32:33
Speaker 5: because Joe Manchin certainly is so today this is what's happening.
32:37
Speaker 5: The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, which is led
32:40
Speaker 5: by West Virginia Democrat Joe Mansion, is probing the administration's decision,
32:44
Speaker 5: and they're holding a hearing on the issue, at which
32:46
Speaker 5: Deputy Secretary of Energy David Turk will be there. This
32:49
Speaker 5: is just one of many hearings on this has many
32:52
Speaker 5: got a lot of head scratching when this came out,
32:54
Speaker 5: So let's get some more insight here. Dustin Meyer is
32:56
Speaker 5: Senior VP of Policy, Economics and Regulatory Affairs at the
33:00
Speaker 5: American Petroleum Institute down in DC.
33:03
Speaker 3: What do you think, Dustin? We can expect. I realized
33:07
Speaker 3: for some people this may feel.
33:08
Speaker 5: Niche, but This is a huge moment for energy in
33:11
Speaker 5: our country in terms of wealth and in terms of security.
33:16
Speaker 10: Yeah, you got to write, Alex, I mean the benefits
33:18
Speaker 10: of USL ANDNG are clearer now than ever. I mean,
33:21
Speaker 10: the role that USL and G has played, especially in
33:23
Speaker 10: the last couple of years, in helping our allies in
33:26
Speaker 10: Europe displaced Russian pipeline gas is really difficult to overstate.
33:30
Speaker 10: But beyond the geopolitical benefits, the benefits to the US
33:33
Speaker 10: economy are equally obvious. These projects are enormous creators of
33:38
Speaker 10: job down in the Gulf coat wherever they're developed. This
33:41
Speaker 10: is a really good thing for our country. This is
33:43
Speaker 10: a really good thing for our allies. That's why we
33:45
Speaker 10: think it's so unbelievably misguided for the administration to be
33:48
Speaker 10: issuing this pause right now.
33:50
Speaker 2: What is the reasoning from the administration for issuing this pause.
33:55
Speaker 10: They would cite a lot of things. I think most
33:57
Speaker 10: people would agree that this is pretty nakedly political in
33:59
Speaker 10: what they are doing. But they would cite concerns over
34:02
Speaker 10: what is the impact on domestic natural gas prices, what
34:05
Speaker 10: is the climate impact, and how does this play with
34:09
Speaker 10: the evolving transition around the energy landscape. We think at
34:13
Speaker 10: this stage we don't need to do studies on this anymore.
34:17
Speaker 10: We have the proof we've been exporting for seven years.
34:21
Speaker 10: We have the evidence that can show the enormous economic benefits,
34:25
Speaker 10: that can show the enormous geopolitical benefits, and that can
34:28
Speaker 10: show the enormous environmental benefits. Everywhere around the world when
34:33
Speaker 10: gas gets scars, countries turned back to coal. That's why
34:36
Speaker 10: it's incredibly important for us to maintain that reliable and
34:39
Speaker 10: abundant supply from the United States.
34:41
Speaker 5: And which Paul is also a head scratcher, because if
34:43
Speaker 5: you're worried about methane emissions from natural gas, then like
34:45
Speaker 5: limit production, Like why like that' sports the endgame, right,
34:48
Speaker 5: So that a little bit of head scratcher too, So Dustin,
34:52
Speaker 5: I mean, fair enough, it's political. So why do we
34:54
Speaker 5: really care come November six, isn't this just gonna all
34:57
Speaker 5: magically go away?
34:59
Speaker 10: Well, it depends on the you know, incoming what the
35:03
Speaker 10: result of the election is. But we think that there's
35:06
Speaker 10: already serious consequences of doing this pause. There's a lot
35:10
Speaker 10: of buyer appetite out there right now for more leg
35:14
Speaker 10: right buyers from Japan, from Korea, from Europe, from Brazil,
35:17
Speaker 10: from India, from everywhere or everywhere around the world. They
35:21
Speaker 10: want more gas. They would love to get it from
35:23
Speaker 10: the United States. But this sends a very chilling message
35:27
Speaker 10: to investors and to potential buyers.
35:30
Speaker 2: Dustin, how big of a player is the United States
35:33
Speaker 2: and the global LNG market?
35:36
Speaker 10: Oh, We're huge. So we are right now the world's
35:38
Speaker 10: largest LG exporter. As a reminder, it wasn't that long
35:42
Speaker 10: ago when the United States was not just an importer
35:45
Speaker 10: of lergy. We were projected by many to be the
35:47
Speaker 10: world's largest importer of lergy. So that massive transformation and
35:51
Speaker 10: has of course been good for the United States, but
35:53
Speaker 10: that's brought enormous benefits overseas as well. So as the
35:57
Speaker 10: world's largest LG exporter. You know, it was US who
36:00
Speaker 10: is able to redirect our flows in twenty twenty two
36:04
Speaker 10: to Europe to make sure that they could displace that
36:06
Speaker 10: Russian pipeline gas that their system had become dependent on.
