{"id":177,"date":"2011-11-04T14:38:19","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T19:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/holesinthefoam\/?p=177"},"modified":"2011-11-04T14:38:19","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T19:38:19","slug":"more-good-stuff-from-krugman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/holesinthefoam\/2011\/11\/04\/more-good-stuff-from-krugman\/","title":{"rendered":"More Good Stuff from Krugman&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What can I say? The man is on a roll.<\/p>\n<p>This time he covers the way the oligarchy&#8217;s crack force of  &#8220;obfuscators&#8221; attempt to spam the media with serious dreck data. The mission is to cloud the real numbers with misinformation, disinformation, and sheer, stupid, propaganda. They&#8217;re trying to say, in essence, &#8220;Oh things are really not as bad as the protesters are saying, look at THESE numbers&#8230; &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s INTERESTING, however, is how Krugman agrees. Things are not as bad as the protestors are saying when it comes to the REAL data and the REAL stats. Nope, they&#8217;re not as bad at all. They&#8217;re WORSE. If anything, the protesters are being CONSERVATIVE. It adds a whole new dimension to the frivolity of the oligarchs to tinker with the data to their advantage. And&#8230; how their attempts to &#8220;obfuscate&#8221; things, only adds more light to what is REALLY happening&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>OP-ED COLUMNIST<br \/>\nOligarchy, American Style<br \/>\nBy PAUL KRUGMAN<br \/>\nPublished: November 3, 2011<\/p>\n<p>Inequality is back in the news, largely thanks to Occupy Wall Street, but with an assist from the Congressional Budget Office. And you know what that means: It\u2019s time to roll out the obfuscators! <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/11\/04\/opinion\/oligarchy-american-style.html\">Read On&#8230; <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What can I say? The man is on a roll. This time he covers the way the oligarchy&#8217;s crack force of &#8220;obfuscators&#8221; attempt to spam the media with serious dreck [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6,7,25],"tags":[35,40,30,44,34,48,63,32,31],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-economics","category-opnion-commentary","category-politics","category-stuff-services-and-places-that-stand-out","tag-ceo-pay-ratio-to-average-employee-by-country","tag-corporate-fraud","tag-editorials","tag-exile-wall-street","tag-fight-plutocracy","tag-gop","tag-paul-krugman","tag-protesting-wall-street","tag-recommended-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/holesinthefoam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/holesinthefoam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/holesinthefoam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/holesinthefoam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/holesinthefoam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/holesinthefoam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178,"href":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/holesinthefoam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions\/178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/holesinthefoam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/holesinthefoam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/holesinthefoam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}