{"id":59473,"date":"2016-07-06T07:00:41","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T12:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59473"},"modified":"2016-07-05T23:01:27","modified_gmt":"2016-07-06T04:01:27","slug":"59473","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59473","title":{"rendered":"Clairvoyance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So it looks like all the people who were caterwauling about doom and gloom for British trade in the wake of the &#8220;brexit&#8221; were unreservedly correct, and the English economy is going to spiral into the toilet like an airplane missing both wings\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 I&#8217;m sorry. I got something caught in my throat. As I was trying to say, the lesson is clear: without the guidance of &#8220;experts&#8221; who&#8217;ve never run a business, and whose entire frame of reference is nothing but being bureaucrats, a sovereign peoples&#8217; hopes of a decent living or just wind and sales\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026hopes of a decent living are just wind and sales\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 No, that&#8217;s just something in my throat still\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 Oh, <a href=\"http:\/\/heatst.com\/uk\/11-countries-gearing-up-to-strike-trade-deals-with-britain\/\">who am I kidding<\/a>? \u00a0 It&#8217;s been less than two weeks, and countries are\u00a0lining up to cut trade deals with Britain, independent of the EU.<\/p>\n<p>Why, it&#8217;s almost as if all those jeremiads from the wonks, and the wannabee\u00a0wonks in the media, the American and European left, and National Public Radio, we&#8217;re just trying to scare people into acquiescence with the wishes of their self-appointed betters or something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it looks like all the people who were caterwauling about doom and gloom for British trade in the wake of the &#8220;brexit&#8221; were unreservedly correct, and the English economy is going to spiral into the toilet like an airplane missing both wings\u2026 \u2026 I&#8217;m sorry. I got something caught in my throat. As I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capitalism-v-socialism","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59473","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=59473"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59496,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59473\/revisions\/59496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}