36:10
Speaker 10: It's a really good thing to have these cargoes out
36:12
Speaker 10: there on the water, but everyone recognizes that we're going
36:15
Speaker 10: to need even more. We need a clear permitting process
36:19
Speaker 10: for doing exactly that, and that's what this pause jeopardizes.
36:23
Speaker 5: Here's my question, justin where in this may there be
36:26
Speaker 5: a point like where should we be a little bit
36:30
Speaker 5: more judicial in how we issue permits and how things
36:34
Speaker 5: are built? Like where's the point?
36:37
Speaker 10: Yeah, Well, no one is suggesting that there shouldn't be
36:40
Speaker 10: a process, but there is already a very well established
36:44
Speaker 10: and frankly fairly time consuming process for an LNG export
36:48
Speaker 10: project to get approved in the United States. First you
36:50
Speaker 10: need to permit from the DOE for exports to free
36:53
Speaker 10: trade countries, Then you have to go through a very lengthy,
36:56
Speaker 10: comprehensive pork review, and then finally you get your permit
37:00
Speaker 10: from DOE for exports to non FTA countries. Nobody's suggesting
37:04
Speaker 10: that we shouldn't have a process. All were suggesting is
37:07
Speaker 10: that process should be clear and transparent and should use
37:11
Speaker 10: buy and large the process that not just the previous administration,
37:15
Speaker 10: but the Obama administration before it used. Remember, most of
37:18
Speaker 10: the projects that are exporting today are a result of
37:21
Speaker 10: approvals from the Obama administration because the Obama administration understood
37:26
Speaker 10: the geopolitical benefits, they understood the environmental benefits, and they
37:29
Speaker 10: understood the local economic benefits. Here in the United States.
37:33
Speaker 10: That's all. We're suggesting that we should maintain that review process.
37:37
Speaker 2: What type of response, if any, can the energy industry
37:42
Speaker 2: do to kind of I don't know, either reverse this,
37:45
Speaker 2: get around it, call him, yes, go.
37:48
Speaker 3: To DC and touch lovemakers.
37:50
Speaker 1: Yeah.
37:50
Speaker 10: Yeah, And look, we have We have been talking with
37:53
Speaker 10: a lot of folks on the hill and around the
37:54
Speaker 10: Hill to make sure they understand the ramifications of this.
37:58
Speaker 10: We strongly believe that LNG has a great role to
38:01
Speaker 10: play in reducing emissions around the world and bolster and
38:04
Speaker 10: the energy security of our allies. Our allies have been
38:07
Speaker 10: very clear about this as well, and so we have
38:10
Speaker 10: to communicate around this and make that abundantly clear. I
38:13
Speaker 10: would note that there's so much that the industry is doing,
38:16
Speaker 10: for example, on reducing methane emissions across our value chain.
38:19
Speaker 10: That is a good thing that we're doing. That we're
38:22
Speaker 10: doing to reduce emissions at the liquefaction sites themselves. Those
38:25
Speaker 10: are important questions. We're working on that very hard. We
38:29
Speaker 10: think that that cements and even further extends the value
38:32
Speaker 10: proposition of LNG at this time. A lot of this
38:35
Speaker 10: conversation always proceeds as if coal demand around the world
38:40
Speaker 10: has already been eliminated, or that in fact is falling precipitously.
38:43
Speaker 10: Nothing could be further from the truth. Coal demand last
38:46
Speaker 10: year set a new record level. Most forecasters expect it
38:49
Speaker 10: will be a new record this year as well. If
38:52
Speaker 10: you look at the energy outlooks for China, for India,
38:55
Speaker 10: for Vietnam, for major Asian economies, you can see they
38:59
Speaker 10: are left with the choice between coal or natural gas.
39:03
Speaker 10: We think that choice is pretty clear. It should be
39:05
Speaker 10: natural gas.
39:05
Speaker 3: All right, Dustin, thanks so much, appreciate you. What happening on.
39:07
Speaker 3: I know it's a busy day for you.
39:08
Speaker 5: Dustin Meyer, Senior VP of Policy, Economics and Regulatory Affairs
39:12
Speaker 5: at the American Petroleum Institute. And what he brings up
39:15
Speaker 5: at the end, there is the idea of energy equality.
39:18
Speaker 5: It's different to see it here versus like India or
39:22
Speaker 5: Africa or countries that don't have any power or minimal
39:25
Speaker 5: power at all. And then how do you go from
39:27
Speaker 5: something like cold to solar or nothing to solar, like
39:31
Speaker 5: there's just not the infrastructure or the money to do that.
39:34
Speaker 2: And I just remember from you know, the first year
39:36
Speaker 2: the Russian invasion of Ukraine, European country is saying we're
39:39
Speaker 2: going to build floating plants to liquid to what is it, reliquify,
39:45
Speaker 2: re liquifed yea, yeah, so it comes across on the
39:47
Speaker 2: ship from the US and then we can you know,
39:48
Speaker 2: they have them.
39:49
Speaker 3: They're good, they're they're building them up, they're they're floating outside.
39:52
Speaker 3: They're good. Yeah, it's pretty amazing.
39:54
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is so key. On top of that, Alex
39:57
Speaker 2: will make sure we stay on top of that story.
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