thornburg recognize the development and deployed his troops to avoid the encirclement. he thought, all right. we can handle the situation. unfortunately soon afterwards he was failed by a fatal slug to the skull. the routed whites, true with their dead and wounded in tow and put up a primitive defense put up a primitive defense that was put together with whatever they could make in a makeshift way to defend themselves from this onslaught. while hellfire rained down on the trapped troopers, the entire fight continued to worsen. meanwhile, meeker, back at the agency with eight other agency workers and two teamsters, who had been unfortunate enough to deliver some supplies to the agency at that time, were caught in this crossfire. meeker and these individuals were killed. meeker's wife, their daughter, and another woman and her two daughters were spared but taken captive. amidst the chaos, the survivors of thornburg's ill-fated command, now under the next highest ranking officer, managed to send a career out with a poignant plea that help that simply read "thornburg killed

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>> joining us to discuss, cycle research institute and chris thornburg funding principle at beacon economics. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> any of those factors, the three factors steven mnuchin outlined, any chain the long term growth rat or cyclical alterations to grow in the short term? >> neither, to tell you the truth, just to unpack that, long term structural things are the way steve or mr. bernanke outlined them. si cyclicly, the cycle does what it's doing regardless of some of the proposals. in fact, we're already well inside of a cyclical upturn in growth that began in the middle of last year before the election. dramatic as it was, a cyclical upturn was starting already, and it is underway. so near term, count me as a bull for the economy, and you might see a 3% print. >> long term, though? >> longer term, we have the structural issues, things, by the way, we are glad to hear everybody talk about it now, but we talked about it since 2008. the more the merrier. those are serious issues. population, in particular, labor force growth and labor productivity growth, and if