{"id":158,"date":"2008-12-20T20:08:17","date_gmt":"2008-12-21T01:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teretereba.com\/wp\/?p=158"},"modified":"2016-05-23T22:56:11","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T05:56:11","slug":"a-must-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/20\/a-must-read\/","title":{"rendered":"A Must Read!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article from <em>Vanity Fair<\/em> makes it easy to understand what caused the world&#8217;s economic meltdown. Short, clear, &amp; covering all the bases, Nobel-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz&#8217;s piece, <a title=\"Vanity Fair: Capitalist Fools\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/magazine\/2009\/01\/stiglitz200901?printable=true&amp;currentPage=all\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Capitalist Fools,&#8221;<\/a> tells a long story that begins w\/ <a title=\"Ayn Rand\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ayn_rand\" target=\"_blank\">Ayn Rand<\/a>, her acolyte, <a title=\"Greenspan Shrugged:&lt;br &gt;&lt;\/a&gt; The Reserve Chair's Philosophy Differs Little From His Ayn Rand Days\" href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/views\/041800-106.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Alan Greenspan<\/a>, &amp; Ronnie Reagan, and continues to the Crash of 2008. POWERFUL &amp; GRIM!!!<\/p>\n<p>As a kicker, there&#8217;s another piece from the same issue about a few gilded Wall Streeters &amp; <a title=\"Profiles in Panic\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/magazine\/2009\/01\/wall_street200901\" target=\"_blank\">their mighty fall<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teretereba.com\/blog\/media\/blogs\/picks\/rand_greenspan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"Ayn Rand - Alan Greenspan\" src=\"http:\/\/www.teretereba.com\/blog\/media\/blogs\/picks\/rand_greenspan.jpg\" alt=\"Ayn Rand - Alan Greenspan\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" width=\"600\" height=\"313\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n[video:youtube:7ukJiBZ8_4k]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article from Vanity Fair makes it easy to understand what caused the world&#8217;s economic meltdown. Short, clear, &amp; covering all the bases, Nobel-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz&#8217;s piece, &#8220;Capitalist Fools,&#8221; tells a long story that begins w\/ Ayn Rand, her acolyte, Alan Greenspan, &amp; Ronnie Reagan, and continues to the Crash of 2008. POWERFUL [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[11517,4277,11818,12086,6458,9508],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-thoughts","tag-2008-financial-crisis","tag-alan-greenspan","tag-ayn-rand","tag-joseph-stiglitz","tag-vanity-fair","tag-wall-st","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2925,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions\/2925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}