{"id":8783,"date":"2025-09-08T00:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T00:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/8783\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T00:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T00:48:10","slug":"is-the-american-economy-broken-as-the-fed-prepares-to-cut-interest-rates-some-think-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/8783\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the American economy broken? As the Fed prepares to cut interest rates, some think so"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday night, while the most well-behaved Australian investors were tucked up in bed, Donald Trump was launching something called the Rose Garden Club. Having paved over the famous White House garden with limestone a few months ago, the US President decorated it with little four-person tables, installed a new speaker system and turned the whole thing into an exclusive version of his famous Mar-A-Lago enclave.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"-_78513498480b2b42-image\" data-testid=\"Image-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/b9567736529606a728add8bc4dfc89b17c1a533e.jpeg\"   data-id=\"b9567736529606a728add8bc4dfc89b17c1a533e\" data-pb-im-config=\"{&quot;aspectRatio&quot;:1.5,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;landscape3x2&quot;,&quot;width&quot;:382,&quot;urls&quot;:[&quot;https:\/\/static.ffx.io\/images\/$zoom_0.337%2C$multiply_3%2C$ratio_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_0%2C$y_25\/t_crop_custom\/c_scale%2Cw_382%2Cq_88%2Cf_auto\/b9567736529606a728add8bc4dfc89b17c1a533e&quot;,&quot; https:\/\/static.ffx.io\/images\/$zoom_0.337%2C$multiply_3%2C$ratio_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_0%2C$y_25\/t_crop_custom\/c_scale%2Cw_764%2Cq_52%2Cf_auto\/b9567736529606a728add8bc4dfc89b17c1a533e 2x&quot;]}\" width=\"382\" height=\"255\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump says the economy is booming. So why is recession talk suddenly everywhere?\u00a0David Rowe<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Friday night, while the most well-behaved Australian investors were tucked up in bed, Donald Trump was launching&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,220,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-8783","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-markets","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-markets","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}