Podcast appearances and mentions of Michael Barr

Peter Conti-Brown is a historian and legal scholar of the Federal Reserve System and an associate professor at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Peter returns to the podcast to discuss the state of Federal Reserve leadership under the incoming Trump administration, expectations for Fed independence, a new proposal for limiting stigma at the discount window, stories about a life lead by faith, and much more.   Check out the transcript for this week's episode, now with links. Recorded on January 10th, 2025 Follow David Beckworth on X: @DavidBeckworth Follow Peter Conti-Brown on BlueSky: @PeterContiBrown Follow the show on X: @Macro_Musings Check out our new AI chatbot: the Macro Musebot! Join the new Macro Musings Discord server! Join the Macro Musings mailing list! Check out our Macro Musings merch! Subscribe to David's new BTS YouTube Channel  Timestamps: (00:00:00) – Intro (00:01:23) – Reaching Audiences Through Various Forms of Media (00:10:30) – Federal Reserve Under Trump 2.0 (00:21:33) – Jerome Powell (00:25:56) – Michael Barr (00:34:52) – New Discount Window Proposal (00:40:27) – Faith Life (00:56:28) – Radical Uncertainty (01:00:15) – Outro

Michael Barr's surprising decision to step down as Fed vice chair of banking supervision next month allows the incoming Trump administration to make its own pick for the job and raises questions about the political independence of the banking regulators going forward. Andrew Ackerman, senior financial reporter with The Washington Post, walks through the implications for banks and discusses Barr's likely successor.

Bitcoin blasted back into the six-figure price range on Dec. 6 and US spot Bitcoin ETFs saw a near-billion dollar day of inflows. Still, is the bull market entering its final stage, as one CryptoQuant contributor predicts? And what might a post-bull market look like? JPMorgan wrote in a recent investor note that the Bitcoin debasement trade is here to stay, after all. Finally, we'll look at Federal Reserve Bank regulator Michael Barr stepping down and how the crypto industryasserted "Operation Chokepoint 2.0" may be collapsing.Further reading:How high can Bitcoin price go?Bitcoin ETFs scooped up almost 3X more BTC than produced in DecemberBitcoin ‘debasement trade' is here to stay: JPMorganCrypto bull market entering final stage: CryptoQuantFederal Reserve bank regulator Michael Barr to step downRise'n'Crypto is brought to you by Cointelegraph and is hosted and produced by Robert Baggs. You can follow Robert on Twitter and LinkedIn. Cointelegraph's Twitter: @CointelegraphCointelegraph's website: cointelegraph.comThe views, thoughts and opinions expressed in this podcast are its participants' alone and do not necessarily reflect or represent the views and opinions of Cointelegraph. This podcast (and any related content) is for entertainment purposes only and does not constitute financial advice, nor should it be taken as such. Everyone must do their own research and make their own decisions. The podcast's participants may or may not own any of the assets mentioned.

This week Will and Ben dive into how upcoming USDA numbers could shake the market out of sideways trading.Market recap (changes on week as of Monday's close): » March 2025 corn up $.05 at $4.57» December 2025 corn up $.06 at $4.45» March 2025 soybeans up $.06 at $9.97» November 2025 soybeans up $.05 at $10.13» March soybean oil flat at 40.33 cents/lb» March soybean meal down $4.50 at $307.30/short ton» March wheat down $.08 at $5.40» July 2025 wheat down $.05 at $5.61» March 2025 cotton flat at 68.68 cents/lb» December 2025 cotton flat at 69.90 cents/lb » October WTI Crude Oil up 2.29 at $72.82/barrel Weekly highlights:There were not many economic news headlines over the holiday season. That is not expected to continue in 2025 and seemed to start on Monday January 6th when Canada's Prime Minister, top 3 trading partner to the US, announced his resignation and the Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve, Michael Barr also announcing his resignation.US energy stocks were again mixed on the week. Crude oil stocks were down another 50 million gallons- the sixth consecutive reduction. US gasoline and distillate fuel stocks were both higher by 324 and 270 million gallons, respectively. US gasoline consumption fell 9% week over week but was 3% higher than last year.US ethanol production increased to 327 million gallons for the week ending December 27th up from 325 million gallons the week before and 308 million in 2023. Ethanol stocks increased 24 million gallons. USDA reported that November soybean crush came in at 210 million bushels- above the average trade estimate of 207.6 million bushels and 200.1 last November. This was a new record for the month of November but short of the volume set in October 2024 at 215.8 million bushels. USDA reported corn used for ethanol in November at 464.9 million bushels- down from 467 million in October but up from 457 million bushels in November 2023. Dried distillers grain production was estimated at 1.836 million short tons in November. Open interest in Chicago grains and oilseeds was down collectively 3% on the week. Open interest fell for combined wheats (-1.3%), soybeans (-10.2%), soybean oil (-2.4%), soybean meal (-8.2%) and rough rice (-3.5%) while being up for corn (+1.2%) and cotton (+1.0%). Money managers were net buyers of the complex- buying a net 120,000 contracts. Money managers were buyers of wheats (9,322), corn (67,859), soybeans (25,436), and soybean meal (31,429), while selling off rough rice (-869), cotton (-4,162), and soybean oil (-9,015). US grain and export sales were relatively disappointing over the holiday week- however, not the worst ever experienced. Corn, soybean and wheat export sales for 2024/25 marketing year at 30.6, 17.8 and 5.2 million bushels, respectively, were all bearish- falling below the expected range. Weekly grain and oilseed export inspections were slightly bullish on the week. Corn and soybean exports of 33.4 and 47.2 million bushels, respectively, were within expectations while wheat shipments of 15.2 million bushels were above all expectations. Topics:» Market recap» USDA numbers to shake up markets» Soybean crush remains strong» Impacts of cold snap» Reports to watchConnect with Brownfield Ag News:» Get the latest ag news: https://www.brownfieldagnews.com/» Subscribe to Brownfield on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BrownfieldAgNews» Follow Brownfield on X (Twitter): https://x.com/brownfield» Follow Brownfield on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BrownfieldAgNewsAbout Brownfield Ag News:Brownfield Ag News is your trusted source for reliable agriculture news, market trends, weather updates, and expert interviews. Get comprehensive coverage and stay ahead in the ever-evolving agriculture industry.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

It can't have escaped anyone's notice that there is a presidential election in the United States on Tuesday, November 5. The polls are too tight to call and the fight for the White House between former President Donald Trump and Vice-President Kamala Harris is going right down to the wire.In this episode of Compliance Clarified, Alexander Robson, managing editor, Regulatory Intelligence, in London chats with Henry Engler, senior editor, and Todd Ehret, senior regulatory intelligence expert in New York, about the possible outcomes, the polls and betting markets, and, specifically, what a decisive result for either candidate would mean for financial regulation. They discuss the possible impact on banking and crypto regulation and how House/Senate races beyond the presidential election might shape the outcome.Will Fed Chair Jay Powell survive under Trump? What is the future of Fed vice chair for supervision Michael Barr under Trump given Wall Street's hostility towards his Basel endgame plans? What would a Harris administration focus on? Henry and Todd discuss these questions and more.The Compliance Clarified podcast series covers a wide range of topics that affect compliance officers at financial institutions and aims to help them navigate the often challenging regulatory environment. It considers the significant challenges of the day and offers practical ideas for emerging best practices.LinksKalshi Markets: https://kalshi.com/marketsPolymarket: https://polymarket.com/event/presidential-election-winner-2024Predictit: https://www.predictit.org/markets/detail/7456/Who-will-win-the-2024-US-presidential-electionU.S. appeals court clears Kalshi to restart elections betting (paywall): http://go-ri.tr.com/aOPu3sINSIGHT: U.S. CFTC proposes rule to clarify ban on listed derivative bets on elections and other events (paywall): http://go-ri.tr.com/yIZWLmHow could Trump overhaul US financial regulators if he wins on Nov. 5?: https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/how-trump-could-overhaul-us-financial-regulators-if-he-wins-nov-5-2024-10-10/ Compliance Clarified is a podcast from Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence.Listen to wide-ranging, insightful discussions on all things compliance for financial services firms. We delve into the hot topics of the day, the challenges faced and offer up practical ideas for emerging good practice. We de-mystify regulation and explore the art, as well as the science, of the ever-expanding role of the compliance officer.  Enforcements, digital transformation, regulatory change, governance, culture, conduct risk – anything and everything impacting the compliance function is up for discussion.

In this episode, Nik is joined by Caitlin Long to dissect the evolving landscape of crypto banking. She dives into the impact of Operation Chokepoint 2.0, exploring how government agencies viciously attacked the crypto sector. She explains how the powerful influence of the banking lobby shapes regulatory frameworks and sheds light on the inherent fragility of the traditional banking system and the dangers of blending crypto with legacy finance. The discussion also covers the double-edged nature of bitcoin ETFs, the regulatory disparity between small and big banks, and the rise of offshore dollar markets as a direct reaction to restrictive US policies. Caitlin specifically calls out Michael Barr, Elizabeth Warren, and Bharat Ramamurti as culprits in circumventing the rule of law to target the crypto industry. The Bitcoin Layer is a bitcoin and global macroeconomic research firm. The Bitcoin Layer is proud to be sponsored by Unchained, the leader in Bitcoin financial services. Unchained empowers you to take full control of your Bitcoin with a collaborative multisig vault, where you hold two of three keys, and benefit from a Bitcoin security partner. Purchase Bitcoin directly into your cold storage vault and eliminate exchange risks with Unchained's Trading Desk. Unchained also offers the best IRA product in the industry, allowing you to easily roll over old 401(k)s or IRAs into Bitcoin while keeping control of your keys. Don't pay more taxes than you have to. Talk to us today. Visit https://thebitcoinlayer.com/unchained and use code TBL for $100 off when you create an account. Efani delivers premium mobile service with unparalleled protection against SIM swaps and privacy invasions. Use code TBL at checkout for $99 off the Efani SAFE Plan. https://www.efani.com/tbl?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email Try Stamp Seed, a DIY kit that enables you to hammer your seed words into a durable plate of titanium using professional stamping tools. Take 15% off with code TBL. Get your Stamp Seed today! https://www.stampseed.com/shop/titanium-seed-phrase-storage-kits.html?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email Subscribe and turn on notifications for TBL on YouTube. Subscribe to TBL's research letter: https://thebitcoinlayer.com/subscribe Follow TBL on X: https://twitter.com/TheBitcoinLayer Subscribe to The Bitcoin Layer on your favorite podcast platform. Join the official TBL channel on Telegram: https://t.me/thebitcoinlayerofficial Use code TBLYT10 for 10% off all The Bitcoin Layer Merch at http://TheBitcoinLayer.com/merch Block Height 864017 Contribute to The Bitcoin Layer via Lightning Network: thebitcoinlayer@zbd.gg Nik Bhatia's Twitter: https://twitter.com/timevalueofbtc Research Associate Joe Consorti's Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoeConsorti Creative Director Matthew Ball's Twitter: https://twitter.com/matthewrball #TheBitcoinLayer #NikBhatia #CaitlinLong #OperationChokepoint #CryptoRegulation #BankingSystem #CryptoETFs #OffshoreMarkets #FinancialRegulation #CryptoNews #LegacyFinance #EconomicPolicy #GovernmentControl #BankingLobby #BankingReform #CryptoFuture #FinancialSovereignty #USPolicy #DigitalAssets #Cryptocurrency #FinancialFreedom #BitcoinBanking #Bloomberg #Analysis #Charts #Tradingview #InvestmentStrategy #MarketWatch #StockMarket #PassiveInvesting #IndexFunds #FinancialMarkets #MarketWatch #FreeMarket #FreeMarkets #Markets #USTreasury #TreasuryBills #BalanceSheet #FED #Debt #Inflation #Statistic #Rates #Interest #Asset #Bitcoin #Dollar #Sats #BTC #Gold #Market #Trading #Currency #Crypto #Analysis #Investment #News #Finance #Education #Blockchain #Mining #BitcoinMining #macro The Bitcoin Layer and its guests do not provide investment advice.Subscribe to The Bitcoin Layer on Soundwise

S&P Futures are lower this morning as markets prepare for the release of the latest inflation figures. Harris Trump debate was the key news event overnight; however, the election is still a long way off. The Fed's Michael Barr introduced new bank capital requirements yesterday which is positive for Bank. Nippon Steel executive is said to have flown into Washington DC in an effort to save its takeover deal with U.S. Steel. On Thursday there is an ECB announcement where a rate cut is being anticipated. In Europe, markets are slightly higher, and oil prices are recouping some of yesterday's losses.

Noticias Económicas y Financieras Todas las miradas están puestas en el Índice de Precios al Consumidor de Estados Unidos de agosto, que se publicará a las 8:30 AM ET. Si bien la Fed suele recurrir al Índice de Precios al Consumidor como su indicador favorito para monitorear las presiones de los precios, el informe de hoy es la última lectura de inflación antes de la decisión sobre las tasas del FOMC la próxima semana. Los inversores están preparados para otra lectura débil, ayudada por una disminución en los precios de la gasolina durante el mes y un mercado laboral que se ha estado enfriando. La vicepresidenta Kamala Harris y el expresidente Donald Trump se enfrentaron en el segundo debate presidencial el martes, donde ambos candidatos discutieron sobre el estado de la economía, la inflación y la política exterior. Tanto Harris como Trump promocionaron sus respectivos historiales en el cargo e incluso aclararon su postura sobre el sector energético. Los mercados de apuestas se inclinaron ligeramente a favor de la victoria de Harris en las elecciones después del debate, pero la contienda sigue siendo extremadamente reñida. ING predice que una victoria de Trump resultaría en la venta de bonos del Tesoro. En una victoria para los bancos de Wall Street, los prestamistas más grandes solo enfrentarán un aumento del 9% en los requisitos de capital, según una propuesta revisada de final de Basilea III revelada el martes, que estaba muy por debajo del aumento del 19% que se planteó en el plan original. El vicepresidente de supervisión de la Fed, Michael Barr, dijo que el acuerdo actualizado equilibraría mejor los beneficios y los costos del aumento. Las acciones de los bancos demasiado grandes para quebrar cayeron de todos modos, lideradas por JPMorgan $JPM, después de que su presidente Daniel Pinto advirtiera que las expectativas de ganancias eran demasiado altas. Ally Financial $ALLY también se desplomó un 18% después de señalar el empeoramiento de las condiciones crediticias entre los prestatarios. Rusia ha recibido un envío de misiles balísticos Fath-360, según Estados Unidos, lo que ha llevado a Occidente a imponer nuevas sanciones contra Irán. "Hemos advertido a Teherán públicamente que dar este paso constituiría una escalada dramática", declaró el secretario de Estado, Antony Blinken. "Rusia ha recibido ahora envíos de estos misiles balísticos y es probable que los utilice en Ucrania en unas semanas". Blinken también dijo que Moscú está compartiendo tecnología nuclear y espacial con Teherán, pero este último calificó las afirmaciones de "completamente infundadas".

