Bloomberg Surveillance 04/17/2024

Jonathan Ferro, Lisa Abramowicz and Annmarie Hordern have the economy and global markets "under surveillance". Their daily conversations with leaders and decision makers from Wall Street to Washington and beyond cover the latest in business, investment, and geopolitics. No other program better positions investors and executives for the trading day.
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[bob___]

On Fed "data dependence, " the Fed isn't free to exercise expert judgment but must tie its decisions to data being applied to a known methodology. That's because the Fed is in many ways the only functioning civilian agency, and its job has become, in part, correcting the effects of Congress's bad fiscal policy. If the Fed were to exercise jusgment in setting monetary policy, Congress would eventually change the Fed's statutory mandates and cause it to implement the same political judgements that underlie current fiscal policy. The risk? Argentina.

[bob___]

On whether Tesla is a tech company, the question is whether it embodies a Christianson destructive innovation. It appears to do ao, but the final stage of destructive innovation -- underpricing the legacy technology -- is only just beginning to come online.

[douglasa.]

Yes Annmarie the Fed is politically influenced so Very Obvious to me.

[praveenspike]

The real difference between IMF and china are level of restrictions. IMF wants to chain the country with investment while China wants to rope in. So I ask which is weaker and trust worthy of an advantage for the country which can easily cut/break the contract? One only sees its advantage.

[RobertLewandowski-vimq]

No teenager is worth you're prideful