{"id":1490,"date":"2008-09-29T08:46:51","date_gmt":"2008-09-29T07:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=1490"},"modified":"2008-09-29T08:46:51","modified_gmt":"2008-09-29T07:46:51","slug":"contemplating-the-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2008\/09\/contemplating-the-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Contemplating the &#8216;crisis&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case British readers were wondering what journalistic resources they could rely on to keep abreast of the current situation in the financial markets, here&#8217;s my advice. You don&#8217;t need to! There really is no point in following events you have no possibility of debating, influencing or changing (see <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anthony_Downs\">Downs<\/a>&#8216; <em>An Economic Theory of Democracy<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>However, if you do feel the need to waste your time in profitless contemplation then you might enjoy <a href=\"http:\/\/fintag.com\/\"><strong>FiNTAG<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case British readers were wondering what journalistic resources they could rely on to keep abreast of the current situation in the financial markets, here&#8217;s my advice. You don&#8217;t need to! There really is no point in following events you have no possibility of debating, influencing or changing (see Downs&#8216; An Economic Theory of Democracy). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1827,208,1828,1829],"class_list":["post-1490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","tag-anthony-downs","tag-blogs","tag-financial-crisis","tag-fintag"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1491,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions\/1491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}