{"id":650,"date":"2019-04-26T04:51:52","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T04:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mediamalpractice.net\/?p=650"},"modified":"2019-04-27T03:22:18","modified_gmt":"2019-04-27T03:22:18","slug":"new-post-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mediamalpractice.net\/?p=650","title":{"rendered":"MSNBC #ECONFAIL &#8211; RACHEL MADDOW"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\/white-house-concedes-trumps-economic-promises-come-fine-print\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\/white-house-concedes-trumps-economic-promises-come-fine-print) 03\/20\/19<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Kevin Hassett, the White House\u2019s chief economist, insisted this week that the economy will grow at or above 3 percent for the next several years \u2013 a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/kevin-drum\/2019\/03\/trump-budget-uses-nonsense-growth-estimates\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">highly dubious<\/a>&nbsp;belief that undergirds Donald Trump\u2019s entire budget plan for the near future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To believe this will be to have fallen for a rather clumsy scam.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/04\/26\/gdp-q1-2019-first-read.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/04\/26\/gdp-q1-2019-first-read.html<\/a>)<\/p>\n<h2>US economy grows by 3.2% in the first quarter, topping expectations<\/h2>\n<p>The U.S. economy grew at a faster pace than expected in the first quarter and posted its best growth to start a year in four years.<\/p>\n<p>First-quarter gross domestic product expanded by 3.2%, the Bureau of Economic Analysis said Friday in its initial read of the economy for that period. Economists polled by Dow Jones expected growth of 2.5%. It was the first time since 2015 that first-quarter GDP topped 3%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\/white-house-concedes-trumps-economic-promises-come-fine-print) 03\/20\/19 &#8220;Kevin Hassett, the White House\u2019s chief economist, insisted this week that the economy will grow at or above 3 percent for the next several years \u2013 a&nbsp;highly dubious&nbsp;belief that undergirds Donald Trump\u2019s entire budget plan for the near future.&#8221; &#8220;To believe this will be to have fallen for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[28,30,29],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediamalpractice.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediamalpractice.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediamalpractice.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediamalpractice.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediamalpractice.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=650"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mediamalpractice.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":671,"href":"https:\/\/mediamalpractice.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions\/671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediamalpractice.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediamalpractice.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediamalpractice.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}