so let's take a closer look with nick akins, the president and ceo of american electric power to getnse of how the company is doing and where it's going. welcome back. >> thank you. >> let's call it, you had a great quarter and a lot has to be your area of the country may have picked up because these kinds of numbers need to be celebrated what are you doing to put up such strong figures? >> a couple of reasons we had a strong weather year obviously last year. but also, for the quarter we continued to see increases in load last year we had the largest increase in energy demand since 2011 so certainly the economy continues to buzz along. albeit it was stronger at the first part of the year than the latter part of the year, but still it's continuing at a relatively tempered pace. >> i'm so glad you mentioned that because jay powell was -- a lot of people feeling that powell has been hypocritical as a fed chief. he said we'll tighten, we'll tighten and then he said, maybe patience is warranted. he should have done more homework, and speaking to people like you where you did see a deceler

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