{"id":1105,"date":"2013-11-08T21:46:39","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T21:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orangesand.com\/?p=1105"},"modified":"2013-11-08T21:46:46","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T21:46:46","slug":"good-economy-or-bad-yes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/08\/good-economy-or-bad-yes\/","title":{"rendered":"GOOD ECONOMY OR BAD?  YES!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The spectacle of our federal government this fall struggling to fund its operations and pay its bill is only one of the latest bit of STRANGENESS in what has been a STRANGE time in our country.\u00a0 7 million jobs added in past 3 years, but the economy shed 8 million jobs during the downturn.\u00a0 Rising home prices have pushed up net equity holdings by $2 trillion in last couple of years and stock gains have pushed total household worth to an all-time high, although concentrated in a small % of the population.\u00a0 On an average, home owners have a median worth of nearly $200,000 &amp; renters $4,000 &amp; these ranks are GROWING.\u00a0 From Lawrence Yum, chief economist of the National Association of Realtors.\u00a0 So, we are living in the STRANGEST OF TIMES.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s see what 2014 brings<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The spectacle of our federal government this fall struggling to fund its operations and pay its bill is only one of the latest bit of STRANGENESS in what has been a STRANGE time in our country.\u00a0 7 million jobs added in past 3 years, but the economy shed 8 million jobs during the downturn.\u00a0 Rising [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1106,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions\/1106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}