{"id":76609,"date":"2009-12-11T16:19:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T21:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/ben-bernanke-is-completely-blowing-it-on-jobs-2009-12"},"modified":"2009-12-11T16:19:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T21:19:00","slug":"ben-bernanke-is-completely-blowing-it-on-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/76609","title":{"rendered":"Ben Bernanke Is Completely Blowing It On Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/~~\/f?id=4b186405000000000084c1fa&amp;maxX=397&amp;maxY=298\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Paul Krugman Leonard Lopate\" width=\"397\" height=\"298\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;My back of the envelope calculation says that we need to add around 18 million jobs over the next five years, or 300,000 jobs a month. This puts last week&rsquo;s employment report, which showed job losses of &ldquo;only&rdquo; 11,000 in November, in perspective. It was basically a terrible report&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So if we&rsquo;re going to have any real good news, someone has to take responsibility for creating a lot of additional jobs. And at this point, that someone almost has to be the Federal Reserve&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/12\/11\/opinion\/11krugman.html?hp\">Read the whole thing at NYT &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/ben-bernanke-is-completely-blowing-it-on-jobs-2009-12#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/weve-still-got-a-long-way-to-go-on-jobs-2009-12\">We&#8217;ve Still Got A LONG Way To Go On Jobs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/henry-blodget-heres-why-there-wont-be-a-v-shaped-recovery-in-jobs-2009-12\">Here&#8217;s Why There Won&#8217;t Be A V-Shaped Recovery In Jobs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/henry-blodget-help-we-need-you-come-work-at-the-business-insider-2009-12\">Help!  We Need You!  Come Work At The Business Insider!<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/COVFFn3le-g\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;My back of the envelope calculation says that we need to add around 18 million jobs over the next five years, or 300,000 jobs a month. This puts last week&rsquo;s employment report, which showed job losses of &ldquo;only&rdquo; 11,000 in November, in perspective. It was basically a terrible report&#8230; So if we&rsquo;re going to have [&hellip;]<\/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-76609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}