{"id":10263,"date":"2008-12-20T21:31:04","date_gmt":"2008-12-20T21:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/george_stephanopoulos_joe_biden_us_economy_in_danger_of_absolutely_tanking\/"},"modified":"2008-12-20T21:31:04","modified_gmt":"2008-12-20T21:31:04","slug":"george_stephanopoulos_joe_biden_us_economy_in_danger_of_absolutely_tanking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10263","title":{"rendered":"George Stephanopoulos&#8211;Joe Biden: U.S. Economy in Danger of &#39;Absolutely Tanking&#39;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President-Elect Joe Biden said the U.S. economy is in danger of &#8220;absolutely tanking&#8221; and will need a second stimulus package in the $600-billion to $700-billion range.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The economy is in much worse shape than we thought it was in,&#8221; Biden told me during an exclusive interview &#8212; his first since becoming vice president-elect&#8211;  to air this Sunday on &#8220;This Week with George Stephanopoulos.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no short run other than keeping the economy from absolutely tanking. That&#8217;s the only short run,&#8221; Biden told me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/george\/2008\/12\/biden-us-econom.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President-Elect Joe Biden said the U.S. economy is in danger of &#8220;absolutely tanking&#8221; and will need a second stimulus package in the $600-billion to $700-billion range. &#8220;The economy is in much worse shape than we thought it was in,&#8221;<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10263\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,149,151,596,142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-politics-in-general","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007","category-us-presidential-election-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}