{"id":164782,"date":"2010-01-11T07:46:53","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T12:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehollywoodliberal.com\/2010\/01\/11\/robert-kuttner-the-case-against-bernanke\/"},"modified":"2010-01-11T07:46:53","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T12:46:53","slug":"robert-kuttner-the-case-against-bernanke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/164782","title":{"rendered":"Robert Kuttner: The Case Against Bernanke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/robert-kuttner\/the-case-against-bernanke_b_417984.html\" >Robert Kuttner: The Case Against Bernanke     <\/a><br \/>I have argued that Democratic legislators ought to hold their noses and vote for a badly flawed health bill. To kill the bill would hand a huge victory to the Republican right. But the Bernanke re-nomination is another story. It is not a signature, make-or-break initiative of the administration. Bernanke&#8217;s defeat would be a repudiation of President Obama&#8217;s close alliance with Wall Street &#8212; but it would be extremely salutary for him and for us. It might even get the president&#8217;s attention for the proposition that his presidency and America&#8217;s economic future depend on an entirely different strategy of economic recovery.       <\/p>\n<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/jack-schimmelman\/americans-dream_b_417954.html\" >Jack Schimmelman: Americans Dream     <\/a><br \/>When I was 5 years old, living in the Bronx, New York, I had my favorite candy store. One day I was standing at the&#8230;     <\/p>\n<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/howard-schweber\/perry-v-schwarzenegger-be_b_417869.html\" >Howard Schweber: Perry v Schwarzenegger Begins Tomorrow!     <\/a><br \/>Tomorrow (Monday, January 11), is the beginning of the trial in the case of Perry v. Schwarzenegger, the highly publicized case challenging the constitutionality of&#8230;     <\/p>\n<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/01\/11\/supreme-court-campaign-finance_n_418150.html\" >Supreme Court Could Slash Campaign Finance Laws     <\/a><br \/>WASHINGTON &mdash; Possibly coming soon to your TV screen: election-season Super Bowl-style ads promoting congressional and presidential candidates, paid for by some of the nation&#8217;s&#8230;     <\/p>\n<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/caroline-myss\/from-the-audacity-of-hope_b_417965.html\" >Caroline Myss: From the Audacity of Hope to Hopelessness     <\/a><br \/>Exactly who is in charge of policy decisions in this nation &#8212; the administration or a single would-be terrorist bomber?        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Kuttner: The Case Against Bernanke I have argued that Democratic legislators ought to hold their noses and vote for a badly flawed health bill. To kill the bill would hand a huge victory to the Republican right. But the Bernanke re-nomination is another story. It is not a signature, make-or-break initiative of the administration. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":807,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/807"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}