{"id":64656,"date":"2017-09-29T06:00:09","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T11:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64656"},"modified":"2017-09-28T21:29:21","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T02:29:21","slug":"too-cynical-or-just-sufficiently-informed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64656","title":{"rendered":"“Too Cynical”, Or Just Sufficiently Informed?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n

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All that hype about the wonderful Obama economy turns out to have been . . . hype.\u00a0 It\u2019s not wonderful at all. <\/a><\/p>\n

The solution chosen by the Federal Reserve – raising interest rates to throw the brakes on rampant inflation – turns out to have been the wrong solution.<\/p>\n

Was the wrong solution chosen because the economic numbers were wrong?\u00a0 Because their analysis was wrong?\u00a0 Or because the President who got elected was the wrong person and Lord knows, we can\u2019t allow That Guy to have a robust economy?<\/p>\n

Yes, I am that cynical.<\/p>\n

Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No action on that bet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:   All that hype about the wonderful Obama economy turns out to have been . . . hype.\u00a0 It\u2019s not wonderful at all. The solution chosen by the Federal Reserve – raising interest rates to throw the brakes on rampant inflation – turns out to have been the wrong […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,367],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64656","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=64656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64657,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64656\/revisions\/64657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}