how “unexpected”
*Drink* !
Actually, I expected this. I think the economy actually CONTRACTED in the first quarter. The numbers were then fudged to make it appear to have slight growth. The contraction will then be stuffed into this quarter, making it worse than expected.
Then, the sycophants hope that there will be growth in the third quarter. This manipulation will hide the fact that there is a recession right now (two quarters, or more consecutively, of contraction). If you look at the record of the Obama economy, there have been two other times where there was just one quarter of contraction. Had the numbers had not been thus fudged, this would be the THIRD Obama recession.