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Speaker 4: Well.
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Speaker 3: A significant story that we're following today, of course, is
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Speaker 3: the US Supreme Court preserved full access to a widely
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Speaker 3: used abortion pill in a case that carried major steaks
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Speaker 3: for reproductive rights and election year results. Of court unanimly
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Speaker 3: overturned a federal appeals that would have barred mail order
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Speaker 3: prescriptions of MiFi pristone, the drug now used in more
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Speaker 3: than half of US abortions. Let's get some color on that.
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Speaker 3: We do that with Wendy Schiller is the professor at
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Speaker 3: Brown University. What do you make of this decision coming
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Speaker 3: out of this Supreme Court here in what is an
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Speaker 3: election here?
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Speaker 5: Yeah?
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Speaker 6: Hi, Paul, I mean, it's a it's an interesting decision.
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Speaker 6: They really use the idea of standing. They basically said,
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Speaker 6: you know, the people who are suing are not injured
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Speaker 6: direct or directly impacted by this by the FDA's power
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Speaker 6: to approve this called abortion pill. But that's the moniker
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Speaker 6: for it. And so they really stuck to jurisdiction like,
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Speaker 6: we you don't have.
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Speaker 7: Standing to bring this case to us.
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Speaker 6: The Fifth Circuit, you know, said upheld the plaintiff's request,
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Speaker 6: but also in their opinion said, well, we're not sure
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Speaker 6: this is going to hold up at the Supreme Court.
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Speaker 5: None of the.
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Speaker 7: Plaintiffs are directly injured.
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Speaker 6: And that's the way the Supreme Court unanimously got out
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Speaker 6: of sort of the bigger debate about this pill and abortion.
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Speaker 6: It is used in the majority of medical abortions in
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Speaker 6: the country. So the politics are that the Republicans can
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Speaker 6: breathe a sigh of relief because the Democrats cannot make
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Speaker 6: this another issue on top of abortion access. But on
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Speaker 6: the other hand, pro life groups will now push Republicans
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Speaker 6: on the campaign trail to say they'll do something legislatively
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Speaker 6: about this rather than through the courts.
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Speaker 8: What could they do legislatively, then what would be on
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Speaker 8: the docket for that.
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Speaker 6: Well, alex I could do a few different things. One
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Speaker 6: is they could limit the jurisdiction of the FDA.
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Speaker 7: They could try to.
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Speaker 6: Reverse the supremacy clause, which is that the federal law
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Speaker 6: supersedes state law. Louisiana, for example, has now scheduled this
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Speaker 6: particular pill as a dangerous substance, which really limits its access.
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Speaker 7: That's going to happen in more states.
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Speaker 6: The question is can the federal government undo that or
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Speaker 6: contradict that? So they could push for laws that say,
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Speaker 6: in this particular case, the FDA overreaches and Congress is
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Speaker 6: not giving.
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Speaker 7: The FDA this power.
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Speaker 6: I think it's unlikely that the congres will do that
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Speaker 6: for lots of reasons.
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Speaker 7: Having to do with drug development and access.
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Speaker 6: But it could be something that some Republicans bring up
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Speaker 6: on the campaign trail. But it will only sort of
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Speaker 6: fire up people who are really concerned about abortion access,
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Speaker 6: who showed their electoral might in twenty twenty two.
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Speaker 7: And are expected to get out the door again in
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Speaker 7: twenty four.
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Speaker 3: So I guess, Wendy, how do you think each campaign
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Speaker 3: will maybe approach this issue here? I mean, are they
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Speaker 3: just going to say, you know, the Supreme Court is ruling,
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Speaker 3: will continue to rule, and will abide by that. I mean,
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Speaker 3: how how is this ruling today? I think we'll impact
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Speaker 3: twenty four Well, Paul.
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Speaker 7: I mean Paul and Ox.
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Speaker 6: I think by the my administration will take credit for
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Speaker 6: having an FDA and some of these decisions predate the
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Speaker 6: Biden administration, but protecting the FDA's discretion and FDA as
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Speaker 6: a medical institution, and they'll say, listen, if you want
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Speaker 6: to make sure that your access not just to this drug,
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Speaker 6: but to lots of other drugs that might help you
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Speaker 6: or save your life, you have to go with us,
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Speaker 6: because we're the ones who believe in science. That will
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Speaker 6: be the Biden message. Trump will be quiet about this.
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Speaker 6: He has tried to back away from abortion, really saying
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Speaker 6: leaving to the states rather than going for some national band,
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Speaker 6: because he recognizes that all the issues that could deny
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Speaker 6: him a victory, abortion is very high in the list,
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Speaker 6: especially in states like at least Arizona for now and
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Speaker 6: possibly also on the ballot in Florida.
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Speaker 8: So there is another abortion case before the Supreme Court.
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Speaker 8: Can you walk us through what that is and how
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Speaker 8: it differs.
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Speaker 6: Well, I mean, the other thing is about whether emergency
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Speaker 6: room doctors and hospitals have to provide abortion to save
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Speaker 6: the life of somebody.
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Speaker 7: In other words, to make the case.
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Speaker 6: That even in a state that doesn't allow abortion in
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Speaker 6: case of danger to the life of the mother, that
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Speaker 6: they in fact are obligated to and have to do
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Speaker 6: this and won't be put in prison or you know,
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Speaker 6: sued for doing it.
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Speaker 7: So this is a.
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Speaker 6: Really big case because we've already seen where doctors have
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Speaker 6: become more hesitant in states like Texas for really taking
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Speaker 6: this step in order to save the life of a
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Speaker 6: mother for fear of prosecution or losing your medical license,
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Speaker 6: for example. So this is a bigger case for the
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Speaker 6: actual surgical procedures of a worship.
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Speaker 3: So I guess you know, as you think about it,
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Speaker 3: just in the context of a presidential election year, Wendy,
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Speaker 3: what do you think are members of Congress. Are they
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Speaker 3: bringing this to the forefront or they just don't want
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Speaker 3: to get anywhere near this issue in what is an
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Speaker 3: election year.
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Speaker 6: Well, Democrats want to basically advertise in most but not
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Speaker 6: all states, that they are the party that will try
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Speaker 6: to protect access to reproductive health care, particularly in cases
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Speaker 6: of rape. Incess life of the mother, but also that
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Speaker 6: they are the party that will not come after contraception.
