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some mortgage delinquency reports later on and the monthly budget statement this afternoon, but of course that's going to be a

it's the April number so it is obviously going to reflect all the taxes you paid so I didn't tell you necessarily a whole lot.

But this whole question of Macy's is an interesting one, Tom, and it gets the question I asked

Punam Goyle.

I'm going to put it to Kevin Harris, he's director of economics, North America economics

for Rubini global economics.

We see Macy's cutting their forecasts and I'm looking at some of the numbers

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