{"id":72334,"date":"2019-10-07T07:14:13","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T12:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72334"},"modified":"2019-10-07T07:14:13","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T12:14:13","slug":"know-how-you-can-tell-the-economy-is-doing-well-under-a-republican-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72334","title":{"rendered":"Know How You Can Tell The Economy Is Doing Well Under A Republican President?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The media are devoting lavish coverage to homelessness, that&#8217;s why. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, somehow, less to <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Business\/unemployment-rate-falls-lowest-level-50-years\/story?id=66058946&amp;fbclid=IwAR1HzT1F8O5xBwlXohtpu2lJ-WE4JZe7ZzCjWoRXwbeokom1oFZLwpE71iE\">this sort of thing<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Look &#8211; not only is a recession going to happen one of these days, a recession [1] is a necessary part of the business cycle.   But the contortions Big Left and Big Media [2] are going through to downplay the currently good economic news are downright unseemly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[1] In a normal, healthy economy with sound fundamentals, of course.  Which we have.  Of course, that&#8217;s true only if the recession kills of bad ideas and unsound enterprises, and frees up labor and capital for good ideas and sound investments &#8211; which the Fed hasn&#8217;t really allowed a recession to do since 1993.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[2] Pardon, as always, the redundancy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The media are devoting lavish coverage to homelessness, that&#8217;s why. And, somehow, less to this sort of thing. Look &#8211; not only is a recession going to happen one of these days, a recession [1] is a necessary part of the business cycle. But the contortions Big Left and Big Media [2] are going through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-tc-media-bias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72334","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=72334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72335,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72334\/revisions\/72335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}