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Speaker 6: For example, there are public and members of Congress, with
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Speaker 6: some exceptions, want to really stay away from this issue.
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Speaker 7: They really believe that this is the one.
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Speaker 6: Issue that could cost them congression, racists, and the presidency,
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Speaker 6: just based on what we saw in twenty twenty.
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Speaker 7: Two in response to the Dobbs' decision. So Republicans want
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Speaker 7: to stay away from it.
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Speaker 6: They're hoping the court doesn't give the other side a
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Speaker 6: lot of ammunition. And the Democrats are really going to
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Speaker 6: hit home with this message, particularly in those two swings
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Speaker 6: that I mentioned, Arizona and Florida.
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Speaker 8: So considering that the case that we found out about
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Speaker 8: today was a procedural issue and that's why the vote
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Speaker 8: went the way it went, what are going to be
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Speaker 8: the two sides in the Idaho case.
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Speaker 6: Well, this is really it will come back to the
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Speaker 6: Court's position that abortion is a state's issue, that states
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Speaker 6: have the right to regulate all conditions and access for abortion.
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Speaker 7: That's pretty much what Dobbs did, and now Trump has
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Speaker 7: reiterated that he believes it's up to the states.
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Speaker 6: So if states want to criminalize giving a woman an abortion,
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Speaker 6: even to save her life. I'm not sure the Supreme
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Speaker 6: Court's going to step in and say no, no, They've already.
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Speaker 7: Basically said it's up to the states.
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Speaker 6: So I think that's the big question mark, and politically
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Speaker 6: for the Republicans, this is a very difficult issue if
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Speaker 6: it in fact becomes the case that doctors are threatened
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Speaker 6: with prison for saving the life of a woman.
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Speaker 7: You know, that affects women everywhere.
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Speaker 6: It affects women and their daughters, It affects a lot
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Speaker 6: of people in their daily life in terms of the
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Speaker 6: reproductive health, people who are trying to get pregnant, people
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Speaker 6: have a complicated pregnancy. So it really gets to that
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Speaker 6: core of voters that rejected the Republicans in twenty twenty
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Speaker 6: two in this issue and are very likely to do
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Speaker 6: so again if it is the case that a state
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Speaker 6: can really prevent a doctor from saving women's life.
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Speaker 3: So are we going to end up Wendy with abortion
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Speaker 3: policies that really are red and blue? Are we going
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Speaker 3: to have that checkerboard in this country? Is that kind
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Speaker 3: of how this thing may develop?
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Speaker 6: I mean, you can argue, Paul that we already have that,
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Speaker 6: and we certainly had a little bit of that before
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Speaker 6: abortion was legalized in nineteen seventy three with the court decision,
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Speaker 6: And really, when you think about it, there are states
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Speaker 6: where it's really almost virtually impossible to get an abortion,
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Speaker 6: and certainly for the six week abortion band, that becomes
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Speaker 6: very difficult because a lot of women don't know they're
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Speaker 6: pregnant by then. We really have a situation where there
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Speaker 6: is a slight majority of states where abortion is still accessible,
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Speaker 6: and then we have a great number of states, more
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Speaker 6: than twenty where it's very difficult for a women to
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Speaker 6: get an abortion, and sometimes even.
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Speaker 7: In the case of a rape ancestor life of the mother.
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Speaker 6: Now, Texas argues that's not their law, that people are
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Speaker 6: misinterpreting it, that in fact that doctors can perform this
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Speaker 6: in Texas and not be penalized and not be criminalized.
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Speaker 6: But the perception is out there that you can in
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Speaker 6: fact bring this kind of charge or even I a
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Speaker 6: civilian can bring a charge against you for it. So
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Speaker 6: it's really deterring women's seeking of abortion in those states. Now,
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Speaker 6: some other opponents will point out the fact that we
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Speaker 6: actually had a slight increase in the overall number of
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Speaker 6: abortions last year, and that's where access to this pill
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Speaker 6: makes a huge difference for many women in America in
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Speaker 6: terms of securing an abortion.
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Speaker 8: Interesting, Okay, that actually really helps to highlight that even
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Speaker 8: though it'd be difficult, that's why this pill became so important, Wendy,
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Speaker 8: really amazing stuff. Definitely looking forward to having you back,
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Speaker 8: wend You Shiller, Professor at Brown University there standing by,
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Speaker 8: but nonetheless definitely sets the stage for the November election
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Speaker 8: and sort of the policies that will come after that,
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Speaker 8: which to me then makes the question, as an investor,
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Speaker 8: bringing it back to our home base, what do you
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Speaker 8: do about this?
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Speaker 4: Yeah?
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Speaker 8: And clearly clearly investors are very worried about immigration, I
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Speaker 8: mean investors, voters everywhere, sure, very worried about immigration, and
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Speaker 8: very worried about fiscal policy. Like France has made that clear,
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Speaker 8: the UK has made that clear, India made that clear,
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Speaker 8: Mexico made that clear. What do we do with that now?
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Speaker 8: If we look forward to the US in November, because
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Speaker 8: no one's going to be tackling a fiscal policy.
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Speaker 3: No I mean deficit, no way, I mean deficits continue
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Speaker 3: to run rampant at the national debt continues to balloon
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Speaker 3: as a percentage of GDP. And but quite frankly, I've
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Speaker 3: been around a while.
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Speaker 9: This is always yeah, yeah, always.
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Speaker 3: Been an issue, and no one has had the political
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Speaker 3: or economic courage to try to tackle it.
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Speaker 9: So I'm not sure what changes.
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Speaker 8: It's always the whole like it matters, when it matters,
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Speaker 8: it doesn't matter, do I mean at the end of
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Speaker 8: the day, And.
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Speaker 10: That's what it comes down to.
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Speaker 1: So I think next up on the docket is going
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Speaker 1: to be Friday's inflation expectations from the University of Michigan.
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Speaker 1: Now it might not seem that important, but to central bankers,
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Speaker 1: consumer inflation expectations are important. It's part of the calculus.
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Speaker 1: If we go back to June of twenty twenty two,
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Speaker 1: you may recall the FED messaged in advance of that
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Speaker 1: meeting that it was only going to hike fifty basis points,
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Speaker 1: then turned around and hiked seventy five basis points, and
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Speaker 1: when asked about it at the press conference, J. Powell
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Speaker 1: pointed to a few different data points, including Michigan inflation expectations.
