{"id":24287,"date":"2017-06-02T09:45:28","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T13:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=24287"},"modified":"2017-06-02T09:45:28","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T13:45:28","slug":"the-market-forces-behind-the-obamas-record-setting-book-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2017\/06\/02\/the-market-forces-behind-the-obamas-record-setting-book-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u201cMarket Forces\u201d Behind the Obamas\u2019 Record-Setting Book Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Naked Capitalism<\/em> has the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2017\/06\/market-forces-behind-obamas-record-setting-book-deal.html?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NakedCapitalism+%28naked+capitalism%29\" target=\"_blank\">The \u201cMarket Forces\u201d Behind the Obamas\u2019 Record-Setting Book Deal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWhile the Obamas\u2019 deal is unique for the amount of money involved, outsized book contracts between politicians and industries they\u2019ve benefitted has precedent. In a recent report issued by the Roosevelt Institute, the study\u2019s authors, Thomas Ferguson, Paul Jorgensen, and Jie Chen, argue that the mainstream approach to money in politics fails to recognize major sources of political spending. Among the least appreciated avenues for political money, they argue, are payments to political figures in the form of director\u2019s fees, speaking fees, and book contracts.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It was nice of them to explain how the Obama&#8217;s have reached their goal of cashing in on the Presidency.  They have already made one-third of the amount of money that the Clinton&#8217;s have &#8220;earned&#8221; since Bill&#8217;s term was over.  Of course, a lot of the money the Clinton&#8217;s &#8220;earned&#8221; came from bribes for Hillary&#8217;s term as Secretary of State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naked Capitalism has the article The \u201cMarket Forces\u201d Behind the Obamas\u2019 Record-Setting Book Deal. While the Obamas\u2019 deal is unique for the amount of money involved, outsized book contracts between politicians and industries they\u2019ve benefitted has precedent. In a recent report issued by the Roosevelt Institute, the study\u2019s authors, Thomas Ferguson, Paul Jorgensen, and Jie [&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-24287","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\/24287","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=24287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24288,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24287\/revisions\/24288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}