Good morning. This hearing will now come to order. I am pleased to welcome our distinguished panels of Witnesses Today on the economic subcommittee focusing on a very important topic and i think theres a lot of bipartisan interest in and that is the economic geostrategic challenge with the rise of china poses for the United States not just today but in the future. The calmness party led peoples republic of china through unfair treatment practices and intellectual property theft market manipulation and very prominently in my view not reciprocal treatment not just in the economic realm but in many realms has been a force in the Global Economy that undercuts the resiliency of the u. S. Economy. Its been one of the worlds fastestgrowing economies averaging close to 10 growth from 1979 to 2015. In 2014 china overtook the United States as the Worlds Largest country in reducing power according to the International Monetary fund. I believe there is a strong bipartisan interest and hopefully we
Means, what healthy competition means, julia, in this era that were in my take thus far is that theres been a difficulty applying kind of legacy, antitrust law to technology will new ground get broken here because congress, as we learned in elementary school, makes the laws absolutely. And theres been a lot of talk about the need for new, different types of laws. But jon and carl, what i think is really interesting here is the question of how much of todays hearing will really focus on the antitrust issues, which are the purported focus here, and how much will we hear other criticisms, other questions about the likes of hate speech, manipulation, voter manipulation and the spread of misinformation on these platforms such as, you know, youtube which is owned by google as well as on facebook so i think there are a lot of Different Things at play here. While antitrust will be at the center, carl, dont you think well see this veer off into other directions as well yeah. Thats sort of my qu
Streak that sauz the shanghai rise 16 yeah shanghai was down by 2 today. Lets see whats happening in the treasury market right now. Yields back down below 0. 6 . We havent seen that for awhile. And joe, still chuckling a little bit about football and why we care this time around not the ivies . No. But anything i see this morning it was eric chemi. I realize out on the cliffs they have that full size cardboard cutout of me so then i was thinking, you know, next week if i dont have like being here some day, i might just put it right here just have something on a loop. Less taxes, less government, more you know a welcome respite plus they got sound theyre going to pipe in sounds like the tesla, you know, the motors i saw that. Theyre going to pipe in fans cheering and i read this stuff and we go, okay i want a cutout this makes sense. Put an entire stadium full of cardboard cutouts. Yes and we all go, yeah, that makes sense. But people would do it. Because i was thinking the camera would
Research and we will talk about inventory numbers. The equity strategists are just reluctantly upgrading their target and we will talk to new and we will talk to them on the hour. Guy hes a 2900 on the markets at 31 so we will see what happens. As you mentioned, its an interesting day in the u. K. , the pound is getting a minor boost, the market is really shrugging its shoulders as we have seen radical plan to save the economy. How radical is it . Heres the chancellor of the exchequer. I want every person in this house and in the country to know that i will never accept unemployment as an unavoidable outcome. Here here. We are not in everything we have done so far just a step back now. In truth, the job has only just begun. Its a 30 billion bound program, again the pound shrugging its shoulders that what we heard. Guestfind out what our says. Is that the right reaction . Why is this enough to move the pound . Else, the as anything focus is slightly elsewhere. Brexit talks happening sep
Expected i think were going through a period of i hate to use that cliche, rational exuberance. People want to get back in the market and theyre being when you see this nickel you featured highly for the last couple days, people are just anxious to put money. Theres a lot of money on the sidelines. And i personally think that we should be concerned and be concerned about whats ahead for the economy. The rest of the summer and into the fall i mean, i think were living in artificial dream world at the moment i think unemployment is going to increase i think that businesses are not going to come back to work as fast as they have. On the other hand, on the other hand, and im going to be selfish, we have companies that are doing well in this environment. But they in special neariches. There are companies who are going to increase and probably certainly a company like facebook and apple and several of the others you mentioned are beneficiaries of this times were living, the Delivery Companie