{"id":4706,"date":"2009-08-26T11:05:15","date_gmt":"2009-08-26T15:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=4706"},"modified":"2009-08-26T11:05:15","modified_gmt":"2009-08-26T15:05:15","slug":"cash-for-appliances-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/26\/cash-for-appliances-really\/","title":{"rendered":"Cash for&#8230;. Appliances. Really?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that the Cash for Clunkers plan has been so successful (at least at helping to pump GDP) we are in for Part 2&#8230;. <strong>Cash for Appliances<\/strong>. No need to trade in anything it appears&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Will this be used to pump up DURABLE GOODS and thereby the GDP again? So, GDP could be said to be moving higher on direct government infusions. Is that a good thing? YES and NO&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>We need to see non-stimulative buying and consumption in order for the recovery to take hold. Take a look at this video clip&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>What do you think about this? Waste of money or smart move?<\/p>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"339\" width=\"425\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/22425001\/vp\/32546185#32546185\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:11px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #999; margin-top: 5px; background: transparent; text-align: center; width: 425px;\">Visit msnbc.com for <a style=\"text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px; color:#5799DB !important;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\">Breaking News<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032507\" style=\"text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px; color:#5799DB !important;\">World News<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032072\" style=\"text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px; color:#5799DB !important;\">News about the Economy<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that the Cash for Clunkers plan has been so successful (at least at helping to pump GDP) we are in for Part 2&#8230;. Cash for Appliances. No need to trade in anything it appears&#8230; Will this be used to pump up DURABLE GOODS and thereby the GDP again? So, GDP could be said to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[481,483],"class_list":["post-4706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-markets","tag-economy","tag-markets","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}