{"id":609,"date":"2010-11-14T00:39:03","date_gmt":"2010-11-14T04:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/?p=609"},"modified":"2010-11-14T00:39:59","modified_gmt":"2010-11-14T04:39:59","slug":"bad-legislation-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/?p=609","title":{"rendered":"Bad Legislation! Bad!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/pg\/10273\/1091424-28.stm?cmpid=news.xml\">&#8220;US House Moves Against China&#8217;s Undervalued Currency&#8221;<\/a> reads the headline, and I wonder if we won&#8217;t soon see the Senate and President doing the same thing. It&#8217;s a really bad idea to try and start a trade war right now, but the government seems to be united in a bipartisan effort to do so. Once the export sector gets whacked, we&#8217;ll all get to see firsthand how awful protectionist legislation truly can be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;US House Moves Against China&#8217;s Undervalued Currency&#8221; reads the headline, and I wonder if we won&#8217;t soon see the Senate and President doing the same thing. It&#8217;s a really bad idea to try and start a trade war right now, but the government seems to be united in a bipartisan effort to do so. Once [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-us-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":611,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions\/611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}