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BONUS EPISODE: Jamie Dimon Speaks to Bloomberg News · Bloomberg Intelligence

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Markets Podcast. I'm Paul Sweeney, alongside
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  Speaker 1: interview with JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimond. He sits down
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  Speaker 1: with the Bloomberg's Ed Hammond. Let's go to that conversation
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  Speaker 1: right now. We're here in Miami, Jamie. Great to be back,
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  Speaker 1: Great to be with you, Great to be standing. What
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  Speaker 1: are you worried about? Great? Great to be here, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, so thank you. The thing I'm worried the
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  Speaker 1: most about it, if you go, it's Ukraine's oil gas,
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  Speaker 1: So the leadership of the world and you know our
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  Speaker 1: related with China. I mean that is much more serious
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  Speaker 1: thought the economic vibrations you all have to deal with
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  Speaker 1: on a day to day basis. On the Ukraine question
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  Speaker 1: that we talked about obviously a year ago, I'm very
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  Speaker 1: shortly off to the wolf had started. Do you think
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  Speaker 1: now a year in the West has become somewhat neured
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  Speaker 1: to the idea of a conflict of this scale on
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  Speaker 1: its borders, and if so, does that worry it? No, No,
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  Speaker 1: it looks a little bit like people inured to it.
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  Speaker 1: But I think that's a little bit of mistake. I
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  Speaker 1: read a report the other day that when the war
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  Speaker 1: goes to one year, it lasts normally last ten. But
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  Speaker 1: this is a major land war in Europe and a
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  Speaker 1: freedom democratic nation. You know, the hundreds of thousands of
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  Speaker 1: casualties are ready on both sides, and so I think
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  Speaker 1: we we don't know how this is going to end,
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  Speaker 1: we know what direction is gonna taken, and it's affecting
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  Speaker 1: global relationships, so Ukraine Russia, then this oil gas food
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  Speaker 1: of how it's hurting in poorer countries, and it's royally
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  Speaker 1: trade relationships between America, China and the rest of the world.
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  Speaker 1: So this is a probably the most serious geopolitical thing
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  Speaker 1: we've had to deal with since World War Two. Would
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  Speaker 1: you full see a future way to take people could
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  Speaker 1: potentially re enter the Russia MAKA as a business. I
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  Speaker 1: mean a very premature to say, you know, I think
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  Speaker 1: if there is a one day maybe, but it's very
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  Speaker 1: possible that woman happened in our lifetime. And you mentioned
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  Speaker 1: US China relations obviously not at their best right now.
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  Speaker 1: Partake any posts the balloons. I wonder what role you
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  Speaker 1: see business playing in trying to sort of moderate those
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  Speaker 1: relations and try and keep them as good as possible. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's really the government. The government has to
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  Speaker 1: set the rules and fear what they want to do.
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  Speaker 1: And I think it's a fair complaint about government and
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  Speaker 1: business that we probably should have started resetting this ten
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  Speaker 1: years ago and we didn't. I don't like a choir
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  Speaker 1: was billed milk and all that. But going forward, the
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  Speaker 1: government and I think they're doing a good job thinking
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  Speaker 1: through what is national security? So I think its semiconductors
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  Speaker 1: or penicillan, there are certain drugs, what is unfair trade?
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  Speaker 1: And then you know, at one point, sit down, have
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  Speaker 1: a very serious conversation with Chinese government. You know, remember
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  Speaker 1: Secretary Blincoln was on his way over there to do that,
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  Speaker 1: and then the balloon. But at one point they'll do that,
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  Speaker 1: and business is a peripheral player in that. So I
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  Speaker 1: think I think business will help give it advice on
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  Speaker 1: how to do things. If you're gonna have an outbound
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  Speaker 1: investment controls. I just said that way that works, but
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  Speaker 1: that's a huge bureaucracy, and so so far all the
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  Speaker 1: conversation be quite rational about it. I mean, JP Logan
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  Speaker 1: obviously has a significant business in China. I'm sure that
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  Speaker 1: the government that would listen to you. What are the
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  Speaker 1: conversations you have just about sort of trying to, as
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  Speaker 1: I say, trying to maintain as coodial relations as possible
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  Speaker 1: between the two nations. I mean, for us, we're there
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  Speaker 1: and like I said, you know, we're we're basically taking
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  Speaker 1: a backseat to American government in this one, and we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna we obviously have to do whatever the American government
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  Speaker 1: asked us to do, and we're trying to engage in
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  Speaker 1: their courage of their own government and with the Chinese
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  Speaker 1: government and what those things should be. You know, I'm
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  Speaker 1: hoping cooler has prevailed here, but this is why Ukraine
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  Speaker 1: is so important. This can cause it to go in
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  Speaker 1: a bad direction rather quickly. So, uh, you know, everyone's
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  Speaker 1: got to be little questions you talk about around government.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about the feed from obviously, I just want
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  Speaker 1: to talk about the FED for a moment. I have
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  Speaker 1: half a dozen posaic questions I can ask about the FED.
