{"id":183615,"date":"2013-01-13T19:25:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T00:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/01\/13\/dean-baker-on-timothy-geithner-thats-gonna-leave-a-mark\/"},"modified":"2013-01-13T19:25:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T00:25:00","slug":"dean-baker-on-timothy-geithner-thats-gonna-leave-a-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/01\/13\/dean-baker-on-timothy-geithner-thats-gonna-leave-a-mark\/","title":{"rendered":"Dean Baker on Timothy Geithner, That&#8217;s Gonna Leave a Mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2013\/jan\/11\/wall-street-thanks-tim-geithner-service\">positively brutal<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner&#8217;s departure from the Obama administration invites comparisons with Klemens von Metternich. Metternich was the foreign minister of the Austrian empire who engineered the restoration of the old order and the suppression of democracy across Europe after the defeat of Napoleon.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">This was an impressive diplomatic feat \u2013 given the widespread popular contempt for Europe&#8217;s monarchical regimes. In the same vein, protecting Wall Street from the financial and economic havoc they brought upon themselves and the country was an enormous accomplishment.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just go read it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is positively brutal: Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner&#8217;s departure from the Obama administration invites comparisons with Klemens von Metternich. Metternich was the foreign minister of the Austrian empire who engineered the restoration of the old order and the suppression of democracy across Europe after the defeat of Napoleon.This was an impressive diplomatic feat \u2013 given &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1004,1002,1009,985,1173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-finance","category-good-writing","category-government","category-regulation","category-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183615"}],"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=183615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}