{"id":535468,"date":"2010-04-20T12:51:05","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T16:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/james-pethokoukis\/?p=3729"},"modified":"2010-04-20T12:51:05","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T16:51:05","slug":"why-we-shouldn%e2%80%99t-break-up-the-big-banks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/535468","title":{"rendered":"Why we shouldn\u2019t break up the big banks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2010\/04\/do-big-banks-control-our-government-thoughts-on-johnson-and-kwak.html\">Tyler Cowen<\/a> gives it his best shot and ends with this recommendation:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>If you do wish to break or limit the power of the major banks, running a balanced budget is probably the most important step we could take. It would mean that our government no longer needs to worry so much about financing its activities. Of course such an outcome is distant these days, mostly because American voters love both high government spending and relatively low taxes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tyler Cowen gives it his best shot and ends with this recommendation: If you do wish to break or limit the power of the major banks, running a balanced budget is probably the most important step we could take. It would mean that our government no longer needs to worry so much about financing its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1063,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535468","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\/1063"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}