{"id":194740,"date":"2008-08-22T17:18:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-22T22:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/22\/economics-update-386\/"},"modified":"2008-08-22T17:18:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-22T22:18:00","slug":"economics-update-386","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/22\/economics-update-386\/","title":{"rendered":"Economics Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it appears to be a slow news day, with the only major news being that it appears that the ratings agencies are trying to get their sh&#038;% together, as yesterday Moody&#8217;s started uprating government bonds, and today Moody&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=aUnmrN75Qllg&amp;refer=home\">downgraded its ratings for Fannie and Freddie preferred stock<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As to commodities and currency, <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2008\/08\/22\/markets\/oil\/\">oil down<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2008\/08\/22\/news\/economy\/fuel\/index.htm\">gasoline down<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2008\/08\/22\/markets\/dollar\/index.htm\">dollar up<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it appears to be a slow news day, with the only major news being that it appears that the ratings agencies are trying to get their sh&#038;% together, as yesterday Moody&#8217;s started uprating government bonds, and today Moody&#8217;s downgraded its ratings for Fannie and Freddie preferred stock. As to commodities and currency, oil down, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1080,973,1135,1004],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-currency","category-economy","category-energy","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194740"}],"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=194740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}