Robert Armstrong

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1,703 appearances 12 recordings 3 series first heard Oct 2025 last heard 6d ago

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That clearly is affecting inflation.

But what I can do is make sure that the oil price doesn't start to infect wages and go from wages to uh uh prices of consumer goods and so forth.

So at a

certain point it is absolutely true that the Fed cannot create harbocar uh like hydrocarbon uh atoms, right?

Which would be very useful thing if they could, but they can prevent infection.

And they decided that's what they have to do right now.

But you're absolutely right.

There's a lot of people out here who think this is just crazy.

It's hiking into a supply shock and

It's a crazy thing to do.

I I I guess I lean towards the Fed on this topic, but I I agree it's a real debate.

All else being equal, if you have an economy that is growing faster, you are going to have higher interest rates.

Because in a faster growing economy, there's more competition for capital, more things to do with capital.

Capital costs more.

That is fair.

Is some of that going on right now?

Well, yes, I think so.

We just got a very strong, for example, retail sales.

Sales number or a a solid retail sales number.

Uh, this morning we have the AI boom going on.

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