{"id":81943,"date":"2022-07-01T01:58:52","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T05:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=81943"},"modified":"2022-07-01T02:06:50","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T06:06:50","slug":"this-was-the-worst-first-half-for-the-market-in-50-years-and-its-all-because-of-one-thing-inflation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2022\/this-was-the-worst-first-half-for-the-market-in-50-years-and-its-all-because-of-one-thing-inflation.html","title":{"rendered":"This was the worst first half for the market in 50 years and it\u2019s all because of one thing \u2014 inflation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) A multitude of factors conspired to generate the stock market\u2019s worst first-half since 1970, but they all emanated from one word: inflation. The cost of living started the year running at levels the U.S. had not seen since the early 1980s. Worse, Federal Reserve officials, armed with full-year forecasts of \u201ctransitory\u201d inflation that now seem almost comically inaccurate, fell behind the curve, endangering a market and economy still fragile from the Covid pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/06\/30\/the-markets-worst-first-half-in-50-years-has-all-come-down-to-one-thing.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) A multitude of factors conspired to generate the stock market\u2019s worst first-half since 1970, but they all emanated from one word: inflation. The cost of living started the year running at levels the U.S. had not seen since the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81944,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81943\/revisions\/81944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}