{"id":2998,"date":"2009-03-09T23:37:56","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T04:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=2998"},"modified":"2009-03-10T08:34:54","modified_gmt":"2009-03-10T13:34:54","slug":"read-me-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2009\/03\/09\/read-me-2\/","title":{"rendered":"read me I"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.villagevoice.com\/content\/printVersion\/850296\">What Cooked the World&#8217;s Economy?<\/a><\/strong><br \/>It wasn&#8217;t your overdue mortgage<br \/>By James Lieber<br \/>January 28, 2009<\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\">This is an amazing article! The author parses the various forces in the financial meltdown and concludes convincingly that it was the unregulated Derivatives Market and its abuse that was at the center of the storm.&nbsp; He then has a really sensible idea about what to do about it &#8211; <font color=\"#300030\"><strong>get the money back from the people who stole it.<\/strong><\/font> What a concept! It&#8217;s a worthy read.<\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">I was pointed to this article by Turkana at <font color=\"#660099\"><strong>the left coaster<\/strong><\/font>. The other posts are equally compelling. Read them all. We&#8217;re beginning to get some creative thought at last! <\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div align=\"center\"><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theleftcoaster.com\/archives\/013886.php\">An Historic Defining Moment<\/a><\/strong><br \/>    <em>by Turkana<\/em><\/div>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<div><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/09\/opinion\/09krugman.html?ref=opinion\">Paul Krugman<\/a><\/strong> says President Obama is not being aggressive enough, in trying to repair the economy. Disturbingly so.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>The supposed fix of the financial system is a sham. Mary already linked this important <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.villagevoice.com\/content\/printVersion\/850296\">Village Voice<\/a><\/strong> article. At Daily Kos, diarist<strong> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2009\/3\/8\/7452\/30422\/848\/705961\">bobswern<\/a><\/strong> also weighed in.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>In a truly extraordinary post, <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/digbysblog.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/is-there-anything-wrong-with-saying-yes.html\">dday<\/a><\/strong> makes a compelling case that the real answer may lie in that which is unspeakable. <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/doc\/20090323\/ehrenreich_fletcher\/print\">Barbara Ehrenreich<\/a><\/strong> concurs.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>In an also extraordinary post, my friend the <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.docudharma.com\/showDiary.do?diaryId=12431\">Moonbat<\/a><\/strong> elucidates the real danger.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Cooked the World&#8217;s Economy?It wasn&#8217;t your overdue mortgageBy James LieberJanuary 28, 2009 This is an amazing article! The author parses the various forces in the financial meltdown and concludes convincingly that it was the unregulated Derivatives Market and its abuse that was at the center of the storm.&nbsp; He then has a really sensible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}