{"id":193346,"date":"2008-12-21T21:07:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-22T02:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/21\/economics-update-weekend\/"},"modified":"2008-12-21T21:07:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-22T02:07:00","slug":"economics-update-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/21\/economics-update-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Economics Update (Weekend)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, over the weekend it appears that the Big 3 (Big 2&frac12;) auto maker bailout has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/28341200?__source=RSS*tag*&amp;par=RSS\">driven the dollar down<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/businessNews\/idUSTRE49B3Y620081222?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=businessNews\">driven oil up<\/a>, though trading in both was light, though retail gasoline <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/topNews\/idUSTRE4BK1UZ20081221?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=topNews\">hit a new low<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, the real news is that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=aHMpJiTOIn10\">Japanese exports fell 27% year over year<\/a> in November as the worldwide recession crushed demand.<\/p>\n<p>27%?????  Ouch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, over the weekend it appears that the Big 3 (Big 2&frac12;) auto maker bailout has driven the dollar down, and driven oil up, though trading in both was light, though retail gasoline hit a new low. That being said, the real news is that Japanese exports fell 27% year over year in November as &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1080,973,1135,1089],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-currency","category-economy","category-energy","category-recession"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193346"}],"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=193346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}