{"id":1830,"date":"2010-03-29T22:25:08","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T02:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iomaire.com\/?p=1830"},"modified":"2010-03-29T22:25:12","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T02:25:12","slug":"13-bankers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/29\/13-bankers\/","title":{"rendered":"13 Bankers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve subscribed to <a href=\"http:\/\/baselinescenario.com\/\">The Baseline Scenario<\/a> for over a year now.   I find it to be a very balanced and informative source of information about how we got into the financial straits that we are in.  The authors (Simon Johnson and James Kwak), along with a number of well-read readers who leave comments, also provide answers to how to get out of the mess, answers that frequently don&#8217;t agree with what is being proffered by the establishment.  But it seems that the establishment is starting to realize that Johnson and Kwak are not so ignorant after all &#8211; they are slowly moving in the direction being shown them by The Baseline Scenario.  Johnson and Kwak have a new book, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/13bankers.com\/\">13 Bankers<\/a><\/em>, and, while I have not read it, I think it should be on the reading list of anyone who wants to understand how we got to where we are.  From NPR, <a href=\"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/13 Bankers.mp3\"title=\"13 Bankers.mp3\">here <\/a>is a short interview of Simon Johnson.  There are a lot of sites out there in Internet-land claiming to have the explanation for what happened, but I think Johnson and Kwak&#8217;s site is the best.  The posts there can be hard to understand for the layman, but there is enough there for naifs that anyone who visits will come away with a better understanding of where we are and where we need to be.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/13-Bankers.jpg\" alt=\"13 Bankers.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"404\" height=\"668\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve subscribed to The Baseline Scenario for over a year now. I find it to be a very balanced and informative source of information about how we got into the financial straits that we are in. The authors (Simon Johnson <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/29\/13-bankers\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1831,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830\/revisions\/1831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}