Rob Russo

So there are a lot of, I would say, cracks in that foundation.

It's unstable at times.

People within the trading block say that there are all kinds of obstacles to growth and to prosperity there as well.

Yeah, I think Althea has summarized it very nicely.

There is a cliff.

And I don't know that anybody should put it past Donald Trump to say he is a guy who loves the madman theory.

So no one should put it past him to say on July 1st, I'm giving six months notice, even if the intention isn't to pull out, but to do it as a negotiating tactic that I'm leaving.

And then to, in essence, run in part his floundering election campaign for the midterms.

It's if you if you ask Dominic LeBlanc, he says there is motion, but not movement at the negotiating table.

I think that that's true.

Yes.

Yeah.

Janice Charette is saying publicly what other negotiators have said privately, the number one goal of these discussions is to maintain an access to the most lucrative market in the world at the lowest possible entry fee.

Because despite what we might think about the growth in the Pacific, that growth in

In Asia, the possibility of Mercosur joining.

You look at Warren Buffett, the most successful investor in the world, perhaps, who over almost a century of living has always said the United States goes through ups and downs, but never bet against the United States, never bet against the U.S.

economy.

the combination of freedom and that frontier-seeking capitalism leads to the kind of innovation you get nowhere else.

So that's why negotiators are saying maintain access.

But they're also saying, why would we rush into a deal with the United States?