{"id":493,"date":"2008-09-02T13:18:15","date_gmt":"2008-09-02T13:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=493"},"modified":"2008-09-02T13:18:15","modified_gmt":"2008-09-02T13:18:15","slug":"the-crowd-begins-to-pick-up-the-refrain-a-recession-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/the-crowd-begins-to-pick-up-the-refrain-a-recession-is-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"The crowd begins to pick up the refrain &#8211; &#8220;a recession is coming&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the UK admitted last weekend that <a href=\"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=492\">the economic outlook is unattractive<\/a>, the OECD has chimed in with the observation that <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/business\/7592660.stm\">UK will have a recession this year<\/a>.\u00a0 It&#8217;s healthy to adopt a realistic perspective.\u00a0 The UK can now begin the painful turnaround.<\/p>\n<p>Others should follow suit and make realistic assessments of the economic, social and environmental problems built up by a bloated consumer culture.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oecd.org\/dataoecd\/0\/51\/41229145.pdf\">OECD Economic Outlook 2 September 2008 here<\/a>\u00a0 (pdf).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the UK admitted last weekend that the economic outlook is unattractive, the OECD has chimed in with the observation that UK will have a recession this year.\u00a0 It&#8217;s healthy to adopt a realistic perspective.\u00a0 The UK can now begin the painful turnaround. Others should follow suit and make realistic assessments of the economic, social &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/the-crowd-begins-to-pick-up-the-refrain-a-recession-is-coming\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The crowd begins to pick up the refrain &#8211; &#8220;a recession is coming&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-worldofmoney"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-7X","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}