Fed Has Been A Political Piñata, Swonk Says
Bloomberg Surveillance
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🗓️ 20 July 2018
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Jerome Schneider, PIMCO Head of Short Term Portfolio Manager, breaks down nominal and real interest rates. Diane Swonk, Grant Thornton Chief Economist,reviews the history of the Fed's independence. Adam Posen, Peterson Institute for International Economics President, worries that President Trump is becoming 'Nixonian.' Jane Foley, Rabobank Head of FX Strategy, and Michael McKee, Bloomberg News International Economics & Policy Correspondent, hop on the show to discuss the potential of a currency war. Vincent Cignarella, Bloomberg Americas Global Macro Squawk, and Margaret Brennan, CBS Face the Nation Host, offer their expertise on market and political news of the week.
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| 0:00.0 | Osage County, Oklahoma is getting a lot of attention right now. |
| 0:04.4 | It's the setting of Martin Scorsese's latest film, |
| 0:07.8 | Killers of the Flower Moon. |
| 0:10.0 | The movies based on a book about the 1920s Osage murders, |
| 0:14.1 | when white men poured into Osage County |
| 0:16.4 | and killed Osage people for their oil wealth. |
| 0:20.1 | I'm Rachel Adams Heard, the host of InTrust, a podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Media. |
| 0:26.8 | For over a year I was reporting a different story about other ways white people got |
| 0:32.1 | Osage, land, land and wealth and how a prominent ranching family in Osage County became one of the biggest landowners here. |
| 0:40.0 | Their ranching empire was built on land that at the turn of the century was all owned by the Osage Nation. |
| 0:47.0 | So how did they get it? |
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| 0:55.3 | Podcast or wherever you Bloomberg surveillance podcast. I'm Tom Keene. |
| 1:13.5 | Daily, we bring you insight from the best |
| 1:15.9 | in economics, finance, investment, |
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| 1:27.0 | So the president said he's ready to go with $500 billion in new tariffs on |
| 1:38.3 | Chinese goods imported to the United States saying the country has been |
| 1:41.5 | taken advantage of for too long. He told |
| 1:43.7 | CNBC I'm not doing this for politics I'm doing this to do the right thing for |
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