{"id":20615,"date":"2026-01-13T10:26:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T17:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=20615"},"modified":"2026-01-09T13:10:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T20:10:47","slug":"like-a-fox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=20615","title":{"rendered":"Like a Fox?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/aabWHXEXbXWveftOUOhDS1.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"700\" data-attachment-id=\"20618\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?attachment_id=20618\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/aabWHXEXbXWveftOUOhDS1.jpeg?fit=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1024,1024\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"aabWHXEXbXWveftOUOhDS1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/aabWHXEXbXWveftOUOhDS1.jpeg?fit=700%2C700&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/aabWHXEXbXWveftOUOhDS1.jpeg?resize=700%2C700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20618\" style=\"width:371px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/aabWHXEXbXWveftOUOhDS1.jpeg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/aabWHXEXbXWveftOUOhDS1.jpeg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/aabWHXEXbXWveftOUOhDS1.jpeg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/aabWHXEXbXWveftOUOhDS1.jpeg?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cThe cost of oil affects the price of nearly every other product.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>From An Empire of Wealth by John Steele Gordon<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--nextpage-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you can drive down the price of oil it lowers inflation pressure. Bringing Venezuela&#8217;s oil back on line may increase supply and do that. Trump is betting yes. I&#8217;m saying probably because in multivariable problems, like international diplomacy and international trade, lots can go wrong. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe cost of oil affects the price of nearly every other product.\u201d From An Empire of Wealth by John Steele Gordon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,5],"tags":[192,311,340],"class_list":["post-20615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-simon-says","tag-oil","tag-politics","tag-trump"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/aabWHXEXbXWveftOUOhDS1.jpeg?fit=1024%2C1024&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-5mv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20619,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20615\/revisions\/20619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}