Episode 2035: Recession Arrives-The Lies, Misrepresentation, And Fake Numbers Of The Biden Regime; The Energy Crisis Comes To Food; Manchin's $800 Billion Lobbyist Payoff
Steph, Jonathan, Mike, and Andrew discuss the latest GDP data and whether it points to a recession. They also discuss the impact of the Fed's latest rate hike and what it could mean for the economy in the future.
00:00:00.000second quarter GDP numbers just released, and they do show another contraction for a second
00:00:05.600consecutive quarter, which could signal the U.S. economy is in recession. This comes after the
00:00:11.380Federal Reserve raised interest rates again yesterday, with the Fed chair saying the path
00:00:15.880to avoiding recession has, quote, narrowed. Let's bring in NBC News senior business analyst and
00:00:21.700host of the 11th Hour on MSNBC, Stephanie Rule, Jonathan Lemire, Mike Barnacle,
00:00:26.700Katie Kay, all still with us as well. Steph, good to see you. So let's dig into this. Janet Yellen,
00:00:33.280Jerome Powell, others have said this is not what an economy in recession looks like with low
00:00:37.540unemployment, plenty of jobs available to people. But yes, inflation at 40-year high. And now, by
00:00:43.420some definitions, as you know better than most, this does show this new number on the GDP that the
00:00:48.740economy is in a recession. So what's the word? It's a very, very complicated situation. Listen,
00:00:56.260people don't like to hear that the economy is shrinking. But remember, by raising rates,
00:01:01.160that's what Jay Powell is trying to do. And to simply say, we have a good economy, we have a bad
00:01:06.500economy. Come on, Willie. We have to remember what's actually causing inflation. You've got a
00:01:10.720war in Ukraine. We've got supply chain issues that are still lingering from COVID. This is
00:01:15.560complicating things. But you just laid out a few of the points. When you normally have a contracting
00:01:20.400economy, you don't have sizable wage growth. You don't have unemployment as low as it is,
00:01:25.000right? Go out down any main street in America, and you're going to see help wanted, help wanted,
00:01:28.840help wanted. And even housing. While people are concerned that housing prices are getting softer,
00:01:34.000they're still above pre-pandemic levels. And remember, just a few months ago, we were hoping
00:01:38.640to get some relief in the housing market. So what we have on our hands is a complicated,
00:01:43.920confusing economy. I know politicians don't like that.
00:01:46.960Thank you, Andrew. So in terms of what we're seeing in the data, whether it is the GDP number,
00:01:53.480whether it is the dropless claims number, this is an economy that's weakening at a much faster rate
00:01:59.200than most people expect it. That's the bottom line. Whether we're in a recession or not,
00:02:03.380it's not as interesting as the fact that we are weakening really fast. In terms of what does it mean?
00:02:09.760Well, there were two FOMC messages yesterday. There was a scripted message, which was that
00:02:17.740inflation is much too high, that yes, the economy is weakening, but don't worry about it because the
00:02:23.480labor market is incredibly tight and we're going to continue tightening. And then there was that
00:02:27.480unscripted but consequential comment that we are at neutral. So depending on which FOMC message you
00:02:34.580look at, you get very different conclusions with today's data. I think the bottom line,
00:02:41.000Andrew, is we're not out of this tax inflationary forces yet. Yes, inflation is going to come down
00:02:45.040at a headline level, but it's not going to come down fast enough given how fast the economy is
00:02:50.400weakening. And that's going to put the Fed in the same dilemma it's been in for the last few months.
00:02:56.040Things are moving in the wrong direction and they're moving faster than I think some people had
00:03:00.520expected in the wrong direction. But at the same time, there's a view, and I think it's a fair view,
00:03:05.500which is to say this is what was supposed to happen if the Federal Reserve was going to do what
00:03:10.860it's been doing, which is to say it has been putting its hands on the neck of the economy and
00:03:15.980trying to slow things down. That's what they've been doing. And now it's working to some degree.
