{"id":189217,"date":"2010-05-04T16:09:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T21:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/05\/04\/economics-update-59\/"},"modified":"2010-05-04T16:09:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-04T21:09:00","slug":"economics-update-59","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/05\/04\/economics-update-59\/","title":{"rendered":"Economics Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, generally good news today, with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2010-05-04\/u-s-bankruptcy-filings-fell-4-percent-in-april-from-march.html\"><span>bankruptcy<\/span> filings dropping 4% between April and March<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, there was a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realtor.org\/press_room\/news_releases\/2010\/05\/phs_upswing\">spike in pending home sales<\/a>, though that was likely the now expired home buyer tax credits, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/\/id\/36937080\">factory rose unexpectedly in March<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In energy and currency, it&#8217;s all playing off of Greece, which is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601110&amp;sid=a05e95pNEclM\">pushing the dollar up<\/a>, which in turn <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2010\/05\/04\/markets\/oil\/\">pushes oil down<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, generally good news today, with bankruptcy filings dropping 4% between April and March. Additionally, there was a spike in pending home sales, though that was likely the now expired home buyer tax credits, and factory rose unexpectedly in March. In energy and currency, it&#8217;s all playing off of Greece, which is pushing the dollar &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1080,973,1135,1088,1089],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-currency","category-economy","category-energy","category-real-estate","category-recession"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189217"}],"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=189217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}