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  Speaker 1: I think got any of the answer to many of them,
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  Speaker 1: stop trying to fight. One fairly easy one is, you know,
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  Speaker 1: when do we get to say we're landing, be that
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  Speaker 1: hard landing or a soft landing, So when does that
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  Speaker 1: begin to a cup? You know, forecasting the futures, as
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  Speaker 1: you know, very complicated. The consumer still has a lot
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  Speaker 1: more money. They're checking accounts than before COVID. They're spending
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  Speaker 1: ten percent more than last year, forty percent more than
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  Speaker 1: pre COVID, and it looks like they'll have excess way
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  Speaker 1: to spend roughly until the end of the year. And
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  Speaker 1: at that point or you can aid it a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of a cliff as a soft landing. And also
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  Speaker 1: QT has nar start to bite. That also is gonna
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  Speaker 1: happen at one point, probably later this year, and you
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  Speaker 1: know that's when you're gonna know what these things do.
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  Speaker 1: But you we can still have a soft landing. And
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  Speaker 1: the other thing about all the economic forecasting is Russia Ukraine.
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  Speaker 1: I mean that can change it dramatically and very very quickly.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think absent Russia Ukraine we will have a
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  Speaker 1: soft landing. I think it's still possible, but I would
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  Speaker 1: I look at possibilities. It's still possible, possible. I think
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  Speaker 1: mild recessions possible, harder recessions possible. I think it's a
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  Speaker 1: good chance that inflation will come down, but not enough
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  Speaker 1: by the fourth quarter that may actually have to do more.
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  Speaker 1: And I think a lot of things that have happened
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  Speaker 1: in the world, think of the bigger trends are inflationary.
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  Speaker 1: You know, infrastructure spending, the IRA Act less any trade
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  Speaker 1: with you know, certain parts of the world, bringing trade
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  Speaker 1: back into America. Those things are all the green transition
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  Speaker 1: is going to take a lot of capital to all
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  Speaker 1: those things kind of have inflatiary attributes that are very
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  Speaker 1: different than we've been through last twenty years. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: come back to the consumer point in a second. But
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  Speaker 1: last year you talked about and you'll let this sort
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  Speaker 1: of confluence of three major effectants QT the America rebounding
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  Speaker 1: from a sort of post COVID economy fedly strongly, and
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  Speaker 1: then oversee the Wall as well. You talked about them
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  Speaker 1: sort of leading us into an unprecedented period. How do
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  Speaker 1: we get out of that period? You know, it's it's diplomacy.
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  Speaker 1: I mean That's why this is not you know, we
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  Speaker 1: always talk about uncertainty and the economy and the incertainty,
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  Speaker 1: but I call it normal uncertainty. The weathers. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we know what the weather's like. That's why these things
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  Speaker 1: are different. Qt coming out of COVID, the war in Ukraine.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's been pushed out a little bit further.
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  Speaker 1: I would have thought we'd be dealing with this a
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  Speaker 1: little bit sooner, but it does look like some kind
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  Speaker 1: of stuff. It's coming to fruition at the end of
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  Speaker 1: this year. Russia, Ukraine, we susciply, don't know. I think
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  Speaker 1: it's wrong. It's didn't predict because if you look at
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  Speaker 1: the history of wars, they've been pretty much unpredictable and
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  Speaker 1: how they play out and which ones affect the global economy,
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  Speaker 1: and how they took a lot of wars they didn't
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  Speaker 1: affect the global economy, but they were literally in very
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  Speaker 1: small parts of the economy. This is not in a
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  Speaker 1: small part of the economy. And this is a European nation.
