{"id":184761,"date":"2012-01-27T20:50:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-28T01:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/01\/27\/your-economic-data-points-of-the-week\/"},"modified":"2012-01-27T20:50:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-28T01:50:00","slug":"your-economic-data-points-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/01\/27\/your-economic-data-points-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Economic Data Points of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The GDP numbers came out, and the word is &#8220;meh&#8221;, with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-mo-economy-gdp-20120127,0,2085617.story\">the economy growing at a 2.8% annual rate in the 4<sup>th<\/sup> quarter<\/a>,&nbsp; under performing the forecast of 3%, and giving a 1.7% increase for the year.<\/p>\n<p>We need to top 3% for a while to really improve our situation.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2012-01-26\/first-time-jobless-claims-in-u-s-increase-displaying-seasonal-volatility.html\">initial unemployment claims rose<\/a>, to 377,000, as did continuing claims, though the 4-week moving average, and extended claims fell.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calculatedriskblog.com\/2012\/01\/consumer-sentiment-increases-in-january_27.html\">Consumer sentiment rose in January<\/a>, which is good news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The GDP numbers came out, and the word is &#8220;meh&#8221;, with the economy growing at a 2.8% annual rate in the 4th quarter,&nbsp; under performing the forecast of 3%, and giving a 1.7% increase for the year. We need to top 3% for a while to really improve our situation. Yesterday,initial unemployment claims rose, to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[973,975,1089],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-employment","category-recession"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184761"}],"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=184761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}