00:03:21.660I mean, it's sort of a very strange feeling to say this is what we wanted, but we are now going to
00:03:26.640have a slower economy. We may have a recession. A recession, the word, I think, is now just a
00:03:31.720political football as to, you know, what those ads come this fall during the midterms actually
00:03:36.880say. Are we in a recession? Are we not in a recession? I think most Americans have a lived
00:03:40.760experience. They know what this feels like, and this feels very different than what the world felt
00:03:45.340like, call it 12 months ago, when, you know, it felt like confetti was coming out of the sky
00:03:50.340along with money. And in fact, actually money was coming out of the sky. It was showing up in your
00:03:53.600mailbox. So it's a different feeling. And that's where we are. I will say the markets have been
00:04:00.200actually very contained today. You know, some people would have thought recession, they'd be
00:04:04.800falling precipitously. Not so much. Steady? Steady in large part, because there's a view now
00:04:10.080that actually the Federal Reserve won't have to keep its hands on the neck of the economy in the way
00:04:14.580that it had. Yeah, thank you for that. I really appreciate it. And that was a great background,
00:04:21.400a kind of history to get us up to this point. As you know, you know, this this book, it walks
00:04:27.940through the history of the Fed, but it really looks at what the Federal Reserve has done over
00:04:31.800the last 10 years, which is unprecedented in the history of the Fed. The Fed has really broken the
00:04:38.220graph of history. It has engaged in a series of unprecedented and really, truly radical experiments
00:04:45.420in printing money. And we can walk through all of this. But you know, you're asking me about that
00:04:51.260subtitle, how the Fed broke the American economy. And that's a very confrontational subtitle. And
00:04:56.280I really stand behind it more and more every day. The Fed broke the economy in a few key ways. First of
00:05:03.600all, the Fed's actions helped widen wealth inequality, probably more than any single institution in the
00:05:11.740United States. The Fed drove the gap between the very, very richest and everybody else to its widest
00:05:17.680point in history through its money printing. And we'll talk about how that works. But then secondly,
00:05:24.100by by doing this over a decade, by pumping money into Wall Street, by boosting stock market prices,
00:05:30.940corporate debt markets, and all the rest of it, the Fed has put us in a terribly fragile position.
00:05:37.540They have created enormous asset bubbles on Wall Street. It's what the hedge fund types call the
00:05:43.720so-called everything bubble. And that's what's left us in such a precarious state today, where the Fed
00:05:49.680is being forced to try to fight inflation by tightening the money supply. But in doing so,
00:05:55.180it's really risking a massive financial crisis. So that's how the Fed has broken the economy. It's
00:06:01.060enriched the rich. And it's made our financial system so fragile today. Credit card rates,
00:06:07.060car loan rates all up. And where are the workers? OK, so we're going to see credit card rates go up.
00:06:12.380If you're carrying a balance, try to get that balance down as quickly as you can. Your mortgage
00:06:16.280rate is going to go up if you if you have a rate that is adjustable. If you don't or you're trying
00:06:21.660to get a new home, it's going to be higher than it used to be, which also means that housing prices
00:06:26.640are likely to come down again. So that's all of that. The second part of your question,
00:06:31.420where are the workers? Help wanted signs all over the place. You tell me. This is the piece.
00:06:37.580This is more of the mumbo jumbo you get from the business media. OK, it is Thursday, 28 July,
00:06:44.380year of our Lord, 2022. You're in the war room. I want to start with our two heaviest hitters,
00:06:50.420both Lou Dobbs and Steve Cortez, to walk through all of it. I do want to say in starting this and
00:06:54.800going to go through the math and what's happened last night, we'll talk about our special on the
00:06:59.860Federal Reserve, the Lords of Easy Money. I want to thank Christopher Leonard. Overwhelming response
00:07:04.360to that from our from our viewers and listeners. But the most important to give you a signal,
00:07:09.600not noise. The Chinese Communist Party announced right before the call with Xi and Biden that they're
00:07:17.160putting in one hundred and forty eight billion dollars, a bridge, a emergency crisis set of
00:07:25.840loans to back up the banks for the for the the implosion of Chinese real estate. More than anything
00:07:32.860else that will happen today that will guide your life and affect your life in the days, weeks,
00:07:37.940months and years ahead. China's real estate market is now officially cratering. The Chinese Communist Party
00:07:44.120understands the tanks outside the lockdowns, not letting people get to their money, putting the
00:07:49.700tanks outside, calling calling that Lao Bai Jing's savings accounts, investment products. It's not
00:07:56.200going to work. I said yes. I gave an interview to G News on Chinese TV and said, hey, you're standing
00:08:02.440between them and their money. This is where they're going to light the fuse of a revolution. And you're
00:08:06.120seeing it all over the world. China today announces one hundred and forty eight billion dollars.
00:08:10.260The crisis they have in real estate is 10x what we had in 2007, 2008, 10x.
