{"id":192482,"date":"2009-03-26T17:38:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T22:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/03\/26\/imf-economist-compares-us-to-argentina-and-russia\/"},"modified":"2009-03-26T17:38:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T22:38:00","slug":"imf-economist-compares-us-to-argentina-and-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/03\/26\/imf-economist-compares-us-to-argentina-and-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"IMF Economist Compares US to Argentina and Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Desmond Lachman, former deputy director of the International Monetary Fund&#8217;s Policy and Review Department writes an OP\/ED in the <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Washington Post<\/span> today<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/03\/25\/AR2009032502226.html\">says what I have been saying for some time<\/a>, that we are not tossing out the incumbents who created the mess, and that we are treating an solvency crisis as a liquidity crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Lachman, a fellow at the right wing American Enterprise Institute (!) basically says that both Paulson and Geithner are handling the situation in a manner consistent with the most corrupt 3rd world nations.<\/p>\n<p>Your mouth to Barack Obama&#8217;s ear, dude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Desmond Lachman, former deputy director of the International Monetary Fund&#8217;s Policy and Review Department writes an OP\/ED in the Washington Post todaysays what I have been saying for some time, that we are not tossing out the incumbents who created the mess, and that we are treating an solvency crisis as a liquidity crisis. Mr. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1004,1003],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-finance","category-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192482"}],"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=192482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}