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so they can understand how the greater whole works,

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Joining us now in our Bloomberg 1130 studios in New York is Bill Lee.

Now Chief Economist at the Milken Institute, as I mentioned, formerly

head of North America Economics at City and before that with the IMF in Washington.

Great to have you here with us. Congrats on the new gig as well and let's start

with the tax reform package that we got yesterday

from the White House so before the press briefing began at 1.30 Wall Street time

Gary Cohn and the Treasury Secretary Stephen Munutian passed out a one-pager as they called it.

Just about 200 words on one piece of paper outlining what they would like to see in the tax reform proposal.

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