plus, coming to us from houston is victoria fernandez, chief market strategist at crossmark global investmentsvictoria, let's begin with you and ask a very basic question -- whether this is as good as it gets or whether we can we break out to a higher-trend growth than we have seen relative to years gone by? victoria: i think our trend growth will be higher, absolutely. i think we will be closer to that 3% growth we've been in striving to have on an annual basis. but having the 4.1% print today, i don't anticipate us going higher on the quarterly number from here. i know there is a lot of talk that it is a sustainable number, and to an extent, there are things that are sustainable. the consumer spending was high, and that was good. but there are some bombs that will be one-time charges. the exports were higher than what you would normally anticipate because of the increase in the exports. there are some things maybe we will back off a little bit, but on a trend basis, we are higher than previously. jonathan: to what extent can this be sustained? marilyn: i think we are seeing a continuing tren