{"id":61161,"date":"2016-11-30T08:45:53","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T14:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61161"},"modified":"2016-11-29T07:31:15","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T13:31:15","slug":"good-news-bad-news-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61161","title":{"rendered":"Good News, Bad News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Good News<\/strong>: \u00a0After five years of &#8220;economic growth&#8221; under Obama, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/trump-election-points-us-growth-boost-oecd-105313461.html\">economy might actually take off again.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm canvas-atom\" data-type=\"text\" data-reactid=\"23\">The US economy will grow by 2.3 percent in 2017 and 3.0 percent in 2018, said the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, revising its earlier forecast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm canvas-atom\" data-type=\"text\" data-reactid=\"25\">That compares to gross domestic product growth of 1.5 percent this year, according to the OECD.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm canvas-atom\" data-type=\"text\" data-reactid=\"25\"><strong>Bad News<\/strong>: \u00a0Because Keynesianism:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm canvas-atom\" data-type=\"text\" data-reactid=\"26\">The Republican property tycoon&#8217;s team has said he will devote $550 billion to rebuilding decrepit infrastructure.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm canvas-atom\" data-type=\"text\" data-reactid=\"26\"><strong>Really Bad News<\/strong>: \u00a0And that&#8217;s all presuming the Democrats don&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fool.com\/investing\/2016\/11\/18\/janet-yellen-says-interest-rates-could-rise-relati.aspx\">call in their markers with Janet Yellen<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good News: \u00a0After five years of &#8220;economic growth&#8221; under Obama, the economy might actually take off again. The US economy will grow by 2.3 percent in 2017 and 3.0 percent in 2018, said the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, revising its earlier forecast. That compares to gross domestic product growth of 1.5 percent 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":[323,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-leftymoney","category-capitalism-v-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61161","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=61161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61162,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61161\/revisions\/61162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}