{"id":188700,"date":"2010-08-09T21:51:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T02:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/08\/09\/if-they-believe-it-its-wrong\/"},"modified":"2010-08-09T21:51:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-10T02:51:00","slug":"if-they-believe-it-its-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/08\/09\/if-they-believe-it-its-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"If They Believe It, It&#8217;s Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because they are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2010-08-07\/u-s-economy-improving-more-stimulus-isn-t-the-answer-rubin-o-neill-say.html\">always wrong about everything<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>The U.S. economy will improve slowly and another round of fiscal stimulus probably wouldn\u2019t be effective, former Treasury secretaries Paul O\u2019Neill and Robert Rubin said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Truth be told, I haven&#8217;t followed Paul O&#8217;Neill closely, but Bob Rubin should be on trial for a long history of fraud, and should not be taken seriously since he drove Citi into the ditch.<\/p>\n<p>Mo stimulus, Mo stimulus, Mo stimulus!<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, these guys are the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Washington_Generals\">Washington Generals<\/a> of finance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because they are always wrong about everything: The U.S. economy will improve slowly and another round of fiscal stimulus probably wouldn\u2019t be effective, former Treasury secretaries Paul O\u2019Neill and Robert Rubin said. Truth be told, I haven&#8217;t followed Paul O&#8217;Neill closely, but Bob Rubin should be on trial for a long history of fraud, and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[973,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188700"}],"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=188700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}