{"id":12194,"date":"2026-03-30T02:56:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T02:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/videos\/finances-of-americans-almost-as-miserable-as-any-point-in-u-s-history-economics-professor\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T02:56:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T02:56:18","slug":"finances-of-americans-almost-as-miserable-as-any-point-in-u-s-history-economics-professor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/videos\/finances-of-americans-almost-as-miserable-as-any-point-in-u-s-history-economics-professor\/","title":{"rendered":"Finances of Americans almost \u2018as miserable as any point in U.S. history\u2019: Economics Professor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The hivemind has decided: this is today&#8217;s top content.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"margin:1.5em 0;text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/external-preview.redd.it\/ecN38ovI3cdGjhcd1MartfgU0ap662xGerC2uy8UR-0.jpeg?width=320&#038;crop=smart&#038;auto=webp&#038;s=b5956c0413375787e8e79560031630feec56ae04\" alt=\"Finances of Americans almost \u2018as miserable as any point in U.S. history\u2019: Economics Professor\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto;border-radius:12px\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<p>This is the content we didn&#8217;t know we needed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:0.85em;color:#888\"><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/videos\/comments\/1s773fb\/finances_of_americans_almost_as_miserable_as_any\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">r\/videos<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hivemind has decided: this is today&#8217;s top content. This is the content we didn&#8217;t know we needed. Source: r\/videos<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sweary_post_type":"meme","_sweary_source":"reddit_videos","_sweary_video_url":"","_sweary_youtube_id":"","_sweary_gif_url":"","_sweary_source_url":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/videos\/comments\/1s773fb\/finances_of_americans_almost_as_miserable_as_any\/","_sweary_views":22733,"_sweary_digest_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}