{"id":197779,"date":"2008-01-11T17:43:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-11T22:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/11\/14\/"},"modified":"2008-01-11T17:43:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-11T22:43:00","slug":"14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/11\/14\/","title":{"rendered":"14%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MBIA, one of the largest bond insurers in the nation, is floating a debt sale.  The problem is that no one is buying, so it looks like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/rbssFinancialServicesAndRealEstateNews\/idUSN1128587720080111\">they will have to pay 14% on the money that they borrow<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is an AAA rated company, and they need 14%.  That&#8217;s (low) credit card rates.<\/p>\n<p>Any claims as to the end of the credit crunch are premature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MBIA, one of the largest bond insurers in the nation, is floating a debt sale. The problem is that no one is buying, so it looks like they will have to pay 14% on the money that they borrow. This is an AAA rated company, and they need 14%. That&#8217;s (low) credit card rates. Any &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1261,973,1004],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bubble","category-economy","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197779"}],"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=197779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}