{"id":1475,"date":"2008-10-09T09:16:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-08T23:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wpblog\/?p=1475"},"modified":"2008-10-09T09:16:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-08T23:16:00","slug":"the-financial-crisis-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/?p=1475","title":{"rendered":"the financial crisis so far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a title=\"Go to the photo page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yewenyi\/185095788\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/51\/185095788_67045d0480_m.jpg\" alt=\"plastic money\" width=\"240\" height=\"204\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">cash<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nA very short version:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>A person in the great depression decided the government should lend money to those who the banks would not.<\/li>\n<li>A person many years later decided to sell these loans to the banks.<\/li>\n<li>A banker many years later decided to guarantee these loans.<\/li>\n<li>Many people many years later discovered that there was a reason why it was the government making these loans and why the banks would not.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very short version: A person in the great depression decided the government should lend money to those who the[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[956,1373,2372,2849],"class_list":["post-1475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings","tag-crisis","tag-finance","tag-money","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}