{"id":9579,"date":"2020-03-14T16:52:10","date_gmt":"2020-03-14T21:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=9579"},"modified":"2020-04-15T16:58:43","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T21:58:43","slug":"news-press-now-businesses-investors-ride-wave-of-uncertainty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2020\/03\/14\/news-press-now-businesses-investors-ride-wave-of-uncertainty\/","title":{"rendered":"News-Press NOW: Businesses, investors ride wave of uncertainty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Greg Kozol, News-Press NOW, March 14, 2020<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis effect on Wall Street is a symptom of a whole bunch of other things,\u201d said Dr. Kara Grant, a professor of economics at Missouri Western State University. \u201cWhen you have a lot of supply chain disruptions, that could cause inflation and unemployment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A steep drop in gas prices \u2014 a result of a price war between Russia and Saudi Arabia \u2014 puts money into consumers\u2019 pockets and could act as a stimulant to counter the economic impact of supply shocks, Grant said. The benefit of lower interest rates is less clear, she said, if businesses are hit so hard by supply disruptions that they don\u2019t use reduced borrowing cost to boost investment.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story and watch the video version <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newspressnow.com\/coronavirus\/businesses-investors-ride-wave-of-uncertainty\/article_e78ccb34-63d2-11ea-92a3-03265091e8da.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">at newspressnow.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Greg Kozol, News-Press NOW, March 14, 2020 &#8230; \u201cThis effect on Wall Street is a symptom of a whole bunch of other things,\u201d said Dr. Kara Grant, a professor of economics at Missouri Western State University. \u201cWhen you have a lot of supply chain disruptions, that could cause inflation and unemployment.\u201d A steep drop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29,970],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9579"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9580,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9579\/revisions\/9580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}