{"id":1504,"date":"2009-03-06T10:31:02","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T14:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=1504"},"modified":"2009-03-06T10:31:02","modified_gmt":"2009-03-06T14:31:02","slug":"simon-johnson-on-bank-bailout-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2009\/03\/06\/simon-johnson-on-bank-bailout-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon Johnson On Bank Bailout Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Follow <a title=\"Simon Johnson Interview\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=101360253\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this link<\/strong><\/a> to hear the interview of Simon Johnson on the bank bailout plan.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Simon Johnson helped shape the International Monetary Fund&#8217;s response to worldwide financial turmoil as the organization&#8217;s economic counselor and director of the research department, a position he held from March 2007 until August 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Now a professor of entrepreneurship at MIT&#8217;s Sloan School of Management, Johnson is also the co-founder of <a title=\"Simon Johnson's Web Site\" href=\"http:\/\/baselinescenario.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><a target=\"_blank\">BaselineScenario.com<\/a><\/strong><\/a>, a Web site that chronicles the global economic and financial crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson joins <em>Fresh Air <\/em>to analyze the bank bailout plan and its alternatives.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the interview, he discusses other bailouts in history.\u00a0 Some were successful and some were not. He analyzes the reasons for both success and failure.<\/p>\n<p>I have previously blogged about Simon Johnson in the post <a title=\"Prvious Post about Simon Johnson\" href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=1117\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Global Crisis Orientation<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow this link to hear the interview of Simon Johnson on the bank bailout plan. Simon Johnson helped shape the International Monetary Fund&#8217;s response to worldwide financial turmoil as the organization&#8217;s economic counselor and director of the research department, a position he held from March 2007 until August 2008. Now a professor of entrepreneurship at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1504","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1505,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504\/revisions\/1505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}