{"id":40805,"date":"2013-10-30T15:00:26","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T15:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/gallup_economic_confidence_ends_the_month_of_october_still_deeply_negative\/"},"modified":"2013-10-30T15:00:26","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T15:00:26","slug":"gallup_economic_confidence_ends_the_month_of_october_still_deeply_negative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40805","title":{"rendered":"(Gallup) Economic Confidence Ends the Month of October Still Deeply Negative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Gallup Economic Confidence Index rose six points last week to -30. While this marks the second straight week of improvement since the end of the federal government shutdown, confidence is still well below the -15 reading Gallup found in mid-September, in the weeks before the shutdown. It remains sharply lower than the -3 reached earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>The latest results are for the week ending Oct. 27, based on interviews with more than 3,500 U.S. adults. The index represents Americans&#8217; net optimism about the economy, combining their views about current economic conditions and their perceptions of the economy&#8217;s direction. The index has a theoretical maximum of +100 if all Americans think the economy is &#8220;excellent&#8221; or &#8220;good&#8221; and improving, and a theoretical minimum of -100 if all believe the economy is &#8220;only fair&#8221; or &#8220;poor&#8221; and getting worse.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/165611\/economic-confidence-ends-month-deeply-negative.aspx\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gallup Economic Confidence Index rose six points last week to -30. While this marks the second straight week of improvement since the end of the federal government shutdown, confidence is still well below the -15 reading Gallup found in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40805\">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":[39,40,175,582,589,149,168,600,597,151,129,596,584,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-anthropology","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-housingreal-estate-market","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-politics-in-general","category-psychology","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007","category-the-u-s-government","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40805","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=40805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}