{"id":196717,"date":"2008-03-31T20:54:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T01:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/31\/18-eighteen-fing-percent\/"},"modified":"2008-03-31T20:54:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-01T01:54:00","slug":"18-eighteen-fing-percent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/31\/18-eighteen-fing-percent\/","title":{"rendered":"18%???  Eighteen F%$@ing Percent???"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thornburg Mortgage&#8217;s bond sale at 12% just failed, so now they are trying to sell bonds to stay solvent at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/feeds\/ap\/2008\/03\/31\/ap4832596.html\">an interest rate of eighteen percent<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They could not get buyers at 12% and they are trying to sell bonds at 18%???<\/p>\n<p>The people who think that this is going to get better soon are morons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thornburg Mortgage&#8217;s bond sale at 12% just failed, so now they are trying to sell bonds to stay solvent at an interest rate of eighteen percent. They could not get buyers at 12% and they are trying to sell bonds at 18%??? The people who think that this is going to get better soon are &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[973,1004],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196717"}],"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=196717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}