{"id":1558,"date":"2007-11-05T04:09:37","date_gmt":"2007-11-05T09:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1558"},"modified":"2007-11-05T04:09:37","modified_gmt":"2007-11-05T09:09:37","slug":"that-lagging-bush-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1558","title":{"rendered":"That Lagging Bush Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, <a href=\"http:\/\/corner.nationalreview.com\/post\/?q=ZmZmN2QyYTkzMTM1NTllYzliYjgwM2Y4N2Y4OGFiNjk=\">woe is we:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Well, well, well \u2026 166,000 new jobs. Twice the consensus view. Did somebody say Goldilocks? Did somebody say the greatest story never told?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Silly Larry.\u00a0 That&#8217;s what gatekeepers are for.\u00a0 If this news actually <em>got out, <\/em>Democrats&#8217;d have to <em>work<\/em> to get elected.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Here\u2019s the key point: Outside the struggling financial and consumer discretionary sectors, the economy is firing on all cylinders. Economy-wide profits are up a smoldering 15 percent in the third quarter when you remove these two laggards. And in addition to today\u2019s robust, expansionary jobs number, GDP blew away forecasts earlier this week, coming in a hair shy of 4 percent. (For the record, this represents the biggest back-to-back quarterly gain in four years.) This means healthy American businesses are generating jobs. Meanwhile, hardworking American workers are out there spending money, with real, disposable, after-tax, after-inflation income running around 4 percent \u2014 a big number.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ll await the DFLer claims that raising taxes would make things <em>ever better<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, woe is we: Well, well, well \u2026 166,000 new jobs. Twice the consensus view. Did somebody say Goldilocks? Did somebody say the greatest story never told? Silly Larry.\u00a0 That&#8217;s what gatekeepers are for.\u00a0 If this news actually got out, Democrats&#8217;d have to work to get elected. Here\u2019s the key point: Outside the struggling financial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}