{"id":409,"date":"2009-11-20T11:40:55","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T16:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/blog\/?p=409"},"modified":"2009-11-20T11:40:55","modified_gmt":"2009-11-20T16:40:55","slug":"economic-recovery-marathon-ready-set-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=409","title":{"rendered":"Economic Recovery Marathon. Ready, set, go!&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-408\" title=\"GRBJ0733\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/GRBJ0733.gif\" alt=\"GRBJ0733\" width=\"560\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/GRBJ0733.gif 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/GRBJ0733-300x191.gif 300w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/GRBJ0733-470x300.gif 470w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Originally published in the <em>Grand Rapids Business Journal<\/em>, November 9, 2009<\/p>\n<p>Never miss a chance to take a jab at economists. The giddiness with which they anticipate the economy going into a recession (Oh, boy! Something fun to talk about!) is equaled only with their annoying enthusiasm for predicting exactly when the economy is coming out. The thing is, they are so very wrong most of the time. What other job can you have such a lousy success rate and still get paid the big bucks? I mean, besides Major League Baseball&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in the Grand Rapids Business Journal, November 9, 2009 Never miss a chance to take a jab at economists. The giddiness with which they anticipate the economy going into a recession (Oh, boy! Something fun to talk about!) is equaled only with their annoying enthusiasm for predicting exactly when the economy is coming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grand-rapids-business-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}