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Speaker 1: So I think it's important, But I also am confident
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Speaker 1: that it's going to show that inflation expectations are pretty
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Speaker 1: well anchored, and it will be part of the mosaic
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Speaker 1: of data that the FED reviews next time, and which
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Speaker 1: I think will cause the FED to begin cutting in the.
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Speaker 9: Third quarter, cutting in the third quarter.
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Speaker 3: Okay, So I know you know at this time of year, Christina.
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Speaker 3: You know, every six months, folks that investo you bring
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Speaker 3: together some of your key investment professionals, thought leaders and
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Speaker 3: think about the next six months. What's the next six
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Speaker 3: months look to you, guys.
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Speaker 1: So, in terms of the economy, we expect to continue
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Speaker 1: to see a slowdown in the US, a cooling, but
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Speaker 1: we would anticipate that that's going to be relatively brief
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Speaker 1: and that by the end of the year we'll see
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Speaker 1: a reacceleration and growth. They'll be catalysts like the start
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Speaker 1: of recuts as well as improvements in real income that
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Speaker 1: will help consumers. So all in all, a better picture
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Speaker 1: economically by the end of the year, but nothing bad
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Speaker 1: in between. And we would anticipate markets starting to discount
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Speaker 1: that soon. That would mean a broadening of the stock market,
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Speaker 1: more participation, better performance from cyclicals and smaller caps, and
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Speaker 1: in a more sustained way. Once we start to see
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Speaker 1: the rate cuts begin from the FED.
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Speaker 8: So but once you see that growth and the cuts,
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Speaker 8: does that lead to higher inflation then.
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Speaker 5: No.
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Speaker 1: I think that the FED has done a very good
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Speaker 1: job putting out the flames of higher in inflation. So
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Speaker 1: I don't think the risk is as big as they
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Speaker 1: suggested yesterday that there could be some kind of resurgence
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Speaker 1: in inflation. And we certainly don't have the kind of
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Speaker 1: fiscal stimulus we had that I think was an important
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Speaker 1: part of why we saw such a big increase in inflation.
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Speaker 1: I just don't see that happening going forward.
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Speaker 3: How about in Europe, Christina, the last couple of days,
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Speaker 3: we've seen some changes in the EU. We've seen in
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Speaker 3: France snap elections. We now have the France Germany ten
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Speaker 3: year yield gap set for the widest since twenty seventeen.
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Speaker 9: Look at you, look at me.
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Speaker 3: Gotpad exactly all geopolitical. How do you think about the
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Speaker 3: European Zone, because it seems to be some unsteadiness there.
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Speaker 1: Well, we try to put blinders on when it comes
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Speaker 1: to politics because it can cause volatility in the short term,
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Speaker 1: but beyond that tends not to have a significant impact
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Speaker 1: on markets. So when I look at Europe, what I
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Speaker 1: see is positive economic surprise, and I see the potential
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Speaker 1: for more of that going forward. We also when we
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Speaker 1: look at European equities and UK equities, what we see
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Speaker 1: is greater exposure to cyclicals, so they'd be more sensitive
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Speaker 1: and potentially benefit from an economic reacceleration. And I also
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Speaker 1: see an increase in stock buybacks coming in both those markets.
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Speaker 1: So there's a lot to be very positive about when
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Speaker 1: we look at Europe and the UK.
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Speaker 8: How can you put blinders on when it comes to
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Speaker 8: politics in that we've seen a lot of violent shocks
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Speaker 8: in the market, whether it's France or Mexico, or South
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Speaker 8: Africa or India, and the market reaction is what seems
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Speaker 8: to be catching investors on the back foot. Are we
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Speaker 8: learning a market reaction function to the election in November?
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Speaker 1: Well, I think there's certainly the possibility that we have
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Speaker 1: a significant market reaction in the short term.
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Speaker 10: We have seen that absolutely.
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Speaker 1: With Mexico, with India, and there's certainly the potential for
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Speaker 1: it to happen again. But most investors have a longer
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Speaker 1: time horizon than two weeks or a month or two months,
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Speaker 1: and so that's why I would argue it's important to
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Speaker 1: put blinders on when it comes to things like politics.
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Speaker 3: All Right, So if we want to stay close to
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Speaker 3: home US equities here, I just stay with a big
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Speaker 3: cap growth names that have worked so well for so long,
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Speaker 3: or do I try to get a little bit more
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Speaker 3: bold here, take a long little more risk and try
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Speaker 3: to find some value out there.
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Speaker 1: I think you need to be well diversified. And for
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Speaker 1: most investors, their portfolios are likely overweight the large caps
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Speaker 1: the growth, so it's time to rebalance and ensure there's
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Speaker 1: adequate exposure to smaller caps, to value to cyclicals. I
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Speaker 1: think those areas will perform better as we start to
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Speaker 1: discount a reacceleration in the economy. That doesn't mean that
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Speaker 1: the big cap tech names are going to do terribly,
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Speaker 1: just means that participation is going to broaden and we
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Speaker 1: could actually see our performance by the cyclicals.
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Speaker 8: Is that so diversified?
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Speaker 6: So?
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Speaker 8: And I know you mentioned cyclicals over in Europe as well.
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Speaker 8: Do you need to sell tech to buy the cyclicals
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Speaker 8: or do you just need to sort of take from cash?
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Speaker 8: What do you think?
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Speaker 1: I think what's more likely the case is that there
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Speaker 1: is an overweight to cash and investors' portfolios, and especially
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Speaker 1: as the FED begins to cut rates and cash isn't
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Speaker 1: paying as much, there's a greater argument for reshuffling and
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Speaker 1: at least allocating some of that overweight to cash, to cyclicals,
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Speaker 1: but in some cases there could be extreme overweights and
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Speaker 1: portfolios to technology and large cap growth, and it also
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Speaker 1: makes sense to rebalance there as well.
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Speaker 3: At alternative investments. We have private We all grew up
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Speaker 3: with private equity, hedge funds. Now there's private credit. It
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Speaker 3: seems like there's a lot of opportunities to allocate capital
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Speaker 3: to alternative investments.
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Speaker 9: How do you, guys invest go think about that.
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Speaker 1: We think that makes a lot of sense. We were
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Speaker 1: one of the earliest proponents of including alternatives in portfolio.
