{"id":9005,"date":"2011-03-24T18:03:59","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T22:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=9005"},"modified":"2011-03-24T18:03:59","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T22:03:59","slug":"bernanke-thinks-lack-of-communication-explains-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/9005\/bernanke-thinks-lack-of-communication-explains-opposition\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernanke Thinks Lack of Communication Explains Opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704604704576220821732489808.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTWhatsNewsCollection\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a break with tradition, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will  hold public news conference four times a year, in the U.S. central  bank&#8217;s latest move to boost transparency and improve communications  after its policies came under attack.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Earth to Ben: policies like quantitative easing (i.e. printing more money) come under attack because they devalue the dollar through inflation.\u00a0 Explaining that reality &#8211; or denying it &#8211; in more detail won&#8217;t make the policy more attractive.\u00a0 If anything, it will doom any chance of getting re-nominated for your position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Wall Street Journal: In a break with tradition, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will hold public news conference four times a year, in the U.S. central bank&#8217;s latest move to boost transparency and improve communications after its policies came under attack. Earth to Ben: policies like quantitative easing (i.e. printing more money) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[581,544,500,2511,2046],"class_list":["post-9005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-ben-bernanke","tag-federal-reserve","tag-inflation","tag-printing-money","tag-quantitative-easing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9005","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9005"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9009,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9005\/revisions\/9009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}