There's No Magic to Fed's 2% Inflation Target

Published Jul 14, 2023, 8:00 AM

US Federal Reserve officials have been adamant that they’re looking to get inflation levels back down to 2%. But the path to that goal could bring pain to millions of workers, a possible trade-off that “doesn’t make sense,” according to Rick Rieder, BlackRock Inc.’s chief investment officer of global fixed income.

“This whole idea of there’s a magic to 2% doesn’t make any sense to me. You just had immense stimulus—let it play out,” he says on this week’s episode of the What Goes Up podcast. “Interest rates—how much would you have to move them to get the unemployment rate to a level to slow wages? It’s not worth it. Why would you take millions of people out of work because you need to go from 2.7% to 2%?” He called the Fed goal a search for “mystical perfection.” BlackRock manages about $2.7 trillion in fixed-income assets for its clients.

Rieder adds that the segment of the population that gets hurt by higher inflation is the one that would bear the brunt of any potential layoffs. Meanwhile, raising rates creates an income benefit to wealthier people who tend to be savers, he says. “It’s illogical to me.”

Welcome to What Goes Up a weekly markets podcast. Umbildana a cross asset reporter with Bloomberg.

And I'm Katie Greifeld, also a cross asset reporter.

Federal Reserve officials spooked markets recently when they signaled they were willing to hike interest rates a few more times to get inflation under control. But a new data point this week showed inflation decelerating to the slowest pace in more than two years. So what does that mean for the Fed's hiking path going forward? We're going to get into it with the chief investment officer of fixed income at the largest asset manager. I'm super excited for that conversation, Katie, But first you're filling in for Mike Reagan.

I am hopefully. We're going to talk about bonds. We're going to talk about the FED, We're going to talk about inflation. We're also going to talk about exchange traded funds. Yes, I love ETF we all do.

You love ETFs more than I do?

Actually?

Probably?

Yeah? But this is like basically people getting a view into mine and your daily conversations at our desks. This is literally we sit around and these are the types of things we chat about all day long.

Just to put a visual in hear Vill Doon and I sit back to back. We're constantly swinging around and saying, holy moly.

Holy moly, did you see this?

What yields are doing right now? Have you taken a look at the twos ten curve? Even today? This morning we were talking about real yields. They are super high right now.

And I said how high?

So high?

And you said so high? Lol?

Yeah.

You know what else we should chat about? Tell me other non market stuff theoretically, So I have a question for you. Yeah, Barbie, I'm so Oppenheimer.

I do love that. How do you pronounce it? Barbenheimer? The double feature of people seeing both in the same day, think that is, will you.

Do that with me?

I would love to.

You have to say yes, I know, we'll plan it. Maybe our guest wants to come with us too, let's ask him. We can ask him. I'm so excited to have him on. He has so many accolades, Like really, we were so thrilled to be having this conversation. It's Rick Reader black Rocks, chief investment Officer of Global Fixed Income. Thank you so much for joining us. Thanks for having me I'm looking forward to Barbie or Oppenheimer for you that.

I don't know that the question is all going to be this hard because that I can't.

That was actually the softball question.

Yeah, well, Katie. The reason I was asking is because Katie sent me an.

Article that said people are double booking and so they're seeing both on the same day. But the Barbie ticket sales have been much I mean.

They've marketed the heck out of it. It's crazy.

Oh, I see so many ads every single basically literally every single day. Okay, just to start, like I said, you have so many accolades. You have the morning Star Award for Investing Excellence for Outstanding Portfolio Manager in twenty twenty three. Just your fixed income group at black Rock manages two point seven trillion with a T. So maybe just to start, you can lay out your market views for US.