Noticias Económicas y Financieras ¡Es hora del espectáculo! Joe Biden y Donald Trump se enfrentarán esta noche en una tradición televisiva estadounidense que se remonta a la década de 1960. El debate presidencial, presentado por CNN, una división de Warner Bros. Discovery $WBD, comenzará a las 9 p.m. ET y durará 90 minutos, incluidas dos pausas comerciales. Jake Tapper y Dana Bash de CNN serán los moderadores, mientras que se implementarán algunas reglas nuevas, como micrófonos silenciados, excepto cuando sea el turno de hablar de un candidato respectivo y sin audiencia en el estudio. Los grandes bancos están bien posicionados para capear una recesión severa, y los 31 bancos sujetos a la prueba de resistencia de la Reserva Federal este año se mantuvieron por encima de sus requisitos mínimos de capital durante la situación hipotética. "Si bien la severidad de la prueba de estrés de este año es similar a la del año pasado, la prueba resultó en mayores pérdidas porque los balances de los bancos son algo más riesgosos y los gastos son más altos", dijo el vicepresidente de supervisión de la Fed, Michael Barr. En el escenario hipotético, los bancos habrían perdido casi $685B. El escenario suponía una caída del 40% en los precios de los bienes raíces comerciales, una caída del 36% en los precios de la vivienda y una tasa de desempleo del 10%. $CMG Chipotle Mexican Grill subió levemente el miércoles en su primera sesión de negociación después de una división de acciones de 50 por 1 , que fue una de las más grandes en la historia de Wall Street. Los accionistas recibieron 49 acciones adicionales por cada acción poseída en la división de acciones, mientras que se ofreció una subvención de capital única a los gerentes generales y al personal con muchos años de servicio. "Creemos que la división de acciones hará que nuestras acciones sean más accesibles para nuestros empleados, así como para una gama más amplia de inversores", dijo el director financiero de Chipotle, Jack Hartung, cuando se anunció la medida por primera vez. Curiosamente, la cadena de restaurantes nunca ha realizado una división de acciones desde que salió a bolsa en 2006. $SPACE SpaceX de Elon Musk ha conseguido un contrato de $843M para desarrollar una nave espacial que desorbitará la envejecida Estación Espacial Internacional después de que el laboratorio se retire en 2030. La NASA tomará propiedad después de que se construya la nave espacial, y se espera que se desintegre destructivamente a lo largo de con la ISS al quemarse en la atmósfera terrestre. Estados Unidos, Japón, Canadá y los países europeos participantes operarán la estación hasta el final de la década, mientras que Rusia permanecerá en el programa hasta 2028. En otros lugares, SpaceX habría aumentado el precio de su oferta pública en medio de una fuerte demanda de los inversores, valorando la empresa a un precio récord de $210B. $MU Micron se desploma debido a que las previsiones en línea eclipsan los sólidos resultados. $BA Boeing dijo que reanudará las entregas de aviones de fuselaje ancho a China. La ganancia de la plata en lo que va del año supera al oro, el cobre y el S&P 500.

Join hosts Michael Barr, Scarlet Fu and Damian Sassower for a look at some of the latest headlines and stories in the business of sports. Bloomberg Entertainment reporter Lucas Shaw on Netflix's announcement they'll be streaming NFL games on Christmas Day this year Bloomberg Business of Sports reporter Ira Boudway on the Caitlyn Clark effect and what this means for the WNBA   Then Jess Smith, President of the newest WNBA expansion team, the Golden State Valkyries on the team's identity and what their arrival means for the Bay Area and the league itself. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Lawrence Wong officially takes over as Prime Minister of Singapore. We take a critical look at the challenges he inherits and if his leadership will be very different from that of his predecessor. Dr. Michael Barr, Associate Professor, Flinders University and Author of “The Ruling Elite of Singapore gives us his perspective.Image Credit: Shutterstock.com

Join hosts Michael Barr, Scarlet Fu and Damian Sassower for a look at some of the latest headlines and stories in the business of sports. Bloomberg News US sports business reporter Randall Williams joins to talk about his scoop that the NFL could soon allow private equity investors to buy into teams.  Bloomberg Pursuits auto columnist Hannah Elliott talks about her experience covering the sold-out Formula 1 Grand Prix in Miami, and the host city's growth as a sports and entertainment hot spot.  Then, Professional Women's Hockey League senior vice president of business operations Amy Scheer talks about her league's rapid growth during it's first season, and the growth of women's sports in the US as a whole.  Plus, a look at the latest edition of "The Deal with Alex Rodriguez and Jason Kelly", featuring ESPN personality Stephen A. Smith.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join hosts Michael Barr, Scarlet Fu and Damian Sassower for a look at some of the latest headlines and stories in the business of sports. Michael and Damian break down the NFL draft and some of latest headlines in football with former NFL head coach, Super Bowl winner and NFL Network analyst Brian Billick. They talk about where teams stand post-draft, how to develop players, get his thoughts on the college football landscape and more. Then, Scarlet and Damian speak with Bloomberg Originals chief correspondent Jason Kelly about the latest episode of "The Deal with Alex Rodriguez and Jason Kelly" featuring tennis superstar and entrepreneur Serena Williams.  They also speak with Bloomberg News municipal finance reporter and editor Shruti Singh to break down her story on the Chicago Bears' push for a new $3.2 billion stadium that would be partially funded by local taxpayers.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join hosts Michael Barr, Damian Sassower and special guest host Bloomberg Originals correspondent Vanessa Perdomo for a look at some of the latest headlines and stories in the business of sports. First, Bluestone Equity Partners founder and managing partner Bobby Sharma joins to discuss some of his firm's sports interests and why sports remain a strong area to invest in. They welcome Keith Wachtel, chief business and revenue officer and EVP of Global Partnerships at the NHL to discuss the state of the league as the Stanley Cup playoffs continue and after a big year for attendance and revenue. Churchill Downs CEO Bill Carstanjen joins to talk about the upcoming Kentucky Derby and its long rich history as well as how the run has found a way to continue and stay relevant through the years. Plus, we have a portion of the latest episode of "The Deal with Alex Rodriguez and Jason Kelly" featuring Endeavor and TKO President and COO Mark Shapiro.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As you may have seen in the headlines, the airline sector has seen quite their fair share of volatility recently. Since the start of COVID shutting down air travel to then returning back to pre-pandemic levels and then exceeding those levels, the airline sector has been receiving its own fair share of market turbulence. But as the aerospace market continuing to grow on a global basis, with more interest in commercial travel than ever seen before, airlines are needing more lift for takeoff. And with the supply chain still stressed, the sector's landscape may be due for a reset. But what are their options here? And what is the path ahead? On this episode of Disruptive Forces, host Anu Rajakumar brings back Michael Barr, Senior Research Analyst covering aerospace and transportation to shed light on the evolving status of the sector and what opportunities could arise as a result of the developments happening across the industry.   This communication is provided for informational and educational purposes only and nothing herein constitutes investment, legal, accounting or tax advice, or a recommendation to buy, sell or hold a security. Information is obtained from sources deemed reliable, but there is no representation or warranty as to its accuracy, completeness or reliability. This communication is not directed at any investor or category of investors and should not be regarded as investment advice or a suggestion to engage in or refrain from any investment-related course of action. Neuberger Berman is not providing this material in a fiduciary capacity and has a financial interest in the sale of its products and services. Investment decisions should be made based on an investor's individual objectives and circumstances and in consultation with his or her advisors. All information is current as of the date of this material and is subject to change without notice. Any views or opinions expressed may not reflect those of the firm as a whole. Neuberger Berman products and services may not be available in all jurisdictions or to all client types. This material is not intended as a formal research report and should not be relied upon as a basis for making an investment decision. The firm, its employees and advisory accounts may hold positions of any companies discussed. This material may include estimates, outlooks, projections and other “forward-looking statements.” Due to a variety of factors, actual events or market behavior may differ significantly from any views expressed. Investing entails risks, including possible loss of principal. Indexes are unmanaged and are not available for direct investment. Past performance is no guarantee of future results.  This material is being issued on a limited basis through various global subsidiaries and affiliates of Neuberger Berman Group LLC. Please visit www.nb.com/disclosure-global-communications for the specific entities and jurisdictional limitations and restrictions.  The “Neuberger Berman” name and logo are registered service marks of Neuberger Berman Group LLC.  © 2024 Neuberger Berman Group LLC. All rights reserved.

Join hosts Michael Barr, Scarlet Fu and Damian Sassower for a look at some of the latest headlines and stories in the business of sports.Bloomberg News municipal finance reporter Amanda Albright discusses her story on how former MLB All-Star Frank White helped to upend a $2 billion ballpark and entertainment district project in Kansas City. Then, Bloomberg Originals chief correspondent Jason Kelly reflects on his conversation with US soccer legend Brandi Chastain, from the latest episode of "The Deal with Alex Rodriguez and Jason Kelly."Bloomberg Businessweek contributor and sportswriter Alan Shipnuck details his feature story on the PGA and LIV Golf, "Everyone Is Rich, No One Is Happy. The Pro Golf Drama Is Back."Plus, MLB Hall of Famer and Atlanta Braves legend Tom Glavine joins to talk April baseball and golf, ahead of the upcoming "Invited Celebrity Classic" tournament. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join hosts Michael Barr, Scarlet Fu and Damian Sassower for a look at some of the latest headlines and stories in the business of sports. Bloomberg Originals chief correspondent Jason Kelly joins to discuss his conversation with RedBird Capital founder and managing partner Gerry Cardinale, from the latest episode of "The Deal with Alex Rodriguez and Jason Kelly." Plus, they update the standings from Bloomberg's "Brackets for a Cause" challenge ahead of a big weekend for the NCAA tournament. Then, sports journalist and author Ann Ligouri joins to look ahead to the Masters. They discuss the state of golf and Liguori's new book, "Life on the Green: Lessons and Wisdom from Legends of Golf." Plus, the team welcomes Zach Leonsis, President of New Media and New Enterprises at Monumental Sports and Entertainment, which owns the NBA's Washington Wizards, the NHL's Washington Capitals, the WNBA's Washington Mystic and CapitalOne Arena in DC. They discuss the aftermath of a $2 billion deal that would have brought the teams to a new sports and entertainment center in Virginia falling through and what's next now that those teams will stay in DC.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join hosts Michael Barr, Scarlet Fu and Damian Sassower for a look at some of the latest headlines and stories in the business of sports. They talk through the big money in this year's NCAA Tournament from a few angles: first with Bloomberg Intelligence senior media analyst Geetha Ranganathan, who says March Madness could create an advertising windfall for big media companies carrying the games - continuing a trend for live sports. Then, Bloomberg Opinion columnist Allison Schrager joins to discuss her latest piece on America's love affair with sports gambling and March Madness despite regulatory efforts to discourage what she calls "productive risk-taking." Michael, Damian and Scarlet then celebrate the start of the MLB season with MLB Network insider Jon Morosi. They talk through some of this year's big storylines, including the betting scandal surrounding superstar Shohei Ohtani and why Morosi is skeptical of the Dodgers chances of winning it all this year. Plus, hear a snippet from the latest edition of "The Deal with Alex Rodriguez and Jason Kelly", featuring guest Hannah Storm. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to the daily304 – your window into Wonderful, Almost Heaven, West Virginia.   Today is Saturday, March 23, 2024. Blennerhassett Island may be a beautiful park to visit, but it also boasts a fascinating history. A popular brewery in Morgantown expands. And learn about Chef Boyardee's West Virginia connection…on today's daily304. #1 – From THE HISTORY PROJECT – In the middle of the Ohio River between Parkersburg, West Virginia and Belpre, Ohio, sits Blennerhassett Island, a place named for the Anglo-Irish gentry who built their estate there in the 18th century and named it for themselves. But this paradise would not last after the arrival of Aaron Burr … Learn more about Blennerhassett Island with The History Project, the Daily304's presentation of famous people, places and events that shaped West Virginia. Then plan a visit to Blennerhassett Island Historical State Park when the park opens for the season in May.  Read more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=9SxdBF2F82tG57HN&v=q6U2SQBxDr8&feature=youtu.be    #2 – From DOMINION POST – Chestnut Brew Works, a staple of the Morgantown microbrewery scene for over a decade, completed a long-anticipated expansion last month with the launch of Chestnut Beer Hall at 132 Pleasant St. Owner Bill Rittenour and his team transformed the former Black Bear Burritos into a space woven with local talent, history and flavor. Local artist Brian Pickens contributed freehand wall art that evokes the crisp, green taste of hops. Pickens also painted the support posts running down the center of the space to look like vibrant tree trunks. Local craftsmen Scott Frederick and Michael Barr created high-top tables using now-rare Chestnut lumber reclaimed from an old church in McDowell County. Rittenour took some of the same lumber and made one-of-a-kind tap handles replete with Appalachian history. The Beer Hall will feature 10-16 Chestnut Brew Works beers on tap. Cheers! Read more: https://www.dominionpost.com/2024/03/06/chestnut-brew-works-new-pleasant-streetspace-celebrates-appalachia-craft-beer/   #3 – From WV EXPLORER – Did you know the iconic image of Chef Boyardee that adorns so many food packages worldwide is that of a genuine person? Not only that -- he has West Virginia connections. In the early 1900s, The Greenbrier was managed by the same company that managed The Plaza Hotel in New York City, according to historian Bob Conte. When they sent staff down to The Greenbrier, among that staff was 16-year-old Ettore Boiardi, anglicized as “Hector Boyardee.” A native of Italy, Boiardi worked as an apprentice chef in his hometown and in Paris and London before boarding ship for Ellis Island in 1914. He eventually worked his way up to Head Chef at The Plaza Hotel, where he served President Woodrow Wilson and troops returning from WWI. After serving a stint at The Greenbrier in West Virginia, Boiardi opened his first restaurant in Cleveland, Ohio, where patrons frequently asked for samples and recipes of his spaghetti sauce. He met Maurice and Eva Weiner, owners of a local self-service grocery store chain who helped Boiardi and his brother Paolo develop a process for canning and distributing spaghetti sauce. In 1938, production was moved to rural Milton, Pa., where its products were sold under the “Chef Boy-Ar-Dee” brand. And the rest, they say, is history. Read more: https://wvexplorer.com/2024/03/12/chef-boyardee-west-virginia-resort-the-greenbrier/   Find these stories and more at wv.gov/daily304. The daily304 curated news and information is brought to you by the West Virginia Department of Commerce: Sharing the wealth, beauty and opportunity in West Virginia with the world. Follow the daily304 on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @daily304. Or find us online at wv.gov and just click the daily304 logo.  That's all for now. Take care. Be safe. Get outside and enjoy all the opportunity West Virginia has to offer.  

