{"id":27072,"date":"2011-07-04T02:04:45","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T02:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/george_will_on_the_new_book_reckless_endangerment_about_fannie_mae\/"},"modified":"2011-07-04T02:04:45","modified_gmt":"2011-07-04T02:04:45","slug":"george_will_on_the_new_book_reckless_endangerment_about_fannie_mae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27072","title":{"rendered":"George Will on the new Book &#34;Reckless Endangerment&#34; About Fannie Mae"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Put on asbestos mittens and pick up \u201cReckless Endangerment,\u201d\u009d the scalding new book by Gretchen Morgenson, a New York Times columnist, and Joshua Rosner, a housing finance expert. They will introduce you to James A. Johnson, an emblem of the administrative state that liberals admire.<\/p>\n<p>The book\u2019s subtitle could be: \u201cCry \u201d\u02dcCompassion\u2019 and Let Slip the Dogs of Cupidity.\u201d\u009d Or: \u201cHow James Johnson and Others (Mostly Democrats) Made the Great Recession.\u201d\u009d The book is another cautionary tale about government\u2019s terrifying self-confidence. It is, the authors say, \u201ca story of what happens when Washington decides, in its infinite wisdom, that every living, breathing citizen should own a home.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/burning-down-the-house\/2011\/06\/30\/AGeRSGuH_story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Put on asbestos mittens and pick up \u201cReckless Endangerment,\u201d\u009d the scalding new book by Gretchen Morgenson, a New York Times columnist, and Joshua Rosner, a housing finance expert. They will introduce you to James A. Johnson, an emblem of the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27072\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,92,582,589,149,617,600,616,151,618,584],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-books","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-house-of-representatives","category-housingreal-estate-market","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-senate","category-the-u-s-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}