{"id":10422,"date":"2011-07-11T21:31:35","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T01:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=10422"},"modified":"2011-07-12T10:31:05","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T14:31:05","slug":"video-debunking-stimulus-in-a-few-easy-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/10422\/video-debunking-stimulus-in-a-few-easy-steps\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Debunking Stimulus in a Few Easy Steps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The incomparable Veronique de Rugy (<a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reason<\/a> columnist and economist at <a href=\"http:\/\/mercatus.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Mercatus Center<\/a>) was recently a guest on Bloomberg TV, where she was tasked with rebutting the faulty economics behind the gigantic economic stimulus program that&#8217;s still holding back the American economy. As the video below shows, it was child&#8217;s play for this intellectually rigorous defender of free markets:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/pr3_1zlp9f8&amp;feature\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/pr3_1zlp9f8&amp;feature\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The incomparable Veronique de Rugy (Reason columnist and economist at the Mercatus Center) was recently a guest on Bloomberg TV, where she was tasked with rebutting the faulty economics behind the gigantic economic stimulus program that&#8217;s still holding back the American economy. As the video below shows, it was child&#8217;s play for this intellectually rigorous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,562,2311,61,2861,71,2181],"class_list":["post-10422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-economics","tag-infrastructure","tag-spending","tag-stimulus-package","tag-taxes","tag-veronique-de-rugy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10422"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10428,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10422\/revisions\/10428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}