Join hosts Michael Barr, Scarlet Fu and Damian Sassower for a look at some of the latest headlines and stories in the business of sports. Bloomberg Entertainment reporter Lucas Shaw on the star power and gambling drama surrounding Shohei Ohtani. Then, Bloomberg Originals Chief Correspondent Jason Kelly stops by to talk about the latest episode of The Deal where he and A-Rod sit down with Yankees legend Derek Jeter.  Plus, Davidson College Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science Tim Chartier joins to discuss how to create mathematical formulas and models to predict tournament winners using bracketology and rankings. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join hosts Michael Barr, Scarlet Fu and Damian Sassower for a look at some of the latest headlines and stories in the business of sports. Noel LaMontagne, former NFL player and now Director at Verdence Capital Advisors focusing on high-net-worth clients in sports and entertainment joins to break down the early big signings and moves in NFL free agency. Then, Bloomberg Opinion columnist Adam Minter talks about his latest piece on Iowa women's basketball superstar Caitlin Clark's meteoric rise and what it means for her future, as Fox Sports mulls making her an NIL deal if she stays in college an extra year. Plus, Mountain West Conference commissioner Gloria Nevarez joins to discuss the state of her league and college sports in general ahead of this year's NCAA basketball tournament, where a lot of her teams have high hopes.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join hosts Michael Barr, Scarlet Fu and Damian Sassower for a look at some of the latest headlines and stories in the business of sports. First, Bloomberg News US Sports Reporter Randall Williams on Lebron James's latest business ventures and the renovation plans for Arrowhead stadium.  Then, Marty Edel, co-chair at Goulston and Storrs Sports Law Practice and adjunct professor at Columbia University, talks about the Dartmouth men's basketball team voting to unionize and the impact that may have on the NCAA's overall business model. And NBA All-Star Karl-Anthony Towns joins the show to talk about the team's current season success and his thoughts on the Timberwolves's new ownership group.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join hosts Michael Barr, Scarlet Fu and Damian Sassower for a look at some of the latest headlines and stories in the business of sports. First, Bloomberg News reporter Kim Bhasin on how it's become easier than ever for athletes to becoming billionaires plus Steph Curry's quest for sneaker stardom.  Then, Bloomberg Originals Chief Correspondent Jason Kelly talks about his newest show that he co-hosts with Alex Rodriguez called The Deal.  And the CEO of Bridgestone Golf, Dan Murphy, stops by to talk about the company's partnership with golf legend Tiger Woods and the growth of the sport internationally. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join hosts Michael Barr and guests hosts Vanessa Perdomo and Randall Williams for a look at some of the latest headlines and stories in the business of sports. First, Marquell Martin, Founder and CEO of 3point0 Labs on the future of combat sports and what's in stored for his client Francis Ngannou Then, Richard Browning, founder of chief test pilot for Gravity Industries discusses what it takes to fly a Jet Suit and then race them! Plus, Vanessa and Randall break down their experiences from radio row at the MGM Resorts International in Las Vegas for Super Bowl 58 and their conversations with former San Francisco 49ers Tony Gladney and current NFL player Saquon Barkley. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join hosts Michael Barr, Scarlet Fu and Damian Sassower for a look at some of the latest headlines and stories in the business of sports. First, a recap of the Super Bowl, which was the most watched program in US television history. They break down one of the biggest nights for sports betting with Anna Sainsbury, CEO and co-founder of GeoComply, a cybersecurity and data collection firm. They also hear from Kevin Krim, CEO at EDO for a look at some of the most impactful Super Bowl commercials. Then, they break down the new partnership between TaylorMade Golf and Tiger Woods with Bloomberg business of sports reporter Maxwell Adler. Plus, Indiana Pacers President and COO Mel Raines joins to talk about how her team and Indianapolis got ready to host NBA All Star Weekend and how she's preparing to take over as chief executive officer once longtime team executive Rick Fuson retires.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join hosts Michael Barr, Scarlet Fu and Damian Sassower for a look at some of the latest headlines and stories in the business of sports. In this special Big Game edition of the show, the team speaks with presidents from both teams competing for this year's Lombardi trophy. Kansas City Chiefs president Mark Donovan speaks with Scarlet and Alix Steel about Taylor Swift's impact on the Chiefs' fanbase, and whether or not he's ready to call their current run with head coach Andy Reid and superstar QB Patrick Mahomes a dynasty. Michael, Scarlet and Damian speak with San Francisco 49ers president Al Guido for his team's perspective on the game, including his thoughts on Mr. Irrelevant, Brock Purdy appearing in his first Super Bowl. He also discusses his global talent advisory firm, Elevate. Then, former Raiders CEO and current CBS analyst Amy Trask joins from Las Vegas to talk about some of the top offseason headlines and to set the scene for the first-ever Las Vegas Super Bowl.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join hosts Michael Barr and Scarlet Fu for a look at some of the latest headlines and stories in the business of sports.  Bloomberg News US sports business reporter Randall Williams joins to break down some big money headlines from this last week, including a new $3 billion dollar investment in the PGA Tour, and a group led by Carlyle Group co-founder David Rubenstein reaching a deal to buy the Baltimore Orioles.  Then, Milwaukee Bucks president Peter Feigin talks through another winning season for his team, and the economic impact his team and arena are having on the community. He also talks about the surprising decision to replace their head coach midseason. Plus, BetMGM CEO Adam Greenblatt joins to share his insight into the US sports betting landscape ahead of the first-ever Las Vegas Super Bowl.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join hosts Michael Barr and Scarlet Fu for a look at some of the latest headlines and stories in the business of sports.Bloomberg News athletes and celebrities reporter Kim Bhasin joins to break down Netflix's $5 billion dollar acquisition of the exclusive rights to WWE's “Raw”, marking the streamer's first big move into live events.Then, they welcome Alex Beckman, co-founder and CEO of AI chat platform ON for a behind scenes look at how his firm is enhancing the fan experience, and creating new revenue streams for sports teams.Plus, hear a conversation with former NFL MVP quarterback Joe Theismann about how NIL deals are reshaping colleges sports, his thoughts on NFL Championship weekend and more, as heard live on Bloomberg Surveillance on Bloomberg Radio. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tom Keene, Paul Sweeney, Lisa Mateo and Michael Barr are now LIVE on YouTube. Watch Surveillance live each morning, from 7-10 AM Eastern, on the Bloomberg Podcasts YouTube Channel.     Watch here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhwsLGvjjggSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join hosts Michael Barr, Scarlet Fu and Damian Sassower for a look at some of the latest headlines and stories in the business of sports. Bloomberg News Distressed Debt reporter Erin Hudson talks about Diamond Sports Group reaching a restructuring deal with its debt holders and Amazon. Plus, Bloomberg News global business reporter Ira Boudway on the NBA's new national TV contract and why everyone is looking to get a piece of the action. And longtime ESPN basketball analyst, radio host and now co-founder of Improbable Media, Jay Williams talks about his partnership with Giannis Antetokounmpo and the state of NCAA Basketball. CORRECTION: Initially uploaded a shortened version of Jay Williams interview. Edited to include the full conversation.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join hosts Michael Barr, Scarlet Fu and Damian Sassower for a look at some of the latest headlines and stories in the business of sports. Bloomberg US sports business reporter Randall Williams joins to discuss the fallout of a slew of NFL coaching changes, led by New England deciding to part ways with long-time head coach Bill Belichick. Then, Bloomberg News editor Tom Maloney breaks down his recent story on David Tepper's struggles as owner of the Carolina Panthers. Plus, former Turner Sports president and now founder and co-CEO of Horizon Sports & Experiences David Levy joins to share his thoughts on the changing sports media landscape. He also previews his company's second annual pickleball event in February, featuring several tennis legends.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You might have read headlines in the past couple of days that the Federal Reserve is planning to wind down its bank term funding program when it expires on March 11, literally two months away. Michael Barr is the Fed's vice chairman for bank supervision and he signalled that the program would not be extended.  The purpose of the bank term funding program was to provide emergency liquidity to banks that needed cash by pledging collateral with the Fed at face value for up to a year. This program was implemented in the wake of the failure of silicon valley bank as a way for banks that were experiencing liquidity issues to access cash without having to sell assets that are in the “held to maturity” category. The Fed would hold these as collateral on the balance sheet at their face value.  So why is the use of this project growing rapidly at a time when the program is about to expire? ------------- Host: Victor Menasce email: podcast@victorjm.com

