Surveillance: Full Employment is Not Perfection, Krueger Says
Bloomberg Surveillance
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🗓️ 2 February 2018
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Nouriel Roubini, Roubini Macro Associates Chairman and NYU Stern School of Business Professor, says bitcoin is the mother of all bubbles. Alan Krueger, Princeton University Economics Professor, says labor unions could do a better job of marketing themselves. Bill Gross, Janus Henderson Fund Manager, predicts retail is going to be sensitive from this point forward following this month's jobs report. Julia Coronado, President and founder of MacroPolicy Perspectives, says the most significant part of the jobs report is that there's finally wage growth. Erik Brynjolfsson, Director of the MIT Initiative, thinks we're on the verge of wave of innovation. Scott Soshnick, Bloomberg Sports Columnist, looks ahead to the Super Bowl.
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| 0:57.0 | I want to go to John Farrell with Noro Rabini because John's got a great insight here |
| 1:06.7 | to get the Bitcoin discussion started. I did want to mention that the President has |
| 1:10.8 | tweeted twice this morning 45 minutes ago and 30 minutes ago. |
| 1:14.5 | And one of them he makes a clear distinction between the leadership and investigators of the Federal |
| 1:19.7 | Bureau of Investigation and the Justice Department versus later on in a lengthy tweet, |
| 1:25.8 | rank and file are great people. So that seems to be the tone of the president this morning. |
| 1:30.8 | John, you've got a great insight with Dr Rubini on |
| 1:33.2 | Bitcoin. Yeah I think there's going to be a lot of conversation today about the |
| 1:35.9 | price action of course there should be with down 13.5% to 7-860 but I think the |
| 1:40.7 | conversation on Wall Street is whether we institutionalize this stuff too quickly. Put it on the exchanges too quickly without enough thought. |
| 1:47.0 | Professor, do you think that is the case? |
| 1:49.0 | It is. First of all, for a long time the regulators were asleep at the wheel where all this |
| 1:54.1 | scam was occurring I mean think about the ICOs these are just things that are |
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