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This is Motleyful Answers. I'm Alison Southwick. I'm joined as always by Robert Brosef Brocamp,

personal finance expert here at the Motley Fool. Hello, bro.

Hello, Allison. In this week's episode, we're going to talk about the War of the Walled Gardens,

by which we mean the growing competition and streaming video. Does it signal the end for Netflix?

Well, it's probably not good. Jason Moser is here to help us decide. All that and more on this week's

episode of Motleyful Answers. So, bro, what's up?

Well, I'll tell you what's not up. Interest rates, they're not up. Did you know that last

month, for the first time ever, the 30-year

Treasury yielded below 2 percent, historic low? And so you wonder, like, why is this happening?

Why is this happening? I'm wondering.

More and more concerns about the dreaded R-word recession. These days, if you took a survey of economists, about a third would say that they

expect a recession some point in the next year. What is driving that concern? Well, there's

that trade war that's been going on. A recent study from the Federal Reserve estimates that it

could actually knock about 1% off GDP up through 2020.

Plus, we've had a pretty long expansion.

Unless something happens over the next few months, this will be the first decade since the

1850s when they started paying attention to such things, that we didn't have a recession.

How is that reflected in the bond market? Well, people fly to the bond market

for safety. It drives down rates. In particular, these days, longer-term rates are actually

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