Join hosts Michael Barr, Scarlet Fu and Damian Sassower for a look at some of the latest headlines and stories in the business of sports. Bloomberg US sports business reporter Randall Williams joins Scarlet and Damian for a conversation on San Antonio Spurs rookie star Victor Wembanyama and his journey to a $1 billion salary. Michael, Scarlet and Damian also speak with Robert Edward Auctions president Brian Dwyer on sports collectibles as an alternative asset class and how the market has grown rapidly since 2019  Plus former head football coach for Coastal Carolina, Joe Moglia talks about his recent op-ed piece on NIL and NCAA and player unions. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On today's podcast: 1) Iran dispatched a warship to the Red Sea after the US Navy destroyed three Houthi boats, a move that risks ratcheting up tensions and complicates Washington's goal of securing a waterway that's vital to global trade. 2) If the consensus on Wall Street is often wrong — and evidence from 2023 does little to dispel that notion — then in the year ahead investors are facing either the mother of all rallies or a selloff for the ages. 3) ASML Holding canceled shipments of some of its machines to China at the request of US President Joe Biden's administration, weeks before export bans on the high-end chipmaking equipment came into effect, people familiar with the matter said. 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Transcript: Good morning. I maybe Morris and I'm Karen Moscow. Here are the stories we're following today. We begin with oil rising to start the new year, Iran sending a warship to the Red Sea in an escalation of tensions in the region. The show of force comes after the US Navy destroyed three Hoothy boats which we're attempting to board a container on New Year's Day. Elizabeth Kendall is a Middle East specialist from Cambridge University and says the two are clearly interlinked. Aaron is puppeteering Hamas, the Hoothy's and other movements like Hezbollah in the Middle East, and the houthy slogan indeed includes the words death to Israel and a curse on the Jews, so it's very much aligned with Hamas's more militant and extreme war wing. Cambridge University's Elizabeth Kendall checking oil right now, Nie makes crude oil up more than two percent or a dollar forty nine now trading at seventy three dollars and thirteen cents a bit. Well, Amy, oil isn't the only thing on the move this morning. We're also seeing Bitcoin on the rise, following through on last year's massive rally, and we get more from Bloomberg Markets reporter Joe Easton. It is up another four percent at the moment, at the highest level since April sixth, above forty five thousand dollars for the first time in two years. This is due to the expectation of the direct investment from this ETF, so that is boosting sentiment and a lot of positivity. People looking for more technical levels for that one to keep going higher. And Bloomberg Joe Easton says Bitcoin has risen over twenty percent since has started December, as that January tenth deadline for the Securities and Exchange Commission to give its blessing for a spot bitcoin ETF dra us closer checking bitcoin right now, it's at forty five seven hundred dollars over in Europe's stocks are also higher to kick off the new trading year. Let's get the latest from Bloomberg Daybreak euro banker Stephen Carrol. Stephen, good morning, Amy and Karen. The tensions in the Red Sea are playing into the market narrative in Europe today. Shares and the shipping giant Marisk have risen after it stopped using that key trade route for forty eight hours following the weekend attack on one of its vessels. Higher oil prices are also helping to lift oil majors, making energy one of the best performing sectors on the Stock six hundred. More broadly, it's the Spanish and Italian markets which are out performing, boost it by a rise in bank shares. In London, Stephen Carrolt Bloomberg Radio, All right, Stephen, thank you all. Back here in the US, Wall Street returns to a holiday shortened week to kick off the new trading year, and we get a look ahead from Bloomberg Shirlie Pellett. The S and P five hundred index sits within striking distance of its first in two years. But a key challenge for markets is the outlook for the economy and corporate earnings. Michael Binger is the president of Gradient Investments. The economy I think is very resilient. Jobs are driving that, corporate profits are supposed to grow about ten eleven percent. And valuations, I mean they're not really cheap, but they're not super expensive either in the markets right now. Among this week's earnings reports, Constellation Brands and Walgreens Boots Alliance in New York Charlie Pellett Bloomberg Radio. Thank you, Charlie. In twenty twenty three, some of Wall Street's biggest names got it wrong with their predictions for how markets would perform, So will they fare better? In twenty twenty four, Bloomberg has compiled more than six hundred and fifty calls from strategists in Today's Big Take. Sam Potter is a senior markets editor for Bloomberg. Most strategists on Wall Street see the interest rate tykes of the past eighteen months to two years finally starting to bite economies generally around the world, stock slow, and that will kind of pre run a central bank pivot roundabout mid year. Bloomberg Senior Markets editor Sam Potter adds that strategists see the main risks to the markets inflation and the US election. Well. In corporate news, Amy Chinas BYD may have just overtaken Tesla as the world leader in EV sales. It's still more than five hundred twenty six in fully electric vehicles in the fourth quarter. Bloomberg's John Lewis more from Beijing when BYD Tesla, it'll do two things. I think that's going to put this company into the consciousness of people around the world in a way that that company has not had ever before. The number two thing it does is it really underscores how dominant a position China not only as a market, but as a country with lots of companies producing electric vehicles, how dominant a position China has in that industry now and Bloombergs John Lusa's Tesla is estimated to have delivered over four hundred and eighty three thousand in the fourth quarter alone. Speaking of China, President Xi Jinping has pledged to strengthen his country's economic recovery after a tough year. Bloomberg's Jenny Marsh has more from Hong Kong. This is Chi Jinping's new yas Eve's speech, and he normally uses it to so trumpet the achievements his nation's major in the year. And I think this speech really stood out for how candid he was being about these problems. It's the first time he's acknowledged that the struggle that twenty twenty three have brought. It also sort of underplayed in some ways the problems that are still lying ahead in twenty twenty four for the economy. And he didn't really have any sort of quick fixes for that. Bloomberg Jenny Mark says China is entering a pivotal period as policymakers try to boost growth, stabilize a crisis in the property market, and prevent deflation. Beijing is expected to target a growth goal of around five percent again in twenty twenty four. Meanwhile, Amy, the Biden administration has won another battle and its effort to try and slow Shina from building its own semiconductor industry. We get more with the Bloomberg's Ed Baxter, ASML Holding is canceled shipments of some of its machines to China at the Biden request. This week's before the export bands on the high end chip making came into effect, the Dutch manufacturer had licenses to ship three top of the line deep ultraviolet lithography machines, but before the deadline it decided to cancel the orders. The US and allies have been trying to block access to the technology. Ed Baxter, Bloomberg Radio, Thank you care in time now for a look at some of the other stories making news in New York and around the world. And for that we're joined by Bloomberg's Michael bar Good morning, Michael, Good morning, Amy The death toll has now climbed to forty eight. After a magnitude seven point six earthquake struck Japan. The quake hit off the Noto Peninsula on Japan's northwest coast. This man at Tokyo resident and US national, was visiting to Yama when the quake hit. First. The trim had just done it very slowly, and everybody kind of left it off, you know, they thought, oh, this is this is kind of humorous, you know, on New Year's Day, and then then it is just a violent shape. The tremor was followed by hundreds of aftershocks. A plane is on fire right now on the runway of Tokyo's Hanada Airport. Authorities say a large burst of fire erupted from the side of a Japan Airlines plane as a taxi on the runway. All of the three hundred and seventy nine passengers and crew were said to be safely evacuated. Israel Supreme Court struck down a key component of Prime Minister Benjamin Etnaho's contentious judicious overhaul before the October seventh to Maas attack into southern Israel. The planned overhaul sparked months of mass protests threatened to trigger a constitutional crisis between the judicial and legislative branches of government. The FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force is assisting police in Rochester, New York, to investigate a car crash that killed two people and injured five others outside of Performing Arts theater in the early hours of New Year's Day. The crash happened in front of the Kodak Center. It became a large scene due to a fire which had erupted as a result of the crash, and police also say several gas cans were found in and around the striking vehicle. Rochester Mayor Malik Evans I want to offer my condolences to those families, those individuals that lost their lives, and I asked the community to pay pray not only for those that have lost their lives, but also those that are injured. Terrorism investigators are trying to determine if this was just a car accident or something far worse. New York City's effort to stop migrant buses has resulted in the buses arriving instead in neighboring New Jersey. Over the weekend, buses from Texas and Louisiana began dropping off asylum seekers at several New Jersey transit stations. From there, the asylum seekers are believed to have taken trains to New York City. Edison, New Jersey mayor Sam Joshi says the buses are a major risk to health and security. The solution for me, as the mayor of Edison, is not to pawt it off to another mayor. Global news twenty four hours a day and whenever you want it with the Bloomberg News Now. I'm Michael Barr, and this is Bloomberg Aamy all right, Thank you, Michael, And we do bring the news throughout the day here on Bloomberg Radio, and now you can get the news on demand whenever you want it. Subscribe to Bloomberg News Now to get the latest headlines at the click of a button. Get informed on your schedule. You can listen and subscribe to Bloomberg News Now on the Bloomberg Business app, Bloomberg dot Com plus Apple, Spotify, and anywhere else you get your podcasts. Time now for the Sports Report, brought to you by Tri State Audi. For that, we bring in John stash Hour. Thanks Amy Kevilo. Terrific gains of the college football playoff semifinals overtime at the Rose Ball after Michigan tie to Alabama. The lad touchdown in ot Wolverines had the ball first out of the shotgun. Paura McGain This tiny poussi he's got the first out of more porm inside the five porm space is way across the goal line. Touch down Michigan seven. Take your touchdown run ESPN the call Michigan and stop BAMACB Jalen Milroe on a fourth down and one twenty seven to twenty JJ McCarthy through three TD passes, and then came the Sugar Bowl where Washington never trailed that at thirteen point lead been WITHY through the fourth quarter. Texas rallied had four chances to take the lead the final fifteen seconds, but ended the game with three incompletions on the Husky survive thirty seven thirty one. Their QB Michael Pennix Junior threw for four hundred and thirty yards. Championship game next Monday in Houston, both Michigan and Washington will go in fourteen and oh I Fiesta Ball, all Oregon forty five to six over a limitary vote next to five TD passes Sitters pull in Orlando, All Tennessee thirty five nothing over Iowa. LSU won the RELYA Quest in Tampa thirty five to thirty one over Wisconsin. Nicks happy to start the new year at the Garden after an ohen three road trip, they beat Minnesota, won twelve one to OH six. Julius Randall Port in thirty nine points. O g Onnobi made his next debut. He played thirty five minutes before found out. He scored seventeen in Toronto. RJ. Barrett and Emmanuel quickly debuted for their new team. Scored nineteen and fourteen points in a Raptors win over Cleveland. Outdoor Hockey in Seattle, crowd of forty seven thousand to see the Kraken shoutout Vegas three to nothing. John Stashwin Bricksport from coast to coast, from New York to San Francisco, Boston to Washington, DC, nationwide on Syrias Exam the Bloomberg Business app in Bloomberg dot Com. This is Bloomberg Day Break. Good morning. I'm Amy Morris, and we are entering the first week of trading for twenty twenty four. As we do most investment outlooks from major banks and advisors are predicting the same middle of the road scenario for the coming year, an economic slow down, a central bank pivot, and a late year rebound. We're joined by Dennis Gartman, University of Akron and Dowment chairman and former publisher of the Gartman Letter to sort of set us straight on what we can expect for the coming year. Now, Dennis, the dollar closed out its worst year since twenty twenty, the S and P five hundred rose nine straight weeks. Are these trends bound to continue? I have my doubts to the latter trend will continue. I think stocks are extremely overbought. The market has risen on an anticipation of three, four, five six cuts in the overnight Fed Funds rate by the Federal Reserve Bank. I have my doubts as to whether that will occur. I think that the Fed is done raising the overnight Fed funds rate. Of that, there's no doubt. But whether they're going to cut five or six times, I think is very doubtful. I think we have to anticipate the fact that the Federal will delay any change in the overnight Fed funds rate lower to later this year. There's too much anticipation that the FEDERALI begin cutting the overnight funds rate by March. I think it'll be late in the summer, maybe early into the autumn before it happens, But we shall see. Time shall tell. I think stocks, however, are aggressively overbought, have been for some while, and it seems to me this looks very similar to what happened in twenty twenty one twenty twenty two, when we reach the higher the market on the opening day of twenty twenty one and then ended up having a rather substantive decline in prices. So time shall tell. We'll see. But too much anticipation of too much easier possible abilities on the part of the Fed that I don't think are going to happen. Now, we have a job's report coming out on Friday. What are you watching for in that and how that might impact it? Long ago I quit anticipating the over the employment rates because of the fact that we tend to see such huge numbers of revisions from one month to the next. But right now the market is anticipating an increase of about one hundred and seventy five to one hundred and eighty five thousand new jobs. We shall see if that if that occurs, but it's one of the most radically revised reports of the year. Every month the revisions are forty to fifty thousand plus or minus. So right now the market is anticipating one hundred and seventy five to one hundred eighty five thousand times. Shall tell Barkley is predicting a softest landing. Vanguard JP Morgan expecting a mild recession. But you know that's what everybody predicted for twenty twenty three as well. What's the difference now. I was one of the people that expected to see a recession in twenty twenty three, and clearly we have not had that. The market is now anticipating the softest, the best of all kind of soft landings imaginable. I have my doubts as to whether that will occur, but that's what the market anticipates, that's what the stock prices have anticipated, and that's what the world generally anticipates. Whether whether it happens or not is up for debate. I have my doubts. Seriously, though we are over extended to the upside. We were long overdue on a recession because of the FED tightening monetary policy over the course of the past several years, and there's always law long and reasonable legs between the monetary policy and economic activity. And I think we be recessionary before the end of the year, but I don't think it'll be a substantive one. I think it'll be a very quiet one. Time. However, again, as I've said too many times already this morning time show, tell Yeah, I was about to ask you what kind of recession you were looking for. You're expecting a softest landing. Yeah, yes, I think it'll be a very soft one, a very minor one. We've seen these types of recessions before. But I think it'll be a very a very quiet and not anything like we saw in seventy three, seventy four, not anything like we saw in eighty one, eighty two, not anything like we saw in nine. But it'll be a recession, and it'll be a quiet increase in over in the unemployment rate to probably four or five percent before it's done. What do you see with oil and gold in this new year? Gold is opening up very strongly right now, and I think gold wants to go from the lower left to the upper right. It's been a bull market for a while, and I think gold wants to go higher. Clearly, it's heading about twenty one thousand before before too long, I think it goes to twenty two or twenty three thousand before the year is out. I have been very bearish on crude oil for a while because the term structure has been overly overtly barished, with the front month leading on the downside and failing to gain upon the back moths when the market when the market rallies. But now all of a sudden, we're starting to see the term structure beginning to change a little bit, and everybody's watching what's happening in the Gulf of so As. I think that's only gonna get worse, not better. And for the first time in months, I'm actually not bearish of crude oil. I'm starting to turn bullish of a Timeshall tell, but this is the first time in months that I've actually been have not been bearish on the crude oil market because of the changing nature of the term structure. You are listening to Bloomberg Daybreak today, your morning brief on the stories making news from Wall Street to Washington and beyond look for us on your podcast feed at six am Eastern each morning, on Apple, Spotify, and anywhere else you get your podcasts. You can also listen live each morning starting at five am Wall Street Time on Bloomberg eleven three to zero in New York, Bloomberg ninety nine to one in Washington, Bloomberg one oh sixty one in Boston, and Bloomberg nine sixty in San Francisco. Our flagship New York station is also available on your Amazon Alexa devices. Just say Alexa Play Bloomberg eleven thirty plus listen coast to coat on the Bloomberg Business app, Sirius Xmbiheartradio app, and on Bloomberg dot Com. I'm Amy Morris and I'm Karen Moscow. Join us again tomorrow morning for all the news you need to start your day right here on Bloomberg DaybreakSee 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Join hosts Michael Barr, Scarlet Fu and Damian Sassower for a look at some of the latest headlines and stories in the business of sports. Bloomberg US sports business reporter Randall Williams joins Scarlet and Damian for a conversation with Ulysses "Junior" Bridgeman - a former NBA pro who built a $600 million dollar fortune after his playing days and serves as an early example of an athlete becoming an entrepreneur. He discusses his business journey, which includes being a successful franchise owner of Wendy's and Chili's restaurants, and now becoming a leading bottler for Coca-Cola. Michael, Scarlet and Damian also speak with Orlando Magic CEO Alex Martins about his up and coming team, and the new naming rights deal for its stadium with Kia.Plus, Bloomberg News US deals reporter Crystal Tse joins to discusses former MLB slugger Alex Rodriguez's new big money deal with Lynk Global, a satellite communications provider. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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On today's podcast: 1) The Palestinian Authority is working with US officials on a plan to run Gaza after the ongoing war is over, with one of its top leaders arguing that Israel's aim to fully defeat Hamas is unrealistic and the militant group should instead join it under a new governing structure. 2) President Joe Biden's son Hunter was indicted on nine federal tax charges in a development that will become a political headache for the White House and Democrats as the 2024 campaign ramps up. 3) Treasury yields rose as traders pared expectations for the Federal Reserve to ease monetary policy aggressively next year after a better-than-forecast jobs report. 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Transcript: Good morning. I'm Nathan Hager and I'm Amy Morris. Here are the stories we're following today. This morning, we are learning the Palestinian authority is working with the US on a plan to run Gaza after the fighting ends. Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad stay I spoke with Bloomberg News. He says his preferred outcome would be to include Hamas as a junior partner in a post war administration, if they are ready to come to ground, to an agreement and really accept the political platform of the PLO, accept the tools of struggle because this is an important point of difference between us and them, and then there will be a room for talk. Otherwise it's just simply things will continue to be the same. Prime Minister Mohammad Staya also tells Bloomberg he does not believe Hamas can be eradicated by Israel. His comments are at odds with the stated aim of Israel's military campaign to wipe out the militant group following the deadly October seventh terrorist attack. The war in Gaza so far has killed more than sixteen thousand Palestinians. That's according to the Hamas run Health Ministry. Now the major legal news breaking overnight in the US that could be a new political headache for President Biden. The president's son Hunter has been indicted on nine new federal tax charges in Los Angeles. That's on top of the federal gun charges he's facing in Delaware. We get more from Bloomberg's David Voriakis. It expands on an earlier agreement in which he would have pleaded guilty in federal court in Delaware and in July and avoided prison. Under this indictment, he could theoretically be sentenced to as much as seventeen years in prison. What government alleges is, I will quote, the defendants spent this money on drugs, escorts and girlfriends, luxury hotels and rental properties, exotic cars, clothing, and other items of a personal nature. In short, everything by his taxi. Bloomberg's David Voriaki says. These new charges come as House Republicans plan to vote next week on formalizing their impeachment inquiry into President. By this latest indictment against Hunter, Biden does not offer evidence that the President benefited from or was involved in his son's activities. Also in the twenty twenty four election, Amy Republican Ron DeSantis's campaign is dealing with more disappointing news, as Bloomberg said, Baxter reports a fundraising event for the Florida governor tend to be canceled. About three thousand donors were invited to a Never Back Down super Pack lunch and to be held before this week's debate. A ten thousand dollars contribution would have given donors access to the lunch where Casey Dessentis was scheduled to speak, as well as a ticket to the debate itself, and an invite to a post debate celebration with a governor. Well, just a couple of days prior to the date, Never Back Down decided to cancel. Scott Wagner, who leads the pack, cited lack of interest. In November, a similar event raised one million dollar dollar, aed Baxter, Bloomberg Radio Right, Thank You ed Elsewhere in politics, more fallout for those IVY League presidents who struggled to denounce campus anti semitism on Capitol Hill this week. The presidents of Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania have issued statements clarifying their positions, but now investment manager Ross Stevens has withdrawn a one hundred million dollar donation that he had planned to give to Pen. Those details from Bloomberg's Charlie Pellett. Stevens is co founder of stone Ridge Asset Management, and he had pledged a stake in the firm to the Ivy League University to fund the Stevens Center for Innovation in Finance. According to a letter to university officials, Lawyers representing the firm said the school had violated anti discrimination and anti harassment policies it had accepted in order to become an investor in New York. Charlie Pellett Bloomberg Radio. Okay, Charlie, thank you. Turning to markets, Investors are waiting for a critical data point this morning, the November jobs report, coming ahead of next week's FED meeting, their last of twenty twenty three. Let's get a preview from Bloomberg's Michael McKee. We should be seeing signs of a slowing economy in the labor market, but economists say not just yet. The consensus forecast is November saw the pace of hiring pick up, while unemployment was unchanged. About thirty thousand jobs won't be new, they will just reflect the return of autoworkers to pay rolls after the UAW strike, but hiring in healthcare, leisure and hospitality and government should keep healthy numbers Beyond manufacturing, markets are pricing a lower than anticipated number. However, so strength could lead to higher rates as investors worry the FED may not yet be done with rate hikes. Michael McKee, Bloomberg Radio, Mike, thank you. Turning overseas, the Japanese yen has surged over the past day. Traders betting the Bank of Japan will scrap the world's last negative interest rate regime sooner than previously thought the advance and Japanese stocks and bonds lower. At one point, the en jumped almost four percent against dollar. Checking Japanese currency right now the end at one forty four to twenty three against the dollar and elsewhere in Asia, Amy top communist leaders in China are promising to strengthen fiscal policy and boost demand while implementing a flexible and targeted monetary policy. China's state run news agency reports officials dropped the word forceful, which was included in previous policy. This came at a meeting chaired by Chinese President Shi Jinping and in corporate news. Back here in the US, the shakeup continues at Spotify. Chief financial officer Paul Vogel is departing after we'd already heard Spotify's head of marketing is heading for the exits. The streaming company announced widespread layoffs earlier this week, totally about fifteen hundred jobs. And now we'll joining us with a look at some of those other stories making news around the world. We bring in Bloomberg's Michael Barr Good Friday morning. Michael, Good morning to you. Nathan. Gunfire outside of Jewish synagogue and upstate New York. It's being investigated as a possible hate crime. Police said shots were fired outside Temple Israel in Albany just hours before the start of Honkkah. The synagogue's preschool