00:08:17.520It's all going to come home to roost. You see this madness today. Lou Dobbs, my question to you,
00:08:23.520because people have come to you for 40 or 50 years, this mumbo, the business media is embarrassing.
00:08:29.500This mumbo jumbo, we're in a recession, not recession. They're trying to run. They're trying
00:08:34.540to run interference. They're trying to be pulling guards for the Biden regime. Think of the destruction,
00:08:39.740the Biden regime has done in less than in two years, what, in a year and a half, the destruction
00:08:44.580they've done to this economy. Mr. Lou Dobbs.
00:08:48.560Steve, first, it's great to be with you. Secondly, you're exactly right. And what we witnessed the
00:08:54.000host over on CNBC when he got to the part that he lost the second part of the question, you remember?
00:09:00.540And he says, what was the second part? Oh, yes.
00:09:02.880It's an afterthought for the corporatists in this country. It's an afterthought for the Biden
00:09:09.020administration. It was the primary purpose of policy for, as you well know, as the former
00:09:15.420chief strategist of the Trump administration and the White House and the president. Men and women in
00:09:22.500this country, working men and women, their families were the number one priority. It was America first,
00:09:28.020Americans first, and to see people talking about the economy in sort of narrow silos. When talking
00:09:36.020about what is happening, we cannot in any way ignore fiscal policy. We have watched this administration
00:09:44.120spend money lavishly. We're looking at over $30 trillion in national debt. And yes, that exceeds
00:09:51.740the size of our economy. It is a tender box right now as an economy because of what we have at the Fed,
00:10:01.520which is a balance sheet filled with $9 trillion of assets that they've got to sell into this market
00:10:09.760in order to slow inflation. And at the same time, we have to recognize that the Fed pushed that money,
00:10:18.100not just into the American economy, but into Europe, into China. And the result has been, frankly, a
00:10:25.980disaster, as you reported yesterday. We're looking at a prospect here of an administration that will
00:10:35.440lead us into, I think, the most dangerous economic times that we have witnessed since the 1930s.
00:10:43.280And the reason I say it is, the top two officials of this administration have no idea in the world.
00:10:50.940It's time to be straightforward. We have a president who's cognitively impaired. He is inoperable.
00:10:58.720And we have a vice president who has no knowledge. She has no capacity to communicate. She has also
00:11:06.420an undetermined philosophy that she would bring to any job. But my God forbid the presidency of the
00:11:14.800United States. And who does that leave us? That leaves us Nancy Pelosi. We are looking at a real
00:11:22.120serious situation unless we find some serious people. And by the way, the chief economics advisor
00:11:27.580in the White House, Steve, Brian Deese, he's an attorney. And he is out talking about two
00:11:34.800consecutive quarters of contracting GDP recession make? That is nonsense. And just more lies emanating
00:11:44.740from this Marxist, Dan-led White House.
00:11:49.280Lou, I want to come back to you right now. Cortez, hang on for a second. When Lou Dobbs says,
00:11:54.240I see us on the precipice of the greatest financial crisis we've had from the 1930s. People sit up and
00:11:59.860take notice. You've been through, this ain't your first rodeo. Walk us through that. When Lou Dobbs
00:12:06.440looks at the numbers, when Lou Dobbs looks at the leadership, when Lou Dobbs looks at the messaging,
00:12:11.080what is it that puts the fear of God into Lou Dobbs about what could happen to this nation's economy,
00:12:16.180sir? Your second item in that question, leadership. Where do we turn for leadership?
