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I'm your host Chris Hill and joining me in studio this week for Motley Fool Inside Value

Joe Mager from Motley Fool Income Investor James Early and for million dollar portfolio

Ron Gross-Jedham. You will talk big banks, big dividend stocks, and one big prediction for

the TV industry. We'll help you rule your retirement with retirement expert Robert Brokamp

and we will give you a look at the stocks on our radar. But we begin this show. It's a big show

this week. You really get your money from this show. We're going to start with the big macro

and that's China. China's economy for the latest quarter came in at 7.6%. That's the lowest rate

in more than three years Ron Gross. What do you think? Well, lowest rate but pretty strong still.

But the big thing here is you know what happens in China? It doesn't stay in China. China is

a little bit weak in part because of Europe. The US will be a weak in part because of China

and Europe. The world we don't live in a vacuum any longer. So we'll watch this closely. China has

already cut interest rates twice because they really want that growth to stay high. They probably

still have room to cut more because inflation is relatively tame. But listen, 7% is still strong growth.

We'd love to have that. Exactly. What they really want to do is they want to be able to

engineer a nice slow growth. What's called a soft landing instead of one that crashes to the

ground which would obviously be bad globally. James, what do you think of China? I don't trust

the numbers. That's my problem. Years ago, we've had discrepancies between GDP numbers and industrial

output and power usage which is tied to industrial output. And it's kind of hard to imagine

the growth rising so much when the power is not being used. So you think maybe growth is

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