was in session and put on lockdown. Nobody was hurt. Very angry and frustrated. Governor Kathy Hochel spoke out last night about the incident. Any act of anti Semitism is unacceptable and undermine the public safety at our synagogue. The first night of Hanukah is even more deplorable. Authorities took a twenty eight year old man in custody for allegedly firing two rounds from a shotgun. Meanwhile, the National Manora on the ellipse by the White House was also lit last night. Since the October seventh start of the Israel Hamas War, law enforcement agencies have warned of a spike in anti Semitic and Islamophobic crimes in the US. Police said gunman who killed three faculty members at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas was an unemployed professor who stuffed his waistband with ammunition before beginning the attack. Authority say sixty seven year old Anthony Polito brought a list of targets, although those shot weren't on that list. Sheriff Kevin mcmahill with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Polino was armed with the Taurus nine millimeter handgun. He had brought eleven magazines to the scene with him. Nine loaded magazines were found on his person after the shooting. Polito died in a shootout with police Wednesday, minutes after opening fire inside of building housing a business school. A fourth victim of visiting professor is hospitalized with life threatening injuries. The White House says it is troubled by the Senate's failure to move forward on a supplemental budget request. White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby says time he is running out to provide more a to Ukraine in its fight against Russia. We've got a few more weeks here and then we're out of Schlitz when it comes to help in Ukraine with this kind of securities systems, so that we've been able to provide, and that's just that that should be unacceptable to everybody, Admiral Kirby says. The emergency request, which also includes funding for Israel and US border securities, being held up by a small number of Republicans demanding what President Biden describes as extreme border policies. Global news twenty four hours a day and whenever you want it with the Bloomberg News Now, I'm Michael Barr, and this is Bloomberg Gaming and Mike, we can get much more Bloomberg News right on your dashboard. The new Bloomberg Business app features Apple Car Play, Android Auto. Get all the offerings that we have on Bloomberg right in your car. Download the Bloomberg Business App from the Apple App Store or Google Plays. Presented by our sponsor Interactive Brokers, time now for the Bloomberg Sports Update, brought to you by Tri State OUTI. Good morning, John stash Hour, Good morning Nathan. When golfers began to leave the PGA Tour for the new Live Tour, John Rahm was outspoken against the idea. He said he doesn't play golf for the money, but for the love of the game. Rom just joined the Live Tour for a deal. It'll get him north of three hundred million dollars. He's ranked third in the world. The reigning Masters champ upset of the AFC Patriots was just their third win of the season, first in six weeks. They built up a twenty one to three lead midway through the second quarter went on to win in Pittsburgh twenty one to eighteen Bailey's zappy through three touchdown passes. It'll be the Pacers and Lakers tomorrow night in Las Vegas Championship game of the NBA's inaugural in season tournament. Indiana beat Milwaukee and the Lakers blew out New Orleans Islanders a seven three home win over Columbus. Devil's won two to one at Seattle. Aaron Judge was on ABC asked his reaction to the acquisition of his new teammate, Juan Soda. I'm excited. I'm excited. You know. It's he's a ge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 and Balistan Liberation organ They never wanted to. Hamas wanted to take things their own way, either their way or the highway. And it seems that we are on the highway. So that is where the situation is now. As I said, whether Israel will be able to achieve what they are claiming to do, I doubt that. But on the other hand, in no way to say that you are in favor of what's happening. The suppression of Hamas ultimately needs to happen in some way if they're not going to come into the pl of if they're not going to foreswear their armed struggle and join in some international see what needs to happen with Hamas. What can you see happening? Well, I think Hamas before October seven is one thing, and Hamas after is a very good point. And so and therefore, I think if they are ready to come to ground, to an agreement and really accept the political platform of the blow, accept the tools of struggle, because this is an important point of difference between us and them, and then there will be a room for talk. Otherwise it's just simply things will continue to be the same. And even Palestinians should not be divided. We have been divided. Unfortunately, Hamas took over Gaza by force in two thousand and seven, and this should not have lasted for seventeen years. And that was the Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority, Mohammed Staya, speaking with Bloomberg's Israel Bureau chief Ethan Bronner from his offices in the West Bank, and Ethan is here with us now from Tel Aviv. Much of that conversation, much of what we heard there from the Palestinian Prime Minister Ethan sounds so aspirational at this point in the war. What's it going to take to get those aspirations to become reality the day after? Well, hello, Nathan, I would say that it's going to take something superhuman. There is an incredible amount of bad things ahead. First, it's hard to imagine. I mean, there are several points here. One is that many people argue that when there is a massive catastrophe, it can become an opportunity. That terrible wars do lead to opportunities of rebuilding, and that is essentially what Prime Minister's style was trying to say. He's also repeating the Palestinie Authority on the Palestine Liberation Organization's main contentions of recent years about what needs to happen and why it hasn't happened, And one can understand that. I think the problem is that the Israelis are in complete disagreement. At least this Israeli government under Prime Minister Nitanya, who considers Staya and President Abbas to be unreliable partners. They do not want to see They do not imagine that Hamas could be reformed and come in. They want it destroyed. And also the idea that Hamas after October seventh and after this war will be more modern and more reformed, you know, in some ways as counterintuitive. In some ways, what happened on October seventh has been a revival for those who in the Palestine community who believe in armed struggle and who believe in confronting is remlitarily. So, you know, it's a lot of pie in the sky for a lot of people. But so is the Israeli perspective, which is that we're going to destroy Amas and start over with the technocratic leadership that's going to remind us of the UAE. So we have two very contradictory sets of goals and plans, and the US kind of lending a little bit of support to each side, and we'll see where this goes. Yeah, it points to the idea of mediation when you have this kind of massive gap, and this idea that the Palestinian Prime Minister said to you in this interview that the US is working with them on trying to bridge this divide. How invested do you see the US right now and the counteries, even with some of the hostage negotiations that have happened in recent weeks, What is the role of mediation with this kind of massive gap between the Palestinians and the Israelis. Well, let's leave the hostage negotiation and the countries on one side, because that's an immediate need with people whose lives are at stake at this moment, and that's been going on quite intensely. We can talk about it if you like later in terms of a mediation for the day after the war and what's going to be the future of some kind of state of Palestine and what's going to happen in the Holy Land. I mean, there's been mediation from day one, and it has not especially succeeded. You know. I think it's true that right this moment that Palestinian authority and the Israeli government are not in a position to sit down across the table and talk to one another. They have nothing but to contempt for one another, and so some outside help is needed. Now. I think the question is, you know, how much investment is an American government interested in putting in. It's not an easy task. It's not the only thing President Biden has on his agenda, and not just not just internationally but domestically. It's got an election coming up in a year, so it's a little hard to mention. What the United States has done has put together half a dozen people between State, NSC and White House who are talking to the Palestinian authority and the Israelis about this stuff. It's kind of an attempt to lay out a plan so that the day after doesn't come and we got nothing to talk about. We haven't planned anything, but it's a little bit of an act of academic theoretical work, because we don't know when this war will end, or how it will end, or what Gaza will look like. The Prime Minister also talked about Hamasa's presence outside Gaza and the West Bank, Lebanon and elsewhere. Is that a hint that this war could expand beyond Gaza? So I don't think that was his aim, but you're right that it could. I mean, we have his Belah bearing down from the north and from Lebanon on Israel, and there's always that enormous concern. The reason that the United States has sent to battle ship carriers with aircraft carriers to the Mediterranean to send a message to his belah. But I think also the point he was trying to make is that you know, even if you kill everybody who works for Hamas in Gaza, you still have leaders in Katar and in Beirut, so you know, and that it's some from within the fabric of Palestinian society, so that this is an unrealistic goal. He says. This is Bloomberg Daybreak Today, your morning brief on the stories making news from Wall Street to Washington and beyond. Look for us on your podcast feed by six am Eastern each morning, on Apple, Spotify, and anywhere else you get your podcasts. You can also listen live each morning starting at five am Wall Street time on Bloomberg eleven three to zero in New York, Bloomberg ninety nine to one in Washington, Bloomberg one oh six to one in Boston, and Bloomberg ninety sixty in San Francisco. Our flagship New York station is also available on your Amazon Alexa devices. Just say Alexa play Bloomberg eleven thirty plus listen coast to coast on the Bloomberg business app, SERRIUSXM, the iHeartRadio app, and on Bloomberg dot Com. I'm Nathan Hager and I'm Amy Morris. Join us again tomorrow morning for all the news you need to start your day right here on Bloomberg DaybreakSee 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On today's podcast: 1) Israel resumed combat against Hamas in the Gaza Strip after a week-long truce between the two sides ended on Friday morning. 2) European stocks advanced and the dollar fell before comments from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell that may offer clues about the path of interest rates. 3) After two years of delays and production snags, Tesla has finally handed the first Blade Runner-esque Cybertrucks over to customers. 4) Governors Ron DeSantis of Florida and Gavin Newsom of California sparred over taxes, border security and energy, in a debate that unfolded as a sideshow to the 2024 presidential race — and perhaps a glimpse of the next one.   Full transcript:  Good morning. I'm Nathan Hager and I'm Karen Moscow. Here are the stories we're following today. Israel has resumed airstrikes in Gaza, minutes after the expiration of a week long truce with Hamas we get the latest from Bloomberg's Anthony Squasien in Tel Aviv. Truce wasn't extended at seven am local time. It was some rocket warnings miss I was being fired and to Israel just before that ended, and Israel responded immediately, and it looked like we're back to fully fledged conflict right now. Reports of air strikes in Gaza made different parts of Gaza, and it does seem that the relative calm of the last seven days is well and truly over. Bloomberg's Anthony Squasiin in Tel Aviv, says Prime Minister Benjamin Netan. Yahoo and other Israeli politicians had consistently said the war would resume at some stage and the truce would not become permanent. Well, Nathan. Secretary of State Anthony Blinkin was in Tel Aviv when the fighting restarted yesterday. He said that Israel must defend itself within the confines of international law. Way israel defense itself matters. It's imperative that is relacted in accordance with internationally mediterran law and the laws of war, even when confronting a terrorist group that respects neither. And Secretary Anthony Blincoln was speaking before the latest escalation. Hamas and other Islamist groups are still thought to be holding around one hundred and thirty people captive in Gaza. Turning back to politics in the US, Karen, there's been a debate between a Republican who's running for president and a Democrat who says he's not. Florida Governor Ron de Santis squared off last night with California Governor Gavin Newsom. This is a slick, slippery politician whose state is failing. People are leaving a state. Governor DeSantis went after Newsom and California over immigration, high taxes, and crime. Governor Newsom touted the White House's message of Bidenomics three point nine percent unemployment, the lowest black unemployment in American history, the lowest unemployment for Hispanics in American history, the lower most unemployment for women in seventy years, at lowest black poverty rates in history, and the Fox News debate comes as DeSantis struggles to gain ground on Republican front runner Donald Trump in twenty twenty four. It also allowed Newsome to air his presidential ambitions for twenty twenty eight. Well, Nathan, Let's turn to the markets now. Stocks begin December after notatching one of the biggest November rallies on record, and we get more from Bloomberg Stirlei Pellett. After the months three trillion dollar serge, the S and P five hundred is now just five percent away from its all time high. The gauge climbed over eight percent in November, a feat achieved fewer than ten times for that month since nineteen twenty eight, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. It was also the gauge's best month since July of twenty twenty two in New York, Charlie Pellett, Bloomberg Radio and Charlie. Was also a profitable month for bond investors. In fact, treasuries had their best month since the nineteen eighties, and we get more on that from Bloomberg's John Tucker. The boon to bonds comes from signs the economy and inflation are slowing and the Fed is done hiking interest rates well. Traders are even betting on the first FED rate cut in May. Bloomberg Economics sees the FED cutting rates one hundred and twenty five basis points next year. The Bloomberg US Aggregate Index returned four and a half percent of November. That price up and yield down has spurred an everything rally, from stocks to cryptocurrencies. Does it continue? Listen closely today as FED Chair Jerome Powell speaks at Spelman College in Atlanta, and if he sounds even a little hawkish, November's rally may turn into the winter of our discontent. I'm John Tucker, Bloomberg Radio. All right, John, thank you. By the Federal Reserve's top bank, a watchdog wants lenders to be more comfortable turning to the Central banks discount window. Michael Barr, the FEDS Vice Chair for Supervision, towed to the backstop as an important tool for financial stability and monetary policy. The discount window provides ready access to funding that can help banks manage their liquidity risks. The ability to access funding at a predictable rate throughout through the discount window should figure importantly into banks liquidity risk management plans under a range of scenarios and the fence. Michael Barr added that it was important that lenders have a range of options for accessing liquidity struck some corporate news now Karen. After two years of delays and production snags, Tesla has finally handed the first cyber trucks over two customers. Tesla's CEO, Elon Musk, says it has an extra safety feature. Why do you make it bulletroof? I'm like, why not? Do you want to How tough is your truck bulletproof? He says. Elon Musk says the cheapest version of cyber Truck will cost just under sixty one thousand dollars. That's more than fifty percent over the price Musk floated when he announced the vehicle in twenty nineteen. Well Nathan Disney has restored its dividend. The entertainment giant declared a dividend of thirty censorsh for the second half of its fiscal year. Disney had pledged to restore the payout, which was halted during the pandemic. Disney has been under pressure to improve its performance and restore its dividend by activist investor Nelson Peltz, who is seeking board seats at the company. Well, speaking of under pressure, Karen, take a look at Dell shares. They are down nearly six percent in early trading. A company reported revenue that declined more than expected, and it continues to see sluggish corporate demand for personal computers. And it's time now for a look at some of the other stories making news around the world. For now, we're joined by Bloomberg's Amy Moore is Amy. Good morning, Good morning, Karen. The twenty twenty three United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP twenty eight, launched yesterday. Now before the summit began, United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterrez warned fossil fuel companies quote their old road is rapidly aging. It's time to end our addiction to fossil fools that is validating climate change. It's time to bet on guaranteeing through strong political will, that temperatures will authorise more than one point five degrees. At the end of the center, the United Arab Emirates, which is hosting the summit, announced a commitment of thirty billion dollars to help finance climate solutions. Tens of thousands of delegates are expected to make this the biggest summit ever. It is looking likely that Congress will take the unusual step to expel one of their own. Bloomberg's Nancy Lyons reports George Santos, on the brink of being kicked out of Congress, took his fight to the House floor. I have been convicted of no crimes, mister speaker, but following an investigation by the House Ethics Committee, members said they did find some troubling behavior. Committee chair Congressman Michael Guest offered highlights of the report. It says it Representative Santos sought to fraudulently exploit every aspect of his House candidacy for his own personal profit. After the ex fulshion vote, Santos still faces a twenty three count federal indictment that alleges he stole from donors and used campaign money for personal expenses in Washington, Nancy Lyons Bloomberg Radio. The CDC is monitoring a pneumonia outbreak among children in the Cincinnati area. Warren County, Ohio has reported one hundred and forty two infections since August. The outbreak comes amid China's surgeon hospitalizations, which CDC director doctor Mandy Cohen told Congress yesterday, is not being caused by a new virus. Do not believe this is a new or novel pathogen that we believe this is all existing, meaning COVID flu RSV. Cohen told Congress. The winter cold and flu season offers the CDC a chance to regain the public's trust, and former White House Chief Medical Advisor doctor Anthony Fauci is set to testify before Congress early next year on the origins of COVID and the pandemic response by the US. This would be the first time Fauci has testified since he retired. Global News twenty four hours of and Whenever You want it with Bloomberg News Now, I'm Amy Morrison. This is Bloomberg Karen all right, Amy, thank you. What we do bring you news throughout the day right here on Bloomberg Radio. As Amy said, but now also as she said, you can get the latest news on demand whenever you want it. So how do you do it? You subscribe to Bloomberg News Now to get the latest headlines at the click of a button. You can get informed on your schedule. You can listen and subscribe to Bloomberg News Now on the Bloomberg Business app, Bloomberg dot Com plus apples, Spotify, and anywhere else you get your podcasts. Time now for the Bloomberg Sports Update. Here's John stash Hour John darn Week thirteen underway Thursday night football in Dallas with the Cowboys. We're going for a fourteenth consecutive home victory. They trailed Seattle throughout the second half until at dak Prescott touchdown passed with four thirty seven laft. Cowboys won forty one to thirty five. Prescott having an MVP type season, he threw British GIAT three hundred yard three touchdowns Gino Smith the Seahawks qv also threw for three touchdowns, all of them went to DK Metcalf, but the Seahawks have now lost three in a row. They dropped to six and six. Buffalo Bills pass rusher Von Miller was facing in arrest. The rest warrant was issued last night in Dallas. He turned himself in. He's in Dallas because the Bills have a bye week. He was arrested on domestic violence charge in a case involving his girlfriend. The NFL on the pass has flex games moved them from the Sunday afternoon to Sunday nights. Never before had they flexed the game into a Monday night. They've done that for a week fifteen. Philadelphia and Seattle were supposed to play Sunday, It'll now be on a Monday, and Kansas City, New England moved from a Monday back to a Sunday. Shows you how bad the Patriots are for the NFL. The new Patrick Mahomes off of Prime time NBA. The Warriors with the Clippers won twenty to one fourteen. Steph Curry scored twenty six, had seven rebounds, eight assists. Hockey. The Bruins had lost three straight. They came home shut out the Sharks three to nothing. Washington won it Anaheim five to four, a win for LSU that have any national Champson women's basketball Angel hes Back in the lineup scored nineteen. She had been out the last board games. John Stshawer Bloomberg Sports from coast to coast, from New York to San Francisco, Boston to Washington, DC, nationwide on Syrias Exam the Bloomberg Business app in Bloomberg dot Com. This is Bloomberg Daybreak. Good morning. I'm Nathan Hager. The truce is over in Gaza. The seven day ceasefire between Israel and Hamas has ended. Israel is resuming combat operations after Israel said Hamas violated its agreement that has released dozens of hostages over the last seven days in exchange for Palestinian prisoners. For the latest we were joined by Rosalind Mathison, Bloomberg News Director for Europe, Middle East and Africa. Roz, thanks for being with us once again. What set off this resumption of combat, Well, basically, the truce was due to lapside of the way in the early hour this morning. What we had seen previously was that the SEASPI was rolled over for two further days, and there had been talks to try and get it rolled over again. Those clearly weren't successful, and so that the SEASPI lapsed early this morning. And what we have is Hamas and Israel both accusing the other of violating the terms of the Sea SPI, not meeting the agreements about the release of Israeli hostages yesterday, the number of those hostages, Harmas accusing Israel in turn. And now we've seen a resumption of the fighting. As you say, we saw airstrikes into Gaza this morning. We know the fighting's going on there again. Hermas says there have been casualties and wounded at hospitals already, and Israel is making clear that their goal in the end still is to eradicate Hamas, and as part of that they now see the military campaign likely moving further south in the Gaza strip. It's been quite concentrated in the north. But the messaging today, the warning to people in Gaza today is be prepared because the military is going to now push further sout. And the messaging from the US with that expectation that the war would be heading to the south, was that Israel needs to limit civilian casualties. Talk about US diplomacy, the role that's playing there, and whether that could have any impact on what we see on the ground, well, that's right. In fact, the US Secretary of State Anthony Blincoln was still on the ground in Israel when the fighting did resume. He took off shortly afterward for Dubai to attend the COP twenty eighth summit, but in his meetings in Israel, he said he made very clear to officials there that the US is concerned about the humanitarian situation inside Gaza that they're urging Israel to do everything they can to limit the impact on civilians from this war and to also uphold international humanitarian law. And that was the public messaging, so privately you can imagine it was possibly a bit stronger. I mean, you can see the rhetoric shift really from the US since the start of this in October seven, which was the Hamas attack on Israel. The US does remain strongly supportive of Israel in this, but has become more vocal in their concerns about the impact on gas. And certainly that was a message that Blinkl was delivering on the ground. And even as the fighting continues, we're hearing from Kater, which has been leading negotiations on extending the ceasefire, that there are still talks underway to bring in further pauses. Can you give us further clarity on that? Well, that's right. In fact, even when the fighting was going on before the truce, we knew those lines of communication were working quite furiously. Katar, alongside Egypt and US officials acting as go betweens between Hamas and also Israel, and a role potentially for Iran in all of that. The idea was to get towards that initial truce that we saw that lasted for seven days in the end, and Kata has been out this morning very quickie to say despite the resumption of the fighting, those talks are still going on. It is hopeful that there can be a way back to at least other temporary truce. That's because there are still Israeli hostages inside Gaza that we know, and aid agencies that hope to get more humanitarian aid into Gaza during that window which has now shut at least for now, And so Kata is saying, we're still talking about there. We're hope you can get to a point to at least have a temporary truce. But the reality in the end also Israel has made very very clear that they intend to keep fighting. Their overarching goal is to eradicate Hamas, and right now they don't see that goal as having been met, only have a minute left ros. But before the fighting began, the New York Times reported that Israel got a hold of Hamas's battle plan for October seventh, more than a year ago. Tell us more about that, well, that's right. In fact, this was also reported by an Israeli media outlet Khan Media a couple of days ago, saying that Israel did get blueprints of this plan by Hamas a year ago, but dismissed it as too difficult for Hamas to carry out, implausible, and so didn't really follow up on it. And that echoes some of what we've seen from the reporting we've done ourselves, which is really this presumption on the part of the Israeli security forces the intelligence services, that Hamas wasn't able to do something of this nature, that yes, you'd see six skirmishes go on from time to time from Gaza into Israel, but that a full throated attack was impossible, and that's why in the end they kind of missed the signals leading up to the October seven attack. This is Bloomberg day Break Today, your morning brief on the stories making news from Wall Street to Washington and beyond. Look for us on your podcast feed at six am Eastern each morning, on Apple, Spotify, and anywhere else you get your podcasts. You can also listen live each morning starting at five am Wall Street time on Bloomberg eleven three to zero in New York Bloomberg ninety nine to one in Washington. Bloomberg one six to one in Boston and Bloomberg nine sixty in San Francisco. Our flagship New York station is also available on your Amazon Alexa devices. Just say Alexa Play Bloomberg eleven thirty plus. Listen coast to coast on the Bloomberg Business app, SERIUSXM, the iHeartRadio app, and on Bloomberg dot Com. I'm Nathan Hager and I'm Karen Moscow. Join us again tomorrow morning for all the news you need to start your day right here on Bloomberg DaybreakSee 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On today's podcast: 1) The first truce since the war between Israel and Hamas erupted last month went into effect on Friday morning. The deal came after weeks of complex and delicate talks brokered by Qatar, the US and Egypt. The halt in fighting in Gaza is intended to last for four days. Hamas, an Iran-backed militant group, is meant to return 50 of the almost 240 hostages it captured from Israel, while the Israelis will release 150 jailed Palestinians and allow more aid into Gaza. 2) The Canadian mayor of Niagara Falls, Jim Diodati, said the Rainbow Bridge is expected to reopen in a day or two, after a car explosion that killed two people shuttered the busy crossing between the US and Canada. 