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Speaker 1: Still believe that's prudent for many investors' portfolios, that greater diversification,
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Speaker 1: lower correlations. It all makes sense. And there are certainly
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Speaker 1: many opportunities we're seeing in areas like private credit, and
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Speaker 1: I would actually argue there are opportunities appearing in real
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Speaker 1: estate as well, where well, we're certainly seeing European real
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Speaker 1: estate has bottomed, and I also believe there are some
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Speaker 1: opportunities in US real estate that will appear as the
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Speaker 1: year progresses. Keep in mind that one important tail wind
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Speaker 1: again will be rate cuts.
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Speaker 3: So given what we saw Christina yesterday from the Federal Reserve,
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Speaker 3: what we heard from the Federal reserve. What's pencil it
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Speaker 3: in is your base case here? I know a lot
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Speaker 3: of folks are trying to get a sense of do
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Speaker 3: we have something in December? Do we have something maybe
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Speaker 3: even a little bit sooner, but oh boy, we have
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Speaker 3: this election. How do you guys think about it?
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Speaker 1: Well, we hate to have false precision, but I do
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Speaker 1: think we believe the most likely scenario is two rate
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Speaker 1: cuts this year. And obviously the FED is very data dependent,
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Speaker 1: so that can change. But based on what we've seen
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Speaker 1: in terms of disinflationary progress, and given what the FED
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Speaker 1: told us yesterday, which is that they anticipate one ray
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Speaker 1: cut without any progress on disinflation, keep in mind their
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Speaker 1: core PCE target, their forecasts for the end of this
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Speaker 1: year is where core PCE is today. So I would
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Speaker 1: argue that means that no progress equals one ray cut,
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Speaker 1: then some progress in disinflation, which seems increasingly likely, could
19:26
Speaker 1: mean two ray cuts. I'm a believer in that, so
19:29
Speaker 1: I would argue the most likely scenario is September December.
19:33
Speaker 1: I don't think the election is going to change the
19:36
Speaker 1: FED timeline. They've been clear about that.
19:39
Speaker 8: Christina, really really interesting conversation. I learned a Ton Christina Hooper,
19:43
Speaker 8: chief Global market strategist over at Invesco, and that's that's
19:47
Speaker 8: the jewel. Right, you get growth, you get cuts, and
19:51
Speaker 8: you have inflation coming down, and that leads to your
19:53
Speaker 8: cyclical bias.
19:54
Speaker 4: At thein the day, it seems constructive.
19:56
Speaker 8: It seems like the best case scenario.
19:58
Speaker 3: Yeah.
19:58
Speaker 8: Absolutely, Mark also saying that the pain trade in the
20:02
Speaker 8: second half could also be led by cyclic goals because
20:04
Speaker 8: kind of no one's investing in them because they're all
20:06
Speaker 8: in tech and overweight tech. At the same time, we
20:09
Speaker 8: did get talked about bonds, but we will in the
20:10
Speaker 8: next hour. You look at the ten year down by
20:12
Speaker 8: another three basis points where to four point two eighty three.
20:15
Speaker 8: That's where we are for the ten year. Also that
20:17
Speaker 8: two year coming down as well to four point seven percent.
20:22
Speaker 8: As let's be honest, equity market's not doing much.
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Speaker 8: Dubai because something that's been really confusing for like seasoned.
21:01
Speaker 10: Oil watchers is what is happening with the oil price.
21:05
Speaker 8: You got Brent sitting at eighty two dollars eighty eight
21:07
Speaker 8: cents a barrel. If you try and understand what OPEC
21:10
Speaker 8: plus is doing of like what the quotas are for
21:13
Speaker 8: what countries when they're adding oil back, it is three
21:15
Speaker 8: times more complicated than the dot plot. I'm not at
21:18
Speaker 8: all kidding you, Sally.
21:20
Speaker 10: Do you do you agree with me?
21:21
Speaker 8: I mean it's so confusing is to understand what OPEC
21:25
Speaker 8: plus is doing that I don't blame the oil price
21:26
Speaker 8: for being confusing either.
21:29
Speaker 5: Now I totally agree.
21:30
Speaker 11: I think the current outlook for the oil market and
21:33
Speaker 11: oil prices is that we do have abundant supply for
21:36
Speaker 11: now and the demand picture is still quite bleak, especially
21:40
Speaker 11: for the second half of this year.
21:42
Speaker 5: I mean, when you look at what OPEC plus is
21:44
Speaker 5: trying to do.
21:45
Speaker 11: I mean, they currently have three layers of output cuts,
21:48
Speaker 11: and this is pretty confusing for OPEK watchers like myself
21:52
Speaker 11: as well. And what they told the market that their
21:55
Speaker 11: last meeting on June the third was that the first
21:59
Speaker 11: two layers they are holding onto those cuts until the
22:02
Speaker 11: end of last year, but the third layer, which was
22:05
Speaker 11: just voluntary output cuts by only eight members eight member
22:09
Speaker 11: nations from OPEC plus, they will extend them until the
22:13
Speaker 11: end of the third quarter, but starting in the fourth
22:16
Speaker 11: quarter they will start to unwind them. And the market
22:19
Speaker 11: actually didn't like this at all, which tells me once
22:22
Speaker 11: again that what the market is seeing is plenty of
22:25
Speaker 11: supply even in the fourth quarter of the quarter of
22:27
Speaker 11: this year, and the demand outlooked that's still pretty soft.
22:31
Speaker 11: I mean, I don't think demand has necessarily been bad
22:33
Speaker 11: this year, but it also hasn't been that great. And
22:36
Speaker 11: when you look at some of the expectations for the
22:38
Speaker 11: third quarter, for the fourth quarter, is that it really
22:42
Speaker 11: picks up in the third quarter. I mean, seasonally, this
22:45
Speaker 11: is generally a good quarter, but there's a significant increase
22:49
Speaker 11: in demand expectations, and the market seems to think I mean,
22:52
Speaker 11: the market seems not so confident about that increase in demand.
22:56
Speaker 11: So all in all, I think it's a very complicated
23:00
Speaker 11: structure that OPEC PLUS has with these cuts now, and
23:04
Speaker 11: they are in a difficult position now where any increase
23:07
Speaker 11: in demand may actually be met by increasing supply by
23:11
Speaker 11: producers outside of the OPEC PLUS group. So there seems
23:14
Speaker 11: to be very little room for them to increase supply
23:18
Speaker 11: in the rest of this year. So what I expect
23:20
Speaker 11: is that they just extend all the outputcasts they have
23:24
Speaker 11: to the end of this year. Is that our market
23:27
Speaker 11: anxiety and the twenty twenty five outlook, we'll still count
23:31
Speaker 11: on demand being strong, which is not really a given.
