Identify other key issues the governing council will aim to address in the next few months there is however, one issue on which i can decide today all members of the governing council will agree with me we must complain much bet tort general public what we are doing and why we are doing it and we must talk to people that we do not normally reach this has to case cade through our review, inflation name, inflation measure, tools and effectiveness and how they take into account new challenges that people actually care about housing cost, Climate Change and inequality im fully committed to that. Monitory policy can only be credible if we are sure our goals are true and shared by the people we serve. As an independent central bank, we are and we will remain accountable to them. Thank you very much for your attention. A warm welcome to street signs. If you are just joining us, im Julianna Tatelbaum lets kick off with what we just heard from madam lagarde she was delivering a speech at the ec
David one of the most powerful women in the Business World today is ruthporat. She rose to be the cfo of google and now alphabet. In that role she has enormous influence at that company and has done a terrific job in making certain that the Balance Sheet works well and that they betterare much organized. I have no doubt she will be a power at alphabet for a long time unless the next president says i would like her to be secretary of the treasury. She would be a terrific candidate for that position. During this period of time, google and alphabet have done quite well. Your stock is up more than 20 this year and from the time you became the cfo, the stock is up done quiteso its well under your leadership. Im curious, or more people looking at doing searches now during this covid19. Pop of time than ever before, or people not spending as much time searching . Ruth no, people are spending a lot of time searching. We have trillions of searches per year. Its really the nature of searches tha
Michele. This is one of the most difficult things to accept, that this market does not have to reflect what is going on in this economy. Can you speak to that . Bob i can speak to that because im in the bond market and it is reflecting perfectly what is going on. We just printed 33 gdp. There is a giant hole that we think will take 10 years to fill the output gap that has been created. The fed is telling us for a long period of time they will keep rates at zero because they have to bring the cost of funding down across the system so that any kind of recovery takes hold. Slowly, Bond Investors are recognizing that, and that has emboldened them to move further up the curve both in terms of duration and lower in credit quality. Jonathan we have had conversations about market distortions. The equity market, Big Tech Companies dominating the benchmarks in the u. S. What is the cleanest trade in fixed income to play an economy that would take 10 years to fully recover . Bob there are two cle
Hear from mike roman later on today, july has been very good i think you will continue to get a positive from housing, this horton number is the number people should be focusing on because it was stellar you will get a lot of people talking about how there is a lot of good news in anything involving personal fun, polaris, but just were just in such dim tidings when it comes to aero space thats what im focused on greg hayes, 2023, oh, my. You were just talking about that and then iata, the International Air transport association is saying 2024 for precovid traffic levels they also point out that airlines are adding capacity, jim, ahead of demand which is coming back slower than they thought. Personal travel, people want toful tra, we know that. Great Conference Call by American Express on friday about what people want to do, but the Business Travelers is where they make all the money and the Business Traveler is zooming they just arent going i dont know what its going to take to bring t
Time to recover. We have doubt. We expect choppy conditions to come in the months ahead. Choppiness heading into the next couple of quarters. Jonathan joining us now is priya misra. Fantastic to have you with us on the show. Clearly this recovery is stalling and you are getting incrementally more bullish on treasuries. Is that right . Priya i am. The data is better than my we were looking for. We were looking for data to improve and it is coming in better than that. In the backdrop we have rising covid infections in the u. S. And globally, which means we have to live in this environment for a while. That will hurt the opening, perhaps delay, slow down. It will affect consumer confidence. Event. A very big a different policy proposals on both sides. That is going to make risk assets hard to price. Things look pretty positive in august. We are near the lower end of the trading range in the 10 year. Are going backe to that 60, 80 basis point range. Jonathan there is a ton of risk on the h