{"id":561,"date":"2009-07-08T20:31:28","date_gmt":"2009-07-09T02:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=561"},"modified":"2009-07-08T20:31:28","modified_gmt":"2009-07-09T02:31:28","slug":"feeling-stimulated-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=561","title":{"rendered":"Feeling stimulated yet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are <em>already<\/em> calls for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/finance\/financetopics\/financialcrisis\/4973841\/Democrats-draw-up-plan-for-second-stimulus-bill.html\">another stimulus bill<\/a>, because the first hasn&#8217;t been too effective. Why hasn&#8217;t it? A. J. Strata has a big hint <a href=\"http:\/\/strata-sphere.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/9706\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The bottom line: in order to have an effective stimulus (monetary or physical), you have to hit hard enough and fast enough to have a noticeable effect. Since the first stimulus bill was a government programs package, rather than an actual stimulus bill, very little of the money has been used yet, so no stimulus has occurred, nor is one likely to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are already calls for another stimulus bill, because the first hasn&#8217;t been too effective. Why hasn&#8217;t it? A. J. Strata has a big hint here. The bottom line: in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}