{"id":1164,"date":"2009-03-10T21:58:23","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T21:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/2009\/03\/10\/1164\/"},"modified":"2009-03-10T21:58:23","modified_gmt":"2009-03-10T21:58:23","slug":"manufacturing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/manufacturing\/","title":{"rendered":"Manufacturing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dws\/11303021\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/8\/11303021_472305a921_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dws\/11303021\/\">bottle manufacture<\/a><br \/>\nOriginally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/dws\/\">D W S<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>As regular readers of this blog will know, I&#8217;ve been <a href=\"http:\/\/politics.widmann.org.uk\/2008\/12\/rates\/\">sceptical<\/a> about the idea that the fall in the value of the pound would lead to a huge growth in manufacturing for a while.<\/p>\n<p>Now this is being confirmed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/coffeehouse\/3427086\/dont-hold-your-breath-for-a-manufacturingbased-recovery.thtml\">recent statistics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Do have a look at the second graph, by the way.  The current decline doesn&#8217;t look too different from the 1970s and 1980s recessions yet, but in about six months&#8217; time things might be a lot clearer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>bottle manufacture Originally uploaded by D W S As regular readers of this blog will know, I&#8217;ve been sceptical about the idea that the fall in the value of the pound would lead to a huge growth in manufacturing for a while. Now this is being confirmed by recent statistics. Do have a look at the second graph, by the way. The current decline doesn&#8217;t look too different from the 1970s and 1980s recessions yet, but in about six months&#8217; time things might be a lot clearer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}