{"id":186122,"date":"2014-05-01T22:14:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T03:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/05\/01\/and-our-economic-clusterf-continues\/"},"modified":"2014-05-01T22:14:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-02T03:14:00","slug":"and-our-economic-clusterf-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/05\/01\/and-our-economic-clusterf-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"And Our Economic Clusterf%$# Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2014-05-01\/jobless-claims-in-u-s-unexpectedly-climb-to-nine-week-high.html\">initial unemployment claims unexpectedly rose<\/a>, and then the 1<sup>st<\/sup> quarter GDP growth number came in with an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/economy\/economy-stalled-during-first-quarter\/2014\/04\/30\/09885aac-d098-11e3-a6b1-45c4dffb85a6_story.html\">anemic 0.1% annual growth rate<\/a>, though the Federal Reserve still saw fit to continue its taper of quantitative easing.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, with inflation at next to nothing, and long term unemployment a plague, and everyone is worried about non-existent inflation.<\/p>\n<p>Bah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, initial unemployment claims unexpectedly rose, and then the 1st quarter GDP growth number came in with an anemic 0.1% annual growth rate, though the Federal Reserve still saw fit to continue its taper of quantitative easing. Seriously, with inflation at next to nothing, and long term unemployment a plague, and everyone is worried about &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-186122","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\/186122"}],"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=186122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}