Hi everyone I'm Rose Marie Miller here with Bob Ivery a reporter here at Forbes here to tell us why a recession is still around the corner.

Thank you so much for joining me today, Bob.

Hey, it's a pleasure to be here.

Thanks.

So Bob, in a piece you wrote recently, you spoke to David Rosenberg,

who is the founder and president of Rosenberg research and

associates and he gave you 13 reasons why a recession is still around the

corner for starters who is he?

Who is he?

Well, he's a strategist, a financial strategist.

He used to be at Merrill Lynch, back when Merrill Lynch was still a powerhouse on Wall Street,

and then he hung out his own shingle.

He's Canadian.

So he hung out the shingle in Toronto and he's very well respected.

You know, you could, he's got a, you know, he's everywhere on the internet. I talked to some other people too there's you

know there's not a lot of people that are saying that we might well he says we

will have a recession there's not many people that fit into that

category anymore because there's been so much good economic news in the last year.

So what inspires you to cover David Rosenberg and his unique approach to predicting the economic

downturns?

Well, I think contrarians are really interesting, I mean, don't you?

I mean, he's really going against the the grain here you know there was they do

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