{"id":176,"date":"2011-10-17T12:41:33","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T18:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/?p=176"},"modified":"2011-10-17T12:41:33","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T18:41:33","slug":"american-prospect-pre-occupied-why-isn%e2%80%99t-the-fed-doing-more-to-shore-up-the-economy-by-matthew-yglesias-october-14-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/?p=176","title":{"rendered":"American Prospect:  (Pre-)Occupied &#8211; Why isn\u2019t the Fed doing more to shore up the economy? By Matthew Yglesias | October 14, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>If 9 percent of Ben Bernanke\u2019s friends were unemployed, I bet his hair would be on fire.\u00a0\u00a0 If 9 percent of Richard Fischer\u2019s friends were unemployed, he wouldn\u2019t be criticizing Bernanke from the right. But they\u2019re not.<\/p>\n<p>Key decision-makers throughout the economy are oddly insulated from the misery afflicting young people and huge swathes of the working class.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prospect.org\/cs\/articles?article=pre_occupied\">http:\/\/prospect.org\/cs\/articles?article=pre_occupied<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If 9 percent of Ben Bernanke\u2019s friends were unemployed, I bet his hair would be on fire.\u00a0\u00a0 If 9 percent of Richard Fischer\u2019s friends were unemployed, he wouldn\u2019t be criticizing Bernanke from the right. But they\u2019re not. Key decision-makers throughout &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/?p=176\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2012-ows","category-political-news-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}