{"id":4495,"date":"2010-08-18T17:27:37","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T22:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=4495"},"modified":"2010-08-18T17:32:49","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T22:32:49","slug":"mel-brooks-and-the-bankers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/08\/18\/mel-brooks-and-the-bankers\/","title":{"rendered":"Mel Brooks and the bankers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his 18 August 2010 post on VoxEU [<a href=\"http:\/\/voxeu.org\/index.php?q=node\/5413\" target=\"_blank\">Mel Brooks and the bankers<\/a>], Thorvaldur Gylfason tells us what Mel Brooks&#8217;s faux Broadway musical, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Producers_%28musical%29\" target=\"_blank\">Springtime for Hitler<\/a> in his play &#8220;The Producers&#8221;, has to do with the 1980&#8217;s S and L crisis, Enron, WorldCom, and the sub-prime mortgage meltdown of 2007.<\/p>\n<p>BTW, if you haven&#8217;t seen Brooks&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0063462\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Producers (1968)<\/a>,&#8221; I suggest you check the DVD out at your public library.<\/p>\n<p>-RichardH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his 18 August 2010 post on VoxEU [Mel Brooks and the bankers], Thorvaldur Gylfason tells us what Mel Brooks&#8217;s faux Broadway musical, Springtime for Hitler in his play &#8220;The Producers&#8221;, has to do with the 1980&#8217;s S and L crisis, Enron, WorldCom, and the sub-prime mortgage meltdown of 2007. BTW, if you haven&#8217;t seen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[167],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4495","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-richardhsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4495","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4495"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4497,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4495\/revisions\/4497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}