{"id":5830,"date":"2026-01-19T22:13:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T22:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=5830"},"modified":"2026-01-19T22:13:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T22:13:29","slug":"last-years-odd-economy-in-five-charts-and-what-to-watch-for-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/01\/19\/last-years-odd-economy-in-five-charts-and-what-to-watch-for-in-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Last year\u2019s odd economy in five charts, and what to watch for in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In 2025, the U.S. economy was defined by deep contradictions, with solid overall growth contrasted against a stagnant labor market and rising unemployment. Inflation remained stubbornly high at 2.8%, fueled in part by increased costs for electricity and imported goods, which became a major political liability for the administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> January 6, 2026. <strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/inflation-economy-trump-jobs-71f3d52f0fd63b34f4a8c59c60ffbe20\">apnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2025, the U.S. economy was defined by deep contradictions, with solid overall growth contrasted against a stagnant labor market and rising unemployment. Inflation remained stubbornly high at 2.8%, fueled in part by increased costs for electricity and imported goods, which became a major political liability for the administration. Date: January 6, 2026. Source: apnews.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":5826,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-socio-economic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5830"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5998,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5830\/revisions\/5998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}