{"id":27801,"date":"2019-07-23T13:42:20","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T17:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=27801"},"modified":"2019-07-23T13:43:32","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T17:43:32","slug":"how-the-government-finances-its-deficits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2019\/07\/23\/how-the-government-finances-its-deficits\/","title":{"rendered":"How the government finances its deficits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>YouTube <\/em>has the video <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OC2V1btGlUs\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">#03: How the government finances its deficits<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nJust like the private sector, the government &#8220;prints&#8221; money to finance deficit spending. And, the government&#8217;s deficit is your surplus. Default? Impossible.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/OC2V1btGlUs\" style=\"border:thick ridge #009900;\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>In this video he mentions his web site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cowboyeconomist.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">www.cowboyeconomist.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube has the video #03: How the government finances its deficits. Just like the private sector, the government &#8220;prints&#8221; money to finance deficit spending. And, the government&#8217;s deficit is your surplus. Default? Impossible. In this video he mentions his web site www.cowboyeconomist.com.<\/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-27801","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\/27801","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=27801"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27803,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27801\/revisions\/27803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}