3) Barclays Plc is working on plans to reduce costs by as much as $1.3 billion over several years, which could involve slashing as many as 2,000 jobs, according to Reuters.   Full transcript:|Good morning. I'm Nathan Hager and I'm John Tucker. Here are these stories we're following today. The first group of Israeli hostages is expected to leave the Gaza Strip soon in a deal that's meant to return fifty of the nearly two hundred and forty captives that Hamas took from Israel. Israel plans to release one hundred and fifty jailed Palestinians. All involved are women and people under the age of nineteen. This stop in fighting is intended to last for four days. It marks the first major lull in this war since it began October seventh. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyah, who says the military offensive will go on after that. We hope to get this first tronch out and then we're committed to getting everyone out, but we'll continue with our fore aims namly to eradicate Kamas, because Kamas has already promised that they will do this again and again and again. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyah, who says he has delivered that same message in a phone call to President Biden. We had along with a hostage release, the deal will also allow for more AID into Gaza. Bloomberg's owner Aunt says the humanitarian aid is critical for the people at Gaza. The very first trucks that went in we're carrying cooking gas, which obviously is very critical for more than two million people are currently living in Gaza in what the UN calls a dire humanitarian situation. Bloomberg's owner Aunt reports Palestinians were emerging from temporary shelters and crowded the streets as southern Gaza as the AID trucks entered. Back in the US, we want to bring you update from the events that unfolded on the Rainbow Bridge at Niagara Falls this week. New York Governor Kathy Hochel says that bridge is back open after a car explosion on Wednesday killed two people and closed that crossing between the US and Canada. Hockel says there is no sign of terrorism so far. She adds a suspect of ties to Western New York has been identified. Investigation will determine if the blast was intentional or an accident. The holiday shopping season kicks into full swing today, with shoppers searching for Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals. Deloitte Saniel Thanksgiving survey. He finds consumers plan on spending and average almost five hundred and seventy dollars on both days. That's up thirteen percent from last year. And Bert Flickinger managed Rector with Strategic Resource Groups. As shoppers are feeling confident, however, they're using a new tool this shopping season. It's going to be by now, pay later. Fifteen percent of all purchases will be that way, and consumers are still taking on credit card debt, but sixty three percent of consumers will be buying with debit card and trying to put less on credit as interest rates have climbed and the average household has seventeen thousand and revolving unpaid credit card debt. Bert Flickinger with Strategic Resource Groups. As many consumers plan to do much of the shopping during Black Friday and Cyber Monday in order with their spending limits, traders are going to be following the traditional kickoff of the holiday shopping season today as well as SMP Global Manufacturing PMI data that comes after the Eco data dump we saw on Wednesday. It showed a drop in jobless claims and expectations that inflation will climb from the University of Michigan sentiment poll. The bond market is open till two pm Wall Street time today, and the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq close at one and we're also following financial news in Europe this morning. Starting in the banking sector, Barkley's aiming to reduce costs by as much as one point three billion dollars over the next several years and could cut up to two thousand back office jobs that's about two percent of its workforce. This according to a report from Reuter's. Bloomberg's Jenny Serdaine says investors are looking for a renewed strategy after a disappointing third quarter. I think a lot of this is driven by investors just really being unhappy with how this company has been run. And so you've got you know, vin Kata Krishnan, their CEO, who's really looking at trying to take some big, bold moves here and promising that he's going to have a strategy update that will really make clear how to bring Barklays out of this position that they're in. Bloomberg's Jenny Strain says Barkleys could make more cuts in other areas outside the back office. Barkley's share is down about eleven and a half percent this year, and checking those shares now John they're up about a half percent in the pre market in London. Staying in Europe, the economic picture is getting darker in Germany. The German government is suspending a constitutional limit on net new borrowing for a fourth straight year as it struggles to recover from an energy induced downturn last winter. This move to lift the so called debt break will be part of a revised twenty twenty three budget. Chancellor Olof Schultz's government was forced into a radical budget overhaul after a ruling last week from the nation's top court. And turning to Asia, the Chinese government ramping up pressure on banks to support struggling real estate developers. Bloomberg's David English has more we here, trying to may allow banks to offer unsecured short term loans to qualified developers for the first time. These so called working capital loans would offer funds for day to day operations. The loans are different from other types of debt that require land or assets as collateral. We reported that authorities are finalizing this list of developers eligible for that aid. Sources say the list includes Country Garden and sign a Ocean Group. Country Garden shares jump twenty four percent yesterday on word that it was included in that list in Hong Kong. I'm David Ingliss Bloomberg Radio. Okay, David, thanks to earlier this week, oh Peck plus pushback and gathering to finalize output levels for next year by four days to November thirtieth. Now, the group says that meeting will take place online and now it's time to take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world with Bloomberg's Michael Barr. Good Morning, Michael, Good Morning, Nathan and Ireland. Violent clashes broke out in central Dublin after a five year old girl was seriously injured in a NiFe attack that also saw a woman and two other young children hospitalized. Police and the attack happened near a school. Soon after, at least one hundred people took to the street, some armed with metal bars. Police said. Over four hundred officers, including many and riot gear were deployed in Dublin city center to contain the unrest. The head of the Irish Police Guarded Commissioner Drew Harris. We have a complete lunatic hooligan faction driven by far right ideology, and also then this disruptive tendency here engaged in serious violence. Commissioner Harris says a person of interest, a man in his fifties, was arrested at the scene. New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been accused of sexually assaulting a woman in nineteen ninety three. The three page legal document does not contain details of the alleged assault. Adams denied the allegations absolutely not true. You know, I would never do anything to anyone, and it's just really say, you know, my career speaks for itself. The suit comes just hours before New York's Adult Survivor's Act expires, which eliminates the statute of limitations for accusers of sexual abuse to come forward. The filing seeks a trial and five million dollars in relief. Evacuation orders have been lifted near the scene of a tank or train derailment in eastern Kentucky. The trains operator CSXAS sixteen cars went off the rails Wednesday afternoon near the small town of Livingstone, Dustin Heiser with Kentucky Emergency management throughout this entire event. The safety of the public has been our number one concern. The derailment sent dangerous fumes into the air. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterrees is visiting Antarctica just before the COP twenty eight climate talks begin. Gu Terras called the continent's warming devastating warming air and ocean temperatures are causing Antarctic ice to melt. Global News twenty four hours a day and whenever you want it with Bloomberg News Now. I'm Michael Barr, and this is Bloomberg Ninth It him Michael. Thanks. You can get much more Bloomberg on your dashboard with the new Bloomberg Business App featuring Apple Car Play and Android Auto. You get access to every Bloomberg podcast, live audio feeds from Bloomberg Radio, even print stories in audio form from Bloomberg News. Download it from the Apple App Store or Google Play. Connect your phone to your car and get started with the Bloomberg Business App. Presented by our sponsor, Interactive Brokers. Time now for the Bloomberg Sports Update, brought to you by tri State Outing. Good morning, Nathan, the NFL at the triple header on Thanksgiving, the Packers knocking off the lines in Game one twenty nine to twenty two of the Cowboys dominated the Commanders in Game two opics and stays in the block. That's to late on Hawker. Is that bliand news gott it you streaking out the sideline? He's not hol depeat. If he does, he's gonna play the record of a gain. He slipped through three Commanders defenders at clinics at out and he scores. That is his fifth fix six of the season. That's courtesy of the Cowboys Radio Network, Dallas dominating the Commanders forty five to ten in Dallas, while in Game three is the forty nine Ers all over the Seattle Seahawks thirty one to thirteen. Coming up today, kick off at three pm Eastern Time at Mettlife Stadium in New Jersey. It's the New York Jets hosting the Dolphins. New York comes in losers of three straight. End has made a quarterback change as Tim Boyle takes over for Zach Wilson. Offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackid talking about Boyle, he has an unbelievable knowledge of the system. He has a tenacity when it comes to his preparation. I mean, he NonStop, from everything from every single drawing to every single thing on the game sheet. He prepares truly like a starter and has since day one. That's courtesy of ny Jets dot Com. In the NBA, a more in season tournament action. Today, the Knicks are home for the Heat. The Celtics on the road of the Magic. It's the Wizards playing at the Milwaukee Bucks. The Warriors are hosting the San Antonio Spurs. That's your Bloomberg Sports update. I'm Dan Schwarzman from coast to coast, from New York to San Francisco, Boston to Washington, DC, nationwide on SYRIASXAM, the Bloomberg Business app, and Bloomberg dot Com. This is Bloomberg Daybreak. Good morning, I'm Nathan Hager. We continue to monitor developments in the Middle East, where the first pause in fighting between Israel and Hummas in more than six weeks appears to be holding, and it comes after weeks of delicate talks aimed at releasing some of the nearly two hundred and forty hostages that HUMMAS captured in the deadly October seventh attack on Israel. For more, we are joined by Bloomberg's Henry Mayer, who is part of our team of reporters who has been covering this war in the Gaza strip since it began. Henry, good morning. Get us up to speed on developments thus far are since it does look as though this truth is underway and does appear to be holding. Yes, good morning. Well, the truth started at about seven o'clock in the morning local time, and they haven't been any indications of any violations. And you know the importance next stage is going to be the release of thirteen hostages which are being held in Gaza currently. That is expected at four pm local time, and on the same day at thirty nine Palestinian prisoners. All of these are women and people aged under the age of nineteen children in the case of the hostages, and in the prisons you're looking at youths aged under nineteen. So you know, I can't stress how difficult this process has been to even get where we are today. It took weeks of very very difficult diplomacy, secret diplomacy. It broke down at certain stages. But of course, you know the problem is that it's for four days only today have been for the Gaza residents two point one million of them who've been living under daily bombardment for almost seven weeks. Today they finally came out, They left the shelter, they were able to walk around. But of course, at the back of their minds is they know that this arrangement may only last for four days, could be extended up to ten. But we don't know that yet. Before we get to what comes after, we do need to continue to discuss what comes in the midst of this pause. Part of this deal was to get more humanitarian aid into Gaza as well. Have we seen signs of progress there? Yes, we have. You know, there are trucks which are entering through the border with Egypt, the Rapha crossing. We understand from HOMAS officials border officials they expect two hundred trucks to enter Gaza today. This is significantly more than has been allowed to Gaza in recent weeks, but it's still much less than used to come prior to the war, five hundred a day. So the amount of aid that Gaza needs, you know, is way more than what is going to becoming in the next few days. But obviously it's a step in the right direction. And what about the distribution of that aid, because We've heard reports from the United Nations and other non governmental organizations in the area that they have suffered through these bombardments over the last several weeks as well. I mean, what's the difficulty in getting aid into and distributed through Gaza when we've seen so much destruction over the last several weeks. Well, obviously one of the greatest difficulties is the fact that you have an active war zone and it's extremely dangerous to move around. Secondly, there's an acute lack of fuel, so Israel imposed a complete blockade on fuel deliveries initially, and in the recent a week or so it has been allowing in very small quantities of fuel to be used only by the United Nations for transportation purposes. But the quantities of fuel coming in the UNSA that they're completely inadequate for its operations. So yeah, that is something which is still a big problem in the time we have left, Henry, Let's talk about what comes after this pause. We did hear from Israel's Prime Minister, and we've heard from him several times that he does not want the war to end even after this pause expires, but he is under a lot of pressure, particularly from the United States to at least change some of the conduct of this war. What can we expect going forward. I mean, I think that the pressure is only going to increase, and it's not only international pressure, and you mentioned the United States, that's very important. At the same time, there's a domestic issue here, the issue of the hostages. Two hundred and forty were taken into Gaza until now only a handful have been released. Fifty are going to be set free over the next four days. Some of these people are going to be giving interviews, They are going to you know, the public awareness of the hostagism and the kind of conditions in which they are living in Gaza is going to be accentuated, and I think that is going to be something that will weigh very heavily on the Israeli government. Probably not sufficient to get them to stop the conflict at this stage, but I think we are getting closer to that point. This is Bloomberg day Break Today, your morning brief on the stories making news from Wall Street to Washington and beyond. Look for us on your podcast feed by six am Easter each morning, on Apple's Spotify and anywhere else you get your podcasts. You can also listen live each morning starting at five am Wall Street Time, on Bloomberg eleven three to zero in New York, Bloomberg ninety nine to one in Washington, Bloomberg one six to one in Boston, and Bloomberg ninety sixty in San Francisco. Our flagship New York station is also available on your Amazon Alexa devices. Just say Alexa Play Bloomberg eleven thirty plus. Listen coast to coast on the Bloomberg Business app, Sirius xmb iHeartRadio app, and on Bloomberg dot Com. I'm Nathan Hager and I'm John Tucker. Join us again tomorrow morning for all the news you need to start your day right here on Bloomberg day BreakSee 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Michael Barr is a busy man these days. As the Federal Reserve's vice-chair for supervision, he's looking at ways of making the financial system safer through the next-generation of US banking regulation, known as the Basel "endgame" proposal. In July, he also unveiled the central bank's new real-time payment settlement system for banks, called FedNow, after years of development. Of course, all of this is happening at an interesting time for banking. This year saw the collapse of three banks following deposit runs. There have been big losses on bond portfolios as interest rates rise, a cyberattack that briefly unsettled the US Treasury market, and there's still a lot of general uncertainty over the direction of the US economy. In this episode, which was recorded live onstage at The Clearing House annual conference in New York, we speak to Barr about how he's thinking about the payments space, big changes to bank regulation, and the macro outlook.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg's Michael Barr, Scarlet Fu and Damien Sassower speak with Harold Reynolds of the MLB network. They discuss the World Series, potential offseason moves and the future of Shohei Ohtani.  They also talk about the value of ESPN with Geetha Ranganathan of Bloomberg Intelligence Plus, Bloomberg's Randall Williams explains why Francis Ngannou chose the boxing ring over the octagon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The House Financial Services Committee has been investigating the possibility of the Federal Reserve creating a Central Bank Digital Currency. In this episode, hear experts unpack the nuances and implications of this idea during three hearings, and discover how you can play a part in shaping the future of American currency. Please Support Congressional Dish – Quick Links Contribute monthly or a lump sum via Support Congressional Dish via (donations per episode) Send Zelle payments to: Donation@congressionaldish.com Send Venmo payments to: @Jennifer-Briney Send Cash App payments to: $CongressionalDish or Donation@congressionaldish.com Use your bank's online bill pay function to mail contributions to: Please make checks payable to Congressional Dish Thank you for supporting truly independent media! Background Sources Recommended Congressional Dish Episodes Operation Choke Point Frank Keating. November 7, 2018. The Hill. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Staff. May 29, 2014. U.S. House of Representatives. Digital Asset Glass-Steagall James Rickards. August 27, 2012. U.S. News & World Report. Audio Sources September 14, 2023 Committee on Financial Services, Subcommittee on Digital Assets, Financial Technology and Inclusion Witnesses: Yuval Rooz, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Digital Asset Paige Paridon, Senior Vice President and Senior Associate General Counsel, Bank Policy Institute Christina Parajon Skinner, Assistant Professor, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania Dr. Norbert Michel, Vice President and Director, Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives, Cato Institute Raúl Carrillo, Academic Fellow, Lecturer in Law, Columbia Law School Clips 27:35 Rep. French Hill (R-AK): Look, the Constitution is clear. Only Congress has the authority to coin money and regulate the value of such money. And we've heard the same from Fed officials, right before this committee, and most recently from Vice Chair for Supervision, Michael Barr, who last week told an audience in Philadelphia and I quote, "The Federal Reserve would only proceed with the issuance of a CBDC with clear support from the executive branch and authorizing legislation from Congress." The Biden Department of Justice agrees, saying, quote, "there would be substantial legal risks to issuing a CBDC without such legislation." 32:05 Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-MA): CBDC is just one type of publicly issued digital dollar and would be issued, backed, and regulated by the Federal Reserve and have the full faith and backing of the US government. This could serve as an alternative to existing forms of payments and have a benefit, including instant payment settlement, provide a medium for cross border transactions, and foster greater financial inclusion. More than 130 countries have begun to explore their own government backed digital currencies. China, Russia, Saudi Arabia and India have already commenced pilot programs, and a digital Euro pilot could be launched as early as 2028. Meanwhile, the US remains far behind amid increasing and blatant information about features of digital currency. While concerns about data privacy and government surveillance are real, especially in countries that do not respect human rights and privacy, a CBDC does not have to be designed that way. We could employ an architecture that would protect personal data while including anti-money laundering and terrorist financing features. 33:15 Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-MA): It is counterintuitive that my colleagues should be raising concerns about data privacy while thousands of private companies, domestic and foreign, are surveilling, aggregating, and selling consumer data each and every day. 33:45 Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-MA): I'm announcing and inviting my colleagues to join the Congressional Digital Dollar Caucus. This forum will educate members on critical issues relating to the development, design, and potential implementation of a government issued digital dollar. I plan to invite innovators, technologists, academics, and other experts to share their findings and development. I hope my colleagues will join me in this exploration. 34:15 Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-MA): The use of anonymous cash has plummeted and more of our transactions are occurring online and under surveillance, tracked and aggregated by financial services companies. Indeed China has turned that fact into a tool of full spectrum surveillance of its citizens. This is why I've introduced the Ecash Act. This bill directs the Treasury to design and pilot a digital version of cash and would complement the Fed-issued CBDC. It would allow individuals to make instant peer to peer payments with no consumer data or transaction tracking and without the use of a bank account. 36:10 Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN): The need to protect Americans' right to financial product privacy is at an all time high. That's why I introduced the CBDC Anti-Surveillance State Act with over 50 of my colleagues. This bill prevents unelected bureaucrats from creating a tool for financial surveillance if not open, permissionless, and private, like cash, a CBDC is nothing more than a CCP-style surveillance tool that will oppress the American way of life and we're not going to allow that to happen. 38:20 Dr. Norbert Michel: In my testimony, I argue that the United States should not launch a Central Bank Digital Currency, a CBDC. Advocates for a CBDC tout many potential benefits, but there's nothing unique about the technology that would provide those supposed benefits. 39:00 Dr. Norbert Michel: A CBDC in any form would be a direct liability of the central government, a digital tether to its citizens such that it would radically alter the existing public-private relationship that already exists in our monetary arrangement. 39:25 Dr. Norbert Michel: First, issuing a CBDC would not help preserve the status of the United States dollar, it would likely damage it. Proponents argue that because China has launched a CBDC, the United States must keep up by launching its own. Others make the narrower claim that the US must launch a CBDC to keep up with broader technological changes in the payment sector. But anyone who chooses to do so can transact digitally in U.S. dollars right now. The CBDC does not take us from a world with zero or a few digital transactions to one filled with digital transactions. Moreover, the dollar's renowned status is owed to the strength of the American economy and its legal protections for private citizens relative to many other countries. Unlike in many other places, Americans do not have to live in constant fear that the government will take their money. However, if the US creates a CBDC, anyone who wants to use the dollar would lose a layer of protection from that type of government abuse. 