{"id":2348,"date":"2008-10-01T11:24:06","date_gmt":"2008-10-01T15:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/debate_the_fina\/"},"modified":"2008-10-01T11:24:06","modified_gmt":"2008-10-01T15:24:06","slug":"debate_the_fina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2008\/10\/debate_the_fina\/","title":{"rendered":"Debate The Financial Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the bailout bill issue has hovered of Capitol Hill the past couple weeks, I&#8217;ve thought that neither presidential candidate has stepped forward and shown strong leadership on the issue.  We&#8217;ve had grandstanding, we&#8217;ve had hedging, but we really haven&#8217;t had anyone show he has adequate command over what&#8217;s happening.<br \/>\nThat being the case, on C-SPAN I heard <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/sjohnson\/www\/home.htm\">Simon Johnson<\/a> make a good proposal.  He suggests the presidential candidates have a debate solely focused on the current financial services crisis.  There are three good reasons to do this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Provides an opportunity for the candidates to show leadership and articulate their philosophy on coping with the problem<\/li>\n<li>A debate would facilitate and enhance the national discussion on the crisis<\/li>\n<li>This issue is so critical that it will shape the first couple years of the next presidency.  It&#8217;s important that each candidate offer his vision on how he will manage it<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to see a 90 minute or two hour debate just on this issue.  It might not be a ratings winner on network TV, but I think the seriousness of this issue demands that the next president be given sufficient time to tackle it on national TV.  This is a complicated matter which can&#8217;t be settled with sound bytes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2008\/10\/debate_the_fina\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Debate The Financial Crisis\"><p>As the bailout bill issue has hovered of Capitol Hill the past couple weeks, I&#8217;ve thought that neither presidential candidate has stepped forward and shown strong leadership on the issue. We&#8217;ve had grandstanding, we&#8217;ve had hedging, but we really haven&#8217;t had anyone show he has adequate command over what&#8217;s happening. That being the case, on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2348","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}