It’s official. Welcome to the Know the Difference Minute for Wednesday, June 29th. No shortage of recession stories: wondering if we are in a recession, about to enter a recession, or 6 months away from a recession. If there is a when, that’ll be decided by looking in the rear-view mirror. One piece of the ‘why’ puzzle came today in the form of the final revision of first-quarter GDP. In it, we saw GDP shrank by 1.6% on an annualized basis in Q1, higher than April’s initial report. So it’s officially-official as the first drop in GDP since the second quarter of 2020 when the US was deep in the COVID recession but before the economy grew 6.9% to finish 2021. We’ll be closely watching tomorrow’s Personal Consumption Expenditures price index to get a handle on consumer spending. Its one of the Federal Reserve's preferred measures of inflation. I’m Dave Spano from Annex Wealth Management. That is your Know the Difference Minute.