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Welcome to Motley Fool Money. Thanks for being here. I'm your host, Chris Hill, and joining

me in studio this week from Motley Fool Global Games, Tim Hanson, from Motley Fool Inside

Value Joe Maker, and from Motley Fool Income Investor James Early. Guys, good to see you.

Good to see you, Chris.

We've got Google spending billions on Motorola. We've got Coke investing billions on China,

and we've got a few stocks on our radar, but we will begin with the big macro. Guys,

the not great news continued this week. The number of Americans applying for unemployment

benefits rose. We had headlines about how Germany's economy was flat for the latest quarter.

Let's just go around the table. Joe Maker, I'll start with you. What stood out for you

this week? Macro wise. It was all really bad. There was a lot of bad, just bad piling

up everywhere. It seems to be pointing towards more bad. The general vibe is that we could

be sliding into a second recession. I don't know that it's going to be catastrophic, but

it definitely points towards concern, and I think investors need to respond.

How should investors respond?

I had a feeling you'd ask that. I would say by getting a little bit conservative or maybe

not getting out of stocks, but rotating to conservative ones and thinking about some

of your exposure to cyclical businesses or high growth businesses with fraughty valuations.

James, what did you make of the week?

Chris, we've had this same scenario on the positive a couple months ago, then on the

negative. Back and forth, back and forth. To me, the news is still inconclusive. I just

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