{"id":24878,"date":"2018-05-31T12:13:16","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T16:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=24878"},"modified":"2018-05-31T16:40:33","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T20:40:33","slug":"image-of-the-day-paul-krugmans-timeless-faceplant-from-1998","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/24878\/image-of-the-day-paul-krugmans-timeless-faceplant-from-1998\/","title":{"rendered":"Image of the Day:  Paul Krugman&#8217;s Timeless Faceplant from 1998"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Krugman, the political left&#8217;s favorite economist, claims quite a record for faceplant predictions.\u00a0 Readers will recall his prediction on election night in November 2016 that markets would <a href=\"http:\/\/insider.foxnews.com\/2017\/10\/17\/dow-crosses-23000-trump-record-krugman-predicted-recession-election-night\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;never&#8221; recover<\/a> from the ensuing crash that Donald Trump&#8217;s upset victory would trigger.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another timeless Krugman gem from 1998:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"The Lefts Favorite Economist\" class=\"  \" src=\"https:\/\/scontent.fphx1-1.fna.fbcdn.net\/v\/t1.0-9\/33899659_1989290951105317_6586649012059766784_n.jpg?_nc_cat=0&amp;oh=c2fccfcfbcd4f2c16ca8eccca62971b4&amp;oe=5BC3EE29\" width=\"454\" height=\"605\" alt=\"The Lefts Favorite Economist\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Krugman, the political left&#8217;s favorite economist, claims quite a record for faceplant predictions.\u00a0 Readers will recall his prediction on election night in November 2016 that markets would &#8220;never&#8221; recover from the ensuing crash that Donald Trump&#8217;s upset victory would trigger. Here&#8217;s another timeless Krugman gem from 1998:<\/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":[562,308,4700,206],"class_list":["post-24878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-economics","tag-internet","tag-krugman","tag-paul-krugman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24878","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=24878"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24883,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24878\/revisions\/24883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}