{"id":1689,"date":"2009-04-20T20:31:25","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T00:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=1689"},"modified":"2009-04-20T20:34:05","modified_gmt":"2009-04-21T00:34:05","slug":"iraq-war-greed-contributed-to-economic-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2009\/04\/20\/iraq-war-greed-contributed-to-economic-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq War, Greed Contributed To Economic Collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Follow <a title=\"Jamie Dimon's analysis\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/04\/20\/dimon-iraq-war-greed-cont_n_189149.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this link<\/strong><\/a> to the coverage on Huffington Post of the letter to shareholders by JPMorgan Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dimon cited &#8220;an expensive war in Iraq&#8221; as one of the possible triggers of the economic collapse. Spending on the war ballooned the deficit and crowded out investment in domestic priorities. Meanwhile, the trade deficit soared.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Luckily for George Bush, nobody is going to believe anything that bankers say these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow this link to the coverage on Huffington Post of the letter to shareholders by JPMorgan Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon. Dimon cited &#8220;an expensive war in Iraq&#8221; as one of the possible triggers of the economic collapse. Spending on the war ballooned the deficit and crowded out investment in domestic priorities. Meanwhile, the trade [&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-1689","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\/1689","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=1689"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1691,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions\/1691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}