{"id":194557,"date":"2008-09-14T23:12:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-15T04:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/14\/paul-r-la-monica-is-an-idiot\/"},"modified":"2008-09-14T23:12:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-15T04:12:00","slug":"paul-r-la-monica-is-an-idiot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/14\/paul-r-la-monica-is-an-idiot\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul R. La Monica is an Idiot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/search?q=paul+la+monica\">have said before<\/a>, and will undoubtely say again, , the writer of CNNFN&#8217;s &#8220;The Buzz&#8221; column, Paul R. La Monica, <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2008\/09\/11\/markets\/thebuzz\/index.htm\">is a complete Pratt<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Well, a few days back, La Monica claimed that the next bubble will be &#8212; get this &#8212; short selling.<\/p>\n<p>This is the statement of someone who does not get the concept of a bubble beyond the fact that it&#8217;s an &#8220;in word&#8221; in the media.<\/p>\n<p>A bubble is an artifact of an unreasonable optimism, and short selling is a manifestation of pessimism, but the clue train has not arrived to La Monicaville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I have said before, and will undoubtely say again, , the writer of CNNFN&#8217;s &#8220;The Buzz&#8221; column, Paul R. La Monica, is a complete Pratt. Well, a few days back, La Monica claimed that the next bubble will be &#8212; get this &#8212; short selling. This is the statement of someone who does not &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-194557","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\/194557"}],"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=194557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}