{"id":194807,"date":"2008-08-17T22:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-18T03:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/17\/economics-update-391\/"},"modified":"2008-08-17T22:05:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-18T03:05:00","slug":"economics-update-391","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/17\/economics-update-391\/","title":{"rendered":"Economics Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know that the economy is bad when you go broke filling people&#8217;s Jones for chocolate chip cookies, but <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/\/nm\/20080815\/bs_nm\/mrsfields_bankruptcy_dc\">Mrs. Fields cookies is filing for reorg under chapter 11<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=a4w8z.nJXuV8&amp;refer=home\">dollar is down a bit<\/a>, because there is concern that the Fed won&#8217;t raise interest rates soon.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, they won&#8217;t raise rates before the election, because that is what the Fed does.<\/p>\n<p>Oil is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=ajHCtt3y.pLo&amp;refer=home\">up a bit<\/a>, on concerns of the effects of tropical storm Fay on rigs in the Caribbean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know that the economy is bad when you go broke filling people&#8217;s Jones for chocolate chip cookies, but Mrs. Fields cookies is filing for reorg under chapter 11. The dollar is down a bit, because there is concern that the Fed won&#8217;t raise interest rates soon. Honestly, they won&#8217;t raise rates before the election, &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-194807","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\/194807"}],"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=194807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}