400 points on the news on thursday. It was a good week overall. Meanwhile, china is feeling the effects, key imports from countries other than china have skyrocketed. While china is losing out bigtime, imports of advanced Technology Products fell by nearly 20 billion just since july. Joining me right now with reaction to what a potential deal could look like is chinese strategy the expert Mike Pillsbury and, mike, it is great to have you. Thank you so much for joining us. Thank you, maria. Maria where do we stand . The u. S. And china have agreed to meet again with in early october. What are you expecting . Well, as somebody whos been watching negotiations for 40 years, i can tell you what President Trump is doing is historic. Its a huge break through. Its an enormous task hes taking on. He blames earlier american president s for basically coddling the chinese, letting them get away with murder, which makes his task even more historic if he succeeds. The market is really quite correct to Pay Attention to these trade talks restarting in october. However, the important thing is more good news, you might say. The framework, the 150 pages, the Draft Agreement already exists. So if in october in these meetings the chinese back off from what they took back, then we could have a nearterm success. Im not a pessimist who says, oh, this is all going to go on til the election 16 months from now, and i pay very close attention to the president s tweets and his comments. I think hes talking to the chinese. I think hes talking to president xi maria in those tweets. In those tweets. Hes pouring out the pain china should be feeling; three million jobs lost already, supply chain issues, several other problems. What hes doing, he knows about the sycophants who will not tell president xi how much pain china is suffering, so hes communicating directly to his friend, president xi, this is whats going to happen to you. One of the tweets quite recently said between now and 16 months from now, the election, china could suffer even greater pain for the long shot that maybe somebody else will win instead of me. Maria yeah. Is so i think this is getting through in china. Maria is there any reason to believe that china is going to try to meddle in this election through google . I mean, google has an a. I. Lab in china. It walked away from the pentagon, and its working with china, which means its working with the military. Does that concern you . It does. I think peter thiel was correct, they seem to be so drunk on globalization at google, they dont understand theyre an american company. Theyre in california. They should not be aiding the chinese military. Now, theyve got their counter story that, oh, this is just a few google employees or huawei employees who did something. Its not the whole company. But i think peter thiel deserves to have his investigation carried out. Maria we had peter on the show a couple weeks ago. Do you think a deal happens . I want to ask you about the impact of hong kong because this week on mornings with maria, we had on jimmy lye who with, of course, is the founder of next digital, but hes a dissident and china activist. He said that hong kong has already seen a terrible impact from the if authoritarian rule that china continues to put on. Heres what he told me on friday. We have a lot of people got hurt and broken bones and, you know, and all that. And now she just threw out the withdrawal. No, its not going to have any ink the resistance will go on. Maria he wants help from the united states. He said if that extradition bill had gone through, hong kong would be over. Do you think the hong kong protesters do represent the pressure for xi jinping . I think there is pressure on xi jinping. Frankly, i think he probably cares more about hong kong than the u. S. china trade talks. That may be hard to believe, but one of the communist party goals in china is to have unity of china, not to have the foreign barbarians take hong kong or taiwan away. So this is crucial. What seems to be going on, i watched that interview. I think what jimmy is pointing out, which is very important, theres no enforcement mechanism for the agreement in 1984 Maggie Thatcher got with the chinese. Even though that document and the basic law that china passed itself in 1990, they both talk about universal suffrage in hong kong is a goal maria which is the ability to elect your own leadership. Yes. So whats been happening, jimmy kind of pointed out theres a strange mechanism that can china will decide which candidates can run, so, yes, theres a universal suffrage election, but only for people you and i, we pick three candidates, and the vote is for one of our chosen candidates. Thats not universal suffrage. But mrs. Thatcher in 1984 could not get the kind of enforcement mechanism that i think the president is insisting on in this china trade agreement. In some sense, President Trump has learned from mrs. Thatchers mistakes and also president nixon and Henry Kissinger failed to get the main thing they were looking for, a promise from china we will not use force to liberate taiwan. Maria weve also seen china break promises in the wto, weve seen china break promises to the u. S. Saying were going to buy beef and then didnt follow through. Yes. But they keep promises if theres punishment or a strong incentive. Maria and thats why they reneged last time, they didnt want that enforcement mechanism. Youre on your way to china this weekend, youre going to hong kong and china next week. What youll have a better idea after you speak with your sources, but what would a deal look like . And when . I think the president will get a deal. I think hes very wise not to be in a