{"id":187646,"date":"2011-04-14T20:33:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T01:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/04\/14\/its-jobless-thursday-81\/"},"modified":"2011-04-14T20:33:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T01:33:00","slug":"its-jobless-thursday-81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/04\/14\/its-jobless-thursday-81\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Jobless Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ind initial claims <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/04\/14\/us-economy-jobless-idUSTRE73D2WR20110414\">unexpectedly rose by 27,000 to 412,000<\/a>, though continuing and emergency claims fell.<\/p>\n<p>We also saw a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-04-14\/wholesale-prices-in-u-s-increase-0-7-led-by-energy-trucks.html\">0.7% increase in producer prices<\/a>, though this appears to have been driven primarily by a spike in energy prices.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m inclined to believe that this sort of commodity inflation generally crimps consumers and business spending, so perhaps these two things are tied together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ind initial claims unexpectedly rose by 27,000 to 412,000, though continuing and emergency claims fell. We also saw a 0.7% increase in producer prices, though this appears to have been driven primarily by a spike in energy prices. I&#8217;m inclined to believe that this sort of commodity inflation generally crimps consumers and business spending, so &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[973,975,1200],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-employment","category-inflation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187646"}],"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=187646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}