# In a live interview, Professor Lawrence White discusses the recent GDP growth

1 Faculty News April 26, 2019 ![Yahoo Finance logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/yahoofinance.jpg?itok=iQnyXkp_)>

Excerpt from [Yahoo Finance](https://finance.yahoo.com/video/former-omb-economist-says-3-194817970.html) -- "Markets are always trying to anticipate what's going to happen and they may well be looking a couple of months, a couple of quarters, down the road. There's, I think, a good case to be made \[that\] this has been due to a number of one-off things. For example, recovering from the government shutdown that was at the end of the last quarter. There's some one-off international trade things. Look, I would love for this strong growth and low inflation and low unemployment all to persist, but I wouldn't want to bet the farm."

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