hurry, and he said several times it is the chinese who are in a hurry, who want a deal. This is part of the duel, who is weaker, who is stronger. A deal, to me, would be something that not only is enforceable, therell be more friction. You know, this wont be the great happiness between the u. S. And china once the deal is signed. Therell be friction, therell be complaints. But if its more manageable and our companies have a way to say, look, you promised youd open up this Financial Sector the, youre not doing it, heres the appeal system, the ruling is against china, they get punished. Thats the way its supposed to work. That kind of a deal. If china agrees to it, which if the pain is enough, if the incentive is enough, i think theyll agree to it, and the president s on the right track in this historic endeavor. Maria thanks for your ine sites. Can insights. I will be interested in hearing from you when you come back. 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When you look at the headline, it looks soft, but if you go underneath the hood, when you look at the Household Survey used to compute the Unemployment Rate, they told us we created 590,000 jobs. And then when you look at the establishment survey, guess what you find . You find that hours increased by a tenth of an hour. So you can now start to see that the two surveys actually are a hot closer in term of a lot closer. So, yes, the headline was weaker, but the things underneath the hood, not so weak. Maria yeah. You even had wages up better than 3 , and you do see job creation in a number of sectors. But i was concerned about retail losing jobs. That number was down. What do you make of that . That number was down over 10,000, and the reason for that is clearly all this trade uncertainty. If youre a brick and mortar retailer and youre thinking youre going to get all these tariffs, of course youre going to be pulling back. But to the extent that were now making progress, the president has signaled that were making progress, that will snap back very, very quickly. You also saw manufacturing that everybody thought manufacturing jobs would be zero maria youre right. You saw about 3,000 jobs which, by the way, it is not bad. Maria all right. So you thought this report was solid. Do you see any signs that were going into recession . When you see the Interest Rate situation across the world and this, you know, rock bottom rates, negative rates in europe, you wonder what this is telling us. Well, clearly im not going to disagree that the economy is slow. You saw the ism manufacturing slowing down a little bit. You didnt see that in the service sector, so the economy is showing some signs of slowing, but recession . Not yet. Yes, the yield curve did invert, but i did my doctoral dissertation, and guess what . You need to have that inverted for a whole three months. Not for a week or two. And, by the way, its not inverted right now maria no, its not. When youre looking at the tenyear yield, its hovering around 1. 56, and the twoyear is about 1. 52, 53. So its not inverted right now. Maria so you still see growth in the economy. I see something in the neighborhood with a 2 handle for this year. Next year will depend on whether or not we get resolution of the trade solution, and we can do better than 2. If we dont get resolution, were e probably going to come in much lower. Maria the Federal Reserves going to be meeting, obviously, in a couple of weeks, september 18th. We are expecting the fed to cut rates by a quarter point. Is that what youre expecting, and whats your take on this month of its a september to remember, if you will, because youve got several Central Banks stimulating, the boj, the ecb and the Federal Reserve stimulating in the month. I think that Central Banks all around the world are going to continue to add liquidity. I think, certainly, the European Central bank will probably lower the deposit rate maybe ten basis points. Japan is still in easing mode. All of that, by the way, is putting pressure on the yield curve. Thats one of the reasons why each though everybody is focusing on the inversion, i dont pay as much attention to that. And, of course, china recently lowering reserve requirements, Central Banks around the world are really trying to make sure that they offer some Insurance Protection against a potential slowdown in economic activity. Maria is this all baked in, or do you think markets react to the fed when it cuts rates in two weeks . I think right now the markets are expecting the Federal Reserve maria thats what jay powell says. But what really matters is to look at what the markets have to look at from a big picture perspectivement if you look at the perspective. If you look at the earnings yield whether you look at consensus earnings for 2019, 2020 or even forward earningsing for the s p 500, you have an earnings yield thats north of 5 with a tenyear bond yield thats running around 1. 56 to 1. 58. That, to me, is a screaming buy. Now, nobody pays attention to this if were worried about a recession, but if were not as worried, this is the kind of stuff that makes equity markets rise, not drop. Maria what about a china deal . You heard Mike Pillsbury, he thinks a deal will happen at some point, but he says the president is right to take it slow. I think even a truce would be very impactful. The imf has already told us Global Economic growth will be subtracted by about eighttenths of 1 is if we dont 1 if we dont get a trade deal. Imagine if all of a sudden we get a trade deal. That will be a strong tailwind for the u. S. Economy, strong tailwind for s p 500 earnings. 