{"id":23107,"date":"2026-09-23T01:33:42","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T01:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=23107"},"modified":"2026-09-23T01:33:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T01:33:42","slug":"obamas-top-economist-has-a-warning-for-the-country-w-jason-furman-receipts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=23107","title":{"rendered":"Obama\u2019s Top Economist Has a Warning for the Country (w\/ Jason Furman) | Receipts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump&#8217;s: attack on the Fed&#8217;s independence, forcing respected economic experts to push a bullshit political line, and generally incompetent economic comments and policies\u2026are bad for the rule of law, the economy, and people in general. But, one factor that will determine how bad this is, is whether, after Trump, we see further degradation of the rule of law and more bad economic policies, or whether it gets better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Obama\u2019s Top Economist Has a Warning for the Country (w\/ Jason Furman) | Receipts\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g526waT8CjA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump&#8217;s: attack on the Fed&#8217;s independence, forcing respected economic experts to push a bullshit political line, and generally incompetent economic comments and policies&#8230;are bad for the rule of law, the economy, and people in general. But, one factor that will determine how bad this is, is whether, after Trump, we see further degradation of the rule of law and more bad economic policies, or whether it gets better. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=g526waT8CjA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1104,431,660,221,217,165,556,411,201,586,587,170,661],"class_list":["post-23107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-authoritarianism","tag-democracy","tag-dictatorship","tag-donald-trump","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-obama","tag-policy","tag-rule-of-law","tag-the-fed","tag-the-federal-reserve","tag-trump","tag-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23107","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=23107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23108,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23107\/revisions\/23108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}