{"id":261211,"date":"2026-08-07T20:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T20:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/261211\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T20:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T20:28:12","slug":"economic-pulse-week-of-8-7-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/261211\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic Pulse: Week of 8\/7\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Car Sales up 4.6%<\/p>\n<p>Car sales rose to 16.6 million at seasonally adjusted annual rates in June, up 4.6% from the previous year&#8217;s level. Car sales peaked in March 2025 at almost 18 million, just before the new tariffs were announced, and have trended downward through the end of last year.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/kadac.net\/\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a> for the latest Lehigh Valley Economic Review.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to Economic Pulse Fridays at 5:44 PM during All Things Considered; Mondays at 7:30 AM during Morning Edition.<\/p>\n<p>(Original air-date: 8\/7\/26)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Car Sales up 4.6% Car sales rose to 16.6 million at seasonally adjusted annual rates in June, up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-261211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}