{"id":21694,"date":"2010-09-08T15:01:22","date_gmt":"2010-09-08T15:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/gregg_easterbrook_reuters-its_time_for_obama_to_stop_declaring_new_economi\/"},"modified":"2010-09-08T15:01:22","modified_gmt":"2010-09-08T15:01:22","slug":"gregg_easterbrook_reuters-its_time_for_obama_to_stop_declaring_new_economi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=21694","title":{"rendered":"Gregg Easterbrook (Reuters)&#8211;It\u2019s time for Obama to stop declaring new Economic Recovery Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pundits are restless, an election looms \u201d\u201c so this week, President Barack Obama is proposing yet another round of special favors, aimed at improving the economy. Prominent columnist Paul Krugman wants the plans to be \u201cbold\u201d\u009d  and to involve huge amounts of money. Here\u2019s a contrasting view: government should stop declaring recovery plans, bold or otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the constant announcing of new plans \u201d\u201c especially plans backed by borrowing or tax cuts \u201d\u201c is, itself, an impediment to economic growth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/gregg-easterbrook\/2010\/09\/07\/its-time-for-obama-to-stop-declaring-new-recovery-plans\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pundits are restless, an election looms \u201d\u201c so this week, President Barack Obama is proposing yet another round of special favors, aimed at improving the economy. Prominent columnist Paul Krugman wants the plans to be \u201cbold\u201d\u009d and to involve huge<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=21694\">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":[40,670,582,589,595,149,600,597,616,151,667,583,586,585,596,601,669,598,594,584,668],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-budget","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-credit-markets","category-economy","category-housingreal-estate-market","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-the-2009-obama-administration-bank-bailout-plan","category-the-2009-obama-administration-housing-amelioration-plan","category-the-banking-systemsector","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007","category-the-fiscal-stimulus-package-of-2009","category-the-national-deficit","category-the-possibility-of-a-bailout-for-the-u-s-auto-industry","category-the-september-2008-proposed-henry-paulson-700-billion-bailout-package","category-the-u-s-government","category-treasury-secretary-timothy-geithner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21694","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=21694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}