{"id":678713,"date":"2010-03-01T12:45:28","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T17:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.economist.com,21005096"},"modified":"2010-03-01T12:45:28","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T17:45:28","slug":"almost-a-lost-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/678713","title":{"rendered":"Almost a lost decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who missed it: a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/world\/united-states\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15579916\">piece<\/a> in this week&#8217;s issue looks at the performance of the American economy in the years 2000-2009 on several dimensions, and compares it to previous decades. It&#8217;s built around the following charts, which, I think, more or less speak for themselves. Perhaps not quite a lost decade, but the worst, on these measures, since the 1930s (or the 1940s).<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mceItem\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.economist.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/blogs\/2010w09\/ChartsUSDecade_0.jpg?resize=595%2C278\" alt=\"\" height=\"278\" width=\"595\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who missed it: a piece in this week&#8217;s issue looks at the performance of the American economy in the years 2000-2009 on several dimensions, and compares it to previous decades. It&#8217;s built around the following charts, which, I think, more or less speak for themselves. Perhaps not quite a lost decade, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3959,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-678713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2QyZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3959"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}