In my career, I've been doing US for over thirty years. I've never seen inflation stay so persistently high. We've lived in a world where technology aging population you've had, it's been hard to keep prices high. You know, the last couple of years post COVID posts, the dynamic around this immense fiscal and monetary stimulus that we've had to deal with. You know, this increasingly high levels of inflation. Listen, I think we're getting on the other side of it. I think we've got data on this, this recent CPI report that suggests that we're getting on the other side of this inflation trend and is throughout one stat that blew me away. We actually break it down. You know, the Fed is focused on core services X shelter for a couple of reasons. Why One, core goods inflations come down, but services have been sticky, and it's been sticky because wages have been high, but core services has been high X shelter And part of why they look at that is shelter takes a while for the inflation to come down. Rental prices take a while, but they are starting to just But anyway, long with my long preamble, core services X shelter three month annualized is now down to one point seven percent, down from nine and a half percent a couple of years ago. We're at one seven So and you know, you break down the other numbers, it's in core CPI still at four. It's still not at target, but gosh, you look at the component parts and you look at the trajectory of where we're going. That's a really big deal. So so core thesis is listen. I think I think we're on the backside of, you know, as a Fedkinna hike one more time, you know, maybe they try and get two hikes out of it. We're on the backside of what has been a bludgeoning of the interest rate market, a bludgeoning of people that have held rate related products or interest rate sensitive and I think that's a really big deal. Not that I think they're going to sit there for a while, so rates will stay stable for aeriod of time, but I think this, gosh, get out of the way because rates are going higher. I think we're on the backside of that, which is a big deal, whether you're doing debt, equity, private equity, anything.

Katie, I saw a funny tweet that said it's possible services inflation stays high because of Barbie Oppenheimer.

It could. That's quite a tie in. We'll see if the data bears that out. But there's about five different things I want to get to there, but I want to start with just inflation overall. Because headline CPI fell to three percent, which it feels like we haven't seen in a while. And the story that ran on the terminal immediately after the headline I thought was pretty bold. Inflation at three percent flags end of emergency, and Rick, you said, we're on the other side of it. Do you think that we're out of crisis mode? When it comes to inflation.

Three percent is a very different paradigm than you know when you're at four or five six percent. By the way, not just quantitatively, but it's also been the case there's a lot of academic thought about when you're a well above three that your inflationary expectations in people and it's hard to get out from under that. When you get to three, you're at a place where you're close enough to target and it's not that scary data a piece of data, and that monetary policy doesn't have to be that concerned about it. Listen, I think it's going to You'll see inflation continue to come down. I'm much more confident that inflation is going to come down that I am. Unemployment rate is going to come up. You know, one man's opinion. I don't think the FED needs to destroy the employment paradigm today. In fact, I think it does more harm than good to try and bring that inflation down. I think there's a natural migration lower and once you reach these levels. To your question, I did a piece that I wrote about patients as a virtue, just let patients. Just let time and a restrictive interest rate do its work, and I think you'll find that it'll approach target over time.

So over time approaching target, meaning by the end of the year or early next year. And then we see the very big question now is what does this mean for the Fed's future path in terms of you know, do we get a hike in July and then a pause or another hike after that, what do you foresee?

Yeah, it's a great question. We're not going to get to target. By the way goods inflation we're getting to target, but in services we're we're not going to get there. We're not going to get there this year. You know, could you get there next year? Don't know? But I think you can get close, and you know, certainly within spitting distance and certainly a place that you feel comfortable with. You know, even with today's better data, you have to marry yourself to the idea that the Fed's going to hike in July. I think it would be a big credibility problem if after they paused and the reason why they're going to pause, and then everybody and then people in the Fed committee have suggested we're going to get two more hikes. He did you not go in July if that were the case. So I think you have to write that in stone that they're going to go in July. But I think you've got to listen. I think they're going to still try and get another hike done, probably you know, November, but I think it's ambiguous now as to whether you know, ah, are you going to do any more hikes? And quite frankly, the people don't understand these rates are restrictive. I think you talked about earlier real rates at these levels like these are restrictive levels, and if you know, let them marinate through the system, you know, you see the impact that has in the banking system, You see the impact that has on commercial real estate. I think we're going to move to a form which I think is right, a form of patients versus impatience with how restrictive rates are to try and achieve target.

Well to the idea that we should just let things marinate. Here in letting things marinate, should the conversation shift to not how many more hikes are left, but how long it takes them to cut how long they're on hold for Listen.