00:12:22.880We have Chuck Schumer working out a deal with Joe Manchin and shame on Manchin for going along. He
00:12:31.100knew what the principles were. He knew where he should stand in terms of his integrity. And to give
00:12:38.240an inch on the Build Back America nonsense at this time, when we're looking at hyperinflation,
00:12:45.160double-digit inflation already at the retail level and, excuse me, the wholesale level,
00:12:50.680and soon to be there with the consumer and the broad purchasing economy. We have to have somebody
00:12:57.680who has the integrity and the intelligence and the knowledge to understand this is a time for
00:13:03.600constraint in not every area, but in important areas. It is a time for constraint in terms of fiscal
00:13:11.240policy. And it is a time to understand that moderation at the Federal Reserve, there is not a single
00:13:18.360governor on that Federal Reserve, not a bank president or a chairman who has the experience
00:13:25.360and the proven knowledge and talent to try to front run a market. The first rule in my judgment should
00:13:34.580be for the Federal Reserve always, follow the markets first. And this chairman of the Fed has chosen time
00:13:42.160and time again to think he's smart enough to anticipate correctly, forecast an outlook that should be
00:13:49.160biblical in terms of its acceptance on the part of the society and the economy. And he has been horribly
00:14:00.160wrong. Transitory inflation. What we have now is we're on the brink of hyperinflation to talk about markets that need to be cooled off. He wants to keep the pedal down,
00:14:09.160yesterday he had to, he had to fight first himself because he had to acknowledge now, if you've ever been data driven, this is the time for the Fed to do so. Because
00:14:24.160science, Lou, hang on for one, hang on for one second. We're taking a short break. We've got Steve Cortez. We have Lou Dobbs. We've got Dave Walsh is going to join us. We're going to have talk about energy. We're going to talk about the markets, talk about the Fed, all of it.
00:14:38.160The Fed, all of it. Also this mansion bill. Lou Dobbs, Dave Walsh, the great Steve Cortez, all next in the war room.
00:14:45.160You know what's never good? When your nation's supposed authority on economic policy completely misses the flashing red lights of impending inflation.
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00:21:35.160It's where I cut my teeth in broadcasting.
00:21:37.380And so many amazing broadcasters like Lou Dobbs at one point worked there.
00:21:41.620But what I saw happen when I worked at CNBC was during the Obama-Biden administration, when GE was at that point the corporate parent of CNBC, GE increasingly became effectively a department of the Obama administration, let's face it.
00:21:55.600And they put enormous pressure on CNBC to always pursue narrative rather than real storytelling, rather than fact finding, rather than real journalism and broadcasting.
00:22:04.600So a network that used to provide a really valuable service to provide financial and market literacy and information to the masses, unfortunately, became a spin-dominated enterprise.
00:22:16.480Speaking of spin this morning, watching all of these business media and corporate media talking heads try to spin this recession into something that's actually positive.
00:22:24.300They look like that girl in The Exorcist, their heads are spinning so hard, trying in some way to excuse what is a Biden recession and a very deep Biden recession at that.
00:22:35.160So the numbers today confirm what we have long known, what the American consumer has long known, that we are in a recession.
00:22:42.020And by the way, one thing you notice about business media and folks like Stephanie Ruhl is it's all sloganeering.
00:22:55.720For example, you were talking about Walmart.
00:22:57.560Walmart now, by far the biggest retailer in the United States, it has now massively missed its numbers twice in just the last three months.
00:23:06.400And this is from a company, while I don't appreciate at all the ideology of the management in Bentonville, but I will be the first to concede that these are killers, the managers of Walmart.
00:23:15.680It is one of the best run enterprises in the world.
00:23:18.460And yet the stock price has absolutely cratered, gapped down massively twice in just the last three months.
00:23:26.760Because even Walmart, even those executives, as skilled as they are at their craft, they cannot handle the uncertainties of a Biden economy where the consumer is crashing.
00:23:37.780We also found out in this GDP report this morning, five consecutive quarters now of lower real disposable income.
00:23:48.000Stephanie Ruhl said it's too complicated.
00:23:49.580Andrew Ross-Surkin said this thing is so murky.
00:23:52.280That's where we got Cortez on here in the war room.
00:23:54.480Walk us through your assessment of yesterday afternoon, the Fed, the pals, you know, reading tea leaves, and this morning's announcement, sir.
00:24:18.060They must raise interest rates because inflation is out of control, and no one should assume that it can't get massively worse ahead.
00:24:25.680Given what's going on with natural gas, we showed that chart earlier.
00:24:28.780Natural gas, which is the primary fuel for factories and farms in America, it is once again absolutely soaring.
00:24:35.580So no one should assume that the highs we saw in June, for example, in things like crude oil and gasoline, that those are permanent highs or lasting highs.
00:24:41.820We can go right back there very, very quickly.
00:24:46.800It's a shame that Jerome Powell chose to lie to the American people for over a year, telling us that it was, quote, transitory, when he absolutely had to know better with his army of PhDs.
00:24:56.460And regarding today's news, another aspect of the spin that folks like Powell, like Janet Yellen, like Stephanie Ruhle, the spin will be, well, this is a global issue.
00:25:06.080No, the United States is worst in show.
00:25:08.860And what I mean by that is compared to all the other industrial economies in the world, we are literally in the worst shape.
