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in our Bloomberg 991 studios in Washington, D.C. Bill, great to speak with you once again.

Hey, Deborah. Let's start with this parlor game, given the news that we've gotten, that the president's

scheduled to meet with Janet Yellin a bit later this week, what have we learned about what

the president's interested in in in a future Fed chair from who we've seen pass through the doors of the White House

over these last few weeks. I think like unlike his own behavior I think Trump

really wants someone he can count on and is reliable and predictable and so with Janet

Yellen he's seen her performance but then she's also

flip-flopped a little bit in the sense that she was a dove before and and reluctant

to normalize and now she's insistent on normalizing even though the data are not coming in to support the 2% inflation.

Of course, the excuse is what I've always called faith-based forecasting, which is I have a lot of faith in the

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