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Surveillance: Virus Woes Overshadow Stimulus

Bloomberg Surveillance

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3.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Daniel Alpert, Westwood Capital Managing Partner, examines the effects of fiscal stimulus on the labor market. George Bory, Wells Fargo Asset Management Head of Fixed Income Strategy, says don't give up on bonds just yet. Mercedes Carnethon, Northwestern University Professor & Department of Preventive Medicine Vice Chair, discusses the possible effects of Covid-19 mutations on current vaccines. Megan Greene, Harvard Kennedy School Senior Fellow, explains why the stimulus compromise doesn't resolve the debate over the Fed's emergency powers.

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It was a book of the year a few years ago and it is a book that has aged well across the financial

1:02.2

crisis, the age of oversupply. Daniel Alpert joins us

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from Westwood Capital this morning. Daniel, it's been an extraordinary year a year

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everybody wants to forget is we slide into 2021 where is the

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output gap where is the dynamics of our oversupply?

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Well I think we what we've seen recently, which is fascinating, is the huge resurgence in imports

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from China and other countries.

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So what we haven't seen is the reshoring of manufacturing, the reshoring of

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production in general.

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And when I look at the import-export data, it's just fascinating to me how much we are

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relying on exogenous oversupply and of course at the worst possible time when a

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good deal of our labor force is

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