for "nightly business repo >>> well,et's turn to luke tillie for more analysis of today's jobs number. he's chief economist at wilmington trust. luke, good to see u. thanks for joining us tonight. thanks for having me on. > so what do you think, aberration or is something else going on? >> it's certainly an aberration in our view. it really doesn fit with the other indators thate're seeing in the economy, ys of businesses indicate they are still looking to hire. also the number of job openings in the economy is at all-time record highs. so what we see heres a little statistical aberration. as was suggested in steve's report, probably a little bitf impact from storms and the government shutdown. >> so you would disagree with those who say we've reached peak employment? >> yeah, i don't think we've reache peak employment yet. we still have a very strong labor market in the sense that those employers are looking for workers. really the limiting factor on growth is their ability to find them. e unemployment rate is so low that they're having trouble finding them and that's what's pushing

charles: wilmington trust chief economist luke tilly joins me now to discuss. so you got two interesting things here. you have the fourth quarter which obviously slowed a lot from the beginning of the year. you have the first quarter which is starting to come on. it has been a little bit of a stealth move, hard to ignore right now. where is the economy? which one of those trends best reflect where we are as an economy? >> we think the economy is still in pretty good shape. we expect a slowdown in 2019 relative to 2018. so if we had just close to 3% last year we're looking for u.s. gdp to be about 2% this year and in the details of the fourth quarter release that you're talking about, what we had was a little bit of downward revision for consumer spending and also for business investment. and that consumer spending is coming from a really weak retail sales number in december. it is so weak it really looks like a statistical anomaly. it actually bounced back since then in january. that is really important because the atlanta fed gdp tracker and some of these other

stuart: luke tilly, thank you for joining us. by the way, and we have a poll on twitter.s program if i were a t-shirt on the air? we will reveal the votes before the end of the day. we are closing the show in about five minutes. if you watched the program come you know we love a good tax exodus story. let's bring in somebody who deals with ex-pats on a daily basis. the bianchi real estate in fort lauderdale, florida. we told her audience you do business in fort lauderdale and you found 41% of the home buyers in fort lauderdale pay in cash. that's a little unusual. have you lain it? >> it's absolutely nuts because that is almost double the national average which is 23%. how do i explain it? just like you said, new yorkers are moving here. i have about 50% of clients as new yorkers. you also have people from california. i have clients from washington state. let's not also forget foreign buyers. loving south florida specifically broward. who makes up the largest percentage of foreign buyers? canadians at 20% to 22%. they prefer not miami-dade, not palm beach county, but here