Stable Genius Once Again Picking Winners and Losers

All that optimism for hot first-quarter economic growth is rapidly fading away

• Back in late January the Atlanta Fed was calling for a 5.4 percent GDP gain, but on Wednesday it said growth likely will be just 1.9 percent.
• The cut comes amid similar reductions from J.P. Morgan and Goldman Sachs, who now respectively see growth at 2 percent and 1.8 percent.
  
  Forecasts see economic growth possibly below 2 percent to start the year