{"id":11899,"date":"2014-12-26T09:00:39","date_gmt":"2014-12-26T14:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=11899"},"modified":"2014-12-26T00:21:18","modified_gmt":"2014-12-26T05:21:18","slug":"weve-had-one-christmas-yes-but-what-about-second-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/weve-had-one-christmas-yes-but-what-about-second-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019ve Had One Christmas, Yes, But What About Second Christmas?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/122614_0519_WeveHadOneC1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>No need for any post-holiday blues, writes Matthew Yglesias. The most patriotic thing you could do as a global citizen would be to start planning for another Christmas celebration:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Statisticians don&#8217;t usually talk about it because they like to &#8220;seasonally adjust&#8221; their numbers, but up to 3 million Americans have jobs due to the Christmas season \u2013 and are fired soon afterwards.\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s not just the demand created by presents. There&#8217;s also a surge in travel and food spending that props up the economy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Having a second Christmas sometime in the spring would give the economy a lasting boost, and perhaps make some of the &#8220;seasonal&#8221; workers permanent ones.<\/li>\n<li>For the economy as a whole this would be affordable. Yes, you&#8217;d have to spend more on presents, but all the extra demand would ultimately raise everybody&#8217;s wages.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read the rest of the argument, why Yglesias is serious, and more over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2014\/12\/24\/7433715\/christmas-economic-miracle\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2014\/12\/24\/7433715\/christmas-economic-miracle\">Vox<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2014\/12\/assorted-links-1325.html\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No need for any post-holiday blues, writes Matthew Yglesias. The most patriotic thing you could do as a global citizen would be to start planning for another Christmas celebration: Statisticians don&#8217;t usually talk about it because they like to &#8220;seasonally adjust&#8221; their numbers, but up to 3 million Americans have jobs due to the Christmas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/122614_0519_WeveHadOneC1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11899"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11902,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11899\/revisions\/11902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}