{"id":45321,"date":"2014-06-25T12:05:04","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T17:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=45321"},"modified":"2019-05-21T06:56:31","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T11:56:31","slug":"unexpected-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=45321","title":{"rendered":"Unexpected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Obama Recovery&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2014\/06\/25\/the-economy-tanked-last-quarter-and-its-everybodys-fault-but-obamas\/\">still isn&#8217;t<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The U.S. economy shrank at an annual rate of 2.9 percent during the first three months of 2014, government bean counters announced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2014\/06\/25\/us-usa-economy-growth-idUSKBN0F01CD20140625\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this morning<\/a>. That matches the worst <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nber.org\/cycles\/cyclesmain.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">non-recession<\/a> contraction of the U.S. economy in over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bea.gov\/national\/xls\/gdpchg.xls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">40 years<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps, taking a cue from minimum wage hike laws, the Administration could issue a decree for everyone to build, spend and borrow more?<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Obama Recovery&#8221; still isn&#8217;t.\u00a0 The U.S. economy shrank at an annual rate of 2.9 percent during the first three months of 2014, government bean counters announced this morning. That matches the worst non-recession contraction of the U.S. economy in over 40 years. Perhaps, taking a cue from minimum wage hike laws, the Administration could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,64,74],"tags":[409],"class_list":["post-45321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-president-obama","category-the-great-recession","tag-unexpected"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45321","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=45321"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71350,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45321\/revisions\/71350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}