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carly and i'm gary macnamara good Just very briefly. Not that there's a lot of

economic news out there. You know, inflation number is supposed to come out later on today.

Right. But the one thing that you and I have always said, that when they, when they revised the

how they did the GDP, what was it maybe 13, 14 years ago and more of it was,

you know, money flowing instead of actually durable goods and services being produced by the

economy. Right. And one of the things we talked about was the way that how much government spending

affects a GDP. And government spending is not at all what really should be driving.

It doesn't drive economic growth.

What drives economic growth is the production in the private sector of durable, of goods and

services.

That's what does it.

Yeah.

And so when I saw that, I think it was National Review

that had it, they were talking about, okay, I'll give you that, because they revised the GDP for

the fourth quarter of last year from, what was it, 1.4% to 0.7. They cut it in half. And they said,

and the point was it's like, well, and we'll take into consideration

that the government was shut down. Well, if you're saying that the government was shut down for what

was it, month and a half maybe, for half of that and the GDP is cut in half? It makes our point.

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