23:36
Speaker 3: So Slee, I guess when we talk about demand, one
23:39
Speaker 3: of the wild cards I always think about is China.
23:42
Speaker 3: What's the market discounting today in terms of demand from China.
23:48
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a big question mark.
23:50
Speaker 11: And you know, as you say, China growth has been
23:54
Speaker 11: one of the biggest drivers of oil demand growth as well,
23:58
Speaker 11: and I think we could be looking at a change
24:00
Speaker 11: in paradigm where you know, I think the market may
24:03
Speaker 11: have been assuming a six percent growth for China, where
24:06
Speaker 11: maybe we need to be pricing in a four percent
24:08
Speaker 11: growth in China, and it's still unclear what that would
24:11
Speaker 11: mean exactly for how that would translate into oil demand
24:15
Speaker 11: growth numbers from China. But I think a lot of
24:17
Speaker 11: the anxiety you're seeing right now for expectations of oil
24:22
Speaker 11: demand in the second half of the year is still
24:24
Speaker 11: being driven by China because we still don't know where
24:27
Speaker 11: China goes from here in the third quarter and fourth quarter.
24:30
Speaker 8: And that's sort of the problem, Like nobody knows where
24:33
Speaker 8: demand is going to go, like it's going to eventually decrease,
24:37
Speaker 8: but it's not going to zero. And it feels like,
24:39
Speaker 8: as you were just saying there, in lies OPEC Plus's problem.
24:43
Speaker 8: At the same time, the supply side here in the
24:45
Speaker 8: US and Canada, Brazil, Guyana, it's really really holding up.
24:52
Speaker 8: And all this M and A in the US is
24:54
Speaker 8: only going to make these guys even more efficient aka
24:57
Speaker 8: get more oil out of rocks for example.
25:00
Speaker 10: What do we make of that part of the equation?
25:03
Speaker 11: Now, I totally agree with you, and I think the
25:05
Speaker 11: dilemma for OPEC plus right now is clearly their strategy
25:09
Speaker 11: has been focusing on supporting prices and foregoing market share
25:13
Speaker 11: for now. Because you know they need higher oil prices
25:17
Speaker 11: to fiscally break even back.
25:18
Speaker 5: Home, But the dilemma is that the higher they keep prices.
25:23
Speaker 11: For their transformation projects back home or whatever it might be,
25:26
Speaker 11: for the fiscal break even prices. But at the same time,
25:29
Speaker 11: the higher they keep prices, the more they encourage non
25:33
Speaker 11: OPEC plus. I mean, as you said, the USHL, Brazil, Guyana,
25:38
Speaker 11: pretty soon Namibia. So they're at this point where you
25:42
Speaker 11: know they won't higher oil prices, but the higher they
25:46
Speaker 11: artificially keep oil prices, the more they're encouraging NONOPEC plus supply,
25:51
Speaker 11: which in turn makes it very difficult for them to
25:54
Speaker 11: start tapering those cuts. So it's a very difficult position
25:59
Speaker 11: for them, I think. And on your very briefly on
26:01
Speaker 11: your point on on demand again, I absolutely agree it's
26:06
Speaker 11: I mean, as long as I've been covering the oil space,
26:09
Speaker 11: I've never seen a bigger divergence in oil demand expectations
26:13
Speaker 11: between different agencies. When you look look at OPEC plus,
26:16
Speaker 11: what they tell us for this year is that they
26:18
Speaker 11: expect the growth in oil demand globally to be two
26:22
Speaker 11: point two million pounds per day.
26:24
Speaker 5: What IA is telling us is about half of that.
26:27
Speaker 11: And you know, when we talk about twenty and thirty
26:29
Speaker 11: twenty thirty five, it's pretty common that we see divergence
26:33
Speaker 11: in expectations between OPEC and Ia, but for this year
26:37
Speaker 11: to have such a big divergence is something that I've
26:40
Speaker 11: never seen before. So clearly, no one really knows what
26:43
Speaker 11: happens in the second half of the year. As I said,
26:46
Speaker 11: third quarter, you know, an uptick is likely, this is
26:49
Speaker 11: a seasonally good period for oil demand. But then what's
26:54
Speaker 11: what happens in China and what happens in the fourth
26:57
Speaker 11: quarter globally, we really don't know.
26:58
Speaker 8: See I told you, Paul.
27:00
Speaker 10: I tell Paul.
27:00
Speaker 8: I was like, look, you don't have to know anything
27:02
Speaker 8: about oil right now, because no one knows what's happening
27:04
Speaker 8: with oil. So you're good. You're a good company.
27:06
Speaker 3: So sally happened supply from our good friends in Texas
27:10
Speaker 3: and Oklahoma. Where's the US in terms of global supply
27:14
Speaker 3: these days? How does the market discount that?
27:17
Speaker 7: So?
27:17
Speaker 11: I mean, as we've discussed on this call before as well.
27:20
Speaker 11: Last year, I think the US supply growth surprised all
27:23
Speaker 11: of us. I mean, many of the analysts on the street,
27:26
Speaker 11: including myself, we didn't really see that growth from the
27:30
Speaker 11: US coming because you know, we've been talking about how
27:33
Speaker 11: a lot of these producers, a lot of these companies
27:35
Speaker 11: are very much prioritizing shareholder returns. You know, capex levels
27:40
Speaker 11: are not expected to be at pre pandemic levels just yet,
27:44
Speaker 11: and even with those, we saw incredible growth in US
27:48
Speaker 11: output this year. I mean, what we're hearing and what
27:51
Speaker 11: we expect in BI is probably not as much growth
27:54
Speaker 11: as we saw last year. But again, I mean, oil
27:58
Speaker 11: price levels have been very favorable for these producers, so they've.
28:02
Speaker 5: Been able to deliver those shareholder returns.
28:05
Speaker 11: But at the same time, you know, increase copex that's
28:09
Speaker 11: going into their current projects as well as some of
28:12
Speaker 11: their growth projects as well. So I can't give you
28:15
Speaker 11: a number, but a number that's probably slightly lower than
28:19
Speaker 11: the number we saw last year, which was about one
28:21
Speaker 11: million rounds per day, which again, I mean, it may
28:24
Speaker 11: not be as big as the number last year, but
28:27
Speaker 11: I think it's still a big enough number to give
28:29
Speaker 11: OPEK plus trouble.
