{"id":4342,"date":"2010-07-28T19:58:55","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T00:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=4342"},"modified":"2010-07-28T20:12:09","modified_gmt":"2010-07-29T01:12:09","slug":"8-5-million-jobs-saved-or-created","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/07\/28\/8-5-million-jobs-saved-or-created\/","title":{"rendered":"8.5 Million Jobs Saved or Created"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Nightly Business Report, Alan Blinder and Mark Zandi talked about their analysis which says that all the government attempts to rescue the economy have saved or created 8.5 million jobs.\u00a0 They were talking about the study reported in the article, <a title=\"Bloomberg News article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2010-07-28\/blinder-zandi-say-bailouts-likely-averted-depression.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Blinder, Zandi Say Bailouts Likely Averted Depression<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Has anybody before had the audacity to come up with numbers like this?<\/p>\n<p>Let me think real hard if I can remember anything of the sort.<\/p>\n<p>How about my post on February 17th, 2010, <a title=\"My previous analysis\" href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/02\/17\/obama-saves-5-million-jobs-through-february-2010\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Obama Saves 5 Million Jobs Through February 2010<\/strong><\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>And they laughed when I sat down to the spread sheet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Nightly Business Report, Alan Blinder and Mark Zandi talked about their analysis which says that all the government attempts to rescue the economy have saved or created 8.5 million jobs.\u00a0 They were talking about the study reported in the article, Blinder, Zandi Say Bailouts Likely Averted Depression. Has anybody before had the audacity to [&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-4342","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\/4342","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=4342"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4349,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4342\/revisions\/4349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}