with the euro weakening, geoffrey dennis, european -- the europeans look at chinese imports and theyas more expensive. >> but it's also a level issue and that is the economies in europe for being weaker than we really had anticipated at the start of the year. if you go back to the beginning of this year, you are in a situation where you had the hit to the u.s. economy from the dreadful weather in the first quarter. and then later on, you had weaker european growth so u.s. is the best house in the neighborhood right now. >> how rare is this wordy ver generals? it's like disruptive and we've moved on to divergent. >> i think the degree of difference between the u.s. -- h performance and what is unprecedented. but it is unusual. and what i feel as an economist is that what's happening in the rest of the world with the dollar rising strongly on markets will chip away at the u.s. growth story as well. it has to. gradually, because, you know, u.s. are going folks port less to europe. european products -- sorry, u.s. products in europe are going to get more expensive. this can't go on forev