40:30 Dr. Norbert Michel: The second myth is that a CBDC would expand financial inclusion by providing a new source of financial services for America's unbanked and underbanked populations. Again, though, this is not a technological problem. In other words, the CBDC itself does not accomplish this goal. The private sector already enables us to transact digitally, and it has been steadily shrinking the number of Americans without financial services for years. We also know, because the FDIC asked them, that unbanked and underbanked Americans primarily are in that situation because either they don't have enough money to have an account, or they don't want to give their personal information to a bank or the government. And what should be obvious is that a lack of sufficient income is a much broader economic problem than a CBDC or financial service technology. While some proponents argue that a CBDC lowers the cost of providing financial services, that's true only if the government subsidizes those costs or chooses to waive the same level of regulatory scrutiny it requires of private firms. And that level of scrutiny, it turns out is more than just a costly mandate that the government has placed on private firms. It's also the one that causes those unbanked Americans to say they don't trust banks. It's also the same one that requires people to hand over their personal information to private companies, and as a result potentially to the government. If the government removes that mandate for all financial service providers, there would be no cost advantage to a CBDC. 42:05 Dr. Norbert Michel: That brings me to my last myth, the idea that a CBDC could somehow enhance financial privacy. Currently, Americans are forced to hand over personal information to financial institutions. Those institutions are required to track transactions, and the government can access that information without a warrant. The fourth amendment is supposed to protect Americans from the government gaining access to this kind of information, unless they show probable cause and obtain a warrant. But it no longer protects Americans when it comes to financial information. And the only buffer left is that the government must go through the financial institution to obtain that information. Introducing a CBDC would remove this last layer of protection. It would place all financial transactions either in a government database or leave them a keystroke away. 44:15 Paige Paridon: We believe that at this point there is little evidence that a CBDC would bring measurable benefits to the US economy or consumers. Furthermore, a CBDC could upend the commercial banking system and create financial instability. 44:30 Paige Paridon: CBDC can take one of two general forms: a wholesale CBDC, which would be used only by financial intermediaries, and a retail CBDC, which could be used by consumers and businesses. To date, most research and attention has been focused on a retail, intermediated, account-based model in which consumer's CBDCs would be held in an account at a bank or another financial intermediary, like an asset held in custody. The CBDC could not be used by the bank to make loans in the way that dollar deposits are used today. Any transfer of $1 deposit from a bank to a CBDC is $1 unavailable for lending to businesses or consumers. By attracting deposits away from banks, a CBDC likely would undermine the commercial banking system in the United States and severely constrict the availability and increase the cost of credit to the economy. 46:30 Paige Paridon: With respect to financial inclusion, a review of the reasons why certain individuals are unbanked makes it clear that a CBDC would be unlikely to meaningfully increase financial inclusion. For example, FDIC data reveals that many respondents are unbanked because of privacy concerns, and intermediated CBDC is unlikely to mitigate those concerns, given that it would presumably come with the same know-your-customer requirements that currently apply to banks. 54:35 Christina Parajon Skinner: So privacy rights are the clearest place to start. Today, individuals can enjoy comprehensive privacy in their payments transactions by using cash. Now, although most central banks have suggested that CBDC is not going to replace cash, that near-term promise can't be guaranteed over the longer term, and the insinuation that CBDC is necessary or inevitable seems motivated by a view that cash will eventually become obsolete. But because central banks don't have the technology presently to offer cash-like privacy, a digital currency -- unless it's radically redesigned -- will bring with it the ability for the state to monitor or surveil its citizens' payments activity. 55:20 Christina Parajon Skinner: I'd like to focus on the impact of a CBDC on the Federal Reserve. Certainly since 2010, the power and authority of the Fed has grown considerably, and Congress's responsibility to oversee the Fed requires it to understand how a CBDC could further empower the central bank but also how it might weaken it. On the one hand, CBDC could result in a larger central bank balance sheet. Issuing CBDC would increase the liability side of the Fed's balance sheet if the total of bank reserves, repos, and cash balances largely remained unchanged. So if the liabilities with CBDC increase, so too much the Fed's assets. The Fed could buy more Treasury securities to match CBDC, but that could possibly invite pressure on the Fed to issue more CBDCs to in turn absorb more government debt. And overall, that dynamic could further erode the limited fiscal discipline that we have remaining. A CBDC could also affect the Fed's independence in the way that it would establish a direct relationship between the central bank and the real economy for the first time in history. One result of that relationship would almost certainly be the further erosion of the line between monetary and fiscal policy. When central banks begin to issue liabilities directly to the people, it will become much more difficult for the central bank to justify their provision of liquidity to banks and the financial system, as opposed to households, especially during a crisis. And effectively this could open the door to political pressure on the Fed to provide liquidity assistance to households during turbulent economic times. But these sorts of household level interventions would radically transform the central bank and its purpose and role within society. 57:40 Christina Parajon Skinner: So it does not inherently improve financial inclusion unless it's paired with accounts for all citizens, which the central bank itself has already recognized as infeasible. 59:15 Raúl Carrillo: Today, I support the call for a digital dollar system, including CBDC, Fed accounts, and Ecash. 1:02:15 Raúl Carrillo: Indeed, the only way to evolve beyond the surveillance status quo is to establish a direct digital dollar interface with consumers where the Fourth Amendment and other protections may actually apply. If we truly care about privacy, we should treat the banking and blockchain industries' appeals to partnership as suspect, based on legal and technological grounds alone. We can build a retail CBDC and Fed account system with superior protections compared to what exists now and superior protections to the systems that are being built around the world currently. 1:02:50 Raúl Carrillo: So today I also advocate for the inclusion of digital cash, as detailed in the Electronic Cash and Hardware Security and Secured Hardware Act, the Ecash Act, re-introduced by Representative Lynch. Today, Ecash devices available on a smart card or a phone card would serve as digital counterparts to cold hard American cash. These devices would not make payments over the internet. Instead, they would store Treasury issued digital dollars on card hardware to enable everyday small dollar transactions for everyday people. These transactions would be subject to the BSA/AML regime, and as a boon to law enforcement, we can set privacy-sensitive security controls and caps on transactions and usage. However, the cards would in no instance be capable of generating data that companies and agencies can abuse. We preserve a place for privacy within public infrastructure. The Ecash Act harkens back to the past to the days when President Lincoln established the banking and cash system that we still use today. And it also harkens to an exciting, inclusive, safe digital future. 1:08:05 Paige Paridon: CBDC, because it would be a direct liability of the central bank, it would be perceived as the ultimate safe asset. So from that perspective, particularly during times of economic stress, it could attract depositors to pull their money out of the banking system to flee or run to a CBDC if there was perceived concern about the banking system or the financial system overall. So every dollar that currently resides in a bank account can be deployed for useful purposes in the economy, primarily through lending. Every dollar that is pulled out from the banking system and put into a CBDC is one less dollar that could be put to good economic use. And that is why we have a fundamental concern with a retail CBDC, given the flight-to-quality risks. 1:09:35 Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA): 130 countries, representing 98% of the global economy, are now exploring digital versions of their currencies, including the United States. Almost half of these countries are in advanced development pilot or launch stages of their CBDCs. Can you discuss how CBDCs may shape the future global financial landscape? What would it mean for the United States if we instead chose to stay on the sidelines of this race? Raúl Carrillo: Thank you very much for the question, Representative Waters. My opinion is that it is incumbent upon the United States to provide leadership with respect to an inevitable process that is going to occur across the world. It is clear that we're all moving to digital fiat currency. The question is what sort of protections are going to attend digital fiat currency? 1:12:35 Raúl Carrillo: I hear a lot of concern across the political spectrum in this committee about the power of Silicon Valley. And if you do not create an alternative to the corporate systems that collect data, or promise to protect it and then collect it en mass, which is even worse and common in the blockchain industry, then what is going to happen is that Silicon Valley is going to win. And frankly, I don't think anybody here wants that. But in order to preserve the space that we have for public money and not make it a big tech enterprise, we, in fact, have to move forward with digital fiat currency. 1:13:50 Rep. Warren Davidson (R-OH): One of the key characteristics of sound money is that it facilitates permissionless, peer-to-peer transactions like cash. Currently, of the 100+ countries developing a central bank digital currency, none of them are developing a permissionless system. Every one of them is developing a permission system, including the United States Federal Reserve. So when we talk about permissions, we can kind of get something from the Federal Reserve's own report of that. They said in their report that it should be privacy-protected, intermediated, widely transferable, and identity-verified. Mr. Michel, Professor Skinner, in your view, is it possible to be both privacy-protected and identity-verified? Dr. Norbert Michel: No, in my view, it's not. Once the information is in a system, it's in a system and somebody is going to get it and it's going to get out. And I just quickly really want to say I'm very happy to hear everybody here on the panel is pro-Fourth Amendment. The problem, of course, as you know, is that the Bank Secrecy Act, and the anti money laundering regime runs right over the Fourth Amendment. So that's what needs to be fixed. Rep. Warren Davidson (R-OH): It's already a problem in third party hands, but this wouldn't even be in third party hands. But, you know, Professor Skinner, what's your view? Christina Parajon Skinner: My view is no, that that's not possible right now, and central banks have essentially admitted as much. And to the extent such technology is or could be under development, it's extremely immature. And I think the point to emphasize here is that inherently there will be a tradeoff to the extent central banks create CBDC, between identity verification and privacy. And more than likely central banks will always choose identity verification because they will never feel comfortable sacrificing the national security goals that they see as accompanying robust identity verification. 1:24:35 Rep. John Rose (R-TN): Decisions in United States v. Miller and Maryland v. Smith gave us the third party doctrine. Under that doctrine. if you voluntarily provide information to a third party, the Fourth Amendment does not preclude the government from accessing it without a warrant. Dr. Michelle, can you explain how the third party doctrine has impacted Americans' financial privacy? Dr. Norbert Michel: Yes, they practically have none at the moment partly because of this. But I also want to clarify, because of something that was just said on the panel. The Fourth Amendment is the one that amends the Constitution to the United States, which protects American citizens from the government. So this is exactly the issue and it was brought up in the cases in the 70s, when the Bank Secrecy Act was challenged. If the Bank Secrecy Act were not there, the banks and financial institutions that we have would not be required by the government to collect the data that they are, that is a requirement in the Bank Secrecy Act. And everybody can go back and look at those cases, that was always an issue as to whether this was constitutional and in violation of possibly the Fourth Amendment. So between the combination of the Bank Secrecy Act, the Fourth Amendment issues, and the third party doctrine, Americans, although many of them don't realize it, have very little financial privacy at the moment. 1:26:05 Rep. John Rose (R-TN): How would the adoption of a CBDC further erode Americans' reasonable expectation of financial privacy? Dr. Norbert Michel: I believe it would remove the last layer that we have, quite simply, instead of having to go through the financial institution, the government would have that information either in a central database or a keystroke away. 1:31:05 Raúl Carrillo: We envision hardware devices. So those can be cards, similar in size to an existing debit or credit card, or they can be secured SIM cards, or something like it, on a phone that would enable hardware based transactions and for people to make payments as they do today with paper cash for everyday things without fear of government or corporate surveillance, which occurs in tandem when we use digital payments today. 1:32:20 Raúl Carrillo: I would clarify that the point of Ecash is that it does not operate online. It is actually open, permissionless, and private, in the sense that you don't need a blockchain or a banking intermediary. 1:35:45 Rep. Bryan Steil (R-WI): In your testimony you wrote, "any transfer of $1 deposit from a commercial bank or credit union to a CBDC is $1 unavailable for lending to businesses or consumers." Can you expand a little bit on that statement about how an adoption of an intermediated CBDC would impact credit availability and the cost of banking services? Paige Paridon: Sure. Happy to, thank you. So I think there's a misconception generally, that $1 transferred from a deposit account to a CBDC would mean that CBDC would still be able to be used for lending and investment in the economy the way that dollar deposits currently are now. And that is not the case of CBDC, even if intermediated. In other words, even if the services including onboarding and other services that commercial banks currently provide, even if those services were provided by banks with respect to a consumer's CBDC, the fact is the bank would really only hold that CBDC in the same manner it holds an asset in custody. So it would have to essentially keep that CBDC under the proverbial mattress and it would not be able to be redeployed in the form of loans. 1:41:20 Paige Paridon: If it was an intermediated CBDC, banks would essentially hold CBDC as a custodian. That's right, they wouldn't be able to lend out some portion of the CBDC as they do deposits. 1:42:10 Rep. Sean Casten (D-IL): If you had 100%, CBDCs was all the money supply, you'd have no lending, right? So doesn't any proportional increase in the amount of a CBDC in an economy shrink the economy? Paige Paridon: Well, there could be shifts to other forms of ways to fund lending. Banks could borrow in the wholesale markets, they could potentially borrow from the Federal Reserve. So I'm not necessarily sure it's a one-to-one relationship. 1:46:25 Rep. Mike Flood (R-NE): Ms. Skinner, in your testimony, you mentioned how a CBDC could lead to the Federal Reserve's independence being threatened. Can you speak more on that? Christina Parajon Skinner: Yes, certainly. Thank you for the question. So in the first instance, to the extent the Federal Reserve doesn't change the composition of its balance sheet otherwise, issuing a CBDC will increase its liabilities, which means that it has to match that increase in liabilities by purchasing more assets. So the first thing that we would think about when the Fed would purchase more assets would be buying more Treasury securities. That being said, with the potential for the Fed to issue more CBDC, thereby giving it more headroom to buy more Treasury securities, would be likely to put some pressure on the Fed at some point down the line from the Treasury to issue that CBDC to absorb more government debt, which we call monetary finance or monetizing the deficit. Before World War Two, the Fed essentially operated under the thumb of the Treasury so that during wartime and otherwise, the Fed could effectively monetize the deficit. And really today, that's anathema to an independent central bank. There were other things that the Fed could also be pressured to buy to match an increase in CBDC, like corporate bonds. Now our recent experimentation in corporate bonds has put some question around whether this too could politicize a central bank because inevitably if central banks buy corporate bonds, they are picking winners and losers in the economy. Now, the Fed has been pretty neutral in its approach, but there has been a lot of pressure on the central bank to, for example, buy green bonds in order to facilitate a transition to a low carbon economy and certainly other central banks do actively green their corporate bond portfolios. 2:23:05 Dr. Norbert Michel: I believe this is a question of centralization versus decentralization. And if you have a CBDC, you ultimately have one major point of failure. One way of doing this would be to have the Fed have a database. Well, we know the Fed's been hacked. Even if the Fed has multiple databases, it's the Fed being hacked, as opposed to having multiple private companies all across the country. If Capital One, for example, has a hack or a cybersecurity problem, everybody in the country is not immediately at risk, only their customers, and that's a problem for them. 2:25:25 Rep. William Timmons (R-SC): Based on your research, can you explain what, if any, technological advantage a CBDC has over the private sector? Dr. Norbert Michel: None. And this should be this is properly viewed as a government reaction to a private innovation. We can call it Bitcoin or you could just call it distributed ledger technology in general. That's what this is about. This is about the government seeing an innovation that possibly threatens their control over the payment system and it is a movement to come up with something that takes that back and it just so happens that what they're coming up with here is something that goes even further than where we are without the CBDC. 2:26:45 Christina Parajon Skinner: The status of the dollar is undergirded by our commitment to the rule of law, democratic institutions, having a judiciary that enforces property rights, and perhaps most importantly, maintaining the dollar as a stable store of value. So for there, it's important that the Fed maintain its fight against inflation and with the issuance of the CBDC, there will absolutely be a propensity to over-issue, to for example, monetize the deficit and if that were to happen that would undermine the status of the dollar. 2:29:45 Paige Paridon: A so-called flight to quality is something that we fear would be almost inevitable. Were a retail CBDC to be issued by the Federal Reserve, in times particularly of financial stress or instability, a CBDC would be viewed likely as the ultimate safe asset and depositors would likely be incentivized to pull the deposits out of the banking system and put them into CBDCs as a safe asset, which would reduce the availability of deposits available to lend out, and moreover, increase the cost of credit. 2:31:10 Raúl Carrillo: President Lincoln created cash after the Civil War in order to help everybody have day to day transactions throughout our economy. Today we have cutting edge technology in various other sectors in the government, including in the US military where they use stored value cards known as Eagle Cash in order to make offline payments. 2:33:15 Yuval Rooz: If the US government were to decide to issue a retail CBDC, unlike wholesaled CBDC, I think that it is going to be critical for the government to show an evidence that there is no ability for the government to see transactions of citizens. I personally would be against such an act. 2:35:05 Yuval Rooz: If we wanted to have privacy included in the smart contract of the money, it would state that any movement of money would only be visible to the sender of money and the receiver of money for example, and the issuer of money would be blinded. So all that the issuer would see is the overall balance, but would not see any underlying movements of the money, for example. March 8, 2023 House Financial Services Committee Witnesses: Jerome Powell, Chair, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Clips 53:50 Rep. French Hill (R-AK): Turning to a topic that's been a subject here for nearly four years: Central Bank Digital Currencies. Article One of the Constitution, reserves coins and money issuance to the Congress and we've in turn delegated that to the US Treasury, which has since 1912 engaged the Federal Reserve as their fiscal agent. You've testified here many times before that to issue a Central Bank Digital Currency that would be have to be authorized by statute by Congress. Is that still your testimony? Jerome Powell: So that is absolutely the case as it relates to a retail CBDC. There are potential forms of a wholesale CBDC that you would need to look at, it's less clear. But we've always been talking about retail CBDC and that's something we would certainly need Congressional approval for. Rep. French Hill (R-AK): What would be a parameter on something that's not a retail CBDC where you think that could be issued in some form or fashion without Congress's direct statutory authorization? Jerome Powell: It would be, for example, something between banks, so it would look an awful lot like a bank reserve. And you might ask, Well, why would we need it? And that's a really good question, too. But just something that's literally within a wholesale market. Rep. French Hill (R-AK): But that speaks that you might have a blockchain between banks and the Fed using a Central Bank Digital Currency token to settle transactions institutionally inside the US. 1:15:40 Jerome Powell: We did go out for comment in general on a CBDC a year or so ago and I do expect that we'll go out, I can't give you a date, but we'll certainly go out and we engage with the public on an ongoing basis. We're also doing research on policy and also on technology. That's what we're up to. Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-MA): The Boston Fed has a partnership over there with the folks from MIT Media Lab, they're doing a great job, but it says here that the discussions would include technical experimentation. I was just wondering, at what level are you talking about making decisions on architecture for a retail CBDC? Jerome Powell: We're not at the stage of making any real decisions. What we're doing is experimenting, in kind of early stage experimentation. How would this work? Does it work? What's the best technology? What's the most efficient? We're really at an early stage but we're making progress on sort of technological issues. The policy issues are equally important though. You know, we haven't decided that this is something that the financial systems in the country want or need. So that's going to be very important. 1:18:15 Jerome Powell: A CBDC is going to be years in evaluation. 1:18:30 Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-MA): You know, before the greenback, everybody had their own currency. You know, you had rail rail companies, you had coal companies, you had, you know, state banks that were authorized to issue their own currency. But when the greenback came out, all of those various currencies went to zero, because the greenback had the full faith and credit of the United States behind it. I'm worried about a lot of these Stablecoins and other cryptocurrencies. Do they go to zero when we come up with a CBDC that has the full faith and credit of the United States behind it? We've got 1000s of these out there, and you've got people investing millions and millions of dollars, well trillions right now. And I'm just thinking if we had those advantages built into a CBDC? Wouldn't those alternatives go to zero, if they did not have the transparency and the full faith and credit that we enjoy? Jerome Powell: So certainly, unbacked cryptocurrencies that don't have any intrinsic value, but nonetheless, trade for a positive number, I've never understood the valuation of those. Stablecoins, many of them are really drawing on the credibility of the dollar. They're dollar denominated mainly, dollar-based reserves, although we don't know what's in the reserves because there's no regulation. 2:16:05 Jerome Powell: What we say about permissionless blockchains is that they have been vehicles for fraud -- Rep. Warren Davidson (R-OH): 0.24% if you follow your own report on fraud. It's a fraction of what it is with the US dollar. May 26, 2022 House Financial Services Committee Witness: Lael Brainard, Vice Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Clips 2:08:30 Rep. John Rose (R-TN): Vice Chair Brainard, we saw how dangerous it can be when the government weaponizes the financial system for political purposes under the Obama administration's Operation Choke Point. More recently, the Canadian government instructed banks to freeze accounts linked to the trucker protests over vaccine mandates. Vice Chair Brainard, without appropriate safeguards, would a CBDC make it easier for the federal government to block individuals it disagrees with from accessing the financial system? Lael Brainard: So I really don't see CBDC as raising questions that are different from deposits and bank accounts, for instance. And the paper that was released in January, in particular, talks about an intermediary model, akin to what we see with commercial bank deposits, where the central bank doesn't have any direct interaction with consumers, doesn't see transactions by consumers, but there are intermediaries and, very importantly, including banks that would be responsible for both identity verification and for keeping that transaction data private. So in that sense, I don't see it it's as really any different than the issues that are raised with commercial bank deposits. June 16, 2021 Committee on Financial Services, Subcommittee on National Security, International Development, and Monetary Policy Witnesses: Eric B. Lorber, Senior Director, Foundation for Defense of Democracies Clips 43:33 Eric Lorber: The number of transactions which are elicit that use Bitcoin or blockchain technology is actually fairly low percentage wise it's in I believe, below 1% or somewhere around there. So it's fairly small. Music by Editing Production Assistance

