{"id":15263,"date":"2013-11-21T16:31:46","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T21:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=15263"},"modified":"2013-11-21T16:34:39","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T21:34:39","slug":"janet-yellen-on-problems-of-fiscal-drag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/11\/21\/janet-yellen-on-problems-of-fiscal-drag\/","title":{"rendered":"Janet Yellen On Problems of Fiscal Drag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At Janet Yellen&#8217;s confirmation hearings, Senator Warner asked a question about the impact of fiscal drag on the economy.&nbsp; The question is a good one, and Yellen&#8217;s answer is also very good.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<object id='cspan-video-player' classid='clsid:d27cdb6eae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000' codebase='http:\/\/fpdownload.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0' align='middle' height='500' width='410'><param name='allowScriptAccess' value='true'\/><param name='movie' value='http:\/\/static.c-spanvideo.org\/assets\/swf\/CSPANPlayer.swf?clipid=4474457'\/><param name='quality' value='high'\/><param name='bgcolor' value='#ffffff'\/><param name='allowFullScreen' value='true'\/><param name='flashvars' value='system=http:\/\/www.c-spanvideo.org\/common\/services\/flashXml.php?clipid=4474457&#038;style=full'\/><embed name='cspan-video-player' src='http:\/\/static.c-spanvideo.org\/assets\/swf\/CSPANPlayer.swf?clipid=4474457' allowScriptAccess='always' bgcolor='#ffffff' quality='high' allowFullScreen='true' type='application\/x-shockwave-flash' pluginspage='http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer' flashvars='system=http:\/\/www.c-spanvideo.org\/common\/services\/flashXml.php?clipid=4474457&#038;style=full' align='middle' height='500' width='410'\/><\/object>\n<\/div>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Yellen explains a little bit about the size of the fiscal drag, the need for the Fed to try to offset it.  She does mention that the Fed&#8217;s tools for offsetting fiscal drag are not the most effective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Janet Yellen&#8217;s confirmation hearings, Senator Warner asked a question about the impact of fiscal drag on the economy.&nbsp; The question is a good one, and Yellen&#8217;s answer is also very good. Yellen explains a little bit about the size of the fiscal drag, the need for the Fed to try to offset it. She [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15263","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15263"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15265,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15263\/revisions\/15265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}