{"id":2365,"date":"2011-11-03T11:17:53","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T15:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.multiplier-effect.org\/?p=2365"},"modified":"2011-11-03T11:17:53","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T15:17:53","slug":"radical-left-wing-central-banker-gets-increasingly-shrill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/radical-left-wing-central-banker-gets-increasingly-shrill\/","title":{"rendered":"Radical Left-Wing Central Banker Gets Increasingly Shrill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a great graphic put together by <a href=\"http:\/\/motherjones.com\/kevin-drum\/2011\/11\/quote-day-time-congress-start-spending\">Kevin Drum<\/a>, who calls it &#8220;The Ben Bernanke Congress-ometer&#8221; (go read the <a href=\"http:\/\/motherjones.com\/kevin-drum\/2011\/11\/quote-day-time-congress-start-spending\">original post<\/a> for context):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/files\/2011\/11\/s-Bernanke-Congressometer.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2367\" title=\"s Bernanke Congressometer\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/files\/2011\/11\/s-Bernanke-Congressometer.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"559\" height=\"471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/files\/2011\/11\/s-Bernanke-Congressometer.png 621w, https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/files\/2011\/11\/s-Bernanke-Congressometer-300x252.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Remember:\u00a0 Ben Bernanke was appointed by George W. Bush.\u00a0 Prior to that he headed Bush&#8217;s Council of Economic Advisers.\u00a0 For all intents and purposes, he&#8217;s a Republican.\u00a0 It&#8217;s interesting to note that, (1) unlike his fellow Party members, Bernanke&#8217;s job prospects do not directly hinge on stagnant growth and incomes (in fact, if you listen to the GOP debates, re-election of the current incumbent might provide Bernanke with more job security), and (2) unlike most of his fellow Party members, Bernanke seems not to have abandoned, sometime around January 2009 (a date whose significance escapes me for the moment), the belief that fiscal policy can stimulate growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a great graphic put together by Kevin Drum, who calls it &#8220;The Ben Bernanke Congress-ometer&#8221; (go read the original post for context): Remember:\u00a0 Ben Bernanke was appointed by George W. Bush.\u00a0 Prior to that he headed Bush&#8217;s Council of Economic Advisers.\u00a0 For all intents and purposes, he&#8217;s a Republican.\u00a0 It&#8217;s interesting to note [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiscal-policy","category-monetary-policy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365","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\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2365"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2372,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365\/revisions\/2372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}