{"id":52634,"date":"2015-12-16T15:39:44","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T15:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ft_us_industrial_heartland_frets_as_fed_rate_rise_looms\/"},"modified":"2015-12-16T15:39:44","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T15:39:44","slug":"ft_us_industrial_heartland_frets_as_fed_rate_rise_looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52634","title":{"rendered":"(FT) US industrial heartland frets as Federal Reserve rate rise looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the Federal Reserve proceeds as expected and raises US interest rates for the first time in almost a decade on Wednesday it will be an affirmation of what Janet Yellen and her fellow policymakers see as the strength of the US recovery.<\/p>\n<p>It will also be at odds with what many in the US\u2019s industrial economy are seeing.<\/p>\n<p>From manufacturing behemoths like Caterpillar and Deere &#038; Co to companies supplying the industrial sector the common theme in recent months has been that, thanks to a strong dollar and a collapse in commodity prices, tough times are back. Some are going so far as to declare the arrival of an industrial recession.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/0\/b24228f6-a348-11e5-bc70-7ff6d4fd203a.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the Federal Reserve proceeds as expected and raises US interest rates for the first time in almost a decade on Wednesday it will be an affirmation of what Janet Yellen and her fellow policymakers see as the strength of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52634\">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":[40,582,589,149,168,671,596,584,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-federal-reserve","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\/52634","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=52634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}