{"id":196824,"date":"2008-03-20T23:13:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-21T04:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/20\/well-its-not-like-usa-today-is-a-newspaper\/"},"modified":"2008-03-20T23:13:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-21T04:13:00","slug":"well-its-not-like-usa-today-is-a-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/20\/well-its-not-like-usa-today-is-a-newspaper\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, It&#8217;s Not Like USA Today is a Newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But does not mean that I&#8217;m not disappointed that <a href=\"http:\/\/lawrenceyunwatch.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/ridiculous-usa-today-names-lawrence-yun.html\"><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">USA Today<\/span> declared Lawrence Yun, the chief economist at the National Association of Realtors as one of the top economic forecasters in the US<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ummm&#8230;.Covering your ears and saying, &#8220;there is no housing crash&#8221; does not make one a &#8220;top economic forecaster&#8221;.  He is a paid shill of the realtors, and as such he only reflects reality to the degree that he doesn&#8217;t reveal himself as a complete and total pratt.<\/p>\n<p>His record is worse than mine, though it might be better than his predecessor at paid shill for the NAR, David Lereah.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">USA Today<\/span>&#8216;s Barbara Hagenbaugh and Barbara Hansen, and possibly their <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">entire<\/span> business journalism department, are my wankers of the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But does not mean that I&#8217;m not disappointed that USA Today declared Lawrence Yun, the chief economist at the National Association of Realtors as one of the top economic forecasters in the US. Ummm&#8230;.Covering your ears and saying, &#8220;there is no housing crash&#8221; does not make one a &#8220;top economic forecaster&#8221;. He is a paid &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[973,1265,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-housing-crash","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196824"}],"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=196824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}