much of it preredicated on the proble that chinana has been the savior of economic groth and is now falteringat means as a result briil is faltering, gmany one of its top p trading partners. it is not just grereece that we have to keep an e on this we. >> a gm chief economisist ward his biggest concern was the slowdwdown in c china. we often dodo notemember that the key soururce of growth for general motors anall those companies happens to be in china. >> i say w listen to the old company's like gm. gm told us it wasot even worth one pennof their global ad budget. lilisten to gm this week. >> that wod be a hug change from the roughlhly last 20 years. >> josh boak think you could joining >> our number o of the week, 30, could make this memorial day weekend very memorable for car dealers. kelly blue book is forecasting an increase of 30% this year. two additional sales days in may as well as moree inventory to sell. we hope you hahave a great memorial day weekend and thank yofor joing us.

the groth is slowing on the employment side and gdp has been palatable.u see that reverse, is there any kind of thesis that you have that incorporates a strong dollar and down oil that gets you much more constructive on not the boring stuff, the exciting consumer stuff? >> we're at this really funky place right now so we're coming out of earnings season and now we're going into headline season and the headlines will be pretty awful for a while so you'll have to come back to really dig into what's going on deeper into the economy rather than sort of the headline flow, and the news out of europe for the foreseeable future is going to be absolutely awful, so, you know, we're going to get buffeted by that. the way that we're seeing this is that, you know, we're probably going to grow 2.5%, 2% gdp coming back to the big-cap name, the dividend payers, that's the first right place to start. >> you know, we haven't seen money come into the markets. >> right. >> just as you said, the only money you see is going to dividends since the flash crash. the average retai

. >> scott, when we finally hear from management on the first earnings call at the end of july, groth itself begins to slow, the growth trajectory reached its peak in previous months, are they going to be serial spenders? are they going to be serial acquirers? how are they going to get the growth? are they going to buy it? >> yeah. i think that's a really important question, and it's one of the risks that we highlighted in a report that we put out on the company dated may 10th where we talked about a number of the investment risks, one of which is how the company is going to allocate capital. it's pretty obvious that there are fundamental weaknesses to the facebook story when you think about areas like mobile and hardware and obviously a lot of the speculation earlier this week was about how they could possibly buy their way into those areas. we see that as a concern as people think about the organic growth story as well as margins. >> scott, a lot of people out there are comparing facebook right now to apple and to goingle, and i see that you have a price target on the stock of 27 wh