{"id":276236,"date":"2010-02-04T07:32:27","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T12:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehollywoodliberal.com\/2010\/02\/04\/the-debt-threat\/"},"modified":"2010-02-04T07:32:27","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T12:32:27","slug":"the-debt-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/276236","title":{"rendered":"The Debt Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Debt Threat \t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n

When Economics Meets Politics \t\t\t\t\t<\/a>
Thomas Friedman, New York Times
One of the few pleasant surprises of 2009 was that the world’s biggest economies were able to concentrate on healing themselves without any major wars or world-shaking political or geopolitical disruptions. What are the odds that 2010 will be so benign? I’d say quite low. No question, the world’s major economies badly need 2010 to be another quiet year politically and geopolitically, but that will require, at a minimum, that three major struggles — the banks vs. President Obama, China vs. Google & friends, and the world vs. Iran — …<\/p>\n

The Gitmo Rebellion \t\t\t\t\t<\/a>
Nick Baumann, Mother Jones<\/p>\n

What John Yoo Doesn’t Understand \t\t\t\t\t<\/a>
Jack Goldsmith, The New Republic
Crisis and Command: A History of Executive Power from George Washington to George W. Bush By John Yoo(Kaplan, 544 pp., $29.95)Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State By Garry Wills(Penguin, 288 pp., $27.95) I.In December 2008, Chris Wallace asked Vice President Cheney, "If the president, during war, decides to do something to protect the country, is it legal?" Cheney's answer included a reference to a military authority that President Bush did not exercise. "The President of the United States," he said, "now for…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Debt Threat When Economics Meets Politics Thomas Friedman, New York TimesOne of the few pleasant surprises of 2009 was that the world’s biggest economies were able to concentrate on healing themselves without any major wars or world-shaking political or geopolitical disruptions. What are the odds that 2010 will be so benign? I’d say quite […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":807,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276236","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=276236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}