Single Best Idea with Tom Keene: Steve Englander & Meredith Whitney
Bloomberg Surveillance
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🗓️ 4 February 2026
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Tom Keene breaks down the Single Best Idea from the latest edition of Bloomberg Surveillance Radio.
In this episode, we feature our conversations with Steve Englander & Meredith Whitney.
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| 0:00.0 | Bloomberg Audio Studios, Podcasts, Radio News. |
| 0:12.5 | A single best idea very quickly here. |
| 0:15.0 | Stephen Englner, and what a wonderful hour. |
| 0:17.2 | The whole thing about surveillance is you want to get back to back to back, great conversations |
| 0:21.9 | for Global Wall Street and all the people interested in, you know, what we do. |
| 0:25.4 | They have Stephen Englander, Michael Mayo, and Freya Beamish back to back. That's the way we roll, |
| 0:30.8 | and our team did a great job piecing that together. Some of it spur the moment. |
| 0:35.2 | Here's Stephen Englander of Standard Charter on the long term |
| 0:39.4 | and the short term of the dollar. If Powell is correct, if Warsh is correct, if we are correct, |
| 0:46.7 | that it's surging, you know, we're kind of back to the late 90s, which was a very good period for us. |
| 0:52.8 | But that's in the medium and long term. |
| 0:55.1 | Shorter term, I think we're going to see U.S. policy become more cautious. |
| 0:59.8 | I mean, the focus being the midterm elections, you know, doing a trade deal with India as a positive, |
| 1:05.1 | sort of threatening to invade Greenland is a negative. |
| 1:07.8 | So I expect the temperature to really calm down. |
| 1:10.4 | And, you know, |
| 1:11.5 | dollar to appreciate very gradually, get rid of some of the risk premium that accumulated in January. |
| 1:17.5 | Stephen Englander there. Great conversation with him about his colleague at Yale, Barry Eichen Green, |
| 1:22.7 | the giant at Berkeley. Ike Green is out with a new book. We promise we'll get them on here at some point. Meredith |
| 1:30.0 | Whitney in today, I had to do the obligatory conversation. The president wants 10% credit card rates. |
| 1:36.2 | Right now the rate, she says, is 19.65% and we talked about what all that means. There's a really, really |
| 1:42.2 | interesting point with Meredith Whitney. But here, |
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