{"id":395,"date":"2007-12-17T22:20:15","date_gmt":"2007-12-17T20:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.veni.com\/?p=395"},"modified":"2007-12-17T22:20:15","modified_gmt":"2007-12-17T20:20:15","slug":"the-banking-crisis-in-the-usa-and-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/?p=395","title":{"rendered":"The banking crisis in the USA and the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gregmankiw.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/subprime-problem.html\">Greg Mankiw<\/a> &#8211; a professor of economics at Harvard University has this great piece, which I publish from Youtube straight here. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bremner,_Bird_and_Fortune\" target=_blank>John Fortune and John Bird<\/a> have other great pieces, too. Check them out. The top one is about the US real estate market crisis, the bottom one &#8211; for the UK banking crisis. They are really good.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/hXBcmqwTV9s&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x006699&#038;color2=0x54abd6\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><\/object><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/mzJmTCYmo9g&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x006699&#038;color2=0x54abd6\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><\/object><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Watch the bottom one at the end about the moral hazard \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>As Wikipedia <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bremner,_Bird_and_Fortune\" target=_blank>says<\/a> about the show, Bremner, Bird and Fortune,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The show is almost entirely political, but in recent series different genres of sketches have been introduced. The programme features regular stand-up impressionism sections by Bremner.<\/p>\n<p>Another feature are interviews between Bird and Fortune, one of them normally as George Parr, a man in a government position or a businessman, who always tries to avoid the question asked.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Mankiw &#8211; a professor of economics at Harvard University has this great piece, which I publish from Youtube straight here. John Fortune and John Bird have other great pieces, too. Check them out. The top one is about the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/?p=395\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-english","category-jokes"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5171,"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions\/5171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}