{"id":183389,"date":"2014-12-05T23:55:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-06T04:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/12\/05\/call-me-a-curmudgeon-but\/"},"modified":"2014-12-05T23:55:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-06T04:55:00","slug":"call-me-a-curmudgeon-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/12\/05\/call-me-a-curmudgeon-but\/","title":{"rendered":"Call me a Curmudgeon, But\u2026\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The most recent news on employment, which shows <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/empsit.nr0.htm\">good employment growth<\/a>, is good news, but I would not start singing Hosannas yet.<\/p>\n<p>There are a number of temporary externalities, most notably a 40% drop in the price of oil in the past 6 months and renewed froth in the housing market, that account for much of this, and neither of them are sustainable.<\/p>\n<p>Also, it increasingly looks like the big casino on Wall Street is back, and they can f%$# up anything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most recent news on employment, which shows good employment growth, is good news, but I would not start singing Hosannas yet. There are a number of temporary externalities, most notably a 40% drop in the price of oil in the past 6 months and renewed froth in the housing market, that account for much &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[973,975,992],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-employment","category-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183389"}],"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=183389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}