{"id":8786,"date":"2011-01-04T17:30:17","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T23:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=8786"},"modified":"2011-01-04T17:30:17","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T23:30:17","slug":"economists-are-so-cute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/04\/economists-are-so-cute\/","title":{"rendered":"Economists Are So Cute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/business\/columns\/job-watch\/article_124bdb7e-182b-11e0-a77c-0017a4a78c22.html\" target=\"_blank\">Economist &#8216;encouraged&#8217; despite jump in area jobless rate<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nKansas City-based BLS economist Linda Nickisch said there was an upside despite the 9.3 to 9.5 percent increase in local unemployment  from October to November.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s encouraging because it could mean that more people are out there looking for jobs,&#8221; Nickisch said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It could also mean that in that time period, unemployed people thought that their unemployment benefits were going to end in December and were taking action to get a job, but now that they&#8217;ve got another year or so to lollygag about, they&#8217;ll get back on the sofa and bring that unemployment number back down.<\/p>\n<p>Economics is the PhD equivalent of going to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wheresgeorge.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">WheresGeorge.com<\/a> and using its sample to not only tell where all the dollar bills in the country are right now, but also where they will be in 2 years and 8 days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Economist &#8216;encouraged&#8217; despite jump in area jobless rate: Kansas City-based BLS economist Linda Nickisch said there was an upside despite the 9.3 to 9.5 percent increase in local unemployment from October to November. &#8220;It&#8217;s encouraging because it could mean that more people are out there looking for jobs,&#8221; Nickisch said. It could also mean that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8786"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8788,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8786\/revisions\/8788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}