{"id":3021,"date":"2010-10-02T23:08:52","date_gmt":"2010-10-03T06:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3021"},"modified":"2010-10-02T23:08:52","modified_gmt":"2010-10-03T06:08:52","slug":"meet-joseph-stiglitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/10\/02\/meet-joseph-stiglitz\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Joseph Stiglitz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">On one of my many articles calling for the replacement of Tim Geithner, I suggested Joseph Stiglitz as a replacement.&#160; A few of you said you did not know anything about him, so here a short video to introduce him with a link to a longer one.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>While Joseph Stiglitz wasn&#8217;t happy with what he said was the inadequate size of the economic stimulus package, he still is a strong advocate for the Keynesian tactic and like most rational economists, contends that the economy would be much worse without it. Now he&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/businessjournalism.org\/2010\/10\/01\/nobel-prize-winning-economist-joseph-stiglitz-calls-for-second-federal-stimulus\/\" target=\"_blank\">calling for another round<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<object width=\"660\" height=\"405\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/2urqysF_56k?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6&amp;border=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/2urqysF_56k?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6&amp;border=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"660\" height=\"405\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/susie-madrak\/joseph-stiglitz-stimulus-absolutely-w\" target=\"_blank\">Crooks and Liars<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">For the one hour version, <a href=\"http:\/\/fora.tv\/2010\/02\/22\/Joseph_Stiglitz_Freefall\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Timmy \u201cGOP\u201d Geithner is the biggest obstacle, other than the Republican Party, to economic recovery.&#160; He needs to be gone.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On one of my many articles calling for the replacement of Tim Geithner, I suggested Joseph Stiglitz as a replacement.&#160; A few of you said you did not know anything about him, so here a short video to introduce him with a link to a longer one. While Joseph Stiglitz wasn&#8217;t happy with what he <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/10\/02\/meet-joseph-stiglitz\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}