00:25:14.280And I want to back this up with data and math.
00:25:16.280So if we could go to chart one, this is on PMIs, Purchasing Managers Index.
00:25:20.900And I really like to watch these, Steve, because they're done all over the world and really done in the same way.
00:25:25.920So it's a true good apples to apples comparison of what's going on.
00:25:29.400This is the composite which combines manufacturing as well as services.
00:25:33.340And these are the guys that have to make the decisions about buying, using vendors, buying stuff.
00:25:38.080So this is really the beating heart of an economy, very forward-looking, beating heart of the economy.
00:25:43.500And it's the closest thing we've got to a global look because the math they get is pretty well, even from places like as close to the CCP, right?
00:31:05.460Because some of these specific companies are reflective of the larger whole and I'm not trying to pick on these companies, but they're important names for us to keep an eye on.
00:31:12.060And the newest today is Stanley Black and Decker, the tool maker, which is right now, as we speak, down 12 percent on the day.
00:31:20.160Steve, and again, I'm not just picking on them, but Stanley Black and Decker, like almost any company that is consumer facing, is having enormous problems right now.
00:32:07.140But we see then that into the spring of 2021, unfortunately, Stanley Black and Decker topped out there and has absolutely crashed ever since,
00:32:15.060has been more than cut in half off of its highs of 2021.
00:32:19.920And I think that this stock, unfortunately, is emblematic of a much larger problem in the U.S. economy.
00:32:25.080And this really portends terribly, Steve, for construction and for housing going forward.
00:32:30.740When you when you have a toolmaker miss like this, particularly one that is as big and ubiquitous in the American economy as Stanley Black and Decker is,
00:33:05.820And as you say, the real underlying economy is much worse than people think.
00:33:10.840The Financial Times of London broke this morning a brutal story.
00:33:14.600We've I've had it up on Getter the last couple of days about the tanks outside,
00:33:17.540about the 30 percent drop in real estate prices in China.
00:33:21.860But the Financial Times today has a headline of coming out since China's central bank seeks to mobilize one hundred and forty eight billion dollars bailout for real estate projects.
00:33:34.360The leverage over there, the phony numbers.
00:33:36.640Now they got the tanks outside the bank, Bank of China, not letting people get to their savings for the 50 percent savings rate.
00:33:42.260The biggest geopolitical asset the CCP has is Lao Bai Jing's savings.
00:33:46.960And they ain't letting them get to it.
00:34:18.800Now, a lot of that was built on a mountain of debt and some some phony numbers.
00:34:22.960So, I mean, to some extent, it was built on quicksand.
00:34:24.660But the point is, you still had an accelerating China at the time that you had a receding United States.
00:34:29.880Now, you have the two largest economies in the world who are crashing in concert, who are crashing in synchronicity right now, both the U.S. and China together.
00:34:39.660That makes this present situation far more dangerous, in my view, from looking at a global perspective.
00:34:45.120And in addition to that, you have massive inflation, Steve.
00:34:48.100So we have the worst of both worlds, a decelerating economy in the United States, a crashing economy in China with prices rising.
00:34:54.840That's not supposed to happen in a normal business cycle.
00:34:57.940Back in 08 and 09, as bad as things were, and a lot of people were really suffering, at least the necessities of their life were getting cheaper for them because it was a deflationary recession.
00:35:07.100We now have an inflationary recession where as your real wages crash, the cost of the goods that you need, the necessities of life, not the luxuries, the necessities of life, continue to accelerate higher.
00:35:19.400So for that reason and from that perspective, I think that the situation right now is actually even more dangerous than the Great Recession of 08, 09.
00:35:27.800I think to come up with similar corollary, Steve, you've got to go all the way back to the Great Depression.
00:35:32.280You've got to go back almost 100 years, I think, for applicable analogs to what's going on right now in the global economy.
00:35:39.200You're the second, Lou Dobbs first in the first segment, now you in the C-Block.
00:35:43.720This is yesterday's headline in the financial world's biggest consumer names announce soaring price increases.
00:36:07.980That's why their inventory has got a massive problem.
00:36:11.080The other thing to remember, and this is where we're going to spend a lot of time walking through the next couple of days and weeks so you fully understand it.
00:36:17.560The world right now is leveraged to this $300 trillion of debt.
00:36:23.520When you take it all, when you add up government debt, corporate debt, personal debt, we're awash at $300 trillion in debt predicated by it.
