{"id":3667,"date":"2009-11-18T11:20:16","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T15:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=3667"},"modified":"2009-11-18T12:28:08","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T16:28:08","slug":"it-is-what-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2009\/11\/18\/it-is-what-it-is\/","title":{"rendered":"the selling of America&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Well, here are some more graphs from the <strong>BEA<\/strong> [Bureau of Economic Analysis]. All are corrected against the <strong>GDP<\/strong> [Gross Domestic Product]. The top is the Balance of Trade [Exports &#8211; Imports]. The middle one is the <strong>NIIP<\/strong> [Net International Investment Position = domestically owned foreign assets &#8211; foreign owned domestic assets]. And the bottom graph is the National Debt.<\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#990000\">It looks to me like something happened around 1980 that lasted into the early 1990s, but then improved for a while &#8211; worsening again about 2000 and thereafter. I wonder what it was? <\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"518\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/images\/foreign.gif\" \/><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><font color=\"#200020\"><sup>I found the balance of trade figures from <u><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.census.gov\/foreign-trade\/statistics\/historical\/gands.txt\" target=\"_blank\">1960-2008<\/a><\/strong><\/u> and the net international investment position from <u><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bea.gov\/international\/index.htm#iip\">1976-2008<\/a><\/strong><\/u> and expressed them as the % of the GDP [along with the national debt]. Depressing graphs, but it is what it is&#8230;<\/sup><\/font><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, here are some more graphs from the BEA [Bureau of Economic Analysis]. All are corrected against the GDP [Gross Domestic Product]. The top is the Balance of Trade [Exports &#8211; Imports]. The middle one is the NIIP [Net International Investment Position = domestically owned foreign assets &#8211; foreign owned domestic assets]. And the bottom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}