Like china now with the trade war backdrop International Trade has been weak and u. S. Corporates are starting to see they hit their bottom line so now with the 2 main drivers of corporate profits both getting pummeled are we in for a round of negative q 3 earnings and furthermore is this the start of another economic contraction. And earlier this week we had an opportunity to catch up with steve professor of economics unpatriotic and the author of can we avoid another financial crisis we started our conversation by talking about the economic slowdown in china despite the burst the slowdown the nations economy is still growing the fastest of all the worlds Major Economies we asked if this was sustainable. Growth is if you actually look at a 6 percent rate of growth every year that means your economy doubles and saw as if. That sort of growth is possible when youre starting from the incredibly low blows that china began with but if you want to eat you want to go to out of the. Period an