{"id":9755,"date":"2022-02-15T15:32:06","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T15:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2022\/02\/15\/furman-economist-jason-jones-addresses-high-inflation-rate\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:46:18","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:46:18","slug":"furman-economist-jason-jones-addresses-high-inflation-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-economist-jason-jones-addresses-high-inflation-rate\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman economist Jason Jones addresses high inflation rate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greenville TV station WYFF News 4 covered rising inflation rates, noting that the 7.5 percent jump over last year is a 40-year high. For the local expert perspective, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wyff4.com\/article\/inflation-rate-hits-40-year-high-unclear-when-prices-will-drop\/39080632\">WYFF interviewed Furman&#8217;s Jason Jones<\/a>, professor of economics.\u00a0 Jones described a perfect storm of factors contributing to high inflation, including high demand, low unemployment, rising wages and government spending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greenville TV station WYFF News 4 covered rising inflation rates, noting that the 7.5 percent jump over last year is a 40-year high. For the local expert perspective, WYFF interviewed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":389,"featured_media":9756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}