I think you know, we went through this period where the market was anticipating, particularly around the banking crisis, that you're going to have this cliff event, You're going to hike and then you're going to have to ease quickly, and that when the FED starts easing, when you have a crisis, they don't move twenty five base one increments. You move quickly. Listen, unless you have some form of crisis, which are are hard to anticipate, and I don't see one that's out there. You know, you have to assume that this Fed stays on hold for at least the year and then starts to bring it down. But I think they have to bring these rates down. And you know, we know the issue around it's not just the deposits of the banks. It's a cost of funding those deposits are so painful, but it's also people don't talk about the debt burden on the country today. When you talk about you know, we spend time on the debt ceiling. But when you have an economy that's sitting with thirty trillion of debt, the longer you keep that rate up, the more you impair your fiscal flexibility. And you think about debt to GDP, you know what happens is not only is your debt service becoming expensive, but you want to bring rate down so nominal GDP can can continue to be high, so that your debt to GDP is not that scary. So I think you got to bring these rates down. I don't think you can sit here for that long because of the damage it does to the economy in multiple forms.

Is there anything that could happen that would make the Fed not hike at the end of July, or as you say, is it more credibility issue where they would just have.

To go by the way, not a zero probability, but the markets are pricing it as a remote probability. If you had some of the bank earnings that were so horrible that suggested that gosh, you know, the FED is creating its own damage, not just the damage of raising rates, but keeping rates too low for too long. Funding you know, having banks fund purchase assets at aggressively low yields and then all of a sudden shock interest rates higher. Boy, it'd be pretty hard if those numbers, those bank earnings numbers were dramatically worse than anticipated. You know. Other than that, it's hard to see something else that would take them off a trajectory that would be you know, I think the more likely outcome is you get the July hike in, but you do a quote unquote dubbish hike and suggests that, gosh, we're nearing the end of what has been a long and arduous period to get rates to a very restrictive level.

So we would go from a hawkish hold to a dubbish hike, which would be fun and find out pretty soon. But to the idea of it being a credibility issue if they didn't go in July, I mean, listening to you, it kind of sounds like they've forced their own hand here.

And by the way, I've throwing one other thing. They're also reducing the size of the balance sheet training the money supply, and so you know, the policy is not just restrictive on the rate. We go back to what the most popular with the popular thing to watch is. But liquidity is a really big deal Uh huh, it doesn't. It doesn't get enough airtime relative to rate. When you bring down the money supply, you reduce the balance sheet. It has a real impact. I mean, you track the stock market over time relative to the growth or shrinkage of the money supply. It is very sincere. So listen, I think I think this idea of of you know, you leave it there, let it marinate, reduce the balance sheet, you know, just watch watch the system do what it's going to do. On the back side of it.

I want to go back to what you were saying. That policy is restrictive right now. You can see that in real rates and just the level of where we are right now. So you have to bring rates down at some point. But where do you think neutral is after what we've been through.

Wow, it's a great question. That is a great question.

So that was the softball.

Yeah, Oh my god, I would say, hopefully the question is gonna get easier for that. Yeah. The uh so, you know, it's real rates and nominal rates. And so let me say, from a real rate perspective, and the way you guys started this, some may not you know, should real rates be closer to you know, depending on where on the curve you think about it closer to fifty base points to one hundred bases points. I think that is. You know, we're way above that today, particularly out you know, we think about where the ten yure point is today, and so you know that I think can come closer to what is the neutral long term rate. And then if you said, and I have I have a very non consensus view about this. I think the FED should leave the funds rate at somewhere between two and three percent for a long period of time. Once you get on the other side of inflation, you know, why not two percent? Think that? I think the idea being that we're going to have because of deglobalization, you're going to have because of the demographic you know, shortage of labor, you're going to have a higher inflation, structurally higher inflation. So should it be two and a half? I don't know, should it be two? But I think they should leave the funds right there for a long time. I think the Fed, no, I know, I've talked about it before. If you take the last seventy five meetings of the Federal Reserve, sixty five of them, they've kept rate successively low or changed it. I just don't think you need to spend that much time tweaking it. I think they should. They should leave it at a reasonable level and that the system recalibrate because the system US economy is the most flexible, adaptive, technology oriented economy in the world, and it will adapt.

What about their two percent inflation goal, because I think one of the Fed officials this week was asked, like, are you willing to sacrifice the economy just to stick to that two percent goal? Like the alter of the two percent? Is it worth sacrificing the economy just to get to that point that you have been telling people you would get.

Is it a false god?

Is it wow? A Taylor Swift reference.