28:32
Speaker 8: All Right, Sally, thank you very much, Seli Jumas. We
28:35
Speaker 8: really appreciate it, Bloomberg Intelligence and your technology analyst joining
28:39
Speaker 8: from Dubai. It is very much a confusing market for sure.
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29:03
Speaker 3: Let's switch gears here and talk about supply chains again.
29:06
Speaker 3: I think we all became someone expert in supply chain
29:10
Speaker 3: analysis during the pandemic, because boy did that take a
29:14
Speaker 3: big shock. And the question is kind of where are
29:16
Speaker 3: we now in the post pandemic world. Oscar Debac joins us.
29:20
Speaker 3: He's the CEO of DHL Supply Chain. He's joining us
29:24
Speaker 3: remotely from our Amsterdam bureau. I haven't even been to
29:27
Speaker 3: our Amsterdam bureau, but I'm sure it's spectacular like every
29:30
Speaker 3: other bureau we have. Oscar, thanks so much for joining
29:32
Speaker 3: us here. I'd love to get your perspective as you
29:35
Speaker 3: think about the global supply chain. From your perspective, where
29:39
Speaker 3: are we in terms of getting back to I'm gonna
29:41
Speaker 3: say normal, I'm not sure if that's the right word,
29:44
Speaker 3: but where are we in terms of moving goods around
29:47
Speaker 3: the world?
29:49
Speaker 12: Yeah, they're really really good to be here, and indeed
29:51
Speaker 12: the view of your Amsterdam studio is really good.
29:54
Speaker 13: Actually it's not Poolia, but still it's it's decent. So
29:59
Speaker 13: back to your question, what is normal is obviously the question.
30:05
Speaker 4: But what you do see is if you.
30:07
Speaker 12: If you take the last the last four years, where
30:10
Speaker 12: we've seen obviously every distraction and the disruption of supply
30:15
Speaker 12: chains over over time, being at wars and being as
30:18
Speaker 12: obviously the uh, the the the disease and all of that.
30:23
Speaker 12: But what where I think we are now is starting
30:26
Speaker 12: to get in a phase where it gradually starts to stabilize.
30:31
Speaker 12: But it's also because companies have become far better and
30:36
Speaker 12: people as well, obviously consumers as well, but the companies
30:38
Speaker 12: have become far better to respond to the unexpected. And
30:41
Speaker 12: I think that's also one of the elements on how
30:44
Speaker 12: supply chains have now been. Are now manutes far better
30:47
Speaker 12: than than not the time sort of companies moved away
30:51
Speaker 12: from the just in time part.
30:52
Speaker 4: Now making sure that products are actually available.
30:56
Speaker 12: There's far more security in supply chains, but also there's
30:59
Speaker 12: better of data, there's better the whole digitalization is better.
31:04
Speaker 4: Yeah, and indeed supplies are organized differently.
31:09
Speaker 12: If you look at how where stocks are being put,
31:11
Speaker 12: how it's being spread over the world, but you know
31:14
Speaker 12: called near shoring, omnishoring, trying to postpone all of that.
31:17
Speaker 4: But you see a change of house supplied to its
31:20
Speaker 4: organized well.
31:21
Speaker 8: And then to that point, I mean, I was going
31:23
Speaker 8: to go with logistics and robots, not you know, future crazy,
31:26
Speaker 8: weird looking robots, but just the idea that companies had
31:29
Speaker 8: to become much leaner and get better and trim lots
31:32
Speaker 8: of fat and be better at logistics to do all
31:35
Speaker 8: the things that you're talking about. That's also an investment cycle.
31:38
Speaker 8: Where are we in that right now in the industry.
31:42
Speaker 12: So what you see is that indeed the industry is
31:45
Speaker 12: really accelerated in that perspective. So if you take indeed,
31:48
Speaker 12: if you take the robotics element of it, and indeed
31:51
Speaker 12: it's not a futuristic thing. It's actually happening today where
31:54
Speaker 12: lots of operations, of fulfillment operations work with collaborative robotics,
31:58
Speaker 12: where people work to together with robots with robotic solutions.
32:03
Speaker 4: And that's one way which is important not only from a.
32:07
Speaker 12: Productivity perspective, but also to be able to manage and
32:10
Speaker 12: to cope with fluctuations of seasonalities, of high seasons, peak seasons,
32:16
Speaker 12: and you see that if I take our own company
32:18
Speaker 12: as an example, where maybe five years ago we would
32:20
Speaker 12: have zero robots, we now have about seven thousand, and
32:24
Speaker 12: that is fast growing further, and that helps us to
32:27
Speaker 12: better manage the expected but also better manage peak seasons,
32:32
Speaker 12: and also to make a working environment more exciting for
32:36
Speaker 12: people as well, because that's the other element, and you
32:38
Speaker 12: need to make sure to be able to attract people,
32:41
Speaker 12: to be a great place to work for people.
32:43
Speaker 4: So that's another important.
32:44
Speaker 12: Element on that robotics agenda as well, but that always
32:49
Speaker 12: comes together comes together with being better at data analytics,
32:52
Speaker 12: because the better you can read data, the better you
32:55
Speaker 12: can forecast, make the right investments, but also forecast what's
32:58
Speaker 12: going to happen tomorrow, next week and the week after Oscar.
33:01
Speaker 3: One of the themes that came out of the pandemic
33:03
Speaker 3: was a sense of we've got to shore up our
33:05
Speaker 3: supply chain, so that means I guess on shoring, friends shoring,
33:10
Speaker 3: maybe bringing stuff a little bit closer to the end market.
33:14
Speaker 9: Are we actually seeing that? Do you actually see that
33:16
Speaker 9: in trade flows?
33:18
Speaker 4: Yeah? What you see is you already have said it
33:22
Speaker 4: right right.
33:22
Speaker 12: There's several names that has been given to it, whether
33:25
Speaker 12: it's now the Assuring, Ushuring, Omnishuring, and then you have
33:30
Speaker 12: the China plus one terminology. But what it all comes
33:32
Speaker 12: back to is that, yes, there is an element of
33:35
Speaker 12: having stock closer to the end market, but there's a
33:40
Speaker 12: more important element is that companies don't bet anymore to
33:43
Speaker 12: have their key supplies, their key components coming from one
33:48
Speaker 12: sourcing point on one continent. They all make sure that
33:51
Speaker 12: whenever they now make investments in their next capacity, so
33:54
Speaker 12: their next production site and the next player then make
33:56
Speaker 12: sure that it is other different continent.
