{"id":192486,"date":"2009-03-26T17:26:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T22:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/03\/26\/economics-update-252\/"},"modified":"2009-03-26T17:26:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T22:26:00","slug":"economics-update-252","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/03\/26\/economics-update-252\/","title":{"rendered":"Economics Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, the US economy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=aemO.zzB7LlE&amp;refer=home\">contracted at a revised 6.3% annual rate in the 4th quarter of 2008<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/29892562\">initial jobless claims rose to 652,000 from 640,000 last week<\/a>, with continuing claims jumped to 5.56 million, another record.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, we saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601110&amp;sid=av1FfOMg73KU\">New York City\u2019s jobless rate jump by 1.2% in February<\/a>, from 6.9% to 8.1%.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truckline.com\/pages\/article.aspx?id=506%2F%7B8E1C7279-ED27-4C03-B189-CEEEE26BBB12%7D\">truck tonnage rose in February<\/a>, which implies that the requirements for goods and services increased, and  the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/\/id\/29894995\">30 year fixed mortgage rates dropped again<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in energy, <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2009\/03\/26\/news\/economy\/gas_prices\/index.htm\">retail gasoline broke $2\/gal<\/a> for the first time this year, and oil <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=newsarchive&amp;sid=a2JlsiQcxZpU\">hit a 4 month high of $54.34\/bbl<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In currency, the <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2009\/03\/26\/markets\/dollar.reut\/index.htm\">dollar rose today<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, the US economy contracted at a revised 6.3% annual rate in the 4th quarter of 2008 and initial jobless claims rose to 652,000 from 640,000 last week, with continuing claims jumped to 5.56 million, another record. Additionally, we saw New York City\u2019s jobless rate jump by 1.2% in February, from 6.9% to 8.1%. On &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1080,973,975,1135,1004,1089,1035],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-currency","category-economy","category-employment","category-energy","category-finance","category-recession","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192486"}],"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=192486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}