{"id":205,"date":"2009-03-29T19:45:26","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T03:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wellgolly.com\/?p=205"},"modified":"2018-09-13T11:39:51","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T18:39:51","slug":"the-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wellgolly.com\/?p=205","title":{"rendered":"The Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Old One<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\nMild Recession &#8211; You hear about people being unemployed.<br \/>\nRecession &#8211; You know people who are unemployed.<br \/>\nDepression &#8211; You are unemployed.<\/div>\n<p>Economist jokes<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\nWhy did Harry Truman prefer one-armed economists.<br \/>\nBecause they couldn&#8217;t say \u201cOn the other hand.\u201d<\/div>\n<div class=\"indent\">\nHow do you get a one-armed economist out of a tree?<br \/>\nWave at them.<\/div>\n<div class=\"indent\">\nAn economist is someone who chases a black cat in a dark room.<br \/>\nAn economic theorist chases a black cat in a dark room and the cat isn&#8217;t there.<br \/>\nAn econometrician chases a black cat in a dark room, the cat isn&#8217;t there, and he shouts \u201cI\u2019ve got it.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>Quotes<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<p>I\u2019m not sure what the question was, but the answer is stabilize the money supply<\/p>\n<p class=\"attribution\">Milton Friedman<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<p>Economists must have a sense of humor if they can predict the the growth of GDP to a 1\/10th of a percent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"attribution\">John Scarry<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<p>The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.<\/p>\n<p class=\"attribution\">John Scarry<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Old One Mild Recession &#8211; You hear about people being unemployed. Recession &#8211; You know people who are unemployed. Depression &#8211; You are unemployed. Economist jokes Why did Harry Truman prefer one-armed economists. Because they couldn&#8217;t say \u201cOn the other hand.\u201d How do you get a one-armed economist out of a tree? Wave at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wellgolly.com\/?p=205\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Economy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellgolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellgolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellgolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellgolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellgolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellgolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2763,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellgolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions\/2763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellgolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellgolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellgolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}