{"id":1901,"date":"2013-03-17T00:53:07","date_gmt":"2013-03-16T15:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/?p=1901"},"modified":"2013-03-17T07:48:11","modified_gmt":"2013-03-16T22:48:11","slug":"the-economist-march-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/?p=1901","title":{"rendered":"The Economist (March 16)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>America\u2019s \u201cdebt is rising, its population is ageing in a budget-threatening way, its schools are mediocre by international standards, its infrastructure rickety, its regulations dense, its tax code byzantine, its immigration system hare-brained\u2014and it has fallen from first position in the World Economic Forum\u2019s competitiveness rankings to seventh in just four years.\u201d But \u201cdysfunction in Washington is only one side of America\u2019s story\u2026. There is also another America, where things work.\u201d The successful side of America can be seen in the improving performance of the real economy where \u201cbusinesses and politicians are not waiting for the federal government to ride to their rescue.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America\u2019s \u201cdebt is rising, its population is ageing in a budget-threatening way, its schools are mediocre by international standards, its infrastructure rickety, its regulations dense, its tax code byzantine, its immigration system hare-brained\u2014and it has fallen from first position in the World Economic Forum\u2019s competitiveness rankings to seventh in just four years.\u201d But \u201cdysfunction in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1233,270,2068,161,966,2069,440,8,2067],"class_list":["post-1901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-news","tag-businesses","tag-debt","tag-dysfunction","tag-government","tag-population","tag-real-economy","tag-regulations","tag-u-s","tag-wef"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1905,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901\/revisions\/1905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}