{"id":65070,"date":"2017-11-14T07:00:29","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T13:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65070"},"modified":"2017-11-10T11:00:49","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T17:00:49","slug":"unintended-consequences-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65070","title":{"rendered":"Unintended Consequences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inflation on some key commodities over the past two decades:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Inflation.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-65071\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Inflation.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"669\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Things with fairly inelastic demand that have been around forever &#8211; food and cars and the like &#8211; held fairly steady.<\/p>\n<p>Technology in unregulated areas, driven by the free market&#8217;s desire to help people keep up with the technological joneses? In free fall (and that&#8217;s not even counting price per unit of performance).<\/p>\n<p>Prices in areas heavily regulated by and\/or dependent on government? Skyrocketing.<\/p>\n<p>Questions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inflation on some key commodities over the past two decades: Things with fairly inelastic demand that have been around forever &#8211; food and cars and the like &#8211; held fairly steady. Technology in unregulated areas, driven by the free market&#8217;s desire to help people keep up with the technological joneses? In free fall (and that&#8217;s [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65070","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=65070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65072,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65070\/revisions\/65072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}