{"id":155,"date":"2007-09-16T17:00:52","date_gmt":"2007-09-16T21:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2007\/09\/16\/curb-your-age-of-turbulence-enthusiasm\/"},"modified":"2007-09-16T17:11:08","modified_gmt":"2007-09-16T21:11:08","slug":"curb-your-age-of-turbulence-enthusiasm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2007\/09\/16\/curb-your-age-of-turbulence-enthusiasm\/","title":{"rendered":"Curb Your &#8220;Age Of Turbulence&#8221; Enthusiasm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poor little innocent Alan Greenspan is shocked, SHOCKED, I TELL YOU, by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/20781873\/\">the Bush administration&#8217;s budget deficits and loss of fiscal discipline.<\/a>\u00a0What a shame that the brilliant Greenspan was never in a position to do something it about it and maybe even prevent it.<\/p>\n<p>Oh &#8230; wait. Never mind!<\/p>\n<p>So are you planning to run out and buy Greenspan&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FAge-Turbulence-Adventures-New-World%2Fdp%2F1594201315%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1189973069%26sr%3D1-1&#038;tag=madeleibegunkane&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\">self-serving, history-rewriting <em>The Age of Turbulence<\/em>? <\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px; border: medium none\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=madeleibegunkane&#038;l=ur2&#038;o=1\" width=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> There&#8217;s really no need to, because I&#8217;ve summed up the former Federal Reserve Chairman&#8217;s new book in a single haiku:<\/p>\n<p>Curb Your <em>Age Of Turbulence<\/em> Enthusiasm<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Panning fiscal acts<br \/>\nHe once endorsed, Greenspan feigns<br \/>\nBystander status. [tags]Alan Greenspan, Federal Reserve Chairman, Political Memoirs, Fiscal Discipline, Bush Administration, The Age Of Turbulence, Budget Deficits, Self-serving Memoir, Innocent Bystander, U.S. Budget Humor[\/tags]\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poor little innocent Alan Greenspan is shocked, SHOCKED, I TELL YOU, by the Bush administration&#8217;s budget deficits and loss of fiscal discipline.\u00a0What a shame that the brilliant Greenspan was never in a position to do something it about it and maybe even prevent it. Oh &#8230; wait. Never mind! So are you planning to run [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,115,114,8,20,5,113,71,7,3,45,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alan-greenspan","category-federal-reserve","category-fiscal-policy","category-george-bush","category-gop-humor","category-news-haiku","category-political-books","category-political-haiku","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-tax-budget-humor","category-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}