you can see that is nice rebound from what was a disappointing first quarter this year of only 2%. that s from recent quarters here. and again four times during the obama administration, and so you saw 4% or higher. but this is definitely an improvement over recent quarters. here s what the impromvement is from. personal spending. exports are up, specifically pointing out soybean exports. because you saw customers rushing ahead to secure orders before retaliatory tariffs, before there was going to be so can you say the president s gambit on tarifficize working at the moment? his gambit is one of the reasons why you saw this russia head. also the tax cuts were in here, that s an important part of this. the tax cuts are appealing to the economy. that could fade later in the year, so a lot of economists are