{"id":2200,"date":"2020-02-13T17:27:15","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T17:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2200"},"modified":"2020-02-13T17:27:15","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T17:27:15","slug":"the-real-state-of-the-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2200","title":{"rendered":"The real state of the union"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“If you didn\u2019t know American politics had been turned upside down by Trump\u2019s election win, nothing in the macroeconomic data would suggest that anything at all happened in January 2017”
…
“That\u2019s not to deny Trump any credit. He made a sensible selection for Federal Reserve chair and has presided over a healthy dose of fiscal stimulus, and his trade policies haven\u2019t been as disruptive as the most alarmist critics warn. But at the same time, his tax cuts haven\u2019t delivered the kind of investment boom he promised, and in general, all his record-setting economic numbers are continuations of previous trends.” 
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“Under Trump, we have seen a sharp slowdown in net immigration<\/a> that has helped reduce US population growth to a trickle. The foreign-born share of the population, however, is not falling despite the immigration crackdown because American women are also having fewer babies.”
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“The number of babies women say they\u2019d ideally like to have<\/a> isn\u2019t declining; we are just seeing the gap between ideal fertility and actual fertility get bigger and bigger each year. According to surveys, the main reason is the high (and growing) cost of child care<\/a> \u2014 a problem that a \u201cgood economy\u201d alone doesn\u2019t fix, since child care is so labor-intensive.” 
https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/2\/4\/21117194\/real-state-of-the-union-address-trump<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“If you didn\u2019t know American politics had been turned upside down by Trump\u2019s election win, nothing in the macroeconomic data would suggest that anything at all happened in January 2017”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“That\u2019s not to deny Trump any credit. He made a sensible selection for Federal Reserve chair and has presided over a healthy dose of fiscal stimulus, and his trade policies haven\u2019t been as disruptive as the most alarmist critics warn. But at the same time, his tax cuts haven\u2019t delivered the kind of investment boom he promised, and in general, all his record-setting economic numbers are continuations of previous trends.” <\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“Under Trump, we have seen a sharp slowdown in net immigration that has helped reduce US population growth to a trickle. The foreign-born share of the population, however, is not falling despite the immigration crackdown because American women are also having fewer babies.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“The number of babies women say they\u2019d ideally like to have isn\u2019t declining; we are just seeing the gap between ideal fertility and actual fertility get bigger and bigger each year. According to surveys, the main reason is the high (and growing) cost of child care \u2014 a problem that a \u201cgood economy\u201d alone doesn\u2019t fix, since child care is so labor-intensive.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[221,217,165,438,170],"class_list":["post-2200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-donald-trump","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-fertility","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2201,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200\/revisions\/2201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}