{"id":16508,"date":"2012-11-19T14:06:45","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T19:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=16508"},"modified":"2012-11-19T14:06:45","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T19:06:45","slug":"will-2013-be-like-1937","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/16508\/will-2013-be-like-1937\/","title":{"rendered":"Will 2013 Be Like 1937?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re a conservative looking for reasons to be thankful this November, don\u2019t read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2012-11-18\/2013-looks-a-lot-like-1937-in-four-fearsome-ways.html\" target=\"_blank\">Amity Shlaes\u2019 column<\/a> at Bloomberg today.\u00a0 In it, the author of books on Calvin Coolidge and the Great Depression identifies four factors that make 2013 seem like 1937 \u2013 a pre-election government spending spree; talks of deficit reduction thereafter; presidential attacks on high-income earners; and the economic fallout from first-term \u201ccomprehensive reforms\u201d like Social Security and Obamacare.<\/p>\n<p>According to Shlaes, the combination caused \u201cthe depression within the Depression.\u201d\u00a0 Not something one wants to think about this time of year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re a conservative looking for reasons to be thankful this November, don\u2019t read Amity Shlaes\u2019 column at Bloomberg today.\u00a0 In it, the author of books on Calvin Coolidge and the Great Depression identifies four factors that make 2013 seem like 1937 \u2013 a pre-election government spending spree; talks of deficit reduction thereafter; presidential attacks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1354,70,3941,19,82,61],"class_list":["post-16508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-amity-shlaes","tag-budget","tag-depression","tag-economy","tag-recession","tag-spending"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16508"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16514,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16508\/revisions\/16514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}