{"id":14937,"date":"2009-09-12T20:56:31","date_gmt":"2009-09-12T20:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wsj_front_page_economic_confidence_rebounds\/"},"modified":"2009-09-12T20:56:31","modified_gmt":"2009-09-12T20:56:31","slug":"wsj_front_page_economic_confidence_rebounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=14937","title":{"rendered":"WSJ Front Page: Economic Confidence Rebounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Economists and consumers are feeling better about the economy a year after the most frightening moments of the financial crisis. Forecasters surveyed by The Wall Street Journal, giving the government generally good marks for its handling of the financial crisis, now see employers slowly adding jobs over the next 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>And the latest reading of consumer spirits shows signs of optimism. But most economists still expect the unemployment rate will climb to 10.2%, from today&#8217;s 9.7%, before falling early next year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are in a technical recovery, but risks remain abundant,&#8221; said Diane Swonk of Mesirow Financial. &#8220;It will still take some luck and skill to get Main Street to feel some of the relief Wall Street has felt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB125261100485400509.html#mod=WSJ_hps_LEFTWhatsNews\" title=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB125261100485400509.html#mod=WSJ_hps_LEFTWhatsNews\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Economists and consumers are feeling better about the economy a year after the most frightening moments of the financial crisis. Forecasters surveyed by The Wall Street Journal, giving the government generally good marks for its handling of the financial crisis,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=14937\">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":[40,582,589,595,149,600,597,593,596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-credit-markets","category-economy","category-housingreal-estate-market","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-personal-finance","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14937","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=14937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}