{"id":189004,"date":"2010-06-16T19:47:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T00:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/06\/16\/economic-quote-of-the-year-2\/"},"modified":"2010-06-16T19:47:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T00:47:00","slug":"economic-quote-of-the-year-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/06\/16\/economic-quote-of-the-year-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic Quote of the Year*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Krugman <a href=\"http:\/\/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/06\/16\/im-mild-and-soft-spoken\/\">finds this quote from Adam Posen of the Bank of England\u2019s Monetary Policy Committee<\/a> regarding people who think that somehow the European Central Bank is not &#8220;Chaste&#8221; enough in matters of fighting inflation because it is engaging in quantitative easing (printing money) in the form of buying bonds:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Cultures which make a public fixation of virginal maturity, of a stylized maiden\u2019s reputation, tend to be backward superstitious cultures that impede people exercising autonomy and making responsible choices.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Word up.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">So far.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Krugman finds this quote from Adam Posen of the Bank of England\u2019s Monetary Policy Committee regarding people who think that somehow the European Central Bank is not &#8220;Chaste&#8221; enough in matters of fighting inflation because it is engaging in quantitative easing (printing money) in the form of buying bonds: Cultures which make a public &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[973,1002,1003],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-good-writing","category-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189004"}],"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=189004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}