{"id":473499,"date":"2010-03-25T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T03:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/?p=12176"},"modified":"2010-03-25T23:01:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T03:01:00","slug":"clint-eastwood-tips-from-a-bankrupt-ball-player-and-a-disgraced%c2%a0economist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/473499","title":{"rendered":"Clint Eastwood, Tips From a Bankrupt Ball Player and a Disgraced\u00a0Economist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>*What makes Clint\u2019s day.<\/strong> There\u2019s a new coffee-table book out on Clint Eastwood\u2019s film career, from the 1959 western<em> Rawhide<\/em> to his most recent directorial duties on<em> Invictus<\/em>. The book includes 325 photographs and movie stills and some wonderful quotes, such as this one from the time he had the romantic lead in <em>The Bridges of Madison County<\/em>. Said Clint, \u201cThis romantic stuff is really tough. I can\u2019t wait to get back to shooting and killing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>*Stock tips from a bankrupt ball player?<\/strong> Former Phillies baseball great Lenny Dykstra has hit a tough patch, financially speaking. He declared bankruptcy last year, lost his multi-million-dollar home to foreclosure and even auctioned off his World Series ring. So what\u2019s he doing to stage a comeback? Selling investment advice. For $999, you get three weekly forecasts, a monthly conference call and a signed baseball. No thanks. I can think of lots of better ways to spend my money.<\/p>\n<p><strong>*An intellectually dishonest economist.<\/strong> <em>New York Times<\/em> columnist and former Enron advisor Paul Krugman penned yet another article last week in which he lambasted Republican opposition to government giveaways. He quotes Senator Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) as saying that unemployment relief \u201cdoesn\u2019t create new jobs. In fact, if anything, continuing to pay people unemployment compensation is a disincentive for them to seek new work.\u201d Krugman scoffs that \u201cTo me, that\u2019s a bizarre point of view\u2014but then, I don\u2019t live in Mr. Kyl\u2019s universe.\u201d Ah, but he used to. In a textbook he wrote called <em>Macroeconomics<\/em>, Krugman said, \u201cIn other countries, particularly in Europe, [unemployment] benefits are more generous and last longer. The drawback to this generosity is that it reduces a worker\u2019s incentive to quickly find a new job.\u201d Seems Krugman isn\u2019t an economist anymore; he\u2019s an apologist for Big Government.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Chip Wood<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*What makes Clint\u2019s day. There\u2019s a new coffee-table book out on Clint Eastwood\u2019s film career, from the 1959 western Rawhide to his most recent directorial duties on Invictus. The book includes 325 photographs and movie stills and some wonderful quotes, such as this one from the time he had the romantic lead in The Bridges [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-473499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473499","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\/4206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}