{"id":37628,"date":"2013-07-31T12:20:26","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T17:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=37628"},"modified":"2013-07-31T12:00:56","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T17:00:56","slug":"theyre-going-to-need-a-new-chanting-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=37628","title":{"rendered":"They&#8217;re Going To Need A New Chanting Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two months ago, Wisconsin (along with, ahem, North Dakota) came in 49th out of 50 states in a Philadephia Fed report on economic growth.<\/p>\n<p>Liberals chortled with glee, declaring Scott Walker a dead issue.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Then last month the Philly Fed uprated Sconnie to 20th.<\/p>\n<p>And now?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And with new numbers out today for June, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philadelphiafed.org\/research-and-data\/regional-economy\/indexes\/leading\/\">Wisconsin is now ranked 5th<\/a> in new rankings among states on their six month economic outlook. For those keeping track, that&#8217;s 40th, to 20th, to 5th in just a couple months.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And in another leading economic indicator, the coincidence index, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philadelphiafed.org\/research-and-data\/regional-economy\/indexes\/coincident\/\">Wisconsin ranks 2nd<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>These\u00a0numbers are <em>not <\/em>the be-all and end-all of economic reporting.\u00a0 I&#8217;m\u00a0 not presenting them as such.<\/p>\n<p>But <em>some <\/em>people sure did. Two months ago, anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two months ago, Wisconsin (along with, ahem, North Dakota) came in 49th out of 50 states in a Philadephia Fed report on economic growth. Liberals chortled with glee, declaring Scott Walker a dead issue.\u00a0 Then last month the Philly Fed uprated Sconnie to 20th. And now? And with new numbers out today for June, Wisconsin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-conservatism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37628","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=37628"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37631,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37628\/revisions\/37631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}