{"id":1150,"date":"2010-12-24T08:19:49","date_gmt":"2010-12-24T13:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/?p=1150"},"modified":"2011-02-27T13:47:21","modified_gmt":"2011-02-27T18:47:21","slug":"econ-101-with-dr-ron-paul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/24\/econ-101-with-dr-ron-paul\/","title":{"rendered":"Econ-101 with Dr. Ron Paul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh just forget about July 4th.\u00a0 No way.\u00a0\u00a0 Macy\u2019s fireworks on the Hudson?\u00a0 Fuhgeddaboudit!<\/p>\n<p>Mad Max\u2019s Thunderdome?\u00a0 \u201cTwo men enter!\u00a0 One man leaves!\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/articles\/92408\/20101215\/video-cnbc-ron-paulben-bernanke-prepare-for-thunderdome.htm\" target=\"_blank\"> Now you\u2019re talkin\u2019.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>C-SPAN might just want to change its revenue model in time to catch  the fireworks and\/or steel-cage death matches that will start in January  when Ron Paul takes over as chair of the House Banking Committee that  oversees Ben Bernanke and The Federal Reserve.\u00a0\u00a0 This will be political  theater that has the potential to top the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lincoln%E2%80%93Douglas_debates_of_1858\" target=\"_blank\">Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But better than the theater will be Paul\u2019s educational opportunity, if he plays his cards right.<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading at <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.forbes.com\/deanzarras\/2010\/12\/24\/econ-101-with-dr-ron-paul\/\" target=\"_blank\">Forbes Opinions&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh just forget about July 4th.\u00a0 No way.\u00a0\u00a0 Macy\u2019s fireworks on the Hudson?\u00a0 Fuhgeddaboudit! Mad Max\u2019s Thunderdome?\u00a0 \u201cTwo men enter!\u00a0 One man leaves!\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Now you\u2019re talkin\u2019. C-SPAN might just want to change its revenue model in time to catch the fireworks and\/or steel-cage death matches that will start in January when Ron Paul takes over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1150"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1152,"href":"https:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions\/1152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}