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  Speaker 1: It's Russia, and it's oil and you know, major oil
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  Speaker 1: and gas supply and food supply around the world. So
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  Speaker 1: this is a whole different attribute to it. But then
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  Speaker 1: why does a consumer partic here in the US remain
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  Speaker 1: as you say, it's fairly bullish there. For over a
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  Speaker 1: period of time, their home price has been going up,
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  Speaker 1: Jobs are plentiful, ways are going up at the lower end,
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  Speaker 1: which I think it's a good thing. They've got a
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  Speaker 1: lot of money to check in account. You know, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: stocks generally been had gone up for ten or fifteen years.
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  Speaker 1: The consumers, if you look at it today, in great shape.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm telling you that's going to end at one point.
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  Speaker 1: But even if we go to recession, then the consumer
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  Speaker 1: is entering a recession in better shape, far better shape
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  Speaker 1: than they didn't know way, you know, no way when
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  Speaker 1: we run to that recession, No, we did own employment
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  Speaker 1: go through the roof. But their home prices are dropping dramatically,
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  Speaker 1: jobs are disappearing, the stock market is way down. So
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  Speaker 1: this one is a little bit better than that. One
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  Speaker 1: of the sort of narratives that it's fairly popular at
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  Speaker 1: the moment. The consumer doesn't like consatinty. I would even
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  Speaker 1: though as far as saying it's it's sort of one
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  Speaker 1: of these false axioms that's you know, that's payble at thought.
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  Speaker 1: Now that you know when it's times are on satain
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  Speaker 1: it they've seen the freaks out. They stopped spending, they
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  Speaker 1: stopped doing the things that consuming dude to keep the
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  Speaker 1: economy going. That doesn't seem to be the case here.
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  Speaker 1: The consumer's done pretty well through onun sets and keep
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  Speaker 1: through COVID, through the wall, through everything else. So I
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  Speaker 1: wonder what when we get to this point of you know,
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  Speaker 1: the wallet being hit and the consumers saying we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: stop spending. Is it just reality catching up with them?
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  Speaker 1: This is some kind of flectual point. Where is it
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  Speaker 1: just that they run out of money? I arely is
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  Speaker 1: destroyed by COVID, including quote uncertainty, so you have you're
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  Speaker 1: obviously correct, they're confidence, consumer covers is dropping it. But
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  Speaker 1: I think your pocketbook trump's confidence. But they have a
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  Speaker 1: lot of money. They tend to spend it. And they
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  Speaker 1: you see here like look at the travel in Miami
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  Speaker 1: and the building and the optimism around. If you ask
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  Speaker 1: me how they're doing, it's very good. And then they
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  Speaker 1: tell they're not coming by the economy so jobs are plentiful,
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  Speaker 1: wages are going up. I mean, what that's what's really
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  Speaker 1: affecting them. You know, when they wake up the morning,
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  Speaker 1: they feel pretty good about that, and then they read
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  Speaker 1: the paper and of course you can get a little depressed.
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  Speaker 1: And at the end of this year, it's the wall
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  Speaker 1: to the end of this year that sort of begins
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  Speaker 1: to tell it looks it looks like the ex cashall
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  Speaker 1: be disappearing, and then but the job's still there, so
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  Speaker 1: you could That's why he say you could have a
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  Speaker 1: softmanding zone now Jeffrey Epstein obviously his specter continues to
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  Speaker 1: haunt a global elite and most recently JP Morgan have
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  Speaker 1: been sort of caught up in it. How has that
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  Speaker 1: made you feel? You know, I can't talk about litigation,
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  Speaker 1: but you should. You should know that a JP Moore,
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  Speaker 1: we got top experts, including some of the best people
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  Speaker 1: that come out of the DOJ, etc. Who review and
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  Speaker 1: make judgment decisions like this, and we've they've generally do
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  Speaker 1: a very good job. But how has it made you feel?
