{"id":352266,"date":"2010-02-20T01:37:33","date_gmt":"2010-02-20T06:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=22832"},"modified":"2010-02-20T01:37:33","modified_gmt":"2010-02-20T06:37:33","slug":"u-s-economy-grinds-to-halt-as-nation-realizes-money-just-a-symbolic-mutually-shared-illusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/352266","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Economy Grinds To Halt As Nation Realizes Money Just A Symbolic, Mutually Shared Illusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-22833\" style=\"margin-left: 20px;margin-bottom: 10px\" src=\"http:\/\/disinfo.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/BBBurnM.jpg\" alt=\"BBBurnM\" width=\"274\" height=\"211\" \/>Via the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/news\/u_s_economy_grinds_to_halt_as?utm_source=onion_rss_dailyhttp:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/news\/u_s_economy_grinds_to_halt_as?utm_source=onion_rss_daily\">Onion<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>WASHINGTON \u2014<\/strong> The U.S. economy ceased to function this week after unexpected existential remarks by Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke shocked Americans into realizing that money is, in fact, just a meaningless and intangible social construct.<\/p>\n<p>Calling it &#8220;basically no more than five rectangular strips of paper,&#8221; Fed chairman Ben Bernanke illustrates how much &#8220;$200&#8243; is actually worth.<\/p>\n<p>What began as a routine report before the Senate Finance Committee Tuesday ended with Bernanke passionately disavowing the entire concept of currency, and negating in an instant the very foundation of the world&#8217;s largest economy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Though raising interest rates is unlikely at the moment, the Fed will of course act appropriately if we \u2026 if we \u2026&#8221; said Bernanke, who then paused for a moment, looked down at his prepared statement, and shook his&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via the Onion: WASHINGTON \u2014 The U.S. economy ceased to function this week after unexpected existential remarks by Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke shocked Americans into realizing that money is, in fact, just a meaningless and intangible social construct. Calling it &#8220;basically no more than five rectangular strips of paper,&#8221; Fed chairman Ben Bernanke illustrates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352266","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\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}