{"id":46023,"date":"2014-09-24T00:10:22","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T00:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/gallup_u-s-_economic_confidence_ticks_down_to_-18\/"},"modified":"2014-09-24T00:10:22","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T00:10:22","slug":"gallup_u-s-_economic_confidence_ticks_down_to_-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46023","title":{"rendered":"(Gallup) U.S. Economic Confidence Ticks Down to -18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gallup&#8217;s Economic Confidence Index is the average of two components: Americans&#8217; views of current economic conditions and their opinions on whether the economy is getting better or worse. Last week, 18% of Americans said the economy was &#8220;excellent&#8221; or &#8220;good,&#8221; while 35% said the economy was &#8220;poor,&#8221; resulting in a current conditions index score of -17. Over the past four weeks, the current conditions index has fallen one point per week.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, 38% of Americans last week said the economy was &#8220;getting better,&#8221; and 57% said it was &#8220;getting worse.&#8221; This resulted in an economic outlook score of -19, down three points from the week before, but similar to several prior weeks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/177170\/economic-confidence-ticks-down.aspx\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gallup&#8217;s Economic Confidence Index is the average of two components: Americans&#8217; views of current economic conditions and their opinions on whether the economy is getting better or worse. Last week, 18% of Americans said the economy was &#8220;excellent&#8221; or &#8220;good,&#8221;<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46023\">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":[39,40,582,589,149,129,596,584],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-psychology","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\/46023","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=46023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}