{"id":1398,"date":"2008-10-08T12:58:50","date_gmt":"2008-10-08T16:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1398"},"modified":"2008-10-07T22:09:17","modified_gmt":"2008-10-08T02:09:17","slug":"this-american-life-another-money-ep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/10\/08\/this-american-life-another-money-ep\/","title":{"rendered":"This American Life: Another Money Ep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following This American Life&#8217;s extraordinarily well-received <a href=\"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/09\/08\/the-giant-pool-of-money-read-err-listen-to-this\/\">Giant Pool of Money episode<\/a>, comes another look at the factors involved in the recent FUBAR&#8217;ing of the financial system.\u00c2\u00a0 This episode focuses on:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[T]he 36-hour period, two weeks ago, when the credit markets froze. Plus, what it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s like now for businesses to get short-term loans, and how the hardship is spreading to every sector of the economy.<\/p>\n<p>[ . . . ]<\/p>\n<p>[On the topic of &#8220;credit default swaps&#8221;], the show talks with Michael Greenberger, a former commodities regulator, who tells the story of when it was decided not to regulate credit default swaps. And how that decision was emblematic of the way we didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t regulate a lot of the toxic financial products we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re hearing about now.<\/p>\n<p>[ . . . ]<\/p>\n<p>Was the $700 billion bailout bill signed into law today a good idea or a bad one?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t heard the show myself, yet*, but it&#8217;s been very well received by a number of people that I respect.  You can download it for free <a href=\"http:\/\/thisamericanlife.org\/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=365\">here<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 (It&#8217;s free to listen to at the site anytime, and free to download as an MP3 until the end of this week.)<\/p>\n<p>*I was driving through a part of Massachusetts when it aired.  I never would have guessed that there was a a part of Massachusetts that didn&#8217;t receive NPR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following This American Life&#8217;s extraordinarily well-received Giant Pool of Money episode, comes another look at the factors involved in the recent FUBAR&#8217;ing of the financial system.\u00c2\u00a0 This episode focuses on: [T]he 36-hour period, two weeks ago, when the credit markets froze. Plus, what it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s like now for businesses to get short-term loans, and how the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1398"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1417,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398\/revisions\/1417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}