{"id":196550,"date":"2008-04-15T16:39:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-15T21:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/15\/economics-update-479\/"},"modified":"2008-04-15T16:39:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-15T21:39:00","slug":"economics-update-479","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/15\/economics-update-479\/","title":{"rendered":"Economics Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The dollar is tanking again, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601100&amp;sid=aqQmC8D3FPH0\">this time on inflation worries<\/a>, and Oil is <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2008\/04\/15\/markets\/oilprices\/index.htm?cnn=yes\">above $113\/bbl<\/a> driven by demand and by the falling dollar.<\/p>\n<p>In real estate, <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2008\/04\/15\/real_estate\/foreclosures_march\/index.htm?postversion=2008041505\">foreclosures rise are up 57% over a year ago<\/a>, 5% over February, and I don&#8217;t see that number leveling off any time soon.<\/p>\n<p>Just in case you are wondering, the New York Times is looking at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/04\/15\/business\/15retail.html?_r=1&amp;hp&amp;oref=slogin\">Wave of Bankruptcies that are sweeping mid tier retailers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dollar is tanking again, this time on inflation worries, and Oil is above $113\/bbl driven by demand and by the falling dollar. In real estate, foreclosures rise are up 57% over a year ago, 5% over February, and I don&#8217;t see that number leveling off any time soon. Just in case you are wondering, &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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-currency","category-economy","category-energy","category-real-estate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196550"}],"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=196550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}