{"id":111,"date":"2010-05-13T12:48:45","date_gmt":"2010-05-13T16:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.multiplier-effect.org\/?p=111"},"modified":"2010-05-13T12:48:45","modified_gmt":"2010-05-13T16:48:45","slug":"dean-baker-on-the-credit-squeeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/dean-baker-on-the-credit-squeeze\/","title":{"rendered":"Dean Baker on the &#8216;credit squeeze&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dean Baker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/cifamerica\/2010\/may\/10\/banks-failing-lend-not-problem\" target=\"_blank\">debunks<\/a> the myth that sluggish growth is caused by banks not lending money to small businesses. Long story short: it&#8217;s the recession! Businesses (especially small ones) are looking less like good credit risks because they have less revenue. What bank would be lending <em>more<\/em> in this atmosphere? A foolish bank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dean Baker debunks the myth that banks are failing to lend money. Long story short: it&#8217;s the recession! Businesses are looking less like good credit risks because they have less revenue. What bank would be lending more in this atmosphere? A foolish bank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[24,1128,23],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economic-policy","category-employment","tag-credit","tag-employment","tag-recession"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions\/115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}