{"id":33136,"date":"2012-06-19T17:00:16","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T17:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/the_federal_reserve_wrestles_with_how_best_to_bridge_u-s-_credit_divide\/"},"modified":"2012-06-19T17:00:16","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T17:00:16","slug":"the_federal_reserve_wrestles_with_how_best_to_bridge_u-s-_credit_divide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33136","title":{"rendered":"(WSJ) The Federal Reserve Wrestles With How Best to Bridge U.S. Credit Divide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. recovery is hobbled by an economic divide that separates Americans not by income or wealth but by their access to credit&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, nearly 90% of all new mortgages originated went to households with high credit scores; before the financial crisis, it was about half, according to Moody&#8217;s Analytics and Equifax Inc., a credit monitoring service.<\/p>\n<p>Shrunken access among credit have-nots is triggering more than personal plight. It has weakened the influence of the Fed\u201d\u201done of the best hopes for spurring stronger economic growth\u201d\u201dand raised doubts within the central bank about whether it is doing much to reduce unemployment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052702303505504577403970826823032.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. recovery is hobbled by an economic divide that separates Americans not by income or wealth but by their access to credit&#8230;. Last year, nearly 90% of all new mortgages originated went to households with high credit scores; before<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33136\">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":[39,40,149,671,133,593,585,596,584],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-federal-reserve","category-history","category-personal-finance","category-the-banking-systemsector","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007","category-the-u-s-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33136","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=33136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}