{"id":10672,"date":"2010-03-03T16:10:41","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T16:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian-financial-forecaster-andy-beal-state-gov-lay-offs-coming-unemployment-to-skyrocket\/"},"modified":"2010-03-03T16:10:41","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T16:10:41","slug":"libertarian-financial-forecaster-andy-beal-state-gov-lay-offs-coming-unemployment-to-skyrocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/libertarian-financial-forecaster-andy-beal-state-gov-lay-offs-coming-unemployment-to-skyrocket.php","title":{"rendered":"Libertarian Financial Forecaster Andy Beal: State Gov. lay-offs coming, unemployment to skyrocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_Zm6JXvXXze4\/S4yC_51prwI\/AAAAAAAAKJE\/G8ajni5xPrE\/s1600-h\/AndyBeal.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/cdb69_AndyBeal.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a>Noted financial expert and celebrity high stakes poker player Andy Beal sees a very bleak future ahead for the US economy, this year and next.  <\/p><p>In a recent article in Forbes, writer Nathan Vardi described him as:<\/p><blockquote><p>a self-described libertarian kind of guy... very critical of the government&rsquo;s intervention in the economy.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>Beal predicts: a downturn in the market with a \"drop\" in stock values; and says, \"Commercial real estate is headed for trouble\"; finally, \"failed banks,\" and a \"credit bubble due to the Fed and easy money.\"<\/p><p>But it's in the area of employment where Beal sees the dreariest news.  <\/p><p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.forbes.com\/streettalk\/2010\/03\/01\/beals-conjecture\/\">Forbes<\/a>:<\/p><blockquote><p>Unemployment will remain at current levels for several years. This, Beal reasons, is partly because the states have not even started laying people off. &ldquo;I see all the governments having to tighten their belts, which is going to feed this snowball effect. I don&rsquo;t think we have felt the impact yet of governmental staff reductions,&rdquo; says Beal.<\/p><\/blockquote><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/cdb69_7828681836623105417-8567206909238643246?l=libertarianrepublican.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noted financial expert and celebrity high stakes poker player Andy Beal sees a very bleak future ahead for the US economy, this year and next. In a recent article in Forbes, writer Nathan Vardi described him as:a self-described libertarian kind &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/libertarian-financial-forecaster-andy-beal-state-gov-lay-offs-coming-unemployment-to-skyrocket.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarian"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10672"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}