{"id":195313,"date":"2008-07-16T19:58:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-17T00:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/16\/merrill-lynch-states-the-bloody-obvious\/"},"modified":"2008-07-16T19:58:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-17T00:58:00","slug":"merrill-lynch-states-the-bloody-obvious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/16\/merrill-lynch-states-the-bloody-obvious\/","title":{"rendered":"Merrill Lynch States the Bloody Obvious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Merrill Lynch&#8217;s is saying that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/money\/main.jhtml?xml=\/money\/2008\/07\/16\/ccusdebt116.xml\">US is fast approaching a point where foreigners will no longer be willing to keep funding our budget and trade deficits<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Well, duh!<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why interest rates are going to have to go up in the medium (5 year) term a lot, to keep attracting foreign capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merrill Lynch&#8217;s is saying that the US is fast approaching a point where foreigners will no longer be willing to keep funding our budget and trade deficits. Well, duh! That&#8217;s why interest rates are going to have to go up in the medium (5 year) term a lot, to keep attracting foreign capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1080,973,1004,1016],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-currency","category-economy","category-finance","category-international-commerce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195313"}],"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=195313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}