{"id":46176,"date":"2019-09-15T16:56:03","date_gmt":"2019-09-15T15:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=46176"},"modified":"2019-09-15T16:56:03","modified_gmt":"2019-09-15T15:56:03","slug":"austerity-is-the-idea-that-the-global-financial-crash-of-2008-was-caused-by-there-being-too-many-libraries-in-wolverhampton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2019\/09\/15\/austerity-is-the-idea-that-the-global-financial-crash-of-2008-was-caused-by-there-being-too-many-libraries-in-wolverhampton\/","title":{"rendered":"Austerity is the idea that the global financial crash of 2008 was caused by there being too many libraries in Wolverhampton."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I loved this, said by Alexei Sayle on Radio 4 last week:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Austerity is the idea that the global financial crash of 2008 was caused by there being too many libraries in Wolverhampton.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sometimes one line says it all.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.progressivepulse.org\/economics\/hoping-for-slacker-fiscal-rules\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Hat tip to Peter May.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I loved this, said by Alexei Sayle on Radio 4 last week: Austerity is the idea that the global financial crash of 2008 was caused<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2019\/09\/15\/austerity-is-the-idea-that-the-global-financial-crash-of-2008-was-caused-by-there-being-too-many-libraries-in-wolverhampton\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}