34:00
Speaker 4: Uh. And that's what you start to see.
34:02
Speaker 12: You see that very much in the semicon business, where
34:06
Speaker 12: you see lots of investments in Malaysia, investments in the US,
34:09
Speaker 12: investments in the eastern parts of Europe.
34:13
Speaker 4: So that's a trend you see.
34:14
Speaker 12: Or if you look the automotive industry, the major investments
34:17
Speaker 12: that you see in Mexico there but similarly also in
34:21
Speaker 12: for instance Thailand, in India, so you see that the
34:26
Speaker 12: suppli sees are being spread moreover to actually spread the
34:30
Speaker 12: risk and indeed at the same time also be closer
34:34
Speaker 12: to the market.
34:35
Speaker 8: Before we let you go, you talked about how suppliers
34:38
Speaker 8: are looking for the not just in time, but to
34:40
Speaker 8: build a little bit of inventory, which leads me to demand.
34:43
Speaker 8: Where are the weak parts right now?
34:47
Speaker 4: The weak parts in the supply chains?
34:49
Speaker 8: You mean, yeah, I mean like in terms of the
34:51
Speaker 8: demand pole, like what kind of countries are buying, Like
34:54
Speaker 8: what kind of industries still have that demand pole?
34:59
Speaker 12: Well, I think overall, it's not that there's so what
35:02
Speaker 12: you see is it the demand pole overall?
35:07
Speaker 4: Because it was just in a in a different interview.
35:09
Speaker 12: We were just discussing about the volumes that are upcoming
35:12
Speaker 12: and what you what you clearly see at the moment
35:15
Speaker 12: is that stocks are being built up, not to the
35:20
Speaker 12: levels maybe that we've seen two years back, but companies
35:23
Speaker 12: are building up stock because there are forecasting a certain
35:27
Speaker 12: demount poo in qg Q four. Now, how much is
35:30
Speaker 12: actually going to be that that we now now need
35:33
Speaker 12: to see your question about. From a geography perspective, there's
35:38
Speaker 12: obviously we see an increased flow from Asia to the US,
35:42
Speaker 12: to to to Europe. We see an uh hesitant increase
35:47
Speaker 12: of building up of stock in the US. Similar picture
35:50
Speaker 12: in some parts of parts of parts of Europe. So
35:53
Speaker 12: that's a bit from a geographical perspective.
35:56
Speaker 4: How you see that.
35:56
Speaker 12: But overall there is a sort of a a careful
36:01
Speaker 12: building up of stock being ready for a sort of
36:05
Speaker 12: conservative peak season.
36:07
Speaker 3: All right, Oscar, thank you so much for joining us.
36:09
Speaker 3: Really appreciate getting your first hand insight. Oscar Debak. He's
36:12
Speaker 3: the CEO of DHL Supply Chain, joining us from our
36:17
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Speaker 10: can build wealth, break by brick, share by share, And
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Speaker 10: so we want to make it in a culturally relevant,
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Speaker 10: easy to understand way. So we've taught middle school students
38:30
Speaker 10: how to open brokerage accounts, how to buy a stock.
38:32
Speaker 10: We've been in the prison systems teaching the everyday person
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Speaker 10: a topic that we don't like to talk about at
38:37
Speaker 10: the dinner table, but it is something that can change
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Speaker 10: our family's dynamics.
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Speaker 8: Definitely when so for my daughter, we'll be in middle
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Speaker 8: school in the years. So I love this program I
38:47
Speaker 8: keep trying to teach her if you spend that, you
38:48
Speaker 8: won't have that money later. But you know it doesn't
38:50
Speaker 8: always think gam when she's nine and a half. In
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Speaker 8: terms of people who use your app to help generate wealth,
38:56
Speaker 8: what is their income base to begin with?
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Speaker 10: So when we think so are our tech platform is
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Speaker 10: a wealth builders community. So you can kind of look
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Speaker 10: at that like the Netflix of finance, where we have
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Speaker 10: over two hundred and fifty hours of classes, tools, resources
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Speaker 10: covering from retirement planning, stock investing, parent investing, legacy planning,
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Speaker 10: life insurance, and given that holistic experience. So when people
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Speaker 10: come in, I would say we had working professionals at
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Speaker 10: twenty five, so we are one of our oldest members
39:20
Speaker 10: is seventy three years old. So we typically target working
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Speaker 10: professionals and entrepreneurs who have some income coming in but
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Speaker 10: are financially not educated, financially scared, not sure what to do,
39:31
Speaker 10: where to go, or who to trust, and we create
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Speaker 10: that safe, like community like environment that teaches them the
39:36
Speaker 10: basics again, starting to open your brokerage account, understanding different
39:39
Speaker 10: types of stocks that are out there, how do you
39:41
Speaker 10: build your strategy so that you're growing your money, not
39:44
Speaker 10: just spending it, but you're preserving it and you're properly
39:46
Speaker 10: passing it down. So it's more of a holistic experience
39:49
Speaker 10: that targets the mind and hearts of people who want
39:52
Speaker 10: to invest, who want to learn how to build, just
39:54
Speaker 10: don't know where to go.
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Speaker 3: So what are I'm trying to think of my kids,
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Speaker 3: and I think some of the advice I'd give and
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Speaker 3: them is max you for one K, pay your credit cards,
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Speaker 3: don't let anything right on your credit cards, pay it off,
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Speaker 3: and some of the basics.
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Speaker 9: What are some of the basis that you start with
40:11
Speaker 9: your clients.
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Speaker 10: So one of the things that we do is take
40:13
Speaker 10: inventory where you spend your money, Where are you shopping,
40:16
Speaker 10: what do you eat, what are you wearing, what gas
40:19
Speaker 10: do you put what kind of car do you drive?
40:21
Speaker 10: Because chances are a lot of the companies we use
40:23
Speaker 10: know and believe in are publicly traded, and we think
40:26
Speaker 10: that we need a lot of money to invest, but
40:28
Speaker 10: there are a lot of stocks that are under three
40:29
Speaker 10: hundred and I We've got trillion dollar businesses that are
40:31
Speaker 10: less than three hundred dollars a share that we give
40:33
Speaker 10: more money to. And so the easiest way for us
40:36
Speaker 10: to do it is to start with what you know.
