{"id":700,"date":"2008-09-17T15:13:31","date_gmt":"2008-09-17T19:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=700"},"modified":"2008-09-17T15:13:31","modified_gmt":"2008-09-17T19:13:31","slug":"the-aig-situation-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=700","title":{"rendered":"The AIG Situation, Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;by Francis Cianfrocca, aka &#8220;Blackhedd&#8221;, at Redstate.&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redstate.com\/diaries\/redstate\/2008\/sep\/17\/the-united-states-acquires-aig-the-largest-a\/\" target=\"_blank\">His explanation of the situation<\/a> that the Fed found themselves in with regard to AIG is, for the most part, readable by a non-financier.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>He also addresses the anger some are feeling about the government bailing out another huge firm, and against the top brass of that company.&nbsp; In addition, he touches on how this affects free-market capitalists and the eggshells the government is now walking on in this regard.<\/p>\n<p>A good read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;by Francis Cianfrocca, aka &#8220;Blackhedd&#8221;, at Redstate.&nbsp; His explanation of the situation that the Fed found themselves in with regard to AIG is, for the most part, readable by a non-financier.&nbsp; He also addresses the anger some are feeling about the government bailing out another huge firm, and against the top brass of that company.&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doug","category-economics-taxes","category-government"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}