{"id":596513,"date":"2026-04-11T07:08:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T07:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/596513\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T07:08:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T07:08:13","slug":"fox-business-guests-ridicule-the-networks-fantasy-of-4-5-economic-growth-this-year-dream-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/596513\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox Business guests ridicule the network\u2019s fantasy of 4-5% economic growth this year: \u201cDream on\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Multiple Fox programs pushed claims that the Trump economy would see soaring economic growth of 4-5% following an April 9 interview with one of President Donald Trump\u2019s economic advisers. But a day later, two guests on Fox Business\u2019 flagship morning program shot down this fantasy.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday\u2019s edition of Fox Business\u2019\u00a0Mornings with Maria, National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett boasted that Trump&#8217;s \u201cpolicies are going to create a golden age\u201d and reiterated his projection of 4-5% economic growth this year. Anchor Maria Bartiromo responded, \u201cWow, so you still look for 4-5% growth for this year?\u201d Hassett replied: \u201cYes, that\u2019s right, that\u2019s right, because productivity\u2019s already giving us 2.5, and so if we get a little out of everything else, then you can get way north of three.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Multiple Fox programs pushed claims that the Trump economy would see soaring economic growth of 4-5% following an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":596514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-596513","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-economy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}