{"id":1311,"date":"2009-06-10T09:49:47","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T16:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2009\/06\/cutting_back_around_the_globe_1\/"},"modified":"2009-06-10T09:49:47","modified_gmt":"2009-06-10T16:49:47","slug":"cutting_back_around_the_globe_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/cutting_back_around_the_globe_1.php","title":{"rendered":"Cutting back around the globe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NPR&#8217;s Planet Money <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/money\/2009\/06\/glimmers_of_hope_in_consumer_c.html\">describes a recent Ipsos\/Reuters<\/a> poll that suggests consumer confidence worldwide is nudging upwards after an 18-month decline (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/ousiv\/idUSTRE5512L720090602\">see the Ipsos\/Reuters release here<\/a>). The poll surveyed 23,000 people in 23 countries.<\/p>\n<p>Among the interesting statistics were the categories of cutbacks made, on average, by consumers during these tough economic times. As you might expect, entertainment, vacations, and luxury items topped the list for cutbacks, with education, cable television, and mobile phones at the bottom.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"consumercutbacks.png\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/images\/consumercutbacks.png\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" height=\"275\" width=\"430\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>While the statistics make sense on their face, Richard Florida <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativeclass.com\/creative_class\/2009\/06\/08\/the-new-normal-2\/\">notes a bit of a disconnect<\/a> in the findings:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;if we&#8217;re going to someday build a new kind of economy based less on<br \/>\ndurable goods &#8212; the old housing-auto, fordist industrial complex so to<br \/>\nspeak &#8212; and more around experiences, personal development, new<br \/>\ntechnology-based and creative industries, the massive slashing of<br \/>\nentertainment spending does not bode well for the longer-run.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR&#8217;s Planet Money describes a recent Ipsos\/Reuters poll that suggests consumer confidence worldwide is nudging upwards after an 18-month decline (see the Ipsos\/Reuters release here). The poll surveyed 23,000 people in 23 countries. Among the interesting statistics were the categories of cutbacks made, on average, by consumers during these tough economic times. As you might [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1311","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}