{"id":132,"date":"2008-07-17T15:58:38","date_gmt":"2008-07-17T20:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=132"},"modified":"2008-07-17T15:58:38","modified_gmt":"2008-07-17T20:58:38","slug":"our-creative-mortgage-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2008\/07\/17\/our-creative-mortgage-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Our creative mortgage crisis?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Follow <a title=\"Lawrence SUmmers' Article\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecapitalism.typepad.com\/creative_capitalism\/2008\/07\/our-creative-mo.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this link<\/strong><\/a> to the above titled article by Lawrence Summers.\u00a0 This article was suggested by RichardH.<\/p>\n<p>I think that the current mortgage crisis is what happens when the federal government decides not to have an explicit housing policy.\u00a0 You notice in the news that whenever there are discussions about the mortgage\/housing crisis, the government is represented by the FED and the Treasury.\u00a0 No mention is ever made of the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.\u00a0 Do we still have such a cabinet position?\u00a0 What has this person been up to for the last 7+ years?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow this link to the above titled article by Lawrence Summers.\u00a0 This article was suggested by RichardH. I think that the current mortgage crisis is what happens when the federal government decides not to have an explicit housing policy.\u00a0 You notice in the news that whenever there are discussions about the mortgage\/housing crisis, the government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[126,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-132","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-periodic-posts","7":"tag-housing-crisis","8":"tag-mortage-crisis","9":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}