{"id":21503,"date":"2010-08-27T16:00:33","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T16:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ap_snapshot_of_economy_about_to_get_a_lot_bleaker\/"},"modified":"2010-08-27T16:00:33","modified_gmt":"2010-08-27T16:00:33","slug":"ap_snapshot_of_economy_about_to_get_a_lot_bleaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=21503","title":{"rendered":"AP: Snapshot of U.S. Economy about to get a lot bleaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The economy is going to limp along for the next few months,&#8221; said Gus Faucher, an economist at Moody&#8217;s Analytics. There&#8217;s even a one in three chance it could slip back into recession, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Many temporary factors that boosted the economy earlier this year are fading. Companies built up their inventories after cutting them sharply in the recession to match slower sales. The increase provided a boost to manufacturers, but now many companies&#8217; stockpiles are in line with sales and don&#8217;t need to grow as much. In addition, the impact of the government&#8217;s $862 billion fiscal stimulus program is lessening. That leaves the private sector to pick up the slack. But businesses are cutting back on their spending on machines, computers and software, according to a government report earlier this week. And the housing sector is slumping again after a popular home buyer&#8217;s tax credit expired in April.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/apnews.myway.com\/article\/20100827\/D9HRP2DG1.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The economy is going to limp along for the next few months,&#8221; said Gus Faucher, an economist at Moody&#8217;s Analytics. There&#8217;s even a one in three chance it could slip back into recession, he said. Many temporary factors that boosted<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=21503\">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":[40,582,589,595,149,671,617,600,597,616,593,151,667,618,599,596,601,584,668],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-credit-markets","category-economy","category-federal-reserve","category-house-of-representatives","category-housingreal-estate-market","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-office-of-the-president","category-personal-finance","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-senate","category-stock-market","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007","category-the-fiscal-stimulus-package-of-2009","category-the-u-s-government","category-treasury-secretary-timothy-geithner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21503","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=21503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}