{"id":182827,"date":"2015-05-30T17:02:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-30T22:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/05\/30\/quote-of-the-day-150\/"},"modified":"2015-05-30T17:02:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-30T22:02:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-150","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/05\/30\/quote-of-the-day-150\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The markets want money for cocaine and prostitutes. I am deadly serious.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Most people don\u2019t realize that \u201cthe markets\u201d are in reality 22-27 year old business school graduates, furiously concocting chaotic trading strategies on excel sheets and reporting to bosses perhaps 5 years senior to them. In addition, they generally possess the mentality and probably intelligence of junior cycle secondary school students. Without knowladge of these basic facts, nothing about the markets makes any sense\u2014and with knowladge, everything does.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.irisheconomy.ie\/index.php\/2010\/10\/28\/what-do-markets-want\/#comment-87410\">ObsessiveMathsFreak<\/a> in the comments section of a post on the blog&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\"><i>The Irish Economy<\/i><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>H\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com\/2015\/05\/29\/sex-and-drugs-and-zero-rates\/\">Paul Krugman<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The markets want money for cocaine and prostitutes. I am deadly serious.Most people don\u2019t realize that \u201cthe markets\u201d are in reality 22-27 year old business school graduates, furiously concocting chaotic trading strategies on excel sheets and reporting to bosses perhaps 5 years senior to them. In addition, they generally possess the mentality and probably intelligence &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1092,1013,969,1004],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-culture","category-drugs","category-evil","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182827"}],"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=182827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}