Q1 2011 Advance Estimate of GDP Slows to 1.8 Percent

From 3.1 percent in Q4 2010. Yikes.

So reports the BEA here.

In 2009 we were down 2.6 percent, in 2010 up 2.9 percent on the federal intravenous drip.

Drip. Drip. Drip.