{"id":474533,"date":"2010-03-26T10:33:11","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T14:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f86\/clint-eastwood-tips-bankrupt-ball-player-disgraced-economist-41414\/"},"modified":"2010-03-26T10:33:11","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T14:33:11","slug":"clint-eastwood-tips-from-a-bankrupt-ball-player-and-a-disgracedeconomist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/474533","title":{"rendered":"Clint Eastwood, Tips From a Bankrupt Ball Player and a Disgraced*Economist"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>03.25.10 07:01 PM<\/p>\n<p><b>*What makes Clint\u0092s day.<\/b> There\u0092s a new coffee-table book out on Clint Eastwood\u0092s film career, from the 1959 western<i> Rawhide<\/i> to his most recent directorial duties on<i> Invictus<\/i>. 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 <i>The Bridges of Madison County<\/i>. Said Clint, \u0093This romantic stuff is really tough. I can\u0092t wait to get back to shooting and killing.\u0094<\/p>\n<p><b>*Stock tips from a bankrupt ball player?<\/b> 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\u0092s 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><b>*An intellectually dishonest economist.<\/b> <i>New York Times<\/i> 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 \u0093doesn\u0092t create new jobs. In fact, if anything, continuing to pay people unemployment compensation is a disincentive for them to seek new work.\u0094 Krugman scoffs that \u0093To me, that\u0092s a bizarre point of view\u0097but then, I don\u0092t live in Mr. Kyl\u0092s universe.\u0094 Ah, but he used to. In a textbook he wrote called <i>Macroeconomics<\/i>, Krugman said, \u0093In other countries, particularly in Europe, [unemployment] benefits are more generous and last longer. The drawback to this generosity is that it reduces a worker\u0092s incentive to quickly find a new job.\u0094 Seems Krugman isn\u0092t an economist anymore; he\u0092s an apologist for Big Government.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u0097Chip Wood<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/chip-shots\/clint-eastwood-tips-from-a-bankrupt-ball-player-and-a-disgracedeconomist\/\" >http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/chip-&#8230;acedeconomist\/<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>03.25.10 07:01 PM *What makes Clint\u0092s day. There\u0092s a new coffee-table book out on Clint Eastwood\u0092s 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4498,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-474533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474533","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\/4498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}