{"id":2012,"date":"2013-04-09T14:52:48","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T18:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/centerforfinancialstability.org\/wp\/?p=2012"},"modified":"2013-04-09T16:05:43","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T20:05:43","slug":"bill-poole-on-the-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centerforfinancialstability.org\/wp\/2013\/04\/09\/bill-poole-on-the-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Poole on the Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former St. Louis Fed President William Poole wrote an extremely thoughtful and provocative opinion piece in WSJ this morning &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887323646604578405132295403060.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop#articleTabs%3Darticle\">A Primer for Understanding Obama&#8217;s Budget<\/a>. \u00a0The piece finds fault in the budgeting process across generations and party lines.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, there is no independent entity\u00a0to report a reasonable baseline for benchmarking. \u00a0It is simply too costly.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230;perhaps&#8230;it is time for the Federal government to get the math right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former St. Louis Fed President William Poole wrote an extremely thoughtful and provocative opinion piece in WSJ this morning &#8211; A Primer for Understanding Obama&#8217;s Budget. \u00a0The piece finds fault in the budgeting process across generations and party lines. Sadly, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/centerforfinancialstability.org\/wp\/2013\/04\/09\/bill-poole-on-the-budget\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5,9,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inflation","category-money","category-reg","category-debt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centerforfinancialstability.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centerforfinancialstability.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centerforfinancialstability.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centerforfinancialstability.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centerforfinancialstability.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2012"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/centerforfinancialstability.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2014,"href":"https:\/\/centerforfinancialstability.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012\/revisions\/2014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centerforfinancialstability.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centerforfinancialstability.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centerforfinancialstability.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}