{"id":188747,"date":"2010-08-03T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-04T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/08\/03\/economics-update-42\/"},"modified":"2010-08-03T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-04T03:00:00","slug":"economics-update-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/08\/03\/economics-update-42\/","title":{"rendered":"Economics Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have a fair amount of news, most of it bad, with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2010-08-03\/consumer-spending-personal-incomes-in-u-s-unexpectedly-stagnated-in-june.html\">consumer spending and personal income flat<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2010-08-03\/pending-sales-of-existing-u-s-homes-unexpectedly-decreased-2-6-in-june.html\">pending home sales falling sharply in June<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2010-08-02\/manufacturing-expansion-in-u-s-slows-less-than-estimated-ism-index-shows.html\">Institute for Supply Management\u2019s manufacturing survey falling more than expected<\/a>, though the latter still indicates (rather anemic) growth.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, we have the Wells Fargo\/Gallup survey of small business sentiment <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2010\/08\/small-business-sentiment-hits-new-low.html\">hitting a new low<\/a>, while <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calculatedriskblog.com\/2010\/08\/personal-bankruptcy-filings-up-9-in.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CalculatedRisk+%28Calculated+Risk%29\">personal bankruptcy filings rose 9% in July<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As to the good news, we have\u2026<\/p>\n<p>We have\u2026<\/p>\n<p>We have\u2026<\/p>\n<p>We have\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Ummmm\u2026A survey of economic mood in Europe <a href=\"http:\/\/euobserver.com\/9\/30564\">hitting two-year high<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have a fair amount of news, most of it bad, with consumer spending and personal income flat, pending home sales falling sharply in June, and the Institute for Supply Management\u2019s manufacturing survey falling more than expected, though the latter still indicates (rather anemic) growth. Additionally, we have the Wells Fargo\/Gallup survey of small business &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1094,973,1091,1088,1089],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-finance","category-economy","category-polls","category-real-estate","category-recession"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188747"}],"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=188747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}