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What a set of cross-currents.

Yes, we're looking at tech earnings.

Tim and Carol will have that this afternoon across all of our properties,

Microsoft and Google, but all of a sudden economics can get in the way.

That's the power of economics.

Something will come out and there'll be a big decision.

And I want to take 30 seconds here to nuance this.

Clearly the consensus of the people that we spoke to was this report was not as

grim is a positive 1.6% statistic. That's sort of there's been different

phrases for it over the decades but it's sort of, there's been different phrases for it over the decades, but it's sort of edge of recession. It's not.

And the answer is, is that all those imports coming in from abroad to a buoyant American economy buying those imports coming in from

abroad in the algebra of GDP diminished the number and the domestic numbers

were actually much better than

positive 1.6 percent. So that's the backdrop here. We're going to talk to Anna

Wong here in a moment of Bloomberg economics.

But before that and before the GDP report,

Ben Laidler, excuse me, I'm gasping,

it's exhausting morning.

Ben Laidler of E. Toro has just been outstanding about rationalizing your

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