{"id":173,"date":"2008-06-24T16:13:28","date_gmt":"2008-06-25T00:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=173"},"modified":"2009-09-23T20:36:58","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T04:36:58","slug":"economic-oscillations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=173","title":{"rendered":"Economic Oscillations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=89\">As I previously noted<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elpais.com\/articulo\/economia\/burbuja\/inmobiliaria\/hace\/Espana\/sea\/vulnerable\/crisis\/elpepueco\/20080406elpepieco_1\/Tes\">in an interview published on 6 April, Greenspan said that there were not many signs that the economy were actually in recession<\/a>, but <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20080408\/bs_nm\/usa_economy_greenspan_dc\">declared on 8 April that we were in the throes of a recession<\/a>.<\/p> <p>Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/businessNews\/idUSJAT00371420080624?feedType=RSS&feedName=businessNews&rpc=23&sp=true\">to-day<\/a>, <blockquote style=\"font-size: smaller ;\">Asked if the U.S. economy was in recession, Greenspan said: <q>We are on the brink.<\/q><\/blockquote> I doubt that I am alone in wishing that Alan would <em>make up his mind<\/em>.<\/p> <p>(I just hope that I don't find <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=83\">Paul Volcker playing with Neopets at David's Coffee Place<\/a> to-day; that gives me the <em>willies<\/em>.)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As I previously noted, in an interview published on 6 April, Greenspan said that there were not many signs that the economy were actually in recession, but declared on 8 April that we were in the throes of a recession. Well, to-day, Asked if the U.S. economy was in recession, Greenspan said: We are on [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,4],"tags":[134,144],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-public","tag-alan-greenspan","tag-recession"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}