{"id":16141,"date":"2018-06-08T20:51:37","date_gmt":"2018-06-09T01:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=16141"},"modified":"2018-06-08T20:51:37","modified_gmt":"2018-06-09T01:51:37","slug":"pouring-the-mud-on-your-own-head-ctd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/06\/08\/pouring-the-mud-on-your-own-head-ctd\/","title":{"rendered":"Pouring The Mud On Your Own Head, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"

And the very next WaPo<\/strong><\/em> article<\/a> I read has another example of the crumbling of a reputation, this time that of Larry Kudlow:<\/p>\n

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The U.S. economy has been growing\u00a0close to 3 percent<\/a>\u00a0over the past year \u2014 a rate once thought impossible \u2014 and is on track to get even growthier in the second quarter. Business is booming as\u00a0corporate spending on new capital equipment<\/a>\u00a0has surged in 2017 and\u00a02018<\/a>.\u00a0Hiring and wages<\/a>\u00a0are rising, too.\u00a0Household net worth<\/a>\u00a0has soared to an almost unimaginable level of $100 trillion.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Ummmm, no, it was never thought impossible. Here’s a chart from Trading Economics<\/strong><\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Clearly, 3% is good but neither great nor impossible.<\/p>\n

Mr. Kudlow, I do hope you’re as rich as Trump likes to surround himself with, because I’m not sure anyone will wish to employ you after this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And the very next WaPo article I read has another example of the crumbling of a reputation, this time that of Larry Kudlow: The U.S. economy has been growing\u00a0close to 3 percent\u00a0over the past year \u2014 a rate once thought impossible \u2014 and is on track to get even growthier \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16143,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16141\/revisions\/16143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}