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  Speaker 1: As the CEO of Jaken Morgan as a fingerhead for
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  Speaker 1: the back, It's unfortunate, but it's life. And look, we're
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  Speaker 1: here in Florida. We have to talk about politics because
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  Speaker 1: we always talk about politics. Obviously we're into sentis its backyard.
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  Speaker 1: What do you make of his if you like hands
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  Speaker 1: on approach to business and is that something you would
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  Speaker 1: like to see more of in even higher office. An
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  Speaker 1: approached dessentis, yeah, you know, I I've learned and listen
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  Speaker 1: and read and stuff like that. You know, it has
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  Speaker 1: got a little complicated between business and government and stuff
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  Speaker 1: like that. But but you know, anyone here knows that
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  Speaker 1: I'm a full throated, red blooded American patriot supporter free enterprise.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, I hear the complains on both sides,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, you listen to learn from I don't
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  Speaker 1: worry that much about it. And we've been We've loved Florida.
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  Speaker 1: We're growing in Florida left and right. You know, small businesses,
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  Speaker 1: large companies we got I've got had many total employees
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  Speaker 1: we have for you. I'm on my way to Tampa.
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  Speaker 1: We've got you know, major operations there Orlando, major operations
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  Speaker 1: were opening branches and so the mayor just joined us
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  Speaker 1: at a small business that we did here. We're very
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  Speaker 1: pro pro Florida. And this is long dates at Florida.
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  Speaker 1: This isn't part of the sort of recent influx of
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  Speaker 1: capital its Florida or financial wild in Florida pass. I
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  Speaker 1: think they've been great. I mean, you know, if you
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  Speaker 1: are running the state, you know you should be thinking,
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  Speaker 1: how can I make this date off good? Well off
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  Speaker 1: my people. So Florida likes business. They want you to
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  Speaker 1: come here, you come the floor. You see the apter
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  Speaker 1: Texas is the same way. You know if I was
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  Speaker 1: some other states. Everything about why do people like going
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  Speaker 1: to these dates is their taxes, is their pro business.
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  Speaker 1: They want better life for the people. It's not necessary
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  Speaker 1: some of the parts we've talked about. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: we now have more employees in Texas than the New
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  Speaker 1: York's date. You know it should have been there way,
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  Speaker 1: but Texas logically to be there. And when you go
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  Speaker 1: through their optimistic they're optimistic here pro American, opimistic, pro business. No. Unfortunately, No.
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  Speaker 1: Every year there's a sort of tech topic to jur
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  Speaker 1: that we talk about last year as a metaverse and
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  Speaker 1: I think we talked briefly about you appearing in a
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  Speaker 1: non physical form in the lobby of the Mets verse.
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  Speaker 1: This here, it's it's AI. I asked chat TPT what
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  Speaker 1: I should ask Jamie Diamond. I was hoping you would
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  Speaker 1: come up with a really smart answer, I wouldn't need
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  Speaker 1: to write any of my questions. I could get it
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  Speaker 1: to do the whole interview for me. So so it didn't.
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  Speaker 1: Unfortunately it asked what would I asked Jamie Diamond about
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  Speaker 1: AI and what meant the future to investment lanking. So
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  Speaker 1: AI is real. This is not total, that's not cryptn't
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  Speaker 1: this is a technology which is staggering. We already lose
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  Speaker 1: three hundred AI. We have thousands of people involved, thousand
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  Speaker 1: involved data, machine learning, natural language process saying. We have
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  Speaker 1: two hundred people in AI research labs, but we're already
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  Speaker 1: used to do risk fraud, marketing, prospecting. And it's the
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  Speaker 1: tip of the iceberg. So you know, to me, this
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  Speaker 1: is this is extraordinary. And the other thing to keep
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  Speaker 1: in mind there's good use, but bad guys are gonna
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  Speaker 1: use it too, so it's a little bit of arms
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  Speaker 1: race and how you have to use it to protect
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  Speaker 1: your company, protect your clients, protect data, etc. And we're
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  Speaker 1: fully engaged. And the other thing you have to keep
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  Speaker 1: about AI you need to be in the cloud to
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  Speaker 1: use the compute power fundamentally that you need for AI.
