you know that they take the inflation numbers into consideration? thats whay its real GDP. gdp-inflation=real gdp. Give me a break these numbers where good lets look at the 2nd quarter. started 2 weeks after bear went down, and ended as the market dumped. i'll take 1.8 any day of the week and lets look at q4 2007, big deal -.1% OMG the world is going to end. last time i checked we hit our all time high during this quarter in the stock markets. we know NOTHING until years later. they will probally revise the 1.8 to 2.8% gdp and that -100k jobs we will find out next year was actually +50k jobs. we should change the name of this site to doom and gloom elitetrader. as the world will end next week