{"id":176083,"date":"2020-09-08T20:02:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T01:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/09\/08\/analogy-of-the-day\/"},"modified":"2020-09-08T20:02:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T01:02:00","slug":"analogy-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/09\/08\/analogy-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Analogy of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/g8rBNNl.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/g8rBNNl.gif\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 130%; font-variant: small-caps;\">The US Economy is Having a Wile E Coyote Moment<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/0850c689-2615-4128-85ed-9a89f5c0a82a\">Financial Times<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The lead paragraph says it all:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">In the well-known Looney Tunes cartoon, Wile E Coyote regularly runs off a cliff in pursuit of the Road Runner and is suspended in mid-air temporarily. When he looks down and realises his predicament, he falls into the canyon below. In real life, US consumers and businesses have just run straight off a cash cliff, now that extra federal assistance to small companies and unemployed workers has ended.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We are screwed, particularly when the heating season begins, and humidity drops, and viral infectivity increases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Economy is Having a Wile E Coyote Moment \u2014Financial Times The lead paragraph says it all: In the well-known Looney Tunes cartoon, Wile E Coyote regularly runs off a cliff in pursuit of the Road Runner and is suspended in mid-air temporarily. When he looks down and realises his predicament, he falls into &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[392,464,515,458],"class_list":["post-176083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-economy","tag-good-writing","tag-language","tag-recession"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176083"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}