00:36:33.220This is what Cortez and I have been trying to teach you.
00:36:36.380This is what Cortez and I have been trying to teach you or lay out the framework so you can think about it.
00:36:39.100The structure of the world's economy since 2008, the solution of the central banks was to go to negative interest rates, zero interest rates.
00:36:46.840In Tokyo, the Bank of London, the ECB, European Central Bank, and the Federal Reserve.
00:36:53.380The whole structure of the modern world economy is predicated upon free money, just printed money, just fiat currency.
00:38:24.520You either got to raise taxes for revenue, which they ain't going to do.
00:38:29.440They're either going to sell securities, bonds to the Japanese insurance companies and to the Chinese Communist Party, which the Chinese are telling you that they're tapped out.
00:38:38.420They got to take care of their own mess.
00:38:39.520Or you just continue to print money and run massive deficits and throw more gasoline, more.
00:38:45.020This is what the American Recovery Project was in the spring, in March of 2021.
00:38:51.680And who are the three guys telling you it was going to be massively inflationary?
00:38:54.600Steve Cortez, Steve Bannon, and Peter Navarro on the war room.
00:39:01.160Now, last night, the biggest signal we have, ladies and gentlemen, forget all the noise you're hearing and all the running around, they're saving Biden's agenda, ba-bing, ba-bing, ba-bung.
00:39:35.200And I think Manchin was channeling Frankie Pentangeli, Frankie Five Angels, from the godfather when he said, let's hit him now while we still have the muscle.
00:40:01.560And not just that, Steve, but there's a gang coming in.
00:40:04.300Speaking of good gangsters, our gangsters, there are senators coming in, I believe, outsiders, people who mean it, real America first stalwarts and fighters.
00:40:12.440I mean people like Blake Masters and Adam Laxalt, J.D. Vance, this group, Eric Greitens, this group that is coming in, this group means business.
00:40:19.880And they're not going to put up with this kind of nonsense any longer.
00:40:25.940And it's super unfortunate for the American people.
00:40:28.600It's only going to inflame the existing inflationary bonfire in this country right now.
00:40:33.660So it's terrible for our country, but it's pretty predictable gangster politics from the Dems with a hand from establishment Republicans, unfortunately, as well.
00:40:43.060By the way, we've had the we've had the the chips bill, which we support the chips part to bring the manufacturing back.
00:40:48.620I was a big advocate of this in the Trump White House with Peter Navarro.
00:40:53.320Of course, other forces led the president not to do it.
00:40:56.920However, that bill for the 50 or 80 billion dollars you have and really making the companies bring it back and help underwrite that for a degree.
00:41:03.900It's got another couple hundred billion dollars of corporate welfare.
00:41:06.500Of course, it's got to have that on top of it.
00:41:09.640This thing last night, they're saying it's three ninety.
00:41:11.280It's seven hundred billion dollars of spending.
00:41:13.160It may be some tax increase, for instance, to make the war room, Steve Bannon feel better.
00:41:18.440They say they're going after carried interest, but they're really not going after carried interest.
00:41:21.840That's all phony because their donors are not going to let them.
00:41:24.200This is going to be it's going to be out there for the headlines.
00:41:54.440And again, which is only going to massively accelerate the existing inflation that's out there.
00:41:59.880Government spending is a massive cause of this inflation in the first place.
00:42:03.620And so their answer is, well, let's just do more of it.
00:42:05.860And by the way, regarding that chips bill and to connect that to your previous discussion of what's going on in China, it's outrageous that the United States is totally dependent upon Taiwan for chips.
00:42:14.520And we must onshore that production on a broader scale.
00:42:20.460But but to connect this to the situation, what's going on internally in China, I think this is important.
00:42:24.380But as the CCP is increasingly put into a corner by its own people and by this financial predicament that they're in, unfortunately, they are incentivized to try to create a massive diversion.
00:42:34.820And thug regimes have done this historically.
00:42:36.980So they are very incentivized to attack Taiwan, to make moves against Taiwan.
00:42:41.320They are also incentivized because we have an absolute weakling in the Oval Office who they neither fear nor respect.
00:42:48.440So this is an incredibly dangerous situation and connect the economic to the geostrategic.
00:42:53.240And unfortunately, the CCP has good and valid reasons for its own power to try to get much more aggressive regarding Taiwan.
00:43:02.160Incredibly dangerous for the world and for the U.S. economy.
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