Surveillance: A Data Dependent Fed With Citi's Mann
Bloomberg Surveillance
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🗓️ 20 December 2018
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Danny Blanchflower, Dartmouth University Professor, says either the market is wrong or the Fed is wrong. Howard Ward, Gabelli Funds CIO of Growth Equities, thinks tightening eight times in the course of two years is too rapid a move. Catherine Mann, Citi Global Chief Economist, says there is a divorce between data from the real economy and data from financial markets. Narayana Kocherlakota, Former Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis President, says we should get rid of the FOMC Dot Plot.
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| 0:49.7 | Find Bloomberg Surveillance on Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud, Bloomberg.com, and of course, on the Bloomberg. I want to bring a Danny Blancheflower Dartmouth University professor and former Bank of |
| 1:08.1 | England policymaker Danny you think the feds made a mistake why? Well I do, I don't think there's any real data from the real |
| 1:16.4 | world that actually justifies this. I think the other thing guys right that the data looks quite good, |
| 1:20.8 | but actually oftentimes at times like like this the data revisions are what gets you |
| 1:25.4 | excuse me run cold that's what happened in 2008 and I've challenged people |
| 1:31.6 | for quite a long time. |
| 1:33.0 | Obviously the data, the GDP data is relatively strong, driven a lot by the stimulus. |
| 1:38.0 | But these rate rises take a while to work their way through. |
| 1:42.0 | So yes, the data may be strong, but the question is what |
| 1:44.3 | is the rate rise effects being and it'll take us a while to know. I think the |
| 1:49.6 | evidence is that actually that the fundamental belief they have that the NARU's around 4.5 is wrong. |
| 1:56.0 | There's no doubt in my mind that that's wrong. They have no explanation as to why there's |
| 2:00.5 | weak wage growth. So I think this these rate rises at the eight of them |
| 2:05.3 | with a slowing global economy will kill off growth. So I think you have to sit there and say |
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