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As you know, my old business was with hedge funds. I used to raise capital for them, and what i started hearing was we dont want to do hedge funds anymore, we dont want the pay those fees, we want to go directly to deals. So there was a demand to go direct, and there were more hedge funds than Public Companies, so you had issues with crowding. All this stuff was interconnected, so we had an opportunity to help private businesses raise capital. Maria do you think part of the reason is companies are saying, you know what . Im going to stay private for longer . Theres no question. The peak was 1996. Were down 47 since then, and whats happened during that period, as you know, 2002 the, sarbanesoxley is one of the major things. That made it a lot harder and more expensive to be a public company. But in addition to that, the jobs act was passed in 2012, and that quadrupled the amount of private investors you could have. If youre a company now, you can have 2,000 private investors as opposed to 500. In addition, theres a macroeconomic story here as well. Theres liquidity from available from all over the world. All these alternative sources of capital, accessing Capital Markets with the Regulatory Burden that you just said is not necessary anymore. Maria yeah, but theres still all this uncertainty over so many things whether its brexit happening in october, we think, we dont know, or the china situation. How is that uncertainty impacting the companies you are, you know, trading for and helping to raise capital . Theres no question its on everyones mind, but what were seeing with a lot of the companies that have manufacture is theyre actually moving their supply chains out of china. Theyre moving to vietnam and other low cost areas. You dont just have to sit here and take higher costs, theres ways to address that. And to extent that theres going to be a recession, thats going to increase the interest in our business. So i think thats a very interesting point to bring up because people will move their money out of Public Markets if the stocks are going down, and theyre wont to get yield somewhere, and we think thats in the private markets. Maria what about yield . The fact that weve been talking on this program this weekend about rock bottom rates that were seeing, is that also an incentive for companies to basically borrow as much as they have been . Because i think just in the last week 49 deals got done in 30 hours. Youre talking about 74 billion in Corporate Bonds issued in a week. Whats going on with the corporate sector . And, by the way, what do the covenants look like . Maria good point, yeah. Payments in kind . I think this is an unspoken area thats very dangerous. Im not concerned about Consumer Prices and the prices of toys like people are talking about. Weve had no inflation in Consumer Prices in a decade. What i am concerned about is the huge amount of debt thats being taken on not only at the household level, but also on the corporate level. To the extent these yields are coming down, its influencing basically bbb and junk bond issuances through the roof. This could be a big disaster if deals ultimately go up because the debt markets are not responding if yields go up. Maria meanwhile, the Democratic Candidates right now are talking about recession, they are talking about well, theyre talking about everything except economic plans, by the way. I dont know any of their plans in terms of keeping this economy growing. Whats your take on the 2020 race . Well, the one person im most interested in, as you know, is tulsi gabbard. I dont think she gets enough anticipation. Her primary platform is ending wasteful regime change wars. The reason i bring that up, talk it from a deficit ankle. Shes actually a angle. Shes actually a soldier, and since 2001 weve spent 6 trillion on wasteful regime changing wars. What else has happened . Weve taken the ball off asia. So stopping wasting money and lives on these types of unnecessary wars actually have a massive impact on our domestic economy. I dont think that ties been made well enough, but tulsis speaking about it, and its basically crickets from all the other candidates. Maria yeah. Were not hearing anything about that at all. Before you go, omeed, tell us where you see growth right now in the economy. What are you most interested in as you look to invest in these private companies . Well, yeah. As i suggested, i think the private market is the future. The new ipos, we look for the disrupters. Those are companies that have the ability to make things easier and get five, six years ahead of consumer behavior. Its why a company thats giving you a meat or beef alternative is up 500 . Thats a disrupter. Maria so you want to look at consumerrelated Companies Even though you did see retail jobs go down. You dont think that was an indicator that the consumers going down . No, not at all. I think its consumer with a tech element, of course. Whats happening with some of these direct to consumer nameses based on ecommerce, a lot of them are actually going back to brick and mortar and doing wholesale, so its almost back to future. Maria omeed malik joining us. Dont go anywhere, more wall street right after this. Whos dog is this . Its my special friend, antonio. His luxurious fur calms my nerves when im worried about moving into our new apartment. Why dont we just ask geico for help with renters insurance . I didnt know geico helps with renters insurance. Yeah, and we could save a bunch too. Antonio fetch computer antonio . Ill get it. Get to know geico and see how much you could save on renters insurance. You wouldnt accept from any one else. Why accept it from your allergy pills . 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