{"id":2282,"date":"2010-02-25T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T22:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2010\/02\/double-dip\/"},"modified":"2010-02-25T16:00:36","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T22:00:36","slug":"double-dip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2010\/02\/double-dip\/","title":{"rendered":"Double Dip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The title of this post is one that brings pause to many people.\u00a0 Are we headed towards a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.investopedia.com\/terms\/d\/doublediprecession.asp\" target=\"_blank\">double dip recession<\/a>?\u00a0 I don\u2019t think we can say one way or another quite yet.\u00a0 However, <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2010\/02\/25\/news\/economy\/initial_claims\/\" target=\"_blank\">today\u2019s numbers<\/a> are not good:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The number of Americans filing for initial unemployment insurance surged to just below the 500,000 level last week, and have climbed more than 12% over the past two weeks, the government said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The 4-week moving average of initial claims was 473,750, up 6,000 from the previous week&#8217;s revised average of 467,750.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have talked to many companies who are in a holding mode for hiring.\u00a0 Thankfully, I have not encountered as many who are looking at any further layoffs.\u00a0 I take that to be a good, but not great, sign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The title of this post is one that brings pause to many people.\u00a0 Are we headed towards a double dip recession?\u00a0 I don\u2019t think we can say one way or another quite yet.\u00a0 However, today\u2019s numbers are not good: The number of Americans filing for initial unemployment insurance surged to just below the 500,000 level last week, and have climbed more than 12% over the past two weeks, the government said Thursday. \u2026 The 4-week moving average of initial claims was 473,750, up 6,000 from the previous week&#8217;s revised average of 467,750. I have talked to many companies who are in a holding mode for hiring.\u00a0 Thankfully, I have not&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2010\/02\/double-dip\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[49,2,5],"tags":[1531,1748,50,248,520],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-AO","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2282"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2284,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282\/revisions\/2284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->