{"id":33234,"date":"2017-09-14T01:00:12","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T05:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=33234"},"modified":"2017-09-14T08:25:56","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T12:25:56","slug":"qotd-the-1970s-economic-mess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/09\/14\/qotd-the-1970s-economic-mess\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The 1970s economic mess"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>He then goes on to blather about the policies  of the 1970\u2019s. I lived through the 1970\u2019s and what you need to understand was that the governing motive of policymakers then was panic. The \u201cpolicymakers,\u201d by and large Democrats, screwed up as badly as possible and just couldn\u2019t get a grip on what [the problems] really were.<\/p>\n<p>John C. Carlton, <a href=\"https:\/\/theartsmechanical.wordpress.com\/2015\/10\/16\/who-stole-the-countrys-wealth-the-rich-or-government-policy-makers\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Who &#8216;Stole&#8217; The Country\u2019s Wealth, The Rich, Or Government &#8216;Policy Makers?'&#8221;, <em>The Arts Mechanical<\/em><\/a>, 2015-10-16.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He then goes on to blather about the policies of the 1970\u2019s. I lived through the 1970\u2019s and what you need to understand was that the governing motive of policymakers then was panic. The \u201cpolicymakers,\u201d by and large Democrats, screwed up as badly as possible and just couldn\u2019t get a grip on what [the problems] [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,7,41,13],"tags":[263,302],"class_list":["post-33234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-history","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-1970s","tag-jimmycarter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8E2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33234"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40166,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33234\/revisions\/40166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}