{"id":797,"date":"2009-02-10T21:33:34","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T20:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=797"},"modified":"2009-02-10T21:33:34","modified_gmt":"2009-02-10T20:33:34","slug":"the-belief-in-economic-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=797","title":{"rendered":"The Belief in Economic Recovery."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Economics is as much of a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Homo_economicus\"> Belief system<\/a> as it is matter of math and relative perceived value exchange. And as such is subject to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Self-fulfilling_prophecy\"> Self-fulfilling prophecy <\/a>. If the belief is strong enough the value or a rock could be zero, of worth vast sums of currency. So also when a people believe in their leadership, and believe that they will fix the underling issues in the economy, almost by magic, the economy will turn around. The reciprocal is also true, when a majority loose faith in the economic plans of a government, nothing that government will do will generate a reversal of economic decline. <\/p>\n<p>This is why the U.S. will recover from the world recession quicker than the Irish. A faith in the Obama plan far exceeds the faith that the Irish have in Brian Cowen and Fianna F\u00c3\u00a1il. At this stage nothing that Brian will do, can have any impact on the downturn in the Irish economy. The Banks will not get their reputations back, credit will not be extended, recovery will not happen. The faith of the Irish people must be regained. This can only happen if Brian makes drastic actions against the criminal intent of the banks, developers and regulators.  Or else the government must be replace with one that does regain the faith of the Irish people. Fianna F\u00c3\u00a1il is intimately linked with the white collar crimes, lack of enforcement, and general corruption that currently exist. It&#8217;s unlikely that the membership will change the the color of their <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Balaclava_(clothing)\">balaclavas<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>A revolution is in the wind, and the Irish are not unfamiliar with revolution. <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Economics is as much of a Belief system as it is matter of math and relative perceived value exchange. And as such is subject to Self-fulfilling prophecy . If the belief is strong enough the value or a rock could<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=797\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Belief in Economic Recovery.<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,30,68,13,8,28,49],"tags":[201,646,702],"class_list":["post-797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-economy","category-government","category-ireland","category-politics","category-psychology","category-world-events","tag-economics","tag-politics","tag-recession"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":800,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions\/800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}