{"id":180636,"date":"2017-02-23T18:35:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T23:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/02\/23\/tweet-of-the-day-254\/"},"modified":"2017-02-23T18:35:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T23:35:00","slug":"tweet-of-the-day-254","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/02\/23\/tweet-of-the-day-254\/","title":{"rendered":"Tweet of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote data-lang=\"en\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Net wealth of poor families went from around 0 to minus $15k<br \/>(US CBO) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xGhuTTn6Yz\">https:\/\/t.co\/xGhuTTn6Yz<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dmOPME74u6\">pic.twitter.com\/dmOPME74u6<\/a><\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Branko Milanovic (@BrankoMilan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrankoMilan\/status\/833685006530777089\">February 20, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This might explain why so many people were unmoved by Hillary Clinton&#8217;s message that things are fine as well as the relative hostility of people in the lower half of the income distribution to Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<p>When Barack Obama approved Timothy Geithner&#8217;s policy of using HAMP to &#8220;Foam the Runway&#8221; for the banks, in so doing they reduced a significant proportion of the populace to penury.<\/p>\n<p>H\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2017\/02\/200pm-water-cooler-2222017.html\">naked capitalism<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Net wealth of poor families went from around 0 to minus $15k(US CBO) https:\/\/t.co\/xGhuTTn6Yz pic.twitter.com\/dmOPME74u6 \u2014 Branko Milanovic (@BrankoMilan) February 20, 2017 This might explain why so many people were unmoved by Hillary Clinton&#8217;s message that things are fine as well as the relative hostility of people in the lower half of the income distribution &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[491,392,364,689,374,494],"class_list":["post-180636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-barack-obama","tag-economy","tag-evil","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-politics","tag-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180636"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}