{"id":183552,"date":"2013-01-24T21:49:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T02:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/01\/24\/more-agreement-with-the-imf\/"},"modified":"2013-01-24T21:49:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T02:49:00","slug":"more-agreement-with-the-imf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/01\/24\/more-agreement-with-the-imf\/","title":{"rendered":"More Agreement With the IMF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They are saying that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/politics\/2013\/jan\/24\/imf-advises-uk-ease-austerity\">Britain should back off its austerity policies<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Britain should tone down its austerity plans to help the struggling economy, the International Monetary Fund&#8217;s chief economist has suggested.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Olivier Blanchard said the budget in March would be a good time for George Osborne to &#8220;take stock&#8221; of his plan A.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The comments, in an interview with BBC Radio 4&#8217;s Today programme, came after the IMF trimmed its forecasts for the UK and global growth. The British economy is now expected to expand by 1% rather than 1.1% this year, and 1.9% rather than 2.2% next year.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Twice in a day I agree with them.<\/p>\n<p>Go figure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They are saying that Britain should back off its austerity policies: Britain should tone down its austerity plans to help the struggling economy, the International Monetary Fund&#8217;s chief economist has suggested.Olivier Blanchard said the budget in March would be a good time for George Osborne to &#8220;take stock&#8221; of his plan A.The comments, in an &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,984,1089,983],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-europe","category-recession","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183552"}],"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=183552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}