u.s. post lehman.o revisit a topic we talked about last time you were on the show a few months ago. why the economy is coming down and gas prices are lower. >> at the time i sheepishly said one way you could get out of this puzzle is that you could start to get data revisions. low and behold, a month and a half later we come back and you have seen those data revisions. part of it is not good news, it's because income has been revised down. that's what we got in the second gdp report for the fourth order. then just today we got the service data that's pushing consumer spending up to 2.6%. that is lowering the saving rate as well, something a little more consistent with a household facing disrupted fundamentals. scarlet: coming up, south africa's finance minister has a his list on how to fix nation's economy. that conversation is next. ♪ scarlet: it's time for the bloomberg business flash. the biggest electric utility in kansas is in the early stages of exploring strategic options that could lead to a sa