{"id":197669,"date":"2008-01-18T00:19:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-18T05:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/18\/bernanke-supports-stimulus-package-jan-17-2008\/"},"modified":"2008-01-18T00:19:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-18T05:19:00","slug":"bernanke-supports-stimulus-package-jan-17-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/18\/bernanke-supports-stimulus-package-jan-17-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernanke supports stimulus package &#8211; Jan. 17, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2008\/01\/17\/news\/economy\/fed_bernanke\/index.htm?cnn=yes\">Bernanke speaks out in favor of a stimulus package<\/a>, and he is saying that it should help &#8220;beleagered consumers&#8221; and that it &#8220;should be explicitly temporary&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>While he does speak favorably of some temporary tax credits for business investment too, he is <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">not<\/span> repeating Alan &#8220;Bubbles&#8221; Greenspans incompetence, and endorsing massive permanent tax cuts.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s already put himself well ahead of Ayn Rand&#8217;s acolyte in the competence department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernanke speaks out in favor of a stimulus package, and he is saying that it should help &#8220;beleagered consumers&#8221; and that it &#8220;should be explicitly temporary&#8221;. While he does speak favorably of some temporary tax credits for business investment too, he is not repeating Alan &#8220;Bubbles&#8221; Greenspans incompetence, and endorsing massive permanent tax cuts. He&#8217;s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,973,978,983],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-economy","category-politics","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197669"}],"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=197669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}