{"id":189398,"date":"2010-04-03T22:08:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-04T03:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/04\/03\/you-keep-using-that-word-i-do-not-think-it-means-what-you-think-it-means-2\/"},"modified":"2010-04-03T22:08:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-04T03:08:00","slug":"you-keep-using-that-word-i-do-not-think-it-means-what-you-think-it-means-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/04\/03\/you-keep-using-that-word-i-do-not-think-it-means-what-you-think-it-means-2\/","title":{"rendered":"You Keep Using That Word. I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">USA Today<\/span> headline, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/money\/economy\/employment\/2010-04-02-financejobs02_ST_N.htm\">In  good sign for economy: Hiring rebounds on Wall Street<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>More Wall Street brokers, cutting more deals, with other people&#8217;s money, using more and more opaque instruments is supposed to be a, &#8220;Good sign for economy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a pity that the author, Paul Davidson, apparently understands neither English nor the economy.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">The quote is from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0093779\/\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Princess Bride<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USA Today headline, &#8220;In good sign for economy: Hiring rebounds on Wall Street.&#8221; More Wall Street brokers, cutting more deals, with other people&#8217;s money, using more and more opaque instruments is supposed to be a, &#8220;Good sign for economy.&#8221; It&#8217;s a pity that the author, Paul Davidson, apparently understands neither English nor the economy. *The &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1094,973,974,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-finance","category-economy","category-hack-journalism","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189398"}],"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=189398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}