Yes, one man's opinion. I think there is. You just had massive monetary and physical stimulus. You've got to give it a little bit of time. Like this whole idea like there's a magic to two doesn't make any sense to me that you just had immense stimulus. Let it plan. By the way, two percent over the intermediate term, I get two percent over any short period of time. It doesn't make any sense, particularly defense raise interest rates five hunderd base once the unemployment rate is three point six percent. How much do you have interest rates? How much would you have to move them to get the unemployment rate to a level to slow wages and get it to a level that you're coming it's not worth it. Why would you take why would you take millions of people out of work because you need to go from two point seven to two? It's like, why do it? And I want to talk about this too much, but the people that get hurt by the higher levels of inflation are the people you're going to take out of work. And I think there is you know you think about when you raise rates to these levels, you're actually creating an income benefit to people. They're wealthier people who are savers, and you're hurting the people that just love to borrow. And I just don't think that trade off makes any sense. You know, this too is some magical, mystical perfection. It doesn't make it. It doesn't. It's illogical to me.

I mean listening to you talk. And you also made the point that the FED probably doesn't have to murder the labor market here. Just to tie a bow on that thought, do you need to get the unemployment rate above four percent to get back to two percent or can we have this sort of happy balance.

So I think the system will reach calibrate itself, and I think technology. I mean, first of all, we're about to go through the most extraordinary productivity growth. I think, you know, certainly since the Internet, and maybe even more so, we really don't know how many job functions are going to be eliminated through AI. We don't know how many how much true efficiency is going to be created, and so this whole concept of gosh, there's a number that we need to get to in payroll. And I'm not convinced that wages is that sincere to serve it to service inflation. I think it's an indicator and I think it can be representative. But you think about it, we went for a long period of time where you had low levels of inflation. I think it is it is an academic exercise, and only that that suggests there's a level of employment that creates this level of inflation. You know, particularly when you don't know how much efficiency you're going to get off of AI, how much technology, how much substitution effect that you're going to see play through. I mean, the world is changing so quickly, so many ways, But I just think those historic calculations and what was a simple economy, cyclical goods oriented economy, or do just don't hold anymore?

I want to ask you about that, broadly speaking, and about what we've seen so far in twenty twenty three, because everything has gone basically not in any way that anybody predicted. Like the stuff that's up is stuff that nobody thought would be up this year. What is it about this year that's been so difficult to make sense of? Or is it just the reality of the post pandemic world where people are just having a more difficult time making some of these forecasts.

I mean, I'll go back to the first point on AI. I mean seven stocks drive in the market. I mean, if you take you eliminate those seven stocks of the equity market and you look at it and saying, it doesn't seem like a market's not up that much, it doesn't seem that aberrational. And there by the way, there are a lot of equities now they traded three, four or five multiple of cash flow that are pretty reasonable. So that is, but I think the advent of AI coming in and the true explosive opportunity set on that has certainly impacted a number of equities on the backside of it. I think that has been a surprising dynamic. Second being, you know, nobody in this generation has ever seen inflation stay as high for as long as it had and continue to surprise to the upside. And that has been you know, has put the central banks. You know, we've had these false starts of inflation, particularly in places like the UK, that it feels like it's coming down and then all of a sudden it is not, and it is not. So I think I think those have been the things that have been the most surprising. I would say one thing I've learned over the years of investing, too is the markets do what hurts the most people, and the technicals. So I just give a presentation the other day about, you know, some of the things I've learned over the years and investing, which I feel like I'm still learning more than I did when I first started. But you know, one of them is the technicals are more important than the fundamentals, and fundamentals win out over long periods of time. The technicals went out much more so in the short term. And you realize what happened at the beginning of this year is people got out of equities and had reduced some of it, you know, for obviously the pressure that was on it. All of a sudden you have this, you know, people need to get in the tech stocks, they'd reduce a lot of it. This year has been more than any of what I've seen, has been driven by technicals in an incredible way, in violent ways at times.

That's interesting because a conversation I've had with a lot of investors at this point is that you're just seeing a massive gain game of catchup, particularly when it comes to equities because coming into the year, you know, this was the year of fixed income. Maybe it's still is rick I don't know, but you had a lot of people underweight. Now they've been forced to chase that rally and now we are where we are. But bringing it to fixed income, obviously you have a perch. You're looking across all the different asset classes within fixed income, where do you see the most opportunity right now?

