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It's Thursday, April 30th.

I'm Alex O'Soula for the Wall Street Journal.

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A new piece of important economic data came in today, GDP.

It rose at a 2% rate in the first quarter.

That's better than the half a percent from the end of last year when government shutdown was a big drag.

But the first quarter was still a bit lower than economists expected.

To dig into what's behind the numbers, I'm joined now by Greg Daco, chief economist at E.Y Parthenon. Greg, the economy's main engine, of course, is consumer spending

that softened in the first quarter to 1.6% from 1.9% in the fourth quarter. What's driving

those changes and what do we know about how people are spending now? I think in general people

are being increasingly cautious.

We are in this environment where income growth is decelerating and inflation is accelerating.

So spending power is diminishing and that is increasingly a restraint on consumer spending activity.

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