{"id":59656,"date":"2016-07-20T06:00:16","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T11:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59656"},"modified":"2016-07-19T21:30:37","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T02:30:37","slug":"the-little-monetary-fund-that-cried","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59656","title":{"rendered":"The Little Monetary Fund That Cried &#8220;Doom&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The International Monetary Fund, after predicting that Britons would be &#8220;praying for the sweet release of death&#8221; with the Brexit vote, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3698476\/IMF-clowns-admit-got-wrong-Brexit-doom-gloom-warnings-saying-British-economy-grow-faster-Germany-France.html\">scaled back the gloom and doom<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><span id=\"ext-gen131\">After saying that leaving the European Union could trigger a UK recession, the International Monetary Fund now expects the British economy to grow by 1.7 per cent this year and 1.3 per cent next year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">That is weaker than the 1.9 and 2.2 per cent growth forecasts before the referendum, but the UK is still set to be the second-fastest growing economy in the Group of Seven industrialised nations this year \u2013 behind the United States \u2013 and third-fastest next year, behind the US and Canada.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Not that that&#8217;s any barn-burner growth rate &#8211; but since the IMF and the rest of Europe&#8217;s &#8220;elites&#8221; \u00a0predicted a zombie apocalypse, I&#8217;d call this a signifcant development.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59456\">As predicted, so far<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Monetary Fund, after predicting that Britons would be &#8220;praying for the sweet release of death&#8221; with the Brexit vote, scaled back the gloom and doom: After saying that leaving the European Union could trigger a UK recession, the International Monetary Fund now expects the British economy to grow by 1.7 per cent this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59656","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=59656"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59659,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59656\/revisions\/59659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}