{"id":66327,"date":"2008-03-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-professors-economic-index-ties-lowest-value-ever\/"},"modified":"2008-03-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-12T00:00:00","slug":"uri-professors-economic-index-ties-lowest-value-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2008\/03\/uri-professors-economic-index-ties-lowest-value-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ professor\u2019s economic index ties lowest value ever"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tLast time index posted an expanding value was July<\/p>\n


\nWHAT: \tThe Current Conditions Index for January 2008 tied its lowest value ever, 8. That means the Index has been in the contracting range for the sixth consecutive month. The last time the Index posted an expanding value was July at 58. There is one inescapable conclusion\u2014Rhode Island fell into recession in 2007.<\/p>\n


\nWHO: \tProfessor Leonard Lardaro, creator and author of the Current Conditions Index. <\/p>\n


\nWHEN: \tFor release today, March 12, 2008<\/p>\n


\nHOW: \tUse enclosed information, including summary and charts prepared by Lardaro for news reports. He is available for broadcast and print interviews. The new information and other historical information can also be found on Lardaro\u2019s web site at http:\/\/members.cox.net\/lardaro\/current.htm.<\/p>\n


\nFOR

\nINFORMATION: Leonard Lardaro, office, 401-874-4128, home, 401-783-9563

\nDave Lavallee, äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Department of Communications, 401-874-2116.<\/p>\n


\nBACKGROUND: \tThe Current Conditions Index, created by Lardaro, measures the strength of the present economic climate in R.I. by following the behavior of 12 indicators<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last time index posted an expanding value was July WHAT: The Current Conditions Index for January 2008 tied its lowest value ever, 8. That means the Index has been in the contracting range for the sixth consecutive month. The last time the Index posted an expanding value was July at 58. There is one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}