{"id":8736,"date":"2010-02-19T08:37:12","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T13:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=8736"},"modified":"2010-02-19T08:37:12","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T13:37:12","slug":"time-machine-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=8736","title":{"rendered":"Time Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conservatives and Republicans have observed &#8211; sometimes jokingly, often not &#8211; that Barack Obama shows every sign of becoming the next Jimmy Carter.<\/p>\n<p>What would it take to complete the impression?<\/p>\n<p>Why, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/35457298\">stagflation<\/a>, of course; the unholy union of price inflation (due to rampant spending and the crushing constriction of credit due to out-of-control federal deficits) and high unempoyment.<\/p>\n<p>Is it baaaaack?:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The number of U.S. workers filing new applications for unemployment insurance unexpectedly surged last week, while producer prices increased sharply in January, raising potential hurdles for the economic recovery.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Unemployment up.\u00a0 Economy stagnant.\u00a0 Inflation ratcheting up.\u00a0 Iran throwing its weight around.<\/p>\n<p>I feel like I&#8217;m 16 again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservatives and Republicans have observed &#8211; sometimes jokingly, often not &#8211; that Barack Obama shows every sign of becoming the next Jimmy Carter. What would it take to complete the impression? Why, stagflation, of course; the unholy union of price inflation (due to rampant spending and the crushing constriction of credit due to out-of-control federal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-president-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8736","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=8736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8737,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8736\/revisions\/8737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}