The economy’s (and economists’) nemesis, Dr. Unexpectedly, strikes again, this time singling out retail sales strangling predictions for pleasing March numbers, as Alex Kowalski of Bloomberg reports:

The opinion of many in Washington is that the economy is too strong to be held down forever, that the animal spirits of Americans beyond the beltway will inevitably prevail over the misguided policies and uncertainties heaped upon them by the political class.