{"id":4368,"date":"2010-12-14T20:53:36","date_gmt":"2010-12-14T19:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=4368"},"modified":"2010-12-14T23:37:57","modified_gmt":"2010-12-14T22:37:57","slug":"the-governments-plan-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=4368","title":{"rendered":"The Government&#8217;s Plan B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-11990664\">reported<\/a> today that the Coalition Government has prepared an alternative economic strategy to be activated if the economy does not recover fast enough. Elements of the Plan B are further quantitative easing, purchase of commercial bonds, infrastructure investment and tax cuts.<\/p>\n<p>It would not surprise me if a Plan B proves necessary, but a reduction in the scale and speed of public expenditure cuts should be part of any alternative strategy about which I speculated in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=3952\">a posting<\/a> two months ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is reported today that the Coalition Government has prepared an alternative economic strategy to be activated if the economy does not recover fast enough. Elements of the Plan B are further quantitative easing, purchase of commercial bonds, infrastructure investment and tax cuts. It would not surprise me if a Plan B proves necessary, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4368"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4383,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4368\/revisions\/4383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}