{"id":213,"date":"2010-11-18T22:57:56","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T06:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/?p=213"},"modified":"2010-11-18T22:58:58","modified_gmt":"2010-11-19T06:58:58","slug":"a-hedge-fund-republic-nytimes-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/?p=213","title":{"rendered":"A Hedge Fund Republic? &#8211; NYTimes.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>What kind of a country do we aspire to be? Would we really want to be the kind of plutocracy where the richest 1 percent possesses more net worth than the bottom 90 percent?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Oops! That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s already us. The top 1 percent of Americans owns 34 percent of America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s private net worth, according to figures compiled by the Economic Policy Institute in Washington. The bottom 90 percent owns just 29 percent.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/11\/18\/opinion\/18kristof.html\">A Hedge Fund Republic? &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What kind of a country do we aspire to be? Would we really want to be the kind of plutocracy where the richest 1 percent possesses more net worth than the bottom 90 percent? Oops! That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s already us. The top &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/?p=213\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}