{"id":3951,"date":"2022-09-03T11:36:12","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T16:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=3951"},"modified":"2022-09-03T11:36:12","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T16:36:12","slug":"another-saturday-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2022\/09\/03\/another-saturday-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I haven’t written since my last summer binge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lots and lots going on. None of it is really worth writing about publicly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wish I’d saved the article I saw about the economic state happening right now. Essentially, the author admitted something that it seems to be tough for many to admit. I Don’t Know<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This started with the debate over whether that US economy is in a recession after the frequently-cited two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Change the definitions, and hope that people don’t hold it against you that you don’t know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don’t know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Neither do the armchair Austrian economists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why are asset prices not following inflation?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don’t know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oil is still very high. Why is the same not true of precious metals? For the crypto-doesn’t-have-any-use-other-than-gambling crowd, looks like Real Estate is about to crash<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nobody<\/em><\/span><\/strong> fucking knows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even the people who proclaim themselves to be right on just about everything, and that messaging is the most important thing ever. They knew that this<\/a> would totally get people on their side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What’s tougher — admitting you don’t know, or that you were wrong?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Good question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I haven’t written since my last summer binge. Lots and lots going on. None of it is really worth writing about publicly. I wish I’d saved the article I saw about the economic state happening right now. Essentially, the author admitted something that it seems to be tough for many to admit. I Don’t Know. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scarred-brain-murmurings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}