. >> joining us thousand for our next hour, fred hopper, president and chairman from the u.s.ort import bank. thank you for getting up to join us. >> the economy is still getting stronger. we've added 6 million jobs over the last 25 months. 4 million jobs. dues m excuse me. still on the uptick. slower than we would like it, but still a strong it first quarter. >> you think the previous three months are more the trend than just -- >> i do. i think it's hard to react to one number. what if that number was 160 or 70. >> i think right now one month does not make a trend, but you have to realize that within this a lot of this has come from government fiscal stimulus that went into effect last year. a lot of things that people aren't talking about is the strength in manufacturing has come from really an accelerated depreciation. >> is it true that a lot of that was that strength some because a lot of it expired at the end of last year. >> 100% expired, but how you can depreciate 50% and that doesn't exxir pe end of last year. you'll notice a lot of people because of procrastination