{"id":9279,"date":"2008-11-19T06:54:10","date_gmt":"2008-11-19T11:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=9279"},"modified":"2008-11-19T06:54:10","modified_gmt":"2008-11-19T11:54:10","slug":"pimping-for-gm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=9279","title":{"rendered":"PIMPING FOR GM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2008\/11\/19\/news\/companies\/gm_failure_consumers\/index.htm?postversion=2008111905\">mavens at CNNMoney<\/a> have decided that we <em>have<\/em> to bailout GM.  Their logic, shall we say, is somewhat less than convincing.  The nickel summary:<\/p>\n<p>If GM goes under, that would cause prices to spike.  <em>OK, I can buy this.  Simple supply and demand.<\/em>  Then if demand continues to fall, that could cause shortages of vehicles and prices to spike even higher.  <em>WTF!  If supply goes down prices go up.  And if demand goes down prices go up? <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mavens at CNNMoney have decided that we have to bailout GM. Their logic, shall we say, is somewhat less than convincing. The nickel summary: If GM goes under, that would cause prices to spike. OK, I can buy this. Simple supply and demand. Then if demand continues to fall, that could cause shortages of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9279"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9280,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9279\/revisions\/9280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}