{"id":5830,"date":"2020-07-23T02:40:05","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T06:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=5830"},"modified":"2020-07-23T02:40:05","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T06:40:05","slug":"opinion-god-help-us-if-judy-shelton-joins-the-fed-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=5830","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | God Help Us if Judy Shelton Joins the Fed &#8211; The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Then there\u2019s the gold standard, a significant culprit in deepening the Great Depression and abandoned decades ago by every country in the world (including the United States in 1973). By rigidly fixing prices to a single commodity, a gold standard exaggerates economic swings, on balance for the worse.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/07\/22\/opinion\/federal-reserve-judy-shelton.html\">Opinion | God Help Us if Judy Shelton Joins the Fed &#8211; The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Then there\u2019s the gold standard, a significant culprit in deepening the Great&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[18,72],"class_list":["post-5830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-economics","tag-usa-usa-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}