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BlackRock Global Fixed Income CIO Rick Rieder Talks Jobs Report, Fed Chair
I mean, I do think that's right.
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BlackRock Global Fixed Income CIO Rick Rieder Talks Jobs Report, Fed Chair
I do think if you have young people, look at the student loan, 30% of student loans are in repayment today.
Bloomberg Talks
BlackRock Global Fixed Income CIO Rick Rieder Talks Jobs Report, Fed Chair
That is unbelievable.
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BlackRock Global Fixed Income CIO Rick Rieder Talks Jobs Report, Fed Chair
That is unbelievable.
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BlackRock Global Fixed Income CIO Rick Rieder Talks Jobs Report, Fed Chair
Young people are having a hard time.
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BlackRock Global Fixed Income CIO Rick Rieder Talks Jobs Report, Fed Chair
By the way, if you look at the youth unemployment rates now, I think it's 8.5%, maybe a little bit higher than that.
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BlackRock Global Fixed Income CIO Rick Rieder Talks Jobs Report, Fed Chair
Young people graduating, you saw this at UMass, one of the surveys that showed people graduating college, it's the toughest time in literally a generation.
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BlackRock Global Fixed Income CIO Rick Rieder Talks Jobs Report, Fed Chair
So listen, I think there's some things, I think a lot of this is related.
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BlackRock Global Fixed Income CIO Rick Rieder Talks Jobs Report, Fed Chair
And I think a lot of this is, if we create an issue, I think the question before that was dead right.
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BlackRock Global Fixed Income CIO Rick Rieder Talks Jobs Report, Fed Chair
There is something that are just hard to fight against.
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BlackRock Global Fixed Income CIO Rick Rieder Talks Jobs Report, Fed Chair
But I think there's a series of things that I think that can be done that will improve a bunch of things.
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BlackRock Global Fixed Income CIO Rick Rieder Talks Jobs Report, Fed Chair
And by the way, the thing that is critical, nominal GDP has to be high because we have a debt burden in this country that is large.
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BlackRock Global Fixed Income CIO Rick Rieder Talks Jobs Report, Fed Chair
And if we keep nominal GDP high, we keep employing more people, you bring that nominal GDP number up, which diffuses the debt burden.
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BlackRock Global Fixed Income CIO Rick Rieder Talks Jobs Report, Fed Chair
By the way, it's always funny when the chart that goes up that shows the price of Inc.
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BlackRock Global Fixed Income CIO Rick Rieder Talks Jobs Report, Fed Chair
doesn't show the dividend yield.
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BlackRock Global Fixed Income CIO Rick Rieder Talks Jobs Report, Fed Chair
My job is to create as much dividend yield and as much income as possible.
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BlackRock Global Fixed Income CIO Rick Rieder Talks Jobs Report, Fed Chair
Listen, I think there's something... By the way, there's always an interesting thing about... People say, like, why is he saying that the funds rate should come down?
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BlackRock Global Fixed Income CIO Rick Rieder Talks Jobs Report, Fed Chair
He must have an ulterior motive.
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BlackRock Global Fixed Income CIO Rick Rieder Talks Jobs Report, Fed Chair
I actually don't want the funds... In fact, I don't want interest rates to come down because commercially, these yields are phenomenal.
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BlackRock Global Fixed Income CIO Rick Rieder Talks Jobs Report, Fed Chair
I mean, these yields to create income in a portfolio...