{"id":5350,"date":"2011-10-25T07:36:04","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T15:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=5350"},"modified":"2011-10-25T07:36:30","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T15:36:30","slug":"and-says-ouch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=5350","title":{"rendered":"\u2026and says <q>Ouch!<\/q>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Krugman walks into a bar, and asks <q>How much for a scotch, neat?<\/q>  The bartender looks at him, and thinks <span style=\"font-style: italic ;\">What could a Keynesian know about money?<\/span>  So he says <q>One trillion dollars.<\/q>  Krugman gets on the phone, calls the Fed and the White House, and they send over $1 trillion.  As Krugman is drinking, the bartender remarks <q>You know, we don't get many Keynesians in here.<\/q> Krugman replies <q>Well, with these prices, it's no wonder!<\/q><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul Krugman walks into a bar, and asks How much for a scotch, neat? The bartender looks at him, and thinks What could a Keynesian know about money? So he says One trillion dollars. Krugman gets on the phone, calls the Fed and the White House, and they send over $1 trillion. As Krugman is [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,36,9,4],"tags":[1087],"class_list":["post-5350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-economics","category-ideology-philosophy","category-public","tag-alleged-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}