Alex Frangos

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457 appearances 23 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2025 last heard 17 Sep

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WSJ What’s News · Trump Turns Up the Heat on Wall Street · 5 Aug 2025 podcast

You want to know that you're going to be told what the inflation rate is in the future, because that's going to affect the value of your bond that you're buying.

There's also a huge market in inflation indexed securities that the government issues every year.

And there's a whole infrastructure around that on Wall Street and investing in these things.

And if right now there's this perception that, well, if the White House doesn't like the numbers, they fire the statistician that next time the numbers are going to look good, even if underlying them, they're not good.

And that's a problem because eventually the economy will catch up to that and the investments that people make will not perform the way they expect them to.

Well, there's a dichotomy there.

People are kind of tearing their hair out a little bit, but yet markets went up yesterday.

They had fallen on Friday, but it's not been a huge major reaction.

Part of that is, yeah, people saying, well, what are we supposed to do?

Are we supposed to sell everything all at once?

But people are more worried about the long term.

and that you get an erosion of these institutions and the premium that investors around the world have paid for owning the U.S.

dollar, for owning U.S.

government debt, for buying American stocks will erode over time.

The other thing that Wall Street's watching are these, who's going to fill the role of the BLS?

And also there's a Fed position that just opened up and the White House has indicated that they're going to move to fill those.

And

People want to know who that's going to be.

Is it going to be someone seen as nonpartisan and mainstream or is it going to be someone who's perceived as more loyal to President Trump?

Thank you.

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