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interviews coming up from Mester Kaplan, from Bostick of Atlanta Atlanta and here now is our Michael McKee with the

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Fed president.

Good morning and thank you very much we'd like to welcome everybody listening to us on

Bloomberg television around the world and we'd like to welcome Jim Bullard and

thank you for getting up so early to join us. Sure, thanks for having me. It's 40

degrees. You're from Minnesota so you have to pretend you like it, but it's a normal thing.

Look, a lot of Wall Street focused today on the Chairman's speech.

The minutes suggested that the Fed is locked in for September.

So even if you disagree with that rate path, is there any reason to think that he's going to say anything market moving today?

I'm sure the chair will be very careful. I've

not seen the speech but he'll do a good job. He always does. He's always very

very serious. You don't get the impression there's any kind of change a foot

for the open market committee and the right path that they're on. Well the markets are

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