{"id":9729,"date":"2008-11-21T20:07:14","date_gmt":"2008-11-21T20:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wsj_markets_dont_like_what_they_hear_and_dont_hear_from_the_political_class\/"},"modified":"2008-11-21T20:07:14","modified_gmt":"2008-11-21T20:07:14","slug":"wsj_markets_dont_like_what_they_hear_and_dont_hear_from_the_political_class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=9729","title":{"rendered":"WSJ: Markets don&#39;t like what they hear, and don&#39;t hear, from the political class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One problem is that this is an especially bad time to have a Presidential transition. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson has more or less announced that he&#8217;s done making major policy calls, save for an emergency. He understandably &#8212; if a little too loudly amid a panic &#8212; wants to leave the field to the new Administration. Yet President-elect Barack Obama has seemed in no hurry to assemble an economic team, or perhaps he simply hasn&#8217;t been able to settle on one. With nerves as taut as they are, picking an HHS Secretary&#8230;before a Treasury chief is a rookie mistake.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s.wsj.net\/article\/SB122714333625542965.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One problem is that this is an especially bad time to have a Presidential transition. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson has more or less announced that he&#8217;s done making major policy calls, save for an emergency. He understandably &#8212; if a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=9729\">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":[40,149,151,596,142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-politics-in-general","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007","category-us-presidential-election-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9729","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=9729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}