{"id":24646,"date":"2018-01-04T09:42:26","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T14:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=24646"},"modified":"2018-01-04T09:46:03","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T14:46:03","slug":"image-of-the-day-gallup-illustrates-trump-economic-bump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/24646\/image-of-the-day-gallup-illustrates-trump-economic-bump\/","title":{"rendered":"Image of the Day:  Gallup Illustrates Trump Economic Bump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In our weekly <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\" target=\"_blank\">Liberty Update<\/a>, we highlight how in just one year, the deregulatory Trump economic bump is now so inescapable that even <em>The New York Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/01\/01\/us\/politics\/trump-businesses-regulation-economic-growth.html\" target=\"_blank\">acknowledged it<\/a> in its January 1, 2018 edition.\u00a0 Given that consumer spending accounts for approximately two-thirds of the U.S. economy, Gallup&#8217;s annual average U.S. economic confidence index is similarly illustrative.\u00a0 For 2016, despite years of supposed prosperity under Barack Obama, the index stagnated at -10.\u00a0 In just one year since Trump&#8217;s deregulatory and lower-tax administration began?\u00a0 Already +6 for the year, the first time in over a decade:<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Instant Trump Bump\" src=\"http:\/\/content.gallup.com\/origin\/gallupinc\/GallupSpaces\/Production\/Cms\/POLL\/qwuj3ncq80gg5vuvsst77g.png\" alt=\"Instant Trump Bump\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" \/><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our weekly Liberty Update, we highlight how in just one year, the deregulatory Trump economic bump is now so inescapable that even The New York Times acknowledged it in its January 1, 2018 edition.\u00a0 Given that consumer spending accounts for approximately two-thirds of the U.S. economy, Gallup&#8217;s annual average U.S. economic confidence index is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2896,19,842,4993],"class_list":["post-24646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-consumer","tag-economy","tag-gallup","tag-trump-bump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24646","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24646"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24650,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24646\/revisions\/24650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}