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  Speaker 1: And so that's why the cloud digital AI. They're all
• 12:52
  Speaker 1: kind of related that way, what was behind the decision
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  Speaker 1: to ban chap GPT on the on the trading floor.
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  Speaker 1: It on company owned devices. That's why you could do
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  Speaker 1: it in your own device. But we also lab people
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  Speaker 1: use it within our own firewalls, so we didn't take
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  Speaker 1: it away just you have to go within our firewall
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  Speaker 1: to use it. And it was just for control purposes
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  Speaker 1: and risper. There's no wasn't a statement of any time
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  Speaker 1: before we end up, I want to get on seleverage finance. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: that's in large part why we Hey, it's talk about
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  Speaker 1: the conference. One of the things stamping mulgan still get
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  Speaker 1: the montment. It's very interesting is lending from its own
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  Speaker 1: balanced sheet and direct lending if you like. At the moment,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's ten billion dollars is what's been allocated.
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  Speaker 1: How big can that business gap? Ye? So you know,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's amazing. And this is when you look
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  Speaker 1: at something like this for reviewers, American capitalism. There are
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  Speaker 1: two thousand investors here from around the world, hundreds of
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  Speaker 1: companies still inventing ideas and growing and expanding both the
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  Speaker 1: US and overseas. It is it is extraordinary. So direct
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  Speaker 1: lending You're obviously one of the biggest lenders out there,
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  Speaker 1: but a lot of people here are also huge lenders.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, I meet with them all, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: direct lending away from banks to become equally in size,
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  Speaker 1: and not to think of those healves as competitors there
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  Speaker 1: and there. You know that's a lot, but we deal
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  Speaker 1: with competitors and collaborators all the time. So we do
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  Speaker 1: direct lending and all. It is fundamental if your viewers,
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  Speaker 1: you know, unitron quicker, more flexibility, and certain type of
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  Speaker 1: covenants not necessarily cheaper for the borrower, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: so you gotta look at it all things. So we've
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  Speaker 1: done I think ten million forty deals. We can do
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  Speaker 1: a lot more, and you know, we can work with
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  Speaker 1: partners or some of the deals, et cetera. But we'll
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  Speaker 1: do what we need to do to compete. It's feel
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  Speaker 1: someone pass to ask you about succession. You get asked
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  Speaker 1: about it all the time. I'm not going to do that,
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  Speaker 1: but I am interested. You talk a lot about the
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  Speaker 1: need for sort of unified responses to global conflict. You
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  Speaker 1: talk a lot about things that are needed domestically, whether
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  Speaker 1: it's better health, better education, raising wage inequality or reducing
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  Speaker 1: I should say wage inequality. It seems very obvious you
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  Speaker 1: could go into public office if you chose to when
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  Speaker 1: you leave jam molding. Its something we can expect. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not going to go into public service. I love what
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  Speaker 1: I do here. You know you mentioned succession. Are you
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  Speaker 1: enjoy it? I think you should practice it a little
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  Speaker 1: bit before you go into it. And I mean I
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  Speaker 1: feel like I do. Here's a huge contribution to my country,
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  Speaker 1: my clients around the world, etc. And the other thing
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  Speaker 1: about succession you got you guys already know who that
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  Speaker 1: we have a lot of potential successors, so you can
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  Speaker 1: add right about it frequent exactly, so you know I
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  Speaker 1: couldn't answer that you already know all right, Jamie Diamond,
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  Speaker 1: great conversation, Thanks so much for having us. And with that,
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  Speaker 1: I'll tie it back to you in New York. That
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  Speaker 1: was ed Hemon along with CEO and chairman of JP
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  Speaker 1: Morgan Chase. Jamie Diamond covered a lot of topics. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: for me. The most interesting thing he said by far
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  Speaker 1: was that the US consumer is spending ten percent more
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  Speaker 1: this year than he did last year, and forty percent
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  Speaker 1: more this year than pre pandemic stimmy checks, stimulus savings.
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  Speaker 1: I guess that's what's driving. But it's gonna run out.
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  Speaker 1: He said that excess cash that the consumer has is
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  Speaker 1: gonna last through the end of this year. YEP. Very interesting,
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