{"id":983,"date":"2011-06-22T14:09:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T18:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/?p=983"},"modified":"2011-06-22T14:09:27","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T18:09:27","slug":"how-to-save-220-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/?p=983","title":{"rendered":"How to Save $220 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interested? Well, it&#8217;s quite a clever idea. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tradesignalonline.com\/charts\/news.aspx?id=815113&#038;filter=&#038;catid=0\">Change the way inflation is calculated.<\/a> With that fudge, the US government can make inflation look like it&#8217;s increasing less rapidly and, therefore, can slow down the cost of living increases in its payments. Sure, it&#8217;s a scam, but it&#8217;s a scam that saves the USG $220 billion dollars through a soft default on its promises, so it&#8217;s a good scam, right? Look for more great scams like this in the days to come!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interested? Well, it&#8217;s quite a clever idea. Change the way inflation is calculated. With that fudge, the US government can make inflation look like it&#8217;s increasing less rapidly and, therefore, can slow down the cost of living increases in its payments. Sure, it&#8217;s a scam, but it&#8217;s a scam that saves the USG $220 billion [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983","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=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":985,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions\/985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}