{"id":8920,"date":"2008-10-08T02:36:16","date_gmt":"2008-10-08T02:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/retirement_accounts_have_lost_2_trillion\/"},"modified":"2008-10-08T02:36:16","modified_gmt":"2008-10-08T02:36:16","slug":"retirement_accounts_have_lost_2_trillion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=8920","title":{"rendered":"Retirement accounts have lost $2 trillion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Americans&#8217; retirement plans have lost as much as $2 trillion in the past 15 months, Congress&#8217; top budget analyst estimated Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The upheaval that has engulfed the financial industry and sent the stock market plummeting is devastating workers&#8217; savings, forcing people to hold off on major purchases and consider delaying their retirement, said Peter Orszag, the head of the Congressional Budget Office.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/article.php?id=D93LQUFO0&#038;show_article=1\">Read it all.  The collateral damage from this fiasco is simply astounding&#8211;makes the heart sad<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans&#8217; retirement plans have lost as much as $2 trillion in the past 15 months, Congress&#8217; top budget analyst estimated Tuesday. The upheaval that has engulfed the financial industry and sent the stock market plummeting is devastating workers&#8217; savings, forcing<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=8920\">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":[40,50,209,149,593,599,596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-economy","category-personal-finance","category-stock-market","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8920","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=8920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}