{"id":116,"date":"2012-01-20T06:24:52","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T11:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/?p=116"},"modified":"2012-01-20T06:24:52","modified_gmt":"2012-01-20T11:24:52","slug":"things-are-looking-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/?p=116","title":{"rendered":"Things are Looking Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have sold three of Emily&#8217;s stocks in the past ten days, as they met her criteria for sale.  Which criteria is that, you ask?  Why, the value of the stock increased by 50%.  So I take this as an indication that things are, in fact, looking up for the stock market, which &#8211; as we all know &#8211; is a forward indicator of improvements in the economy.  These days, improvement in the economy has to mean world, not just US.  Everything affects everything any more, so either it&#8217;s a lull before the next storm or &#8211; in fact &#8211; things are looking up.  Being the eternal optimist, I prefer the latter interpretation.<\/p>\n<p>Now, of course, the challenge is to find new, quality investments in which to put her hard-earned, hard-saved money for college.  She has to file a tax return this year because we moved some money from her mutual fund account to the e-trade account.  Imagine, an 8 year old having to file a tax return&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/stock-market-pic.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/stock-market-pic.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"stock market pic\" width=\"115\" height=\"115\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-117\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have sold three of Emily&#8217;s stocks in the past ten days, as they met her criteria for sale. Which criteria is that, you ask? Why, the value of the stock increased by 50%. So I take this as an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/?p=116\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions\/120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}