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As the U.S. banking sector faces oncoming regulatory changes, how will the smaller banks react to these new requirements and what will the impact be on markets?----- Transcript -----Welcome to Thoughts on the Market. I am Vishy Tirupattur, Morgan Stanley's Chief Fixed Income Strategist. Along with my colleagues, bringing you a variety of perspectives, I'll be talking about the impact of potential regulatory changes on bank assets. It's Tuesday, April 18th at 11a.m in New York. In the wake of the tumult in the banking sector since early March, and the significant intervention by the authorities, it is likely that a regulatory response will follow, particularly focused on the regulation of regional banks. President Biden has already called on the federal banking agencies in consultation with the Treasury Department, to consider a set of reforms that will reduce the risk of future banking crises. A review led by Michael Barr, the Vice Chair for Supervision at the Federal Reserve Board, is set to be released by May 1st and will likely offer some indication as to where future bank regulation might be headed. In this context, it is worthwhile to examine potential changes to regional bank regulation, reflect on how banks would respond to such changes and consider their impact on markets. Across all banks, there are approximately 4.7 trillion of non-interest bearing deposits with the duration of about seven years. Banks will likely need to either review and re-justify or shorten such deposits. Our bank equity analysts expect two key regulatory changes TLAC, total loss absorbing capacity and LCR, liquidity coverage ratio, to be extended to smaller banks, about $100 billion in assets, though this process will likely not get fully implemented until 2027. From the perspective of rates markets, these changes make the case for steepening of the curve. Our rate strategists see bank demand for treasuries increasing relative to other assets with greater LCR requirements. Both shortening deposit duration and implementing LCR suggest that banks would favor shorter dated Treasuries over longer dated Treasuries. More longer term issuance due to TLAC, drives higher long term yields and fixed income, with support curve steepeners for Treasuries over the medium term. For agency mortgage backed securities, these changes will result in less demand from banks and consequently wider mortgage spreads. For munis, these changes would likely imply a lower footprint from banks with available for sale securities favored or held to maturity securities. For securitized credit markets, we see downside in demand ahead. Longer term outlook for securitized credit depends on the specifics of regulatory reform, but is likely to remain tepid for some time to come. The expansion of TLAC to smaller banks could intensify supply headwinds in the medium term. Our credit strategists believe that supply risks in bank credit are now skewed to the upside. The emphasis on funding diversity and shift away from deposits to wholesale funding, is likely to keep regional bank issuance elevated for longer. An important lesson from recent events in the banking sector, is that the risks to the asset banks hold, extend beyond credit risk into other risks, most notably interest rate risk. While interest rate and convexity risks are reflected in Comprehensive Capital Analysis Review, CCAR and Horizontal Liquidity Review, HLR test, arguably not having an interest rate component to risk weights enable banks, and regional banks in particular, to seek term premia to support their earnings. It is not our base case that this will change. However, it is possible that regulators would at least consider enacting some type of a charge for owning longer-duration securities. At a minimum, we expect the regulators could require all banks to flow marked-to-market hits from available-for-sale securities through their regulatory capital ratios, something that the big banks have been doing already. Ultimately, new regulations for regional banks will take time for formulation and implementation. We'll be watching developments in this space closely. Thanks for listening. If you enjoy the show, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and share Thoughts on the Market with a friend or colleague today.