40:38
Speaker 10: I'm not. Don't go research a random company you see
40:41
Speaker 10: on the internet. Start with who you are a loyal
40:43
Speaker 10: customer to, because it's a lot easier to read financials.
40:45
Speaker 10: It's a lot easier to understand a company and start
40:48
Speaker 10: there because the chances of you're giving your money to
40:50
Speaker 10: these companies. There's a lot of people who are too,
40:52
Speaker 10: and so really getting it down to who are you,
40:55
Speaker 10: what do you use, what do you need, and let's
40:57
Speaker 10: start from there. So I always tell people, if if
41:00
Speaker 10: you're going to use it and give your money to
41:01
Speaker 10: the company, why not consider owning a piece of that company?
41:03
Speaker 10: And you can do that by invessing in a stock market.
41:06
Speaker 8: You told us sort of why you came up with
41:08
Speaker 8: this idea, how long has it been around, what's it
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Speaker 8: been like?
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Speaker 10: The whole journey. So I left Wall Street July twenty thirteen.
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Speaker 10: I haven't looked back since. One of the craziest but
41:17
Speaker 10: most fulfilling experiences. I went on to be a financial
41:19
Speaker 10: advisor targeting load of moderate income individuals because I had
41:22
Speaker 10: a bunch of security licenses and I realized that I
41:24
Speaker 10: didn't want to focus on the implementation. I wanted to
41:27
Speaker 10: give the education, and so that's where emplified. So I
41:29
Speaker 10: came up with the word in twenty thirteen. We didn't
41:31
Speaker 10: generate our first stream of revenue until twenty seventeen. Twenty
41:35
Speaker 10: seventeen we got contracts with schools in Atlanta, Philadelphia, and
41:38
Speaker 10: in New York City, and then we went on to
41:40
Speaker 10: really massively produce education all throughout the country. COVID hit
41:45
Speaker 10: and schools didn't know how to function. But the beauty
41:48
Speaker 10: of that was there were a lot of adult saying,
41:49
Speaker 10: I see what you're doing in school systems, what can
41:51
Speaker 10: you do? And I didn't want I felt like God
41:53
Speaker 10: put me here not to just serve one individual as
41:55
Speaker 10: their advisor. I wanted to build what kleenexes the tissues
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Speaker 10: is what Emplify will be for finance. And that's what
42:02
Speaker 10: I wanted to create. So in twenty twenty twenty, we
42:04
Speaker 10: launched our Wealth or this community platform, which is the
42:07
Speaker 10: tech platform that allows adults in over forty four different countries,
42:10
Speaker 10: thousands of people to get access to the tools and resources.
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Speaker 10: It's been a journey that.
42:14
Speaker 8: Came second, yesee, the educational parts to schools in prisons.
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Speaker 5: Correct.
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Speaker 10: So first we were first we were b to B
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Speaker 10: and then when COVID hit, we became B two C.
42:21
Speaker 10: But we were able to scale a lot faster because
42:23
Speaker 10: we had technology. And so I would say, journey wise,
42:27
Speaker 10: it's it's been fulfilling because we've impacted the lives of
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Speaker 10: millions of people. We've partnered with community college, financial institutions,
42:34
Speaker 10: companies that I used to work for or research are
42:36
Speaker 10: aligning ourselves. We're aligning ourselves to these organizations to be
42:40
Speaker 10: able to create financial education resources for the everyday person.
42:43
Speaker 10: So I could say, as an entrepreneur, it's been a journey.
42:45
Speaker 10: I started out with something I wanted to give the world.
42:48
Speaker 10: I didn't know how, I did not know what I
42:51
Speaker 10: was going to do, but I knew why, and I
42:52
Speaker 10: knew I wanted to be the woman and get it done.
42:54
Speaker 10: And I think I'm able to translate Wall Street knowledge
42:57
Speaker 10: because I understand how the banking system, how Walls Street works.
43:01
Speaker 10: But I also didn't come from growing up with a
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Speaker 10: lot of money. I'm the first person in my family
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Speaker 10: to graduate from college. I was making more money than
43:07
Speaker 10: both my parents when I was early on Wall Street,
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Speaker 10: and I wanted to be able to take that universal
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Speaker 10: language and create something that can make people believe no
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Speaker 10: matter what you look like, you can build wealth and
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Speaker 10: no matter what you do or do not know, emplithize
43:21
Speaker 10: here to give you that education.
43:22
Speaker 9: How many employees do you have in your company and house?
43:24
Speaker 9: How's that growing?
43:26
Speaker 10: So right now we are a team of eight. We're
43:27
Speaker 10: actually in the process of hiring three more individuals, so
43:30
Speaker 10: we will be in double digit I think that's been
43:31
Speaker 10: the most challenging part, the people part. They don't teach
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Speaker 10: you that in school. The right people, finding the right people,
43:36
Speaker 10: building the culture, having this the resources, the environment. I
43:40
Speaker 10: think everyone on our team is phenomenal because they believe
43:43
Speaker 10: in what we do. And I think I never left
43:47
Speaker 10: Wall Street to make money. I think I would have
43:49
Speaker 10: stayed there if I wanted to make the money. I
43:51
Speaker 10: really wanted to change the dynamics because you shouldn't have
43:53
Speaker 10: to go to Wall Street to get access to this information.
43:56
Speaker 10: How can we put it in our school systems? How
43:58
Speaker 10: can we talk about it at the dinner table holidays?
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Speaker 10: And so we are right now a team of eight.
44:02
Speaker 10: I would say in the next thirty days we'll probably
44:04
Speaker 10: be a team of twelve people. But we are growing
44:06
Speaker 10: fast as a company. It's been an exciting journey amazing.
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Speaker 8: This was such a great story. Thank you so much
44:12
Speaker 8: for bringing it for us. I had zero financial education
44:15
Speaker 8: until I started working in this industry, and I had
44:17
Speaker 8: like clawmb my way up. So I'm so appreciative of
44:19
Speaker 8: what you guys are doing. Thank you so much. Ashley Fox,
44:22
Speaker 8: CEO and founder of Amplify, on her fintech startup help
44:26
Speaker 8: regular old people build, well, figure stuff out, really amazing stuff.
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