Surveillance: Monetary Policy Can't Do It All, Says Rissmiller
Bloomberg Surveillance
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🗓️ 19 August 2019
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Don Rissmiller, Strategas Research Chief Economist, looks ahead to Jackson Hole and says monetary policy "can't do it all." Claus Vistesen, Pantheon Macroeconomics Chief Euro-Zone Economist, predicts Germany will enter a technical recession. Lara Rhame, FS Investments Chief U.S. Economist, says she expects the U.S. economy to slow to uncomfortably low levels but not a recession. Rob Schiffman, Bloomberg Intelligence Analyst, doesn't see much risk to Apple's cash flow regardless of the tariff situation.
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| 0:57.2 | Don Rissmiller joining us here in New York, strategic research, chief economist. |
| 1:01.2 | Good morning to you, Don. |
| 1:02.2 | Morning. |
| 1:03.3 | Can we begin with that headline out of Germany? |
| 1:05.3 | Why do we have to wait for the crisis? |
| 1:07.0 | Why do we have to wait for the recession |
| 1:09.1 | for them to loosen the purse strings? |
| 1:11.0 | Oh, it's an excellent, excellent question. |
| 1:13.6 | And so the answer is we shouldn't have to. |
| 1:16.8 | But there have been political reasons in the past that have meant we have not been preemptive globally. |
| 1:23.5 | So I think the issue here is now you have the Bundesbank |
| 1:26.9 | and others saying we may be getting to some sort of crisis. |
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