And I can said one last thing about course. The other thing that the other thing that I think is surprising and which is pretty profound statement. You know the world has talked about like the federis rates. We got to we have to go in a recession. I just don't know why a modern financial economy like the US goes in a recession anymore other than some quantitative can you have a negative one percent in twenty twenty, nominal GDP was twelve, and twenty one it was seven, nominal GDP was seven. You know, these numbers are pretty impressive, And unless you have a pandemic or unless you have some exogyshock financial crisis, when you have a consumer oriented, service oriented economy, it's much more stable than people give credit to. And I think if we had a negative one percent recession after these massive nominal GDP numbers, I think you'd have to like wake people up to tell them, like, you know, we're in a recession now. Like I think it's a really different paradigm. China is different because it's a debt finance. But I just think recession is grossly overstated as a phenomena today without some massive shock to the system. So it's just so different than when I first started the business. Yeah, you had a recession, you had food lines, you had gas line, mean, it was like bad stuff.

We've already seen a lot of these recession calls for twenty twenty three get pushed into twenty twenty four. But if we don't get a recession, I mean, how do you invest along that. Are there any markets where you can see that a recession is mistakenly priced in?

Yeah? So by the way, it gets to this point about you know why things have been surprising and why the equity market. So, I mean people were like, get out. You know, earnings estimates. You know, we saw earnings estements that almost were quantitatively impossible to hit unless the big tech stocks get devastated for some reason. And I think now people are realizing it, even if you had a moderate recession, if you had one of these two quarters of negative small size, is it really going to change you know, what your asset mix is going to be in terms of your portfolio. And I think that's been a big adjustment. So what do you do with that? How do you invest around it? Listen, I still think you got to own your own equities as part of a bar bell and a portfolio. One of the beautiful things today in investing you can own front end yielding assets. I bought some commercial paper the other day at six and a half percent one year CPE six and a half percent. It's like, I don't I just want to go home at six and a half. I just sit and sit of saying to tell clients, sos, I'm going to get you six and a half and I'll be taking the rest of the year off. But that's pretty I mean, that's pretty attractive. But if you ran let's say you ran a lot of carry, a lot of front end yield, you know, in high quality assets, investment in great credit, maybe go a little longer, and some things like agency mortgages. And then I'm going to own some of these equities. And you know, we assume that the equity market of companies can throw off ten twelve percent return on equity. You could generate a nice return in a portfolio and frankly more stable than you have historically because you're getting a lot of carry from your fixed income quality assets and fixing it doesn't mean you have to stretch for fixed income.

I thought you were a bond guy. Here you are talking.

I move around global allocation, all right, all right?

Fair?

So no we do? We do all asset classes.

Do you know what else he runs?

I do, but tell me his own ETF launched in May. We're talking about the ticker is bank. I believe it's black Rock Flexible Income. Did I get that right?

Right? Yeah? Yeah?

What's about long lit?

I mean, I think the advent of ETFs has been you know, largely, I mean, the size of the ETF market has been in the passive space. I mean, I use, I've been trading managing ETFs for years in some of the big indices, and the advent of you know, running now active ETFs, the growth of active ecfs is really accelerated, and quite frankly, now the ability to use different tools to run an active ETF in a sufficient way as you can as a mutual fund is now there. So, like I say, I use things like HyG or LQD or obviously SBY or so many different tools that allow me to run in an open architecture, transparent portfolio. You can run it and create similar returns you run in a mutual fund. And I feel like you've hit that inflection point today around the scale of the ETF market. They're running an active ETF, you can do it effectively. So anyway, I'm super excited about it. Hey, it's been a obviously well manage and traded gazillions of them for years and be able to manage that type of portfolio has been a lot of fun and it's been a lot of excitement around it, which has been great.

Well. I think the most interesting part to me is that there's a person behind the ETF, like you're kicking off this trend of people basically attaching their names to the exchange traded fund. I really think you were the first, and now we're seeing sort.

Of Dan Iverson from Pimco launchuria first ETF this year who was it. Ed Perks also came out with his own ETF, So there's definitely a migration of some of these star managers such as yourself coming over to the wrapper officially, even though to your point you've been using them for a while in portfolios.

Yeah, I know it's been I don't know there's star category, but I definitely humble.

Yeah.

I think it's you know, meeting with a lot of clients which I haven't heretofore, who are in the ETF that do models and what have you. You realize the efficiency of the tax efficiency, the transparency, you can build models around it. I mean, that's an innovation that's going to be continue to grow and so it's been a lot of fun. I've met a lot of new people in new areas around doing it, so it'll be exciting. But I say that technology allows you to do it pretty efficiently.

Today, Rick, I have a million more questions for you, so we'll have to bring you back on. But Rick Reader black Rocks, chief investment officer of Global Fixed Incomers, so happy you could join us, we can't let you go yet. Okay, we have to play a quick round of craziest things we've all seen in markets this week, and I think Katie promised me a really good one.

I actually came completely unprepared.

You'll have to do it on the fly.

If I had to do it on the fly, I have no idea. I would just say real rates at a fifteen year high, that's pretty amazing. Real rates at a fifteen year high, and equities don't care at all. I remember, like two years ago, we were writing a bunch of bearish takes about the equity market that once real yield started to move significantly higher, it was going to be lights out for risk assets and we were completely wrong.

So I was about to say we were so right, Rick, what about you? Anything interesting? You've seen in markets anything crazy, crazy, weird.

So similar thing the volatility equity markets. The price of volatility is insane. We did the treade yesterday where I mean, you know, people fall the VIX index, but you can price option volatility at nine ten fold his crazy people are giving. You can buy equities without paying for them in terms of downside in terms of downside risk. We did a one day which I don't do a lot of, in fact very rarely in my portfolios. But you can do a one day option for a one percent move in the equity marketing get it? It was actually ten to one odds. Like it's all because volatility is so low in the equity market. People don't think the market can move. But while rate volatility is really high. You know, it's interesting my career, Like equity people in bond, people work in different buildings, and so are times that there are aberrations between the two of these. I still do both, but most people work in different We're working different buildings, and like this has been an amazing one, like equity of all, Like I keep looking at those markets singing, why are things why are they giving that nobody's buying insurance to the downside to dias a vault trade super cheap.

I saw a note that said, I forget how many days we've gone, like weeks without even a three percent drot bela stock market.

So yeah, but a lot of updates. I mean you buy Upside. I mean that's the beauty of it. You can buy Upside convex to. They pretty cheap today.

Okay, my craziest thing has nothing to do with any of these things.

Great, hit me.

I'm going to tie it back to this. I promise there's this Bloomberg story out that there's this new trend of restaurants providing stools for people's purses.

Okay, have you seen this? No, I don't go anywhere me neither. I only go to the movie theater with you. Basically, yeah, when I forced you to come with me. But if you go to a fancy restaurant and you have a super fancy purse, they'll bring you a little stool, huh, and then you can like, your purse will sit there with you and it will eat dinner with you.

What a crazy thing in markets?

What a crazy thing in markets? That's not it. I'm tying it back.

I promise there actually is a handbag that's sold for a crazy amount of money in recent weeks. It is so tiny that you need a microscope.

To see it. I've seen this.

It's a Louis Vuitton inspired Neon Green miniature purse created by an arts collective in Brooklyn. It's smaller than a grain of salt.

Rick, have you seen this?

Have you seen this story? Yes, it's cute. It's small. It's so tiny, it's narrow enough to pass through the eye of a needle. They used it.

They made it using three D printing, and then the person who won the auction got microscope for viewing it because it's so small. Anyway, it's time to play. I have so much trouble saying this. The price is precise. I'm going to have you, guys, guess what the auction went for.

What was the winning bid?

Okay, four hundred thousand dollars?

Rick, come on, I med thirty thousand dollars.

Wow. Wow, that's quite a spread, Delta. Who won?

Not you? Oh?

Really?

What did it sell for?

What was in the prices? Right? You're supposed to be low anyway, so I forget right?

Oh jeez, can't go over not the price is right? We can't call it that. We can call it. The price is precise, I understand. Okay.

The winning bid for this tiny thing that nobody can use or carry anywhere sixty three thousand, seven hundred and fifty dollars.

I'm really surprised.

I got it for you for your birthday.

Oh my god, thank you. Welcome so excessive, but thank you.

You can bring it to the movie theater when we go see Barbie.

I don't like inhale it by when you eat popcorn.

Rick Reader, thank you so so much for joining us. Katie. I'm so happy to have you on the podcast too. I don't miss Mike at all.

Yeah, I don't even I don't even remember that man.

What's his last name?

Right?

That was great though, Thank you, Rick, Thank you both so much.

Thanks for having Meil. That was awesome.

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