📰 Conscious Capital Insights for 07/03/2020
This week, Sino-U.S. relations continue to sour, as Hong Kong's special trading status is revoked. Also, even with another surprising jobs report, about half of the American population is unemployed.
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U.S. revokes Hong Kong’s special trading status. (Bloomberg)
The United States revoked Hong Kong’s special status under U.S. law on Monday, stopping defense exports and restricting Hong Kong’s access to advanced technology products. This is in response to China’s new security legislation concerning the province. The U.S.’s move to revoke Hong Kong’s special trading status is throwing the city’s future as Asia’s top financial and business hub into doubt.
Prepare for the U.S. and China to decouple. (Harvard Business Review)
At Conscious Capital Advisors, one of our major long-term investment themes is the growing great state competition between the United States and China. Harvard Business Review has written a succinct explanation of the current situation and the explicit risks for businesses. In short, as de-globalization accelerates, two hostile economic blocs are emerging, one centered around China and the other around the United States, and companies will have to navigate the tense geopolitical environment going forward.
Nearly half the U.S. population is without a job, showing how far the labor recovery has to go. (CNBC)
Although another astounding, and questionable, jobs reports was reported by the BLS on Friday, the employment-population ratio — the number of employed people as a percentage of the U.S. adult population — plunged to 52.8% in May, meaning 47.2% of Americans are jobless. To get the employment-to-population ratio back to where it was at its peak in 2000 we would need to create 30 million jobs.
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