{"id":542573,"date":"2010-04-24T07:32:14","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T11:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehollywoodliberal.com\/2010\/04\/24\/dont-cry-for-wall-street\/"},"modified":"2010-04-24T07:32:14","modified_gmt":"2010-04-24T11:32:14","slug":"don%e2%80%99t-cry-for-wall-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/542573","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Cry for Wall Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/2010\/04\/23\/don039t_cry_for_wall_street_233081.html\" >Don&#8217;t Cry for Wall Street \t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/> Paul Krugman, New York Times<br \/>On Thursday, President Obama went to Manhattan, where he urged an audience drawn largely from Wall Street to back financial reform. &ldquo;I believe,&rdquo; he declared, &ldquo;that these reforms are, in the end, not only in the best interest of our country, but in the best interest of the financial sector.&rdquo;Well, I wish he hadn&rsquo;t said that  &mdash;  and not just because he really needs, as a political matter, to take a populist stance, to put some public distance between himself and the bankers. The fact is that Mr. Obama should be trying to do&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/2010\/04\/23\/who039s_afraid_of_a_hung_parliament_233109.html\" >Who&#8217;s Afraid of a Hung Parliament? \t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/> Peter Riddell, Times of London<br \/>Hung parliaments can be made to work. Just ask the Scots and the Swedes,  but  not the Belgians, whose Government collapsed, yet again, yesterday.We have become so used to the winner-takes-all politics of the  first-past-the-post system that anything else is regarded as inferior  and  dangerous. This week, the Tories stepped up their warnings about an  inconclusive result to alarm voters, claiming it could threaten the  economy.  But, like it or not, we may have to live with it.<\/p>\n<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/2010\/04\/23\/immigration_bill_holds_high_price_233100.html\" >Immigration Bill Holds High Price \t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t Cry for Wall Street Paul Krugman, New York TimesOn Thursday, President Obama went to Manhattan, where he urged an audience drawn largely from Wall Street to back financial reform. &ldquo;I believe,&rdquo; he declared, &ldquo;that these reforms are, in the end, not only in the best interest of our country, but in the best interest [&hellip;]<\/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-542573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542573","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=542573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}