{"id":16,"date":"2020-07-28T07:31:49","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T07:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quimac.com\/?p=16"},"modified":"2020-07-28T07:31:49","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T07:31:49","slug":"nevermind-the-rnc-is-one-less-2020-problem-for-jacksonville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quimac.com\/?p=16","title":{"rendered":"Nevermind &#8211; the RNC is one less 2020 problem for Jacksonville"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Not even a day after my <a href=\"https:\/\/quimac.com\/?p=12\">last post<\/a>, the president abruptly announced that he was going to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/07\/23\/894874198\/president-trump-cancels-jacksonville-portion-of-republican-national-convention\">cancel<\/a> the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jacksonville,_Florida\">Jacksonville<\/a> portion of the Republican National Convention. And for once, that&#8217;s good news! With everything that has been going on in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2020#Events\">2020<\/a>, it&#8217;s nice to have one less thing to worry about. As it was, the RNC was merely inviting the increased spread of infections and increasing the odds of large-scale protests. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately, a lot of local Jacksonville businesses are going to be left on the hook with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstcoastnews.com\/article\/news\/politics\/rnc\/were-going-to-have-to-rethink-jacksonville-businesses-see-rnc-cancellation-as-another-financial-blow\/77-f3a787c9-e924-45d5-b86d-8b71299d5811\">large orders and expensive plans<\/a> that won&#8217;t pan out. <a href=\"https:\/\/skift.com\/2020\/06\/17\/hilton-cuts-nearly-a-quarter-of-its-corporate-workforce-will-it-regret-the-deep-layoffs\/\">Hotels <\/a>that had shored up staff for the influx will now be announcing around for layoffs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s a business lesson there, one buried in the often forgotten realm of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Political_economy\">political economy<\/a>: you have to be careful which politicians you take business and economic advice from. They might have control over most or even all of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usa.gov\/branches-of-government\">the branches of government<\/a> at any given time, but if they&#8217;re using their power to lead you off a cliff, your fortune will still be doomed before election season even hits. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Jacksonville, the political economy of <a href=\"https:\/\/news.wjct.org\/sites\/wjct\/files\/styles\/medium\/public\/202004\/CurryDeSantisTrump.jpg\">DeSantis, Curry, and Trump<\/a> seems to be an economic loser. Betting against their plans might just be <a href=\"https:\/\/quimac.com\/?p=10\">good for your business<\/a>. 2020 is barely half way over, and there&#8217;s still time to turn it around with new leadership and new vision for your business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not even a day after my last post, the president abruptly announced that he was going to cancel the Jacksonville portion of the Republican National Convention. And for once, that&#8217;s good news! With everything that has been going on in 2020, it&#8217;s nice to have one less thing to worry about. As it was, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quimac.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quimac.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quimac.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quimac.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quimac.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quimac.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18,"href":"https:\/\/quimac.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/18"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quimac.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quimac.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quimac.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}