{"id":504,"date":"2011-10-03T14:10:11","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T18:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=504"},"modified":"2011-10-03T14:10:38","modified_gmt":"2011-10-03T18:10:38","slug":"regulations-aren%e2%80%99t-to-blame-for-the-%e2%80%98uncovery%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2011\/10\/regulations-aren%e2%80%99t-to-blame-for-the-%e2%80%98uncovery%e2%80%99\/","title":{"rendered":"Regulations aren\u2019t to blame for the \u2018uncovery\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Republican narrative on the economic recovery \u2014 or, as some are calling it, the \u201cuncovery \u2014 is simple: It\u2019s not Europe, or deleveraging, or lack of consumer demand. It\u2019s government. Businesses, Speaker John Boehner has said, have been \u201cslammed by uncertainty from the constant threat of new taxes, out-of-control spending and unnecessary regulation.\u201d It is, for conservatives, a convenient narrative, as it argues for deregulation, tax cuts and spending cuts \u2014 policies that they have supported all along. But is it true?<\/p>\n<p>A new paper by Larry Mishel, president of the Economic Policy Institute, attempts to test the proposition.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/ezra-klein\/post\/regulations-arent-to-blame-for-the-uncovery\/2011\/08\/25\/gIQAIuuCAL_blog.html?wprss=ezra-klein\">Regulations aren\u2019t to blame for the \u2018uncovery\u2019 &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republican narrative on the economic recovery \u2014 or, as some are calling it, the \u201cuncovery \u2014 is simple: It\u2019s not Europe, or deleveraging, or lack of consumer demand. It\u2019s government. Businesses, Speaker John Boehner has said, have been \u201cslammed by uncertainty from the constant threat of new taxes, out-of-control spending and unnecessary regulation.\u201d It&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